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Zinnov: automotive witnessing highest disruption among all industries; ~$6B invested in start-ups in FY 2015

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Additionally, the report also discusses the massive changes in the traditional siloed innovation structures with its clear demarcations for internal and external collaborations. With ~$6 billion invested in automotive start-ups in FY 2015, new companies are booming.

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Study: air pollution causes 800,000 extra deaths a year in Europe and 8.8 million worldwide

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Using a new method of modeling the effects of various sources of outdoor air pollution on death rates, the researchers found that it caused an estimated 790,000 extra deaths in the whole of Europe in 2015 and 659,000 deaths in the 28 Member States of the European Union (EU-28). million deaths in 2015.

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How Russia Sent Ukraine Racing Into the “Energy Eurozone”

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Ukraine can now import up to 2 gigawatts of European power over links from Poland, Slovakia, Romania and Hungary, enabling it to conserve domestic reserves of coal and hydropower. And it’s been seven years since IEEE Spectrum covered the Baltics' aspirations in 2015. The Baltic states are NATO and European Union members.

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ICCT study finds noise and climate impacts of a new generation of supersonic aircraft could be significant

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Reintroducing commercial supersonic transport (SST) aircraft into the global aviation fleet could have significant noise and climate impacts by 2035, according to a new study by the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT). This equals about one-fifth of a proportional carbon budget afforded international aviation under a 1.5

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