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Suggested 2010 KIN Research Project Topics:
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Energy and Resources |
Explore innovative partnership models among Private, Public and NGO stakeholders to advance the effectiveness of renewable and green energy and to maximize the local impact of energy sources. |
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Global Health and Wellness (Healthcare) |
Powerful drug companies spend billions of dollars on R&D to find treatments and cures for the diseases of the developed world such as baldness and acne, and these treatments provide enough profits to cover their expenses. How can drug companies be incentivized to invest in finding treatments and cures to diseases plaguing the developing world? |
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Global Health and Wellness (Nutrition) |
By 2050, the global population will grow to a projected 9.2 billion people and demand for agricultural products is expected to double. We need an innovation that provides a system changing solution in agricultural value chain that improves production and distribution of nutrition to countries currently lacking access to sufficient nutrition. |
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Educating the workforce of 2030 |
Scholars fear that today's education system is not preparing young people to succeed in the workforce in 2030. What skills can young people learn today to be prepared for tomorrow's world? How should the education system transform to achieve this? |
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Women's Development in Emerging Markets |
Investing in women is one of the most effective strategies to drive economic growth, and translates into improvement of the education and health levels of the entire family. How can innovations in education or technology drive women's empowerment in the developing world? |
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Global Human Connectivity and Technology |
Geographic dispersion of organizations and people make it difficult to overcome both professional and personal boundaries. Professional barriers across regions may include differences in local business norms and capabilities, etc., while personal boundaries could be related to cultural or racial issues, etc. How can emerging communications technology be leveraged to break down global barriers between organizations, communities or individuals? What are the advantages of overcoming these boundaries, and how can communications technology develop to achieve this? |
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Entrepreneurship in Turkey |
The US and Turkish governments are innovating on the traditional geopolitical relationships by building a "model partnership" based on ideas and values, rather than religious faiths. Development of entrepreneurship in Turkey with strong collaboration with United States will be one of the key elements of this "model partnership". Which best practices can be leveraged in Turkey to stimulate development of entrepreneurship, and cross border learning? |
| 8 | Corporate Social Responsibility in the Defense Contracting Industry |
How can a leading U.S. defense contractor be a leading corporate citizen? What themes map against their core competencies and allow them to collaborate across sectors for meaningful change? |