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Flying Cars or Flying Toilets: What Is the Best Way to Measure Innovation?

4/30/2015

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by Bhaskar Chakravorti, Senior Assoc. Dean of International Business & Finance, The Fletcher School at Tufts University, Founding Exec. Director, Institute for Business in the Global Context

Commenting on the state of innovativeness, Peter Thiel, founder of PayPal and legendary Silicon Valley investor, remarked, "We asked for flying cars. Instead, we got a hundred and forty characters."

Really, Peter? Who asked for flying cars?

Silicon Valley is, of course, obsessed with cars of many kinds -- self-driven, electric, enabled by commands and software downloads from a mobile phone. The urge to be airborne has been channeled primarily into recreational UAVs, or drones, thankfully. Given that so much of Silicon Valley travels in company buses (arguably, a more efficient and greener mode of transport than any of these alternatives) I am a bit alarmed at the prospect of a proliferation of new car options, of either the self-driven or the flying kind. Is there an urgent need for either?

Read full article on HuffingtonPost here.  
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Terrafugia’s Transition® to be displayed at the MIT Museum as part of the Cambridge Science Festival in April

4/19/2015

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On April 25, 2015, Terrafugia’s Transition® prototype vehicle will be on display in front of the MIT Museum on Front Street in Cambridge. The Cambridge Science Festival is presented by the MIT Museum in collaboration with the City of Cambridge, community organizations, schools, universities and businesses.  The Festival runs from April 17 through April 26. 

See more here:  http://www.terrafugia.com/news#sthash.2MmJX6FK.dpuf
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Engineering the Transition®

4/16/2015

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The second in our WhatDrivesYou series, we are pleased to share: Engineering the Transition®.

Kevin Colburn, COO & VP Engineering, and Andrew Heafitz, Chief Engineer explain taking the idea of a flying car through the design process and ultimately to the market with Terrafugia's Transition®.  

See more at: http://www.terrafugia.com/news/engineering-transition%C2%AE#sthash.zIZK4Tns.dpuf
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