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SEE Institute makes the building part of the lesson
In Dubai, a sustainability institute teaches from a building that reportedly generates three times its annual energy needs. Its more interesting proposition is what happens when the classroom opens onto a working community.
Fundação CERTI and the art of making ideas work
A missing screw, a leaking current, a forest product without a buyer. Brazil’s Fundação CERTI has built a business around the awkward distance between a clever idea and something people can actually use.
SEED and the Art of Making Research Behave
Inside EA’s research division, the interesting question is what survives the trip from experiment to game. A goalkeeper, a football jersey, and 150 stadiums offer some answers.
Capitol Impact and the business of getting people unstuck
A hospital needs builders. A student needs work boots. Capitol Impact makes a business of connecting the institutions that can help them both.
Base27 Puts Startups Within Handshake Distance of Big Business
In Espírito Santo, a nonprofit hub brings industrial companies, startups and universities into the same conversation. Its offer runs from R$500 monthly residencies to industrial challenges and a coffee-drying experiment.
Dubai Future Foundation has a city for your next experiment
A printed office, government-backed pilots and supervised regulatory trials reveal how Dubai Future Foundation works. Its most useful offer to innovators is access to the people who can put an idea to work.
Órbi began with a bank account. Now it’s betting on a whole neighborhood.
A startup community, a bank, a builder and a car-rental company gave Belo Horizonte a place to meet. Órbi’s next act brings research, executive education and the streets of Lagoinha into the same conversation.
Mohawk College Turned the Community College Into an R&D Partner - Here’s the Playbook
The Hamilton college found a sharper edge than adding more courses: let students solve live industry problems, let employers borrow the labs, and make applied research part of the education rather than a campus side project.
AfterQuery
AfterQuery is a San Francisco applied research lab that builds expert-generated datasets, benchmarks, and reinforcement-learning environments for the world's leading AI labs. The company recruits nearly 100,000 vetted domain experts - in finance, law, medicine, software, and beyond - to teach frontier models how specialists actually think.