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Design thinking and innovation<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The LightWorks Innovation Accelerator aligns the value propositions of companies with reliable experts, tools and frameworks that meet their research and development needs. Few challenges are more fundamental to our society than ensuring the sustainability of current and future generations. As a result, we have developed a model which addresses some of the challenges of creating offers that companies may be willing to co-fund with ASU either directly or in partnership with others.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\t<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Building a pipeline<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The Accelerator is a hybrid model which links \u2018user needs\u2019 to faculty \u2018ideas and insights,\u2019 thus improving the scale and impact on sustainability and energy challenges. We use traditional customer engagement but our differentiation is our ability to conceptualize the need, be imaginative in our engagement and deliver a linked solution relevant to the original challenge.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\t<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Impact through development to scale<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The Accelerator reduces ASU faculty time required to \u2018chase\u2019 these non-traditional research projects by at least 25%. Our Accelerator research partners also benefit from a strong relationship based on links to their outcomes. Our objective is to improve the quality of interactions so that our customers feel that they must talk with ASU. Importantly, our objective is to eventually connect each customer to several relevant research themes inside ASU.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\t<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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Restoring the carbon balance<\/h3>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n\t\t\t
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CO2 technology, policy, and solutions<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

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LightSpeed Solutions<\/h3>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n\t\t\t
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What we do<\/h2>\n\n\t<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n
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Link digital humanities with science and tech<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Leverage insights with research partners<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Create collaborative communities<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Data driven commercialization<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Our mission<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Our mission is to strategically integrate promising technology and ideas with seed funding, market assessments and economic analysis, thus constantly prioritizing ideas with real world application and a viable business model.<\/p>\n\n\t<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Featured webinars<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

How Companies and Municipalities are Using Digital Technologies to Meet Their Carbon Reduction Commitments<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

The second webinar in the ASU LightWorks four-part series on “How Smart Systems Can Power Our Decarbonized Future” explores how to bring systems thinking into the design of programs to decarbonize industrial processes and municipal systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Better Food, Less Carbon in the New Digital Economy<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

An ASU webinar recording. Traditional agriculture provides a meaningful opportunity to impact greenhouse gases and biodiversity. The agriculture ecosystem comprises land use, crop production, livestock and fisheries, and the food supply chain. In this system lies meaningful, measurable, and sustainable regenerative applications that can greatly reduce the impact of agriculture on the planet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Prove I Made a Low Carbon Choice \u2013 Can smart systems do this?<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Join Microsoft, SingualityNET, ESGAnalytics.Ai and ASU global leaders in a frank and lively 90-minute discussion about the challenges and drivers underlying artificial intelligence (AI) solutions to trustworthy carbon choices. How can smart systems help lead society to a healthier planet and advance social wellbeing?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Innovation Accelerator personnel<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

William Brandt<\/strong>
Senior Global Futures Scientist, Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory\u00ae<\/sup>
bill.brandt@asu.edu<\/a>
561-319-8293<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ellen Stechel<\/strong>
Co-Director, LightWorks, Global Institute of Sustainability and Innovation
ellen.stechel@asu.edu<\/a>
480-965-1657<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Travis Johnson
<\/strong>Associate Director, LightWorks, Global Institute of Sustainability and Innovation
travis.a.johnson@asu.edu<\/a>
480-965-3326<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Denise Rowe<\/strong>
Denise.Rowe@asu.edu<\/a>
480-727-3862<\/p>\n\n\n\n\t

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