Ecomagination

Fluid partnerships and collaborations, rather than insular corporate research, are becoming the lifeblood of innovation. This trend was confirmed yesterday by the results of GE’s second annual Global Innovation Barometer. However, the barometer, which surveyed nearly 3,000 U.S. and foreign executives on innovation, also found a “partnership paradox.” While the [...]

GE released today its second annual Global Innovation Barometer, a survey of nearly 3,000 U.S. and foreign business executives on innovation. The report identified innovation as “inextricably linked” with economic growth and as the primary driver behind job creation and the rising quality of life.
The study also confirmed the findings [...]

Logging into your iPhone and managing your home heater or washer over the Internet may still seem like a far-fetched idea, unless you live in Warner Robins, Georgia.
Ten households in this southern city, perhaps best known for the nearby Robins Air Force Base, will have their homes fitted with [...]

The perils of climate change leave many governments in a bind. They need to provide their citizens with power, but business as usual will do little to keep the weather from veering into extremes. The answer is new, innovative technology, such as GE’s ecomagination-qualified integrated gasification combined-cycle (IGCC) power plant. [...]

GE Transportation was a great growth story last year. The unit, which manufactures high-tech locomotives, mining equipment and other heavy machinery announced more than 2,400 jobs in the U.S. in 2011. It will invest over $400 million to open new plants and upgrade facilities in Pennsylvania and Texas. It also [...]

In 2011, GE scientists, makers and business leaders created products, provided services and launched research projects that took on a wide range of global challenges. Here is our pick of the top five:
1. Reducing the High Cost of Solar Power: In April, GE announced that its thin film solar panels [...]

Russia’s largest island, Sakhalin, snuggles up to the motherland’s Pacific coastline just north of Japan. The island, about half the size of Florida, has long been known for its dense evergreen forests and wildlife where bears and foxes rub against fur seals and sea lions. But since the collapse of [...]