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Maryland Energy Administration funds projects that deliver both lower emissions & lower costs for Maryland residents, no trade-offs allowed. Through a streamlined, equity-focused innovation program, they support scalable, real-world solutions to maximize public benefit.

Why does health misinformation spread faster than accurate content? Explore the structural, trust, and craft challenges facing public health communicators on social media.

Community-Based Participatory Research reframes who holds authority in health design. Here's why top-down interventions keep failing and what genuine co-creation demands.

Innovation in government is often framed around technology, but in Birmingham, AL, it starts with something far more fundamental: trust. As Innovation Team Director for the City of Birmingham, LaTisha “Tish” Fletcher is leading a different kind of transformation. One that's human-centered.

How episodic health content, docu-series, animated explainers, serialized narratives, can bridge the gap between health knowledge and lasting behavior change.

We sat down with Lindsey Stutheit, Director of Entrepreneurship at Laramie County Community College (LCCC) in Wyoming, to explore a counterintuitive truth: in a state with one of the lowest entrepreneurial cultures in America, some of the grittiest problem-solving is quietly happening everyday.

In a recent HeroX Speaker Series conversation, Mark Ignash pulls back the curtain on how Michigan, where defense is the state's third-largest industry, is reimagining what's possible when you combine industrial strength, academic talent, and agile public-private partnerships.

We sit down with Dr. Robert Nason, Director of Innovation and Entrepreneurship at McGill University. He challenges the "dominant prototype" of entrepreneurship and explores how leaders can "design for serendipity" to foster interdisciplinary breakthroughs and mindset shifts across any organization.

What happens when an analytical mind meets a creative spirit? For Annalyce D'Agostino-Gavin, Creative Development and Innovation Strategist at Montclair State University's Feliciano Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, it sparked a journey that's changing what it means to be an entrepreneur.

Harry Sangree knows a thing or two about solving hard problems. With over 30 years in software innovation and successful startup exits in the competitive sea freight industry, he built his career on finding elegant solutions to complex challenges. But when the pandemic hit, everything changed.