“I think it’s safe to say that business has changed dramatically over the last 18 months,” states Rainstorm Dust Control’s technical sales and marketing manager, Mason Trouchet, when I ask him what life has been like for the Australian company since we last featured them in September 2012.

From the outset LUCELEC's mission has been to provide an excellent service to its customers by adequately supplying a reliable and continuous electrical supply to the Saint Lucian population, at an affordable cost. Though it serves a small country of fewer than 175,000 souls, LUCELEC's approach has earned it a reputation across the Caribbean as a very well-run, world-class utility regarded as a best practice benchmark company with a strong emphasis on customer service, innovation, employee development and social and economic development.

It was at the beginning of the 1990s that the groundwork behind the foundation of EcoElectrica was first laid. Impacted by a combination of high oil prices and new legislation designed to combat the environmental impact of the fuel, the newly elected Government of Puerto Rico embarked on a plan to diversify the country’s energy portfolio, incorporating more clean, safe and cost effective alternative energy sources in order to reduce Puerto Rico’s dependency on oil, which at the time made up 99 percent of the energy used on the island.

A Canadian based, high growth mining company, Copper Mountain Mining Corporation’s focus is directed towards adding value through a combination of successful exploration, project development, efficient operations, and opportunistic acquisitions. Furthermore, the maintaining of a low risk profile through project diversification, astute financial management and operating in secure jurisdictions are key priorities for Copper Mountain's Management team.

Diamond and adamant are two words coming from a common Greek root meaning unalterable, an appropriate name for the hardest substance in the natural world. It's their resistance, their durability, that has made them the ultimate jewel. Rough diamonds as mined are unprepossessing, but once they have been cut and polished to refract light from a myriad facets their beauty is breathtaking. But cutting and polishing is no easy matter as the only substance hard enough to impress diamond is – more diamond.

The mining industry is experiencing unprecedented change: to be successful, companies need to remain nimble and creative, yet focused on their goals. Now that is so obvious to most mining CEOs that it is almost a truism, yet in practice they need help. As mining companies move through the mining asset life cycle, they encounter different challenges to maintaining.

Google has agreed to purchase for an undisclosed sum the two year-old start-up maker of high-altitude solar-powered drones Titan Aerospace, based in New Mexico. Titan claims a number applications for its drones, including data delivery, crop monitoring and search-and-rescue aid. However the unmanned aircraft can remain in flight for as long as five years without having to land or refuel, which has led to them being classed as 'atmospheric satellites' with corresponding communications potential.

The council believes that private sector demand for gold in China will rise to at least 1,350 tonnes by 2017 as the population becomes wealthier. The forecast also comes as China overtakes India to become the world’s largest gold-consuming nation.

The World Gold Council says China is at the "centre of the global gold eco-system", as rapid urbanisation creates a rising middle class. Chinese customers bought 1,132 tonnes of gold last year, in jewellery as well as gold bars and coins for investment.

But what is intrapreneurship? Zahra, (Journal of Business Venturing, 1991), defined intrapreneurship as the process of creating new business within established firms to improve organisational profitability and enhance a company’s competitive position or the strategic renewal of existing business.