INSTANT MBA: Model Your Innovation Techniques Off Other Successful Industries
Today's advice comes from Jen Groover, author and serial entrepreneur, via Entrepreneur: "Innovation for entrepreneurs is critical. It's what sets you apart from everybody else, it's what makes you...
View Article10 Incredible Things Invented By Kids
For hundreds of years, kids have been been making advances in science, technology and food, all before they're old enough to drive a car. From everyday toys to life-altering creations, here some of...
View ArticleTechStars Demo Day: Meet The 13 Most Highly Anticipated Startups In New York
After beating out more than 1,600 applicants and three months of hard work, 13 startups debuted this morning on stage at TechStars Demo Day NY. The early-stage companies presented before a room of 500...
View ArticleHow Video Games Can Solve The World's Biggest Problems
The 21st century global community faces unprecedented challenges; human-induced climate change, dangerous food and water shortages, widespread poverty, and deadly diseases are realities in today's...
View ArticleGUY KAWASAKI: The Real Rules On How To Innovate
Alltop co-founder and former Apple evangelist Guy Kawasaki recently shared some of his strategies for outperforming competitors at WOBI’s World Innovation Forum. Kawasaki knows firsthand that, like...
View ArticleBerkeley Professor Explains How The 'Fortress' Corporate Office Is Dead
The days of corporations hiding behind barbed wire and security guards on suburban campuses are over, according to Berkeley Haas School Of Business Professor Henry Chesbrough. At the recent World...
View ArticleInnovation Is Clearly Not Just An American Trait
Back in 2005, Charles Gave, Anatole Kaletsky, and Louis-Vincent Gave of the global investment firm, GaveKal, privately published a short book titled, Our Brave New World, now out of publication. Among...
View ArticleIt's Time For New Industry Innovations
First I wanted to thank the many folks who through Facebook, Twitter and other social media found out that I had a heart attack that led to a triple bypass. So many of you sent get well notes and...
View ArticleUnder Armour Has A 'Super-Secret' Lab Protected By A Scanner That Reads The...
Under Armour's success has been reliant on the ability to constantly innovate and differentiate itself from the bigger boys in the industry. So, it keeps the place where it develops new products —...
View ArticleThere's A Valuable Lesson About Innovation You Can Learn By Flipping Burgers...
Lydia Dishman at Fast Company interviewed Darren Serrao, VP of beverages and breakthrough innovation at Campbell's Soup, and he revealed an interesting thing he learned on the job well before he was a...
View ArticleBig Data Can Be A Big Problem If Companies Let It Run Amok, Expert Says
Big data is a hot young technology but it can really send a company down the wrong track, warns Lara Lee, COO of product-design company Continuum. Continuum is a 200-person, 30-year old Boston firm...
View ArticleThe Most Creative Places In The World Are Exponentially More Innovative
Via Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation: A city that was ten times larger than its neighbor wasn’t ten times more innovative; it was seventeen times more innovative. A...
View ArticleLike All Good Things, Air Conditioning Was Originally Designed To Make An...
As Americans endure yet another heatwave, their sole consolation is that it might have been worse were it not for Willis Carrier. Precisely 110 years ago in Brooklyn, on July 17th 1902, in the middle...
View ArticleDebunking The Myth That Chinese Can't Innovate
In my last post, Doing the Undoable, I discussed the rapid development of genetics, particularly genetic engineering. Having the video presentation of Juan Enriquez available helped get the point...
View ArticleFord Has Big Plans To Remake Its Best-Selling F-150 Truck In Aluminum (F)
In an effort to improve fuel economy, Ford is unveiling a drastically different truck body for its F-150 model made mostly of aluminum, according to the Wall Street Journal. Ford's decision is in...
View Article'Zero Gravity Thinkers' Are The Key To Innovation
As corporate leaders around the world seek to build sustainable businesses, there is no doubt that innovation lies at the heart of the solution. But there is a nagging question that’s been cropping up...
View Article30 Innovations That Will Change The World
Robots That Will Revolutionize Surgery Augmented Reality Contact Lenses A Life-Saving Shot Of Oxygen Foam Printed Skin Cells Will Change Burn Treatment A System That Turns Sewage Into Water Vapor...
View ArticlePrinted Skin Cells Will Change How We Treat Burns Forever
Scientists at Wake Forest School of Medicine are making strides in a skin-printing technology to treat burn victims. Several years ago, the scientists there were inspired by ink-jet printers, Cosmos...
View ArticleHow Two Former Male Models Broke Into The High-End Cocktail Business
This article originally appeared on American Express Open Forum. When promoting a new business, it probably doesn't hurt that Parker Boase and Gregory Lucas used to be models. But these two guys are...
View ArticleWe're Stuck In An Era Of 'Marginal' Revolutions Like Twitter And Amazon
How revolutionary is social media?"We wanted flying cars, instead we got 140 characters." -Founders Fund website, Peter Thiel We live in an age of rapid change. Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google,...
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