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11 Family-Owned Businesses That Went Global

Most mom and pop shops stay precisely just that -- mom and pops. But some of the most recognizable and popular retail companies and brands came from family- or friend-owned businesses. While some ...

4 Reasons Gen Z Will Be the Most Entrepreneurial Generation — Entrepreneur Pathways, Inc.

It's safe to say Gen Z has officially joined the workforce, and there is plenty of discussion predicting what kind of mark this young generation will make on society. Although there's much up for ...

The Multinational Fuelled by Thousands of Entrepreneurs | INSEAD Knowledge

Haier’s business model has created a worldwide entrepreneurship movement. In this year’s Global Talent Competitiveness Index, we have seen how vital entrepreneurial talent is for a thriving ...

Top 10 US Cities Where Minority Entrepreneurs Are Succeeding - Small Business Trends

San Francisco tops the list with the highest rate of self-employed minorities as well as high parity of business ownership. With close to 8 million minority-owned businesses in the country, ...

Committing to long-term economic growth: developing Utah’s innovation pipelines

Today is my last day running the Utah Science Technology and Research Initiative (USTAR), and it is a bittersweet day. While I am exceptionally proud of what our team at USTAR has ...

How Johnson & Johnson Works with Startups – NJ Tech Weekly

If you’ve ever wondered how startups connect with big companies, whether to pilot innovations or to make them their customers, a meeting of the Association for Corporate Growth (ACG) New Jersey ...

Jonathan Aberman: Why are we using Silicon Valley's entrepreneurship model? - Washington Business Journal

Our region’s prevailing view of entrepreneurship discourages many who have entrepreneurial personalities and reduces our economic potential. We need to chart a new course. Our current views on ...

How to build an agile digital strategy that wins | McKinsey

Digital is driving major changes in how companies set and execute strategy. New survey results point to four elements that top performers include in their digital-strategy operating model. For many ...

How To Take Your Business Idea From Dream To Reality - Startup Professionals Musings

In my role as a new business advisor and occasional investor, I hear lots of people talking about their dreams of “someday” starting and running a new venture. They can talk with passion about ...

The 3 Challenges Every New CEO Faces

Close to 50 percent of chief executives say that the role was “not what I expected beforehand.” This was one finding from a series of interviews we conducted recently with 20 current and former ...

The Cost of Giving Birth in the U.S. - Scientific American Blog Network

In this month’s Science Agenda column Scientific American’s editors make the case for widespread adoption of midwifery care in the U.S. One major advantage of such a shift would be a reduction ...

Here’s how to improve diversity in startups | World Economic Forum

Innovation has always been about generating good ideas by challenging the status quo with new viewpoints. That is why diversity is fundamental to the sustained success of any innovation ecosystem. ...

When is a startup not a startup, and why can't we agree? - SmartCompany

Here at StartupSmart, we spend all day every day talking about startups to those running and investing in them. But, never has an industry been more difficult to define. The Australian government ...

Make Way for Generation Z in the Workplace - [email protected]

As a group, they are “sober, industrious and driven by money,” reports the Wall Street Journal, but also “socially awkward and timid about taking the reins.” They are risk-averse and more ...

Maryland E-Nnovation initiative provides matching funds for tech-focused research endowments - Technical.ly Baltimore

Four Maryland colleges are expanding tech-focused programming with funding from a state program. The Maryland E-Nnovation Initiative Fund was created to spur research in scientific and technical ...

New Report: The World's Innovation Epicenter Continues to Move East as Organizations Embrace AI and 5G Technologies

PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 23, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Asia has widened its lead in global innovation according to the Derwent Top 100 Global Innovators 2018-19 report published today by Clarivate Analytics, ...

The Tech Economy’s Untold Story | Newgeography.com

The decisions by Amazon and Google to expand into the New York area have led some pundits to claim that the nation’s high-tech economic future will be shaped in dense urban areas. “Big cities ...

Global trends: Navigating a world of disruption | McKinsey

We live in an era of disruption in which powerful global forces are changing how we live and work. The rise of China, India, and other emerging economies; the rapid spread of digital technologies; ...

Starship technology robots make deliveries at George Mason

When students at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia want a late-night coffee or meal, they’ll no longer have to walk across campus: The school now has a fleet of 25 delivery ...

IP Protection in the Data Economy: Getting the Balance Right on 13 Critical Issues | ITIF

Intellectual property (IP) systems are designed in large part to provide adequate incentives for creators and inventors to invest in the production of novel ideas and content, while at the same time ...

Why Countries Care About Being Innovative | Best Countries | US News

INNOVATION IS OFTEN associated with high-end technology and futuristic solutions, while being seen as "innovative" is a tag that today investors, companies and economies like to pour their money ...

What is making the millennials choose entrepreneurship over jobs

It’s an age of startups, Gen Y or millennials, who are known to make headlines for several things like their lifestyle, trends, careers, handling finances and savings, are the ones also known to ...

7 Reasons Why You Should Jump On The Anti-VC Bandwagon

In an interesting article, Erin Griffith of the New York Times reveals the reality of venture capital that some of us in the wilderness have been shouting about for years – that there are few VC ...

The Surprising Way To Resist Eating Junk Food | Time

Just about everyone has ordered a side of fries after catching an intoxicating whiff. But new research, which was published in the Journal of Marketing Research, says that basking in the scent of ...

The World’s Most Talent Competitive Countries, 2019 | INSEAD Knowledge

A single genius cannot power an entire company. The myth of the omniscient leader has been debunked and for success in this competitive world, entrepreneurial talent needs to hum through the ...

5 Keys To Starting A New Venture In Your Local Town - Startup Professionals Musings

From the advice I hear these days, if you want to be a successful entrepreneur, you need to be in Silicon Valley, Boston, New York, or one of the few other financial hubs around the world. What does ...

Canada's innovation performance falling behind: report

Despite pouring billions into programs meant to spur innovation, Canada is lagging behind the developed world when it comes to its innovation performance, according to a Fraser Institute report. The ...

The big advantage middle America offers innovators: time - PE Hub

It’s hard to fathom a startup exodus from California, of all places, with its balmy weather, sweeping cliff-top ocean views and seemingly endless sources of capital for the next new thing. But ...

Pittsburgh & Rochester: Best 2018 International Housing Affordability | Newgeography.com

Pittsburgh and Rochester have the best housing affordability among 91 major markets (metropolitan areas with more than 1,000,000 population) in eight nations. Both have a median house price that is ...

Electronic Pill Slowly Delivers Drugs, Monitors Health

The hassle of taking medication every day could someday be eliminated, thanks to an ingestible electronic pill that lasts in the stomach for close to a month and releases medication only when ...

The Entrepreneur Manifesto For 2019: Forget The Resolutions

Ah January. As any entrepreneur knows, it’s either a month that appears bleak or full of optimism. On the one hand, you have those who look back on their choices of 2018, dissecting every decision ...

Nearly 20% Of World's Entrepreneurs Work With Family Members, According To The 2018 Global Entrepreneurship Monitor

SANTIAGO, Chile, Jan. 21, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Nearly 20% of the world's entrepreneurs are working with family members, according to the 2018/2019 Global Entrepreneurship Monitor Global Report, ...

How To Spark Entrepreneurship: Lessons From Innovation Hubs

"Entrepreneur" is generally understood to mean someone who organizes, manages, and assumes the risks of an idea or enterprise. Because of the risk associated with entrepreneurship, it is easy to ...

How to Beat Procrastination As You Grow Your Business

Procrastination is an odd compulsion. Everyone has experienced it, but the underlying reasons can be tough to pin down. After all, procrastination delays the very activities that bring people ...

The Best Leaders Aren’t Afraid to Ask for Help

I think of myself as strong. I see myself as someone who can manage a lot of stress. Who can get a tremendous amount accomplished in a day. Who can work long hours and pull through in clutch ...

Will people ditch cash for cryptocurrency? Japan is about to find out - MIT Technology Review

The world’s largest experiment in using blockchain-based networks to pay for things is about to ...

William E. Bentley, Professor of Engineering and Founding Director of the Fischell Institute for Biomedical Devices joins Rich Bendis for the first BioTalk of 2019 - Biohealth Innovation

William E. Bentley is the Robert E. Fischell Distinguished Chair of Engineering and the Inaugural Director of the Robert E. Fischell Institute for Biomedical Devices. He is appointed in the Fischell ...