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Fail Fast, Try New Things: How Government Innovators Can Succeed

Successful innovators are unafraid to try new things and prioritize stakeholder buy-in. But some of the hurdles to innovation center mainly around three aspects, according to Dcode Founder and CEO ...

Mars Has Liquid Life, a Potential Sign of Life | Time

It’s awfully hard to kill a planet—and Mars should know, because Mars ought to be dead by now. Long ago, perhaps 4.3 billion years back, the Red Planet was a place not unlike Earth. It had a ...

Dress for Success Tips -- What You Can Learn from a Billionaire's Threads - Small Business Trends

“Dress for success” is a well-known adage, but the meaning has evolved in today’s digital economy. A new infographic by Fundera provides some insights with actionable tips to improve your ...

Are you a smart innovator and eligible to receive EU funding? | EU-Startups

With a €3 billion budget to award 7,500 startups until 2020 with up to €2,5 million, the SME Instrument of the European Commission’s Horizon 2020 programme is the largest, most competitive ...

In a sign of how malls are evolving, incubator 1776 is coming to the Cherry Hill Mall - Philly

An incubator space is coming to Cherry Hill Mall — a change that points to the broader trend of shopping centers rebranding as destinations to do more than just buy clothes. Incubator company ...

Venture capital firms have a gender problem. Here’s how to fix it - The Globe and Mail

Michelle McBane is senior investment director at MaRS Investment Accelerator Fund and managing director of StandUp Ventures. Lauren Robinson is general partner at Highline BETA and executive ...

GlaxoSmithKline makes $300M investment in 23andMe, forms 50-50 R&D pact | FierceBiotech

GlaxoSmithKline has made a $300 million equity investment in 23andMe as part of a deal that pulls it close to the consumer genetics pioneer. The partners are contributing preclinical programs to a ...

3 reasons why summer is the perfect time to start your job search

Summer is a great time for slowing down the pace, catching up with friends, and getting plenty of rest and relaxation. But it’s also a great time to turn up the heat on your new job search. If ...

UNC Working to Retain Incubation Space for Faculty Spinoffs

The UNC Board of Trustees heard a proposal for an incubation space at their finance committee meeting last Wednesday. The area, which will partner with a third-party life-sciences operating company, ...

Theranos: How Elizabeth Holmes Fooled Silicon Valley

Elizabeth Holmes had the world on a string. In 2003, the 19-year-old college dropout founded Theranos, a medical technology company that promised to revolutionize health care with a device that ...

Global manufacturing scorecard: How the US compares to 18 other nations

Manufacturing is enjoying a resurgence in the United States. After years of falling output and a diminishing percentage of the labor force, the last few years have seen renewed growth. According to ...

Canada’s ‘innovation economy’ has been over-hyped and needs a reality check - The Globe and Mail

There has been a steady drumbeat of headlines praising Canada’s innovation economy of late, including our academic contributions in the area of artificial intelligence, federal “superclusters” ...

How Family Business Owners Should Bring the Next Generation into the Company

“Go find your passion,’’ Henry directed his children when they reached their late teens and early twenties. “Find your interests outside our family business and pursue them.’’ As ...

The Platform Fallacy – Innovation Excellence

It seems like every business discussion today is just counting the seconds before the term “platform” comes up. Books and articles are written, pundits swoon and conference audiences nod and ...

Startup Professionals Musings: How Some Ventures Continually Stay Ahead Of The Crowd

As a business advisor, I have long been surprised by the large number of industry stalwarts, including Blockbuster, Kodak, and General Motors, that have been dealt major setbacks, or even total ...

College Entrepreneurship 101: Finding Your First Investor

So you think you have an ingenious startup idea. You want to transform concept into product or service but don’t have the capital to make it a reality. It’s enough just making tuition and room ...

The four-day work week is good for business

This spring, a New Zealand company tried a new experiment: Employees could work four standard days instead of five, but would be paid their usual salary. Newly released numbers from a study of the ...

TODAYonline | In pushing for innovation, France’s private sector plays a big role

PARIS — Occupying the space of an abandoned 1920s train station in the south-east district of Paris is the world's largest start-up incubator called Station F, fully funded by French billionaire ...

Millennials Reinvent Localism in Their Search for Community | Newgeography.com

It’s common knowledge that millennials long for "community." What’s less understood is the concrete expression of that longing in cities and suburbs across America, especially now that the older ...

Maui Now : $4 M in Grants Released by Maui Economic Development Office

During the second half of fiscal year 2018, the Mayor’s Office of Economic Development (OED) issued more than $4 million dollars in grant monies to various local organizations. Grantees were ...

The World’s Healthiest Cities - 24/7 Wall St.

Vancouver has a strong health and wellness culture and is home to active lifestyle brands such as lululemon, Arc’teryx, and Herschel Supply Company. Vancouver also has one of the lowest infant ...

How the Digital Economy Has Exacerbated Inequality | INSEAD Knowledge

Income inequality has increased in most developed countries over the past three decades. The phenomenon has been felt much more in some countries than others, but the general trend is unmistakable. ...

The Advice 50 Business Leaders and Celebrities Would Give Their Younger Selves

There are many obstacles on the way to success, but fortunately, others have already made it there and could provide insights and advice for the rest of us. AdView compiled a graphic of 50 business ...

Chaos Is Not a Viable Leadership Style

Thirty years ago, the business world had a fling with chaos theory — the idea that although nonlinear systems, such as markets and companies, are inherently unpredictable, some order exists within ...

11 Business Documents You Should Always Have in Printed Form - Small Business Trends

Thanks to modern technology, plenty of offices are now almost completely paperless. Important documents are created, signed and sent exclusively online, and stored for easy access by all parties. ...

How To Embrace Your Creative Rut And Climb Out Of It

Phil Hansen was in art school when he developed a tremor in his hand. Before then, he’d been making images using countless tiny dots, but suddenly he couldn’t make a single solid dot with the ...

These 10 Products Most Correlate With High Income | Money

Some tastes are acquired. Apparently those include Kikkoman soy sauce and Ziploc bags. Those are among the consumer brands economists at University of Chicago say most consistently correlate with a ...

What is JOBS Act 3.0 and How Could It Help Your Small Business? - Small Business Trends

A new bill will allow small businesses to raise capital like larger businesses. Proponents say it will help small buinesses start a new venture and grow their company in a robust economy. A ...

The 3 Questions You Must Answer to Make Your Brand Stand Out

There’s never been a more crucial time to differentiate your business, whether you sell on Amazon, drop ship, own an e-commerce store or even if you’re in SaaS. Technology has greatly reduced ...

Opinion/Commentary: Increasing access to venture capital for all Virginians | Opinion | dailyprogress.com

Across the U.S., venture capital is disproportionately focused in large metropolitan areas. Often, entrepreneurs who do not locate their companies within these areas struggle to garner the same ...

10 Reasons To Market Yourself More Than A Great Idea - Startup Professionals Musings

Too many entrepreneurs I know still believe that that their great idea will carry the startup, and they may even minimize their own value, especially if they have introvert tendencies. Yet most ...

Give yourself a performance review right now. Here’s how

If you were asked offhandedly to assess your work performance, chances are you’d say you’re smart, hardworking, well-liked by your coworkers, and respected by your boss. Maybe you’d mention ...

World's Top 50 Smart City Governments Ranked by Eden Strategy Institute

Eden Strategy Institute has issued its study and ranking of the Top 50 Smart City Governments. The Top 10 Cities identified as the World’s Best City Governments, according to the Eden Strategy ...

Nokia Open Innovation Challenge 2018 seeks startups with disruptive ideas to shape the future of industrial automation | WebWire

Nokia today officially launched the Nokia Open Innovation Challenge (NOIC), an annual global competition that seeks innovative technologies, products and solutions that can change the world. The ...

More privacy regulations don't spur more innovation

The conventional wisdom in policy circles is that the best way to grow the digital economy is by increasing consumer trust. Privacy regulations, we are told, will boost trust and more trust will ...

Technology-sector lessons to promote innovation in government | McKinsey & Company

Public-sector leaders recently met with leaders from the region’s most innovative companies to learn about their culture of innovation firsthand. Here’s what they heard. For all the impact ...

Here's What Jeff Bezos Prefers to Work-Life Balance and Why You Should Live By It

Amazon is known for building a culture that values hard work. So much so that the organization has received criticism from current and former employees for having to work on Thanksgiving, or even ...

New Dell Research Ranks Cities Globally on Ability to Foster Women Entrepreneurship – Irish Tech News

DUBLIN, Ireland – At the 9th annual Dell Women Entrepreneur Network Summit (DWEN) kicking off today in Toronto, Dell unveiled new diagnostic tools for local governments and policymakers to help ...

University of Pennsylvania announces agreement with Johnson & Johnson Innovation to launch JPOD @ Philadelphia | Penn Today

The University of Pennsylvania announced today a collaboration with Johnson & Johnson Innovation LLC to open the first JPOD location in the United States, JPOD @ Philadelphia. The JPOD will be ...

Institute for Life Science Entrepreneurship Releases White Paper Titled "Recent Advances in Laboratory and Innovation Space in New Jersey"

UNION, N.J., July 18, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, the Institute for Life Science Entrepreneurship (ILSE) announced the publication of its report highlighting life science incubator space and ...