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America’s Most Innovative Cities - 24/7 Wall St.

Corvallis, Oregon, has one of the most educated populations in the country, pointing to the presence of innovative companies. It has the third highest proportion of adults with a bachelor’s degree ...

Five Drivers To Spark Innovation Throughout Your Company Culture

Here are five pointers to help you build a company culture of innovation and to spark innovative insights throughout its ranks. These principles, which I use onsite with my consulting clients, ...

Is digital health in a bubble? Depends on who you ask - MedCity News

Digital health industry cheerleaders Rock Health has produced their year-end venture funding report for 2018 and while investment figures continue to break records, the organization is a bit more ...

The 7 Most Important Words in a Negotiation – Innovation Excellence

It’s tempting to give ultimatums in tense negotiations, but how you give them is what’s important, according to a former FBI kidnapping negotiator. I love to negotiate, sometimes a bit too ...

The Havard Innovation Labs: becoming an experimentation machine – Innovation Excellence

Matthew Guidarelli is an adviser for entrepreneurs across industries; he supports their venture development throughout the startup lifecycle — helping founders build world-positive companies that ...

Startup Professionals Musings: The Average Startup Overnight Success Takes Six Years

Every startup founder knows implicitly that startup success is a long hard road. Yet we always dream that we are the exception to the rule. So once in a while it’s good to look at some facts to ...

NJBIA Releases Indicators of Innovation Report - Insider NJ

Indicators of Innovation, a report issued today by the New Jersey Business & Industry Association, shows New Jersey at a challenging crossroads in its efforts to reclaim itself as the ...

9 clever tech ideas from CES 2019

CES is best-known for spectacles like roll-up TVs, foldable displays, and ping-pong-playing robots. But beyond all the eye candy, the tech industry’s annual trade show in Las Vegas brings plenty ...

How to redesign your workspace to be your most productive in 2019

Productivity is always a hot topic, and you can find a plethora of tips and tools to help you get more done. If your workspace is running interference with your intentions, however, you could be ...

Your New Venture IP Portfolio Sets Investment Value - Startup Professionals Musings

A large portion of your competitive advantage and your potential value to investors is the size of your intellectual property portfolio. When someone says Intellectual Property (IP), most ...

Billionaires Like Warren Buffett, Jeff Bezos and Mark Cuban Live by Ancient Stoic Philosophy

It all started around 304 BC when Zeno, a wealthy merchant and founder of Stoicism, sailed from the Mediterranean port of Piraeus, known for its notoriously stormy weather. Zeno was ...

Explore Startup Investing Beyond Silicon Valley

Startup unicorns and billion dollar funds grab headlines these days, but most investors only hear about these opportunities late in the investing cycle, when growth is slowing. ...

This JPMorgan Health Conference Is So Packed Attendees Are Meeting in the Bathroom

Brianna Wronko has an engineering degree from an Ivy League school and is the CEO of a health-care diagnostics company. Until this week, she never thought she’d be stuck holding business meetings ...

How Introverts Can Learn to Network Effectively - [email protected]

Learning how to network effectively is an invaluable skill to have when it comes to discovering job opportunities and making career connections to get ahead. But such socializing doesn’t come ...

Wisconsin sees success winning NIH funding - Milwaukee Business Journal

Early-stage life sciences companies in Wisconsin have a high success rate at winning federal grant dollars that fund research and development for their ...

What can a business coach show you that you don’t already know? - StrategiQ Corporation

You may think that hiring a business coach is admitting defeat, or implies that you don’t know what you’re doing. After all, most people usually only turn to a personal trainer if they can’t ...

Study: Ben Franklin Grew Pa.'s Economy by $4.1 Billion, Created 11,407 Jobs from 2012 to 2016

HARRISBURG, Pa., Jan. 9, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- With a focus on startups and innovation, Ben Franklin Technology Partners (BFTP) remains a powerful job creation and high-tech economic development ...

These maps show you every tree in your city

In San Francisco, it took a team of arborists a year to map every street tree in the city–124,795 in total. In New York, a similar tree count with volunteers took nearly two years. A new ...

FDA plans to create a new office to leverage cutting-edge science - STAT

The Food and Drug Administration plans to create a new office to improve the review of new medicines — one that will develop a standardized approach to using personalized medicine, digital data, ...

12 books that CEOs think you should read in 2019

If you’re a founder or aspiring entrepreneur, perhaps you’re looking to round out your reading list for 2019 with a few inspiring business reads. We asked entrepreneurs to offer their book ...

7 Trends That Healthtech Innovators Expect To Shape 2019

2018 was a big year for healthtech, with digital health companies securing over $7.5bn in investment across the year. The last 12 months also saw a notable shift in the public and media debates ...

These slick new AR glasses project shockingly high-quality visuals - The Verge

Like virtual reality before it, augmented reality is the newest, hyped-up technology ripped straight from science fiction that technology companies worldwide are trying to bring to life. But unlike ...

Ocean Warming Is Accelerating Faster Than Thought, New Research Finds - The New York Times

Scientists say the world’s oceans are warming far more quickly than previously thought, a finding with dire implications for climate change because almost all the excess heat absorbed by the ...

Which is the best crowdfunding site?

Whether you’re trying to start your own business, or you’re trying to pay off a major medical expense, crowdfunding can be an incredible source of income when you’re in desperate need of a ...

Why pharma is starting to think more like Amazon - MedCity News

Pharmaceutical companies are starting to see the retail supply chain as more than just a way to get drugs from point A to point B. It can be an opportunity to ensure better products and services and ...

Useful Stats: State government investments in R&D, 2012-2017 | SSTI

Every state government invested at least $1.0 million in research and development in FY 2017, according to recent data from the National Science Foundation’s National Center for Science and ...

The Hard Truths of Trying to ‘Save’ the Rural Economy - The New York Times

There are 60 million people, almost one in five Americans, living on farms, in hamlets and in small towns across the landscape. For the last quarter century the story of these places has been one of ...

University IP offices protect key innovations | The Indiana Lawyer

At major universities, research is king. Whether it’s a professor working to get a paper published, a scientist doing research in a lab or a web developer creating software, research universities ...

Scientists Have a Plan to Turn Seabirds Into Tiny Ocean Science Labs

In the future, cyborg birds may help monitor ocean currents and help ground-truth satellite data. It may sound like an odd prognostication, but a study released on Thursday in Scientific Reports ...

‘Lighthouse’ manufacturers lead the way--can the rest of the world keep up? | McKinsey

Manufacturing leaders are sprinting ahead with digital and analytics, and changing the rules of the game. A broad scale-up of innovation across the value chain is needed to ensure more winners share ...

Tax Day 2019: Important tax deductions for independent contractors - Business Insider

With the rise of the gig economy, many more people are now having to consider the tax implications of working as independent contractors. When you are an independent contractor, the IRS considers ...

The future of work still requires people—so stop investing in them at your own peril - MIT Technology Review

Automation may cast a dark shadow over low-skill workers, but a new report suggests there’s still hope for humans. The robots aren’t taking over, yet: At least, that’s the finding of a report ...

Science and the shutdown: 5 things to watch as US impasse drags on

Thousands of US scientists are heading into their fourth week of enforced leave, the result of a prolonged government shutdown that began on 22 December. The Environmental Protection Agency, NASA ...

Providence Ventures Raises $150M to Invest in Healthtech Startups - Xconomy

Providence Ventures, the venture investing arm of Renton, WA-based health system Providence St. Joseph Health, says it has raised a $150 million fund to invest in early- and mid-stage healthcare ...

Why Rest Is the Secret to Entrepreneurial Success

Cheetahs are the world’s fastest land mammal. These feline sprinters can accelerate from 0 to 60 miles per hour in three seconds flat. Explosive speed enables them to take down an antelope, but ...

The technology creeping us out in 2019

As reality in tech-heavy economies blends further into an unending choose-your-own adventure episode of Black Mirror, the biggest, creepiest innovation may be the big data economy built on the back ...

CES 2019: Y-Brush Can Supposedly Brush Your Teeth in Just 10 Seconds | Digital Trends

Generally speaking, brushing your teeth is not a difficult task. It takes 2 minutes total and you only have to do it twice a day –but it’s not a very fun chore. Y-Brush might be a solution to ...

The 30 Best Pieces of Advice for Entrepreneurs in 2018 | First Round Review

This time of year marks a familiar tradition here at the Review, one that’s spent compiling a list. It’s not just any list, (in our eyes at least, but hopefully our readers agree). Rather, ...

What Successful Public-Private Partnerships Do

Despite spending $2.5 trillion a year on roads, railways, ports, water, and other public infrastructure projects, countries around the world are still falling far short of what they need to invest, ...

Is Age a Barrier in You becoming an Entrepreneur?

Let’s be honest – after reading the first part of the headline of this article, you expected something like: “There is no right or wrong age to become an entrepreneur. Anyone – at any age ...