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Venture Capitalist to Steer DOE's Energy Loan Program

The Department of Energy has billions in loan guarantees to hand out to alternative energy firms and automakers. But the highly competitive process has been criticized as slow, unmoving even. What ...

Early-stage venture capital roundup

Compiled by Alastair Goldfisher SAN FRANCISCO (Private Equity Week) - More than a dozen startups in the United States and Canada raised early-stage funding last week, according to Thomson Reuters. ...

NYC - Answers About Entrepreneurship

Following is the first set of answers from Seth W. Pinsky, the president of the New York City Economic Development Corporation. This week, he is answering readers’ questions about citywide ...

Manifesto for Creativity and Innovation in Europe

The "Manifesto for Creativity and Innovation in Europe" is one of the key outcomes of the European Year of Creativity and Innovation 2009. The document is the result of a collective work of the ...

Introducing The Prize: On the Business Plan Circuit

Anyone familiar with Tom Cruise’s breakout role in “Risky Business” or the reality television series “Shark Tank” has a pretty good idea of what business plan competitions are. They’re ...

Energy Innovation

The race is on for energy-technology entrepreneurs who have won federal economic-stimulus grants from a special high-risk technology program—with promises of more money if they can move their ...

PE firms target Indian investors to raise funds

Mumbai: Even as corporate groups and financial institutions in India are floating their own private equity funds, the downturn in the global economy has affected their fundraising plans indefinitely. ...

Which states are innovative in education? A new report card.

The report card aims to highlight the sorts of innovations in education – such as an extended school day – that lead to better schools. If states truly want to improve their education systems, ...

Australia: The unfinished business of innovation

It is clear that innovation and technological change got us into many of the messes we are in today, but only innovation and technological breakthroughs will get us out of trouble. My career ...

Interview: Google China's Kai-Fu Lee Debuts Innovation Works

Kai-Fu Lee became famous in 2005 when the engineering whiz left Microsoft, where he had created Microsoft Research Asia, to head search giant Google’s operation in China. Microsoft sued, charging ...

New Asia Security Blog Covers Obama's Visit to the Asia-Pacific

The MacArthur Foundation seeks to increase the effectiveness of international cooperation in fostering peace and security in Asia. Read our news for the latest ideas from the Initiative network, and ...

The unsung heros of innovation

To stay ahead, companies need to find ways to keep engineers motivated and happy. In the high-tech industry, “innovation” is part of our everyday vocabulary and one of the main reasons why many ...

Innovation Is Back, Says Accenture—Or Is it?

Nearly two years after the U.S. tumbled into a recession, business is starting to think about ways to grow again. And for many, this means spending more money on innovation, says a new study from ...

It is time to unleash federal R&D

The Washington region has the nation’s richest set of federal research and development assets, but they are not fully realized partners in our technology community. To unlock their full potential, ...

Opinion: Michigan Entrepreneurship and innovation will drive our future

A few months ago, Business Leaders for Michigan emerged as a new organization of CEOs from across the state all speaking in one voice around one goal: making Michigan a “Top Ten” state in the ...

Why It's So Difficult to Find Angel Capital

Suppose you’ve started a business that needs $100,000 of external financing to get off the ground. Because none of your friends or family has the money to make the investment, you’re looking for ...

Six Universities Adopt New Technology Transfer Principles Designed to Speed Access to Affordable Medicines in the Developing World

New Haven, Conn. — A consortium of six leading research universities and the Association of University Technology Managers (AUTM) today announced their endorsement of a far-reaching “Statement of ...

Malaysia seeks Kentucky expertise to wire nation

Kentucky Broadband model used as national example goes global LEXINGTON, KY - After being lauded as model for the United States in President Barack Obama's stimulus plan, the head of the program ...

With Jobs Scant, MBAs Consider Startups

Landing a banking or consulting job used to be the main reason for going to B-school. These days, it's just as likely to be launching a business Business schools have quietly become the back door to ...

National Survey Reveals That 43% of Early-stage and Seed Funding Organizations Raised New Money in the Last 12 Months

Newswise — The Fox School of Business at Temple University and the National Association of Seed Venture Funds (NASVF) have released a new survey indicating that about half of the organizations ...

CLIMATE CHANGE: When Will They Walk The Talk?

BERLIN (IDN) – There is so much gloom and doom after Barcelona and St. Andrews that a catastrophic climate change appears inevitable. Some seem to envision the planet Earth being smashed to the ...

House, Senate May Be Close to Compromise on SBIR Act

The months-long wait for small device companies looking for revisions to the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program may be nearing an end as a compromise version could be introduced later ...

University of Michigan’s David Brophy recognized by Michigan Venture Capital Association

David Brophy, director of the Center for Venture Capital and Private Equity Finance at the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business, was honored Monday night with the Lifetime Achievement ...

Canada Q3 venture capital deals hit 14-year low

TORONTO, Nov 10 (Reuters) - Activity in Canada's venture capital market hit a 14-year low in the third quarter, tumbling 51 percent to $191 million from the same period a year ago as uneasy investors ...

A Glimmer of Light in Venture-Capital Land

The venture-capital industry is undergoing some tough times, with returns scarce and new money hard to raise in the recession. But a new survey by law firm Fenwick & West shows some optimism is ...

Mass Chamber: Universities fuel innovation engine

Massachusetts ranked first in the nation per capita for the total number of patents produced by higher education institutions - with a rate nearly twice as high as the next closest state, the Greater ...

Where Twitter Ranks In Venture Funding History

Either Twitter is a special case, or its investors are signaling to Silicon Valley that you still have to spend big to win ...

New Zealand Hopes 'digital hub' will attract foreign business

Wellington's economic development agency is hopeful a $20 million digital innovation hub proposed for the capital could help attract more foreign business to New Zealand shores. The New Zealand ...

WSJ: Polycentric Innovation: A New Mandate for Multinationals

What do John Deere, Cisco, and Obopay have in common? All three companies form a new breed of enlightened Western firms that have embraced what I call "polycentric innovation." Polycentric ...

Why The Pursuit Of Innovation Usually Fails

It's not what we're trained for as leaders or how our businesses are set up to work. Most companies everywhere are struggling to grow right now. With their revenues flat to down, they're cutting ...

One Day with Innovation in India

Another first. This time in New Delhi, a mega city with 100 million people living in its metropolitan area. Today we had our first ONE DAY WITH INNOVATION in India. And in our way to the ONE DAY ...

The Global Innovation Migration

As more U.S. companies send their sophisticated R&D offshore, America must provide worker retraining to maintain its tech leadership Research and development is increasingly going global, ...

Breakthrough Inventions and Migrating Clusters of Innovation

In just a short period of time the spatial location of invention can shift substantially. The San Francisco Bay Area grew from 5 percent of U.S. domestic patents in 1975-1984 to over 12 percent in ...

When Angel Capital Is Not So Angelic

Skimming the recent spate of somewhat rosy articles touting the resurgence and benefits of angel investing, I was persuaded to dig through some of my older posts to examine whether my somewhat caveat ...

Finding Your Angel Investor

As a rule, angel investors are wealthy people who like to bet on early-stage startups. They offer first-round financing, bridging the gap between bootstrapping and institutional capital, with the ...

Obama plans small business forum

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration has set a November 18 date for a small business forum to define a new initiative to boost lending to smaller firms and help reverse U.S. job losses, an ...

New Book Asks Whether Governments Should be in the Venture Capital Business

Can governments spark start-up activity and job creation by getting into the venture capital business? Or do they just waste taxpayer money whenever they try? Those are the two questions that ...

A Typical Entrepreneur's Aspirations

Most believe new businesses provide substantial economic benefits. Scott Shane explains why this isn't normally the case Myth: The typical entrepreneur creates jobs, generates innovation, provides ...

Entrepreneur Corner Roundup: Surefire ways to get rejected by an angel investor and clearing up lean startup myths

Here’s the latest from VentureBeat’s Entrepreneur Corner: Shoestring marketing for startups – Young companies typically don’t have the budget for a substantial marketing campaign, but ...

Googled: The End of the World as We Know It

In early 1998, Bill Gates headed Microsoft at the peak of its commercial powers. The world’s preeminent software giant claimed a 90 percent market share in all desk and laptop PCs and it was ...