innovation DAILY - Innovation America

SBA Teams with Count Me In to Promote Women’s Entrepreneurship

The U.S. Small Business Administration and Count Me In for Women’s Economic Independence (CMI) launched a cooperative Strategic Alliance Memorandum to promote opportunities for women entrepreneurs ...

Blog to promote social innovation

The Swearer Center’s Social Innovation Initiative is creating a new blog aimed at promoting social innovation and entrepreneurship at Brown. Although students and others have already written online ...

Nanotechnology: sci-fi fears vs. a world of innovation

Nanotechnology has surprising applications in mundane materials like sunscreen and esoteric items like high-tech body armor for soldiers. But some fear scarier scenarios worthy of a science fiction ...

HBR: Clusters of Entrepreneurship

Economic growth is highly correlated with an abundance of small, entrepreneurial firms. This relationship is even stronger looking across industries within cities, and has been taken as evidence for ...

Fundraising Tide Remains Low for Venture Capital Firms

Fundraising by U.S. venture capital firms continues to lag. A survey released overnight by Dow Jones Private Equity Analyst shows that 26 VC funds raised about $3.5 billion during the three months ...

Sustainability Is a Key Driver of Innovation

In the September issue of Harvard Business Review, authors Ram Nidumolu, C.K. Prahalad, and M.R. Rangaswami provide a framework for adopting sustainable practices to bring about technological and ...

A century’s worth of innovation; 1897-2004 Oldsmobile

When General Motors discontinued America’s oldest automobile maker, Oldsmobile, in 2004, it ended a grand tradition of technical achievement. Oldsmobile was created by Ransom Eli Olds, born in ...

WSJ: The Daily Start-Up: Let’s Hear It For The VCs

Paul Kedrosky, a Kauffman Foundation senior fellow who often criticizes the venture industry for fattening up too much (see here and here), must have felt the need to show some love, too. Over at ...

The Next Wave of TV Innovation: 3D

This week saw a lot of coverage of new technology in televisions and displays, mostly centered around Ceatac, the big consumer electronics show in Tokyo. Most of the technology - ranging from 3D to ...

Mobile reverse innovation

One of the most interesting topics of the evening was reverse innovation. Radjou explained that traditionally, new technologies and gadgets were produced in the developed world, and then exported and ...

Department of Education launches $650-million innovation competition for school districts

Following quickly on the heels of its $43 million grant to the Teacher Quality Partnership program, the U.S. Department of Education announced this week the launch of a $650-million innovation ...

Kansas Bioscience Authority Commits $50 Million to Increase Venture Capital, Accelerate Bioscience Business Growth

OLATHE, Kan. — The Kansas Bioscience Authority took bold action today to significantly increase the amount of venture capital available to innovative Kansas bioscience businesses — and to lead ...

WSJ: VC Fund-Raising Drops, Marketing Not Worth ‘Brain Damage’

Just like their portfolio companies, venture capital firms continue to find it difficult to raise funding compared with last year. Through the end of the third quarter, 83 venture funds raised $8 ...

TNInvestco venture capital program names finalists

Ten firms have been named finalists for a venture capital program run by the state of Tennessee. Six will be chosen for the TNInvestco program, in which the state will offer tax credits to insurance ...

Forbes: Putting Patients At The Center Of Innovation

In an industry often vilified for putting profits before patients, Daniel Vasella, chairman and chief executive officer of Novartis, the $40 billion pharmaceutical company headquartered in Basel, ...

2009 National SBIR/STTR Conference

While these are challenging times for the global economy, the energy industry is thriving as federal agencies and investors seek out technologies and opportunities with promising futures. In the ...

VentureCritical.com Pinpoints Major Reasons for New Venture Failure Rate of 65%

LOS ANGELES--(Business Wire)-- Beginning with the lack of pre-startup customer response research, and extending to a poor use of their seed capital, two Southern California entrepreneurs have ...

IPBiz: India, "Extreme Innovation," and "Reverse Innovation"

RA Mashelkar, former head of India's CSIR [see IPBiz post Dr. R.A.Mashelkar of CSIR ] is now working on an innovation team of Ambani's Reliance Industries directed to "extreme innovation." Mr. Ambani ...

New economy picks winners, losers

While even small businesses now have global market opportunities, they now also have a whole world of competitors, he noted. They also face a product cycle in IT especially that has shifted from ...

BW: How a Smart Grid Will Spur Energy Entrepreneurship

Energy entrepreneurs are developing new technologies for generating, storing, and conserving power. Cleantech investing is beginning to recover from the hit it took last year. But changing the ...

Cleveland Clinic’s 2009 medical innovation predictions… some hits, some ‘not there yets’

CLEVELAND, Ohio – At their annual innovations summit in 2008, Cleveland Clinic doctors, researchers and other professionals announced their third annual list of medical technologies they thought ...

Venture Capital in Canada: Crucial For Commercializing Innovation

Canadian scientists and inventors have no problem coming up with discoveries and new technologies that should have the world beating a path to their door. Unfortunately, many valuable Canadian ...

Landrieu Holds Recovery Act Oversight Hearing (SBIR)

WASHINGTON, Oct. 6 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- United States Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship Chair Mary Landrieu, D-La., today held a hearing to evaluate if small businesses ...

NASA Selects Small Business Research and Technology Projects

MOFFETT FIELD, Calif. — NASA selected 152 proposals for negotiation of Phase 2 contract awards in the Small Business Innovation Research program, or SBIR. The selected projects have a total value ...

Obama awards national science, technology medals

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama says investing in science and technology is more essential to the nation's health and prosperity than ever before. The president spoke at a White House ceremony ...

BW: George Lucas says art drives innovation

George Lucas, the film-maker behind such hits as the Star Wars and Indiana Jones franchises, shared some uplifting thoughts on artistic passion and technological invention at the World Business Forum ...

Bill Clinton’s Take on Innovation, Globalization, and Technology

- Clinton was asked yesterday “Is Bill Bernanke correct when he says the recession is over?” His answer was: Yes, No, and Maybe. His explanation: Yes if you’re a professor of economics, since ...

Popular Mechanics awards highlight innovators

Popular Mechanics magazine on Thursday will unveil its fifth-annual Breakthrough Award winners, an august collection of designers and products that could do much more than their share to change the ...

Top 5: Up-and-Coming Blogs for Social Entrepreneurs

Along with sustainability and green living, social entrepreneurship is quite a hot topic. One way people can recognize their own potential for social entrepreneurship is by reading and following the ...

Smart city conference kicks off

Business and political leaders in town today, tomorrow to talk about Moncton's successes, getting the most out of technology The first Intelligent Communities Summit kicked off last night in ...

First Ever UK/Canada Angel Cross-Border Co-Investment Summit Launches Global Canadian Initiative

Increased Access To European Capital And Distribution Channels Through Ground-Breaking Event Toronto – October 5th, 2009 – 24 of Canada’s best early-stage growth-oriented companies presented to ...

Investors back social initiatives, fund ventures

Bangalore: When Pune-based sanitation services provider Saraplast Pvt. Ltd started hunting for funds late last year, it was confident of attracting investors. The company had all its documents in ...

WSJ: Next Question For Washington: What’s A Venture Fund?

The National Venture Capital Association can congratulate itself on its success so far in lobbying Congress for an exemption for venture firms from financial reporting requirements that Capitol Hill ...

State Research and Development Activity Survey

State Research and Development Activity Survey The US Census Bureau plans to continue to conduct the Survey of State Research and Development Expenditures in order to measure r&d supported and ...

What Baseball Can Teach Us About Innovation

Business managers can learn a lot from how baseball general managers build and manage their talent portfolio by drawing on the findings of baseball's Sabermetrics revolution. And the same is true for ...

Vodafone Americas Foundation Launches Second Annual Wireless Innovation Project

The Vodafone (News - Alert) Americas Foundation will launch the second annual Vodafone Wireless Innovation (News - Alert) Project. The project is a competition in which the most path breaking ...

Education Agency Will Offer Grants for Innovative Ideas

The federal Department of Education sketched out a new nationwide competition on Tuesday under which some 2,700 school districts and nonprofit groups are expected to compete for pieces of a $650 ...

Forbes: Innovation And Recovery

Information technology is the key to productivity growth.As we pass the first anniversary of the financial crisis and the beginning of the economic downturn that followed, there are signs that the ...

Nominate Your Favorite Changemakers

Change.org is a network focused on providing discussion and insight around the most important issues of the day, and helping people find ways to participate in tangible, meaningful action. In an ...

How to Inject Innovation Into Local Government

Governments are in business — in the business of public service. Whether in lean times or flush times, playing it safe is no longer playing it smart. Dramatic change is necessary today and, through ...