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Here we highlight selected innovation related articles from around the world on a daily basis. These articles related to innovation and funding for innovative companies, and best practices for innovation based economic development.
September 30, 2009
Family planning research must inform clinician training, argues Wayne C. Shields this week. Also, Jonathan Zuck explains the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names ...
The Department of Energy released a 2nd SBIR/STTR solicitation for this Fall. Grants from this Phase I award will be made in FY 2010 for up to $100,000. DOE expects to make 360 Phase I and Phase II ...
Read more: DOE Releases SBIR/STTR Funding Notice
The recession is spurring British inventors on to turn their creations into businesses, new research suggests. Aspiring inventors cited the current economic climate and the greater risk of being ...
Read more: British Recession fuelling innovation
The feature stories in JumpStart Connect are all about progress, and usually, we focus on the progress of our client companies. But in this edition, we'd like to share some progress of our own. In ...
Read more: JumpStart: Here's to Three More Years of Progress
The northern Chinese city of Dongying is building a public cloud computing platform that it hopes will aid its transformation from an oil-rich manufacturing hub into a high-tech service-based ...
Read more: CHINESE CITY BUILDS PUBLIC CLOUD TO AID INNOVATION
Usually, franchisers don't want to gamble on young entrepreneurs—they prefer seasoned managers who have built up lots of savings to plow into the venture. Now a host of companies are rethinking ...
Read more: WSJ: In With the New
“Activity breeds innovation,” Prime Minister Matti Vanhanen of Finland told an eager panel. “New things are not created without taking risks.” And never has there seemed a more urgent need ...
Read more: GCLS UPDATE: A Celebration of Innovation
Six decades later, nearly half the U.S. economy is driven by industries that depend heavily on intellectual property rights. If we are to jumpstart a second economic renaissance, then we must begin ...
Read more: Innovation and the next great recovery
A SEED capital fund has been launched to support start-up companies in the Heads of Valleys. Supported by the Welsh Assembly Government’s Heads of the Valleys strategic regeneration programme it ...
Read more: New fund will help fledgling companies
FEDERAL TECHNOLOGY WATCH
VOL 7. No 38 SEPTEMBER 28 2009
An imressive collection of top global experts participated in the National Energy Summit and International Dialogue, organized by the ...
Read more: National Energy Summit attracts global expertise
New ITIF Report:"Designed for Change: End-to-End Arguments, Internet Innovation, and the Net Neutrality Debate"
Many advocates of strict net neutrality regulation argue that the Internet ...
Managers wondering how to make their organisations more innovative should look at Davila and company’s fine book, Making Innovation Work, not least because it contains many real-world examples. ...
Read more: Comedian’s take on serious business of innovation
The UK Department for Business, Innovation and Skills has taken the next step in setting up the UK Innovation Investment Fund (UK IIF), a venture capital fund of funds to support the UK's technology ...
Read more: UK Innovation Investment Fund Proposals
China is embarking on a new, parallel path of clean power deployment and innovation. It is the Sputnik of our day. Unfortunately, we’re still not racing.Most people would assume that 20 years from ...
Read more: The New Sputnik
State and local business organizations have launched a venture-capital "fund of funds" that aims to raise up to $200 million to finance small high-tech Arizona companies that aspire to become the ...
Read more: $200 mil sought for Ariz. startups
India Venture Capital & Private Equity Report – indian.startups.in
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Dimensions of Innovation in Entrepreneurship by Chris ...
Innovation can only be encouraged, managed, tracked and measured if it is a core element in organizations growth aspirations. So it needs to be fully integrated into the strategic-management agenda ...
Read more: Innovation Perspectives - A Place to Reside
Industry Minister Tony Clement's review of the sale of Nortel Networks Corp.'s enterprise-solutions unit to Avaya Inc. under the Investment Canada Act is a flaccid gesture that masks Canada's larger ...
Read more: Canada: Innovation slips away
Who would have believed that the country with the highest mobile subscription rate worldwide (138% as per World Economic Forum’s World Competitiveness report), the broadest high-speed mobile ...
Read more: Lithuania – Punching Above Its Weight In ICT?
Last week’s Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit was teeming with experts. They offered points and opinions on so many topics, with data to back it all up. Here, some of our favorite stats: 1. The ...
Read more: Fortune: 10 surprising stats from the Summit
The longer you hang around a subject, the more interesting the rumors and misperceptions. Innovation seems to spawn a number of fallacies, probably because it is very important, haphazardly performed ...
Read more: Innovation Fallacies
TRENTON – Governor Jon S. Corzine today announced the launch of the New Jersey Patent Bank, a new Web portal designed to spur innovation in New Jersey and foster technology transfer between the ...
Read more: GOVERNOR CORZINE LAUNCHES PATENT BANK WEB PORTAL
Judging from the flurry of venture-capital deals, big oil company investments, and attention from politicians on startups creating biofuels from algae, it might seem like the world has fallen in love ...
Read more: The Algae Fuel Backlash: Here Come the Skeptics
If you are a Early Stage Startup, your chances are of getting VC or Private Equity funding is very slim and numbers prove it – Only 9% of all the VC / PE deals have been for early stage companies ...
Read more: India Venture Capital & Private Equity Report
Happy Friday! The Commerce Department will establish a new Office of Innovation and Entrepreneurship to help small businesses grow faster, part of the Obama administration's new $100 billion ...
Read more: Eye Opener: Gov't Opens Entrepreneurship Office