innovation DAILY - Innovation America

Innovation Perspectives - A Place to Reside

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 ...

Canada: Innovation slips away

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 ...

Opinion: Environmental innovation will create jobs, not curtail them

Could following the next steps toward California's new clean-energy economy really lead to burdensome regulations and increased job loss? Or, instead, will the implementation of AB 32, the ...

Lithuania – Punching Above Its Weight In ICT?

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 ...

Fortune: 10 surprising stats from the Summit

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 ...

Innovation Fallacies

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 ...

GOVERNOR CORZINE LAUNCHES PATENT BANK WEB PORTAL

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 ...

The Algae Fuel Backlash: Here Come the Skeptics

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 ...

India Venture Capital & Private Equity Report

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 ...

Eye Opener: Gov't Opens Entrepreneurship Office

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 ...

Another month of SBIR Reauthorization agony - Is Dr. Dolittle running the show?

The quick news is the informal conference committee hasn't done its job and no SBIR Reauthorization compromise was produced. SBIR (this time along with STTR and the DOD's CPP) has been extended again ...

Beyond the Stimulus: Untapped Resources for Startups, VCs

It’s rare that a venture-backed startup in cleantech these days doesn’t have an eye on government funding opportunities via the stimulus package. As Battelle Ventures’ General Partner Kef ...

WSJ: Small Is Beautiful For VC2.0 Firms

The idea of small, capital-efficient venture funds is resonating so strongly among technology investors that it has spawned a support group. Operating largely under the radar, about 30 small, ...

WSJ: Six Ways to Land Venture Funding

Venture-capital firms remain on the prowl for new businesses, but it's more of a stroll than a hunt. Venture-capital investing fell to $3.7 billion in the second quarter, down more than 50% from ...

NYT: Twitter’s Latest Valuation: $1 Billion

Twitter, the fashionable microblogging service, is set to close a round of financing of around $100 million that values the three-and-a-half-year-old start-up at $1 billion, according to a person ...

Whats next for Microfinance ?

Pro Mujer, an organization that funds microcredit cooperatives in Latin America, also provides women’s health screenings, using a special van retrofitted with medical consultation rooms and staffed ...

Innovation and Its Army of Opponents

More than 50 years ago, noted economist Joseph Schumpeter wrote, "The resistance which comes from interests threatened by an innovation in the productive process is not likely to die out as long as ...

IBM opens a Linux innovation center in Kazakhstan

IBM keeps pushing into emerging markets in an effort to encourage startups and technology adoption around the world. Today, it is announcing it has opened a Linux innovation center in Kazakhstan, the ...

H.R. 3614 Passes and Extends SBIR and other SBA Programs to Small Businesses

Sep 23, 2009 (Congressional Documents and Publications/ContentWorks via COMTEX) -- SBCOE | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating -- H.R. 3614 Passes and Extends SBIR and other SBA Programs to Small ...

Changing The World In Remarkable Ways

Jackie Bassett is founder and CEO of BT Industrials Inc., where she helps companies design innovation into their business strategies and processes, turning problems into profits. Jackie is the ...

Startups bloom despite the economy

At Demo Fall 09 in San Diego, more than 60 startups and a few veteran outfits strutted their stuff before a skeptical audience of venture capitalists, tech aficionados, and journalists. A lot of sexy ...

The Next Innovation Al Gore Most Wants to See--You May Be Surprised

Talking Innovation at the Clinton Global Initiative The unique ways we can harness innovation for sustainable development in the 21st century was the topic for the third major session at the Clinton ...

Innovation a Top Priority at Clinton Global Initiative

Innovation as a driver of worldwide economic recovery and growth is the key theme at the Fifth Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) Annual Meeting, a gathering of top CEOs and world leaders that opened on ...

WSJ: Netflix Prize A “Turning Point” For Open Innovation

With Netflix Inc. paying out a $1 million prize on Monday to a team of outside researchers that improved its movie recommendation algorithm, two venture-backed start-ups are overjoyed that the ...

Commerce to create new office on innovation

This morning Secretary of Commerce Gary Locke announced the creation of a new office for entrepreneurship and innovation. The announcement was first made during a CNBC interview (see below - note ...

BusinessWeek: Grameen's Yunus on innovation in philanthropy

I had the chance to sit down with 2006 Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus today, who was in New York, as I am, for the Clinton Global Initiative meeting. My colleague, Steve Hamm, joined me for ...

PEHub: Economic & Innovation Drivers for Healthcare

Over the past six months, Americans have watched with anticipation and increased trepidation as healthcare reform details slowly emerge. President Obama has appropriately led the charge to alert ...

Innovation Matters: The Insider - Elizabeth Gilbert

The Insider: Elizabeth Gilbert Elizabeth Gilbert, author of the New York Times #1 Best Seller Eat, Pray, Love, debuts as a keynote speaker at the Global ...

Moncton hosts Intelligent Communities Summit - Impressive roster of speakers finalized

MONCTON, Sept. 23 /CNW/ - From October 5-7, Moncton will be home to the first ever Intelligent Communities Summit. The Intelligent Communities Summit, "Leveraging Technology for Community ...

TPR: The Top 50 Entrepreneurial Colleges

You may think street smarts are enough to be a successful entrepreneur, but these top entrepreneurship programs are giving students the practical and theoretical knowledge they need to succeed in any ...

The Economist Launches “Schumpeter” Column on Innovation, Entrepreneurship & Dynamism

I’m thrilled to hear that the Economist has just launched a new column about business, innovation and entrepreneurship in honor of Joseph Schumpeter (1883-1950), the brilliant Austrian economist ...

NYT: The More the Merrier: Population Growth Promotes Innovation

A recent study reiterated the conclusion that population growth ought to be controlled in order to combat global warming, and other world problems. I beg to differ. The authors of studies like these ...

Pittsburgh Model Dramatizes Lessons for G-20 Summit

If world leaders gathering for this week's G20 summit need evidence of the economic importance of trade and global engagement, they need look no further than their host city. When the bottom fell out ...

Business Plans: Don’t Supersize Me!

The well-quoted adage “if you fail to plan then you plan to fail” might sound right and it may be the accepted wisdom of the masses. But excessive planning might be wrong, at least according to ...

Medical Innovation Summit: Less than 2 weeks away

Medical Innovation Summit: Less than 2 weeks away - For more information click the "read more" button. For more information about the summit, click ...

Turning Research into Inventions and Jobs

A recent BusinessWeek article called for the investment of billions of dollars more in "basic research" to create millions of new jobs. It's hard to argue against the importance of scientific ...

Finding angels isn't easy for startups

Scores of technology startup companies in the Mid-Atlantic region have pitched their ideas to investors over the past year, only to come away with little or no funding. By many accounts, the ...

Venture Capital Funding Takes a Plunge

The U.S. venture capital industry raised only $1.7 billion in the second quarter of 2009, according to Thomson Reuters and the National Venture Capital Association. This is a major from the $4.6 ...

Only 7 Days Remains on Early Discounts for SSTI's Annual Conference!

Only 7 Days Remains on Early Discounts for SSTI's Annual Conference! Discount Deadline is Tuesday, Sep 29 In this economy, every dollar counts. Register today! To Do This ...

India Entrepreneurial MBA?

An increasing number of universities and colleges are offering courses in “Entrepreneurship” as part of their business education. Around the world, business plan competitions are held by ...