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Innovation in Action: How Lego Rebuilt Its Business

Six years ago, the biggest thing Danish toy-maker Lego had constructed was a pile of debt. The family business, whose name comes from the Danish for “play well” was doing anything but — it was ...

NYT: Gates Foundation Pledges $35 Million for Banking Innovation

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is best known for its work combating malaria, AIDS and other diseases. But the world’s richest charitable foundation has been quietly expanding into other ...

Preserving A Free And Open Internet: A Platform For Innovation, Opportunity, And Prosperity

Prepared Remarks of Chairman Julius Genachowski The Brookings Institution, Washington DC September 21, 2009 I’d like to thank Brookings for hosting me and this discussion about the future of ...

WP: Obama Pitches Innovation in Upstate New York

TROY, N.Y., Sept. 21 -- President Obama called Monday for "a new generation of innovation" as he outlined a strategy to build on more than $100 billion in economic stimulus funding to promote ...

R&D Credit Coalition Applauds White House Innovation Strategy & Commitment to Research and Development

WASHINGTON, Sept. 21 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The R&D Credit Coalition applauds President Obama for his speech made today at an upstate New York community college where he outlined his broader ...

Seed Capital, Entrepreneurs and Economic Recovery

Last week, I [Johnathan Ortmans] participated in the NASVF Annual Conference in Oklahoma City where experts discussed again how to ensure that credit crunches do not negatively impact start-up ...

Environmental Innovation Began Early in Erstwhile 'Smoky City' (Pittsburgh)

Sep. 20--If it wasn't for an enduring image as the "Smoky City" -- so dubbed by muckraking journalist Upton Sinclair -- Pittsburgh might never have become a center for environmental innovation. "I ...

TiEcon 2009, Calls For Smart Entrepreneurship In Challenging Times

TiEcon Delhi 2009,(www.tiecon-delhi.org) one of India’slargest entrepreneurship conference commenced at The Taj Palace, New Delhitoday. The conference was kicked off with a welcoming note by Dr. ...

Silicon Valley venture capitalists nurturing growth of green technology

Reporting from Menlo Park, Calif. - In what would have been an unaccustomed move for a Silicon Valley venture capitalist not too long ago, Alan Salzman recently flew to Copenhagen to attend a ...

Carriers to Silicon Valley: We need your innovation

SAN JOSE, Calif. – Silicon Valley companies that are debating whether it’s beneficial to work with telecom carriers should recalibrate their expectations in the time it will take to get the ...

What Have VCs Really Done for Innovation?

Back in 1986, when Bill Gates was still making sales calls, he pitched my group at First Boston on why we should bet the farm on Windows. Despite the risk involved, we gave his fledgling startup the ...

WSJ A Growth Vision for Health Reform

A 3-year-old boy was recently diagnosed with a rare, aggressive, soft-tissue cancer in his bladder. Radiation treatment would have stunted the growth of his pelvic bones, hips and bladder and left ...

Choosing the pace of innovation

I've invented another theorem or "law" of innovation, which suggests that the speed of innovation is inversely proportional to the kinds of innovations you create. If your team creates incremental ...

Public consultation on Community innovation policy

The Communication “Reviewing Community innovation policy in a changing world [53 KB]” presents an assessment of the achievements and shortcomings in implementing Community policies in support of ...

Capitol Hill Briefing on International Role of Research Parks and Innovation

Dear Group: Good meeting with many of you at ASME earlier this summer. If anyone is in DC on Tuesday morning and would like to attend this event, please do so. . The National Academies is releasing ...

Balancing Health Reform and Medical Innovation

Obsession with the politics of health reform has diverted attention from a huge issue: the decline of U.S. medical innovation. In March 2009, A coalition of leaders in research, medicine, patient ...

U.S. CTO Aneesh Chopra Visits Silicon Valley To Talk Tech And Innovation With The Woz

Today, Aneesh Chopra, US Chief Technology Officer and Associate Director for Technology for the White House, spoke at a forum held by TiE, an entrepreneurship organization based in Silicon Valley. ...

Entrepreneur Corner Roundup: Learning from losses and why you shouldn’t trust a VC under 40

Win when you lose - 10 guidelines for loss analysis – Learning from your losses can yield great dividends, but it’s not easy. Serial entrepreneur Scott Olson offers 10 ways to help you determine ...

Strategies for Patenting in Biotechnology

Intellectual property rights (IP) is one of the major component of research in many organizations (both profit and non-profit), institutes and academics. Since 1970’s, during which a Canadian ...

The Seed Investment Landscape - Interpreting a Picasso

The NASVF conference this week presented a wide array of options and opinions on seed and early stage funding. Representatives of federal, regional, state, and both public and private sector economic ...

Connecticut Weighs Tax-Credit Plan To Aid Startups

NEW HAVEN — - Despite its lofty ranking when it comes to personal income, Connecticut has been slow to harness the wealth of its most prosperous residents to support technology startups. A new ...

Wanted Fools and Angels!

Alexander Pope’s 1709 “Essay on Criticism” had these immortal lines “…for fools rush in where angels fear to tread”. He was of course referring to the literary critics of his time and, in ...

5 steps, 5 principles and 5 no-no’s for designing social interfaces

So you’ve got the killer social application, community, feature, software. The idea is going to make mint! Now what? According to IDEA2009 - the conference for social and experience design, held ...

Is Twitter worth $1 billion?

Technology blogs TechCrunch and AllThingsD reported that the San Francisco microblogging upstart has raised at least $50 million in a new round of venture capital that values the company at $1 ...

Growing interest in Venture Capital Food Forum

Food Venture Forum president Jude Conway says last year, nearly all the presenting companies were from the rural Grain Belt. He says this year there is a strong pool of applicants from major cities ...

NYT: Innovation at the Bottom of the Pyramid

According to C.K. Prahalad, a professor of corporate strategy at the Ross School of Business of the University of Michigan, corporations seeking to create new markets addressing the needs of the ...

Academy Members to Receive National Medals of Science, Technology and Innovation

September 18, 2009 - President Obama announced the recipients of the 2008 National Medal of Science and National Medal of Technology and Innovation, the nation’s highest honors for science and ...

NASVF Conference Huge Success

Jim Jaffe, President and CEO of NASVF: I want to thank everyone that attended the NASVF Conference in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma this week and especially our host, the Greater Oklahoma City Chamber and ...

Developing Nations Need Technology Transfer To green Industries, Says Mukhriz

Developing Nations Need Technology Transfer To green Industries, Says Mukhriz KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 17 (Bernama) -- Developing nations need technology transfer to "green" the industries, says Deputy ...

IBM launches another Africa Innovation Centre

IBM launches another Africa Innovation Centre IBM on Thursday opened an Africa Innovation Centre in Cape Town as it pushes its agenda on development of information technology. Speaking to IT News ...

Quick Facts: How Successful Angels Invest

Quick Facts: How Successful Angels Invest Savvy investors know they aren’t psychics and aren’t living in an ideal world. They know that many startups will fail so they use a portfolio approach ...

Experts Outline Challenges to Translational Research in the United States at a Capitol...

Experts Outline Challenges to Translational Research in the United States at a Capitol... Experts Outline Challenges to Translational Research in the United States at a Capitol Hill Briefing, ...

Kauffman: Join the Entrepreneurs' Movement

Join the Entrepreneurs' Movement The Public Forum Institute, together with our PDE partners at the Kauffman Foundation, invite you to join Build a Stronger America , the Entrepreneurs' Movement. ...

WSJ: When Venture Investors Change Their Playbook

WSJ: When Venture Investors Change Their Playbook Good quarterbacks often make adjustments on the spot, calling an audible and changing the playbook when they sense an opening in the defense. ...

Venture capital still a big deal for the US economy, study says

Venture capital still a big deal for the US economy, study says Venture capital remained crucial to national economic growth over the last two years, according to a new study conducted by IHS Global ...

Russia faces long road to diversify economy

Russia faces long road to diversify economy MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia must deliver on pledges to reform the tax system and encourage the creation of home-grown seed capital if it wants to make ...

Nigeria: Dedicate Annual Budget to Micro Credit, Napep Tells States

Nigeria: Dedicate Annual Budget to Micro Credit, Napep Tells States Abuja — The National Poverty Eradication Programme (NAPEP) has advised state governments to dedicate a portion of their yearly ...

Argentina, Iran Push TBED Strategies

Argentina, Iran Push TBED Strategies Earlier this month, the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) approved $750 million in financing over the next five years to Argentina's federal government for ...

Report: San Diego’s Innovation Economy Shows Q2 Uptick in Startups, Patents, and Investments

Report: San Diego’s Innovation Economy Shows Q2 Uptick in Startups, Patents, and Investments A just-released report on San Diego’s innovation economy shows 102 new technology companies were ...

Does cloud computing affect innovation?

Does cloud computing affect innovation? Earlier this summer, Jonathan Zittrain wrote a New York Times OpEd piece that discussed his concerns with the cloud computing paradigm. Zittrain stated that, ...