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innovation DAILY
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.
Angel investors: Wings clipped, but still taking their time in the candy store
I checked in with veteran angel investor and expert John May about the state of angel investing. May, who is Managing ...
WSJ: How Important Is Profitability For Tech IPOs?
Before the financial crisis hit, public-market investors frequently took chances on unprofitable technology start-ups. Companies such as Clearwire ...
The Power of Daydreaming (Daydreams as a Source of Innovation & Motivation)
Barack Obama certainly had a dream . . . that one day he would be president. I'm sure that in his younger years many ...
Governor's task force examines startup funding gap
Upstate university and business leaders Tuesday urged a state task force to help bridge the "valley of death" — the seed-funding wasteland that ...
Forbes: Best Part Of Being An Entrepreneur
Entrepreneurs certainly experience extreme highs and lows at unpredictable frequencies. The highs have been numerous, and that's probably what keeps ...
Secretary Vilsack comments on Innovation at NASVF Conference
OKLAHOMA CITY – America’s agricultural core is in the midst of a massive economic and environmental change, producing equally large ...
Economic Club heading to Metro
When leaders are looking to communicate with the Canadian people, the Economic Club of Canada is the choice forum. That's why the club has welcomed people such as ...
InformationWeek 500: A Year Of Relentless Innovation
It's the first half of 2009, and unemployment's rising to a 26-year high of 9.5%. Sound like the perfect time to launch an aggressive ...
New Business Will Bring Economic Recovery
The Kauffman Foundation, a pro-entrepreneurship foundation out of Kansas City, Mo, has released a nationwide poll that brings to light the importance of ...
NASA Innovation Partnerships Program
Much of what we gain from our space exploration is in the scientific and technological progress that comes in the process of doing it. Many of those technologies ...
WSJ: VCs Increasingly Keeping Young Start-Ups To Themselves
At a time of modest exit expectations, venture investors are increasingly likely to avoid syndicating first rounds, according to new data ...
U.K. Startups Face Crisis as Venture Funding, Deals Dry Up
Sept. 15 (Bloomberg) -- Stuart Evans says he hasn’t seen a worse time to be a startup entrepreneur in the U.K. The 59-year-old was able ...
Who "owns" Innovation? Where does it "live" in an organization?
Braden Kelly has asked a number of us to respond to the question "Who owns innovation and where does it live in an organization?" This ...
After Lehman: How Innovation Thrives In a Crisis
The economic shocks that reverberated through the economy a year ago could easily have marked the end of the nascent "Innovation Movement." After ...
BusinessWeek: What Government Innovations Have Proven to Work?
The 2009 winners of the Innovations in American Government Awards, given each year since 1986 by the Ash Institute for Democratic ...
Kauffman: New Business Will Bring Economic Recovery
The Kauffman Foundation, a pro-entrepreneurship foundation out of Kansas City, Mo, has released a nationwide poll that brings to light the ...
Age of Innovation
Kjell Nordstrom & Jonas Ridderstrale in their book Funky Business mentioned " The ’surplus society’ has a surplus of similar companies, employing similar people, with ...
Innovation should not be the race for the new-new thing
We’re all searching for the new-new thing. Be it a product or a method, we’re looking for that innovation that will let us stand out from ...
Brenner Discusses USDA Research, Technology
Few people know that the Department of Agriculture is one of the leading governmental research organizations with a long history of commercializing ...
Venture capital partnerships expand Pennsylvania economy
Governor Ed Rendell recently announced a shot of venture capital funding for early-stage life science companies in western Pennsylvania. ...
Venture Capital: Is it on a Diet Pill?
Venture capital outlook for the upcoming years is as obscure as ever due to many external factors such as the government intervention in the private sector to ...
Five Websites Every Entrepreneur Should Use
Today, many businesses are getting large portions of their website traffic from social media sites. It's one thing to bring an audience you already have ...
US Falls in Global Competitiveness Rankings
The World Economic Forum’s Global Competitiveness Report 2009-2010, an assessment of the productive potential of nations worldwide, is now available. ...
'Doing Business' Rankings Stimulating Reform
The overview of the Doing Business Report 2010 is now available. Since 2004, the World Bank’s Doing Business project has been tracking regulatory ...
Belgium: Will its enviable geographic position continue to ensure success in pharma?
Occupying an enviable position both physically and politically in the heart of Europe, Belgium has benefitted ...
Startup Uruguay?
VentureBeat has a terrific article today about the first venture capital firm in nation of Uruguay. The company is called Prosperitas Capital Partners and when it was formed in ...
Real innovation vital, and sadly lacking
ENTREPRENEURS frequently hear the calls of experts to find new ways of doing things, to innovate. Yet very few global innovations have actually emanated ...
HBS: Financing Constraints and Entrepreneurship
Financing constraints are one of the biggest concerns impacting potential entrepreneurs around the world. Given the important role that ...
Interview: Vinod Khosla Is On The Hunt For Great Technologies
In venture capital, Vinod Khosla likes to go his own way, which is why he’s been so successful. He was the founding CEO of Sun ...
Nurturing high-tech business
FAIRMONT — At an upcoming conference, people from the state and beyond can learn how to grow their capacity through the U.S. Small Business Administration’s Small ...
WSJ: Where Are They Now?
For technology innovators, there's the "Eureka!" moment and then there's the business of putting discoveries to work. Here's a look at how some winners from last ...
WSJ: The Wall Street Journal 2009 Technical Innovation Awards
Just how difficult it is gets highlighted every time an infectious disease sweeps the globe, as the new strain of swine flu did earlier ...
The Top Five Reads For Your Back To School Social Entrepreneur
Going back to school is always a mixed bag. On the one hand, it's a chance to check in with friends, to get back to the activities you ...
WSJ: How Well Do You Know… Innovation?
Innovation is what keeps technology interesting—and useful. Gadgets keep getting flashier, applications are constantly emerging to address life’s ...
Emerging Technologies Thrive in Canada
The Honourable Christian Paradis, Minister of Public Works and Government Services, on behalf of the Honourable Gary Goodyear, Minister of State (Science and ...
WSJ: The Daily Start-Up: VCs Watch Their College Funds Wither
Less Endowed - University endowments are significant contributors to venture capital funds, but the financial crisis has exposed ...
launching a startup over just one weekend
What if I told you there is an a event where designers, developers, entrepreneurs and other innovators gather to network, share resources and ultimately ...
Angel Finance: An Entrepreneurs Guide
Angel finance is fast becoming a popular option for many South African entrepreneurs. With the global banking crises meaning that banks are becoming more choosy ...
Swiss Precision Meets Messy Innovation
The Swiss love precision. You can see it in their watches and reliable trains. You can see it in their founding myth, the story of William Tell. He had to ...