“I didn’t become a software engineer to be trying to make ends meet,” said a Twitter employee in his early 40s who earns a base salary of $160,000. It is, he added, a “pretty bad” income for raising a family in the Bay Area.

The biggest cost is his $3,000 rent – which he said was “ultra cheap” for the area – for a two-bedroom house in San Francisco, where he lives with his wife and two kids. He’d like a slightly bigger property, but finds himself competing with groups of twentysomethings happy to share accommodation while paying up to $2,000 for a single room.

In a very short time, Georgia State University has built an impressive research enterprise. It’s the Institute of Biomedical Sciences, and its scientists are unlocking new insights and answers to an array of diseases and ailments. Tens of millions of dollars in research grants flow into the Institute each year, and the university is planning even more expansion. 

Mentorship comes in many flavors. It doesn’t always work unless leaders bear in mind a few common principles.

Over the past three years, as part of my forthcoming book, I’ve been researching how leaders can better judge and develop their talent in light of a changing, more purpose-driven, more tech-enabled work environment. Having interviewed close to 100 of the most admired leaders across business, culture, arts, and government, one important characteristic stands out:

With the current political uncertainties, it’s a dicey business to project what’s next for college campuses. Our 2017 Trends Report can help you stay above the turmoil. It outlines 10 key shifts in higher education, including the movement to protect undocumented students and the cultural divide seen as separating academe from rural America. Case studies, commentary, and more resources will help you to take action or start a conversation on your own campus.

New research compares economic and social conditions in US states—and highlights opportunities for government leaders to help make improvements.

Faced with tight budgets and rising expectations from citizens, US state governments are constantly challenged to find ways of improving economic and social conditions for residents. To help leaders uncover solutions, we have developed an index for evaluating state outcomes that draws on three sources: a database containing more than 50 years’ worth of state spending records, a broad survey asking citizens how satisfied they are with state governments’ services, and measurements of economic and social well-being in seven categories (Exhibit 1).

Imagine you are a local technology startup looking to manufacture a tiny air quality sensor that can be incorporated into an iPhone to dramatically improve public health. This is a potential billion-dollar market, but you need access to specialized and expensive semiconductor testing and evaluation labs to scale up the technology.

The following is an excerpt from his e-book entitled, Growing Through Rants and Raves. Barry Moltz is also the writer of a book entitled You Have to Be a Little Crazy, which delivers irreverent, straight talk about the complex intersection of start-up business, financial health, physical well-being, spiritual wholeness and family life. This title and other publications by Barry can be viewed at his website, http://www.barrymoltz.com.

If you are an executive of an auto insurance company, pay attention — you may not have a business in 20 years. You can blame the fundamental shifts in auto safety and data mining that connected car and autonomous vehicle technologies will bring. Robot drivers will outnumber humans behind the wheel. The remaining human drivers will be safer, thanks to collision-preventing sensors and analytics on board. Insurance claims will be rare, losses will be reduced, premiums will decline, and insurance companies will probably lose control of the data that makes their pricing models possible. 

Given his calm and reasoned academic demeanor, it is easy to miss just how provocative Erik Brynjolfsson’s contention really is. Brynjolfsson, a professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management, and his collaborator and coauthor Andrew McAfee have been arguing for the last year and a half that impressive advances in computer technology—from improved industrial robotics to automated translation services—are largely behind the sluggish employment growth of the last 10 to 15 years.

INNOVA-CON is working to bring its members an opportunity to meet in person and connect with luminaries in the innovation profession. Content focuses on how to use strategies and methods of innovation to create value in applied and theoretical innovation science. IAOIP is a professional membership organization dedicated to the creation of a comprehensive, independent innovation certification, providing members with the knowledge, skills, and opportunities to deliver real change in their industry or field. We are over 900 members strong in 44 countries.

The robots were Joe McGillivray’s idea. The first one arrived at Dynamic Group in Ramsey, Minn., by pickup truck in two cardboard boxes. With a mixture of excitement and trepidation, McGillivray watched as a vendor unpacked two silver tubes, assorted blue-and-gray joints and a touch screen and put them all together. When he was finished 10 minutes later, McGillivray beheld an arm that, had its segments not all been able to swivel 360 degrees, might have belonged to a very large N.B.A. player or a fairly small giant.

We know that artificial intelligence will soon reshape our world. But which companies will lead the way? To help answer that question, research firm CB Insights recently selected the “AI 100,” a list of the 100 most promising artificial intelligence startups globally. The private companies were chosen (from a pool of over 1,650 candidates) by CB Insights’ Mosaic algorithm, based on factors like financing history, investor quality, business category, and momentum. A look at the 50 largest startups on the list, ranked by total funds raised, shows that investment in AI is surging worldwide. But, for now at least, the U.S. appears to be leading the revolution.

For many it is no more than the first port of call when a niggling question raises its head. Found on its pages are answers to mysteries from the fate of male anglerfish, the joys of dorodango, and the improbable death of Aeschylus.

But beneath the surface of Wikipedia lies a murky world of enduring conflict. A new study from computer scientists has found that the online encyclopedia is a battleground where silent wars have raged for years.

Managing an Entrepreneurial Knowledge Region is an exclusive four day strategy council on the development of entrepreneurial knowledge regions. The small scale council, consists of just 25 people from universities, local/regional government, funding agencies and industry. They will get together to develop a clear strategy on science based regional innovation with a strong focus on developing an ecosystem for academic entrepreneurship. The council will be led by distinctive mediators from the University of Leuven and Maastricht and we work together with the Cambridge Network. On this first edition in Cambridge, two major delegations (the Victoria region in Australia and the Twente region in the Netherlands) will be completed by individual participants from various knowledge regions around Europe.

Public opinion on many issues is shaped by the media. Yet while there is growing concern that the media is not always neutral in its reporting, the impact of media bias is not always well understood. One understudied aspect of media bias is how the press portrays technology. This portrayal has important implications for public policy, because coverage that is slanted in one direction or another can drive public opinion—and thus policymakers—to favor unnecessary, unwarranted, or unwise policy interventions. For example, policymakers regularly cite surveys of consumer attitudes about privacy as part of their rationale for new laws and regulations for digital services. But these views are likely distorted by media coverage.

One of the many questions about the Trump Administration after its first month is how it views the U.S. patent system. Predicting Patent Policy Under the Trump Administration by Mark Hannemann and his colleagues at Shearman & Sterling, LLP, which seems to borrow from some earlier analysis of Peter Harter and Gene Quinn on the topic (see here, here and here), is an excellent summary of the on-going patent reform debate with informed speculation on where the Trump Administration will come down.

The Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) today announced that a group of 74 project teams has attracted over $1.8 billion in private sector follow-on funding since the agency’s founding in 2009. The announcement was made at the eighth annual ARPA-E Energy Innovation Summit at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center in National Harbor, Md.

In addition, ARPA-E, tasked with supporting transformative innovation in the energy sector, announced that 56 projects have formed new companies, 68 projects have partnered with other government agencies for further development, and an ever-increasing number of technologies have been incorporated into products sold on the market today. These data illustrate ARPA-E’s critical role in supporting high-potential, high-impact technologies to the point where additional investment can be leveraged for continued development and deployment in the marketplace. 

Americans are backing away from car ownership and developers are rethinking parking needs for projects. To help understand this trend, Redfin put together the latest Walk Score rankings on the largest U.S. cities that best support life without a car. The study ranks American cities with populations greater than 300,000 according to how well residents can get around town by foot, bike and public transit. Bisnow took a closer look at the top six.

One of the difficulties with achieving great things is knowing how to get there. Every book you read was written by someone who completed a book. Every concert you attend involves musicians who can play well enough to be onstage. You can see the final product, but you can’t see all of the steps required to get there.

Researchers developing technologies to improve therapeutic success among radiotherapy patients, prevent chest wall collapses in pre-term infants with respiratory distress, and assist surgeons with pre-operative planning for femur fracture alignments will receive a total of $600,000 in funding through the ninth round of the University City Science Center’s QED Proof-of-Concept Program. The program, started in 2009, funds novel university technologies with market potential, bridging the gap between academic research and product commercialization. The awardees were selected from a pool of 64 applicants from 15 academic and research institutions in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware.

The QED grants will support researchers at Penn State College of Medicine, Rowan University, and the University of Pennsylvania. Each team will receive $200,000; half of which will be contributed by the Science Center and half by the researchers’ institutions. Each project will also receive guidance from the Science Center’s experienced team of Business Advisors.