Everyone has a knowledge network. Your knowledge network consists of all of the people you share information with and seek information from and people with whom you exchange experiences and resources, including your friends, family members, cashiers, librarians, doctors, museum docents and Uber drivers. Knowledge networks are important for everyone, but especially for entrepreneurs.

A cache of e-mails between the stakeholders involved in General Electric Co.'s planned headquarters move to Boston's Seaport District, dubbed "Project Plum," reveals some details on its planned innovation center. The e-mails were obtained Thursday from the city of Boston after an open records request from The Boston Globe and WCVB and other media outlets, and they are dated between June and December 2015.

There's nothing like a crisp, cold glass of beer when you're ready to unwind, and every state has brews that stand out above the rest. 

In honor of National Beer Day, we've put together a list of the best beer in every state and Washington, DC, based on reviews from craft-beer authority RateBeer.com. 

Scroll down to see which beer took the top spot for your home state, whether it's a breakfast stout from Michigan or a hoppy and hearty IPA from Maine. 

Image: Facebook/KonaBrewingCo Kona Brewing's Da Grind Buzz took the No. 1 spot for Hawaii. 

Manufacturing plays an outsized role in the U.S. economy: from the greatest economic multiplier of any other sector, to the creation of 4 additional jobs for every manufacturing job, it is clear that the manufacturing sector is a critical driver to our country’s prosperity and security. These economic impacts grow as we add next-generation technologies: advanced manufacturing produces sophisticated and exclusive products that we can sell around the world, leading to greater economic prosperity and increasing the job multiplier to 16-to-1.

A vibrant manufacturing sector, especially one invigorated with the latest technologies, requires focused investments along the entire technology innovation pipeline. An innovation pipeline stocked with ideas, from the laboratory bench to the manufacturing shop floor, is required to “make it here” so that we can “sell it everywhere.” The advanced manufacturing processes and products we desire—the types that lead to greater economic prosperity—is the result of knowledge, accumulated through research and development, translated systematically into know-how

AUSTIN, TEXAS – (March 11, 2016) – Eight seed accelerators -- 500 Startups, Alchemist, Amplify LA, Angelpad, Chicago New Venture Challenge, MuckerLab, Techstars and Y Combinator -- landed the coveted top spots in the 2016 annual Seed Accelerator Rankings announced today at South by Southwest (SXSW) by entrepreneurship and management experts from Rice University, MIT and the University of Richmond. The Seed Accelerator Rankings Project uses a variety of metrics, including the valuations of participating startups, the amount of funding raised by participating startups, startups’ survival rates and ratings provided by program graduates. The project is the brainchild of Yael Hochberg, an entrepreneurship professor at Rice's Jones Graduate School of Business and researcher with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Innovation Initiative Lab for Innovation Science; Susan Cohen, an assistant professor of management at Richmond's Robins School of Business; and Dan Fehder, a Ph.D. candidate at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

When Alexander Fleming, a brilliant but sometimes careless scientist, returned to his lab after a summer holiday, in 1928, he found his work ruined. The bacteria cultures he had been growing were contaminated by fungus. As it grew, it killed all the colonies it touched.

Most people would have simply started over, but Fleming switched his focus from the bacteria to the fungus itself. He identified the mold and the bacteria-killing substance, which he called “penicillin.” Seemingly in a single stroke, Fleming had created the field of antibiotics.

Like most midsized and larger cities, my city, Chattanooga, has an Innovation District. It was established with all the dreams that such a fun and funky place can muster. The hope is that by setting aside a specially designated zone, creative minds will gather, interact and spark new creativity. It is intended to be an environment of energy and entrepreneurialism to replace the lost factory jobs of the industrial past and launch the community into the future. Caffeine and adrenalin are replacing coal and steam. Coffee shops and bars are the meeting places for the skunkworks of today.

By the end of the century, if greenhouse gas emissions continue unchecked, Fenway Park, along with a huge chunk of the rest of Boston, could end up underwater. Miami Beach might be submerged. The same is true for parts of every coastal city, from Hong Kong to Mumbai.

Cities may start to drown much faster than expected because sea levels could rise much faster than expected—mostly thanks to the way that Antarctica could fall apart and melt.

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This week, the home automation company Nest announced that it would disable the Revolv smart home platform, because it no longer fits with the company's product line. So as of May 15, if you own a Revolv—which lets you control various smart home devices through a central hub—it will simply go to sleep, never to run again. And users are pissed. One customer likened the gadget to a tub of hummus.

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Last week, I asked the Internet whether it was important for them to view their electronic medical records. Almost 1,000 people voted, with a resounding 77% responding that they wanted access to their record "like yesterday."

It might seem obvious that patients voted to view documents that contain information about medical histories, immunization reports, doctors' annotations, diagnoses, and prescriptions. In some cases, accessing records has resulted in patients stepping in to to correct important medical errors or oversight, or avoiding duplicate testing.

The idea that a sperm whale can use its massive head as a battering ram to sink ships has been hotly debated at least since Moby Dick was published in 1851. University of Queensland researcher Dr Olga Panagiotopoulou, part of an international team researching the theory, says scientific evidence about the phenomenon remains scarce. “The forehead of the sperm whale is one of the strangest structures in the animal kingdom,” said Dr Panagiotopoulou, an expert in the anatomy, bone biology and mechanics of large animals, including elephants and non-human primates.

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Successful organizations know the significance of innovation in business. Apple is a good example of how effective innovation management can improve your products and scale up your business. After reaching on the brink of collapse, it achieved new heights of success by implementing effective innovation management policy. The success of its innovative management strategies once again brought it in the league of leading organizations. If you are an entrepreneur who wants to learn from innovative management strategies of successful organizations, consider the following thirteen strategies.

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In the United States, over 69 percent of all residents live in suburban areas. Across the globe many other developed countries are primarily suburban, while developing countries are increasingly suburbanizing. By 2050, an additional 2.7 billion people are anticipated to live in metropolitan regions around the world, and suburbs are a significant portion of this urban expansion. Over the past two years, 150 experts from numerous, diverse disciplines contributed research that explores this contemporary global phenomenon – and on April 1st their work was showcased at the MIT Media Lab for the Future of Suburbia conference.

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The pattern has become familiar. Every April, the International Monetary Fund comes up with a forecast for global economic growth. Within a few months, it becomes clear that the prediction was too optimistic. The IMF then cuts the forecast, adding a warning to its 188 member countries that they need to do more, individually and collectively, to boost activity.

Christine Lagarde, the IMF’s managing director, has made it plain that another downgrade is anticipated when the Washington-based organisation publishes its World Economic Outlook next week. The IMF had been expecting a stronger performance from the advanced economies of the west to compensate for weaker growth in some of the leading emerging markets, such as China and Brazil.

Lost on how to seek venture capital or express clear partnership boundaries? Start with these caveats.

A. Only Take It if You Absolutely Need It

It can be enticing to be lured in by the big fundraising numbers that many companies tout. I’ve been told from early on to be very weary of taking in more money than you actually need. When money gets loose, you lose your scrappy mindset. You also then have stakeholders in your business with real expectations of you. - Darrah Brustein, Network Under 40 / Finance Whiz Kids

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Bedtime is one of the most important parts of the day for the brain. The latest studies show that when we slumber, the brain performs important housekeeping tasks that clear away the debris of the day’s work and help reset and restore nerve networks so they are ready to operate again at full capacity when we wake.

But a lack of sleep deprives the brain of this essential rest period, and our ability to get through the day might be compromised. In a small study published in the journal Radiology, a team of Chinese and European researchers report a more detailed analysis of how insomnia can affect specific types of brain nerves in parts of the brain that regulate cognition, emotion and sensory processes.

Becoming a tech entrepreneur doesn’t just happen overnight. Besides having failures and successes in business, you’ll have failures and successes in your personal life. Even big names, like Elon Musk, has had an interesting journey to where he is today.

In an infographic created by Anna Vital, and hosted on Funder and Founders, it details Musk’s life from when he was born until the end of 2015. It also takes a cheeky turn by chronicling events that have yet to happen, going past 2025 to when the supposed Mars Colonial Transporter launches.

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Tests on a drug with the potential to stop Alzheimer’s in its tracks are being funded by raffles, pensioners’ donations and a sponsored walk – because the research team cannot find money for pre-clinical safety tests any other way.

The team of researchers led by Dr David Allsop at Lancaster University’s division of biomedicine and life sciences is running a crowdfunding campaign, Defying Dementia, to carry out the necessary preparatory testing on their drug in the belief they may be looking at a cure for the progressive brain disease. So far they have raised £52,000 towards their target of £165,000.

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A group of innovators in British Columbia uses organic waste from the many hothouses in the province to feed insect larvae, which they then compress into bricks and sell as feed to fish farms — a more sustainable food source than the fish pellets widely used now. Sales are growing in the U.S., but they can’t sell their product in Canada. After four years in the federal regulatory process, they still have no licence.

Over the years, Microsoft has opened more than 100 Innovation Centers around the world to engage with startups, raise technological skill levels, and boost innovation. In the US, the company opened its first in 2014 in Miami, which was followed by a second one in Atlanta a year later. But Microsoft has just announced that the company is teaming with venture capital fund SeventySix Capital, innovation hub University City Science Center, and real estate investment and development company Wexford Science & Technology to open a new MIC in Philadelphia this summer.

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