As even giants like GE and GM struggle to bring IT jobs back from overseas, one U.S. entrepreneur has found a niche in smaller cities where the talent is ample and costs are far lower. There’s a lot of apocalyptic talk on the campaign trail about jobs moving overseas. But just as every action invites a counteraction, there’s also a reverse trend developing, with jobs being outsourced not to India but to rural America.

REVelate is a three-day innovation program designed to help a wide variety of organizations in the Kingdom apply innovation methodologies and entrepreneurship techniques within their corporate environments to improve efficiencies and increase competitiveness.

You'll never guess how camouflage helmets are made – the process is mindblowing.

Helmets are dyed with a process called hydrographics, which is kind of like printing with water, and also known as "immersion printing."

First, a thin film made of polyvinyl alcohol is printed with the camouflage pattern, and placed above a pool of water. After about a minute, the film dissolves into dye, which is when the helmets are dipped into the water.

Advancements in 3-D printing – a machine that can layer materials to create three-dimensional objects – have skyrocketed in recent years. But while many associate the technology with pointless, plastic trinkets, researchers and scientists have been hard at work tinkering with the technology to create revolutionary products – including printing parts of the human body.

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Amidst the Open Innovation Forum in Moscow, Russia Direct sat down with Kendrick White, founder and director of Marchmont Capital Partners, to discuss how Russian universities can commercialize their most promising technologies and develop a thriving innovation ecosystem.

Image: "The Russian government should encourage universities to become more independent and make their own self-sufficient relationships with businesses, both locally and internationally." Photo: Theory and Practise  

In their passion to succeed, too many entrepreneurs treat friends and family investments as “low-hanging” fruit, only to find out later, after a stumble, that the pain of lost relationships is greater than the loss of their beloved startup. Other entrepreneurs never start their adventure, because they can’t face the prospect of even approaching friends and family for an investment kick-start.

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We've covered a lot of ways you should prepare for interviews and how to avoid making common interview mistakes. But is it possible to be too prepared for an interview?

Career expert Alison Green (aka Ask A Manager) advises a job seeker that might be coming off as rehearsed instead of authentic.

ANN ARBOR, Mich.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Ann Arbor SPARK received a Bronze Excellence in Economic Development Award for its 2015 project in the category of New Media for communities with populations greater than 500,000 from the International Economic Development Council (IEDC). The honor was presented at an awards ceremony during the 2015 IEDC Annual Conference.

Image: Ann Arbor SPARK received a Bronze Excellence in Economic Development Award for its 2015 project in the category of New Media for communities with populations greater than 500,000 from the International Economic Development Council (IEDC). The honor was presented at an awards ceremony during the 2015 IEDC Annual Conference. (Photo: Business Wire) 

Whether you are the CEO of a Fortune 500 company, employee number two at a startup or someone who enjoys the challenge of solving problems, there is likely an entrepreneurial spirit in you.

Over the years I have filled the bookshelf in my home office with books that have helped me think through things in different ways. Sometimes what I read validates what I’m thinking, but most of the time the books led me down different paths by giving me a platform to rethink and question how to handle certain problems or situations.

Entrepreneurship is hard, and as statistics show, not everyone makes it. Most of us fall somewhere along the spectrum -- at times we succeed, and at other times, we fail. Yet, we’ve all heard of entrepreneurs who experience success time and time again, in different industries, with different teams and different market conditions. So what is it that these people have that most of us don’t -- aside from the seven- and eight-figure bank accounts? 

If you’re tired of wearable fitness trackers fighting for space on your wrist, it might not be a problem in the near future: researchers say they can reliably measure your heart and breathing rates just by looking at data from a smartphone sitting in your pocket or bag.

A serendipitous photo taken during a scuba-diving trip in the Caribbean clued researchers into the world of a mysterious green and glowing eel. Though the green eel species is known for being shy and reclusive, divers managed to catch two and examine their glowing properties. An analysis showed that the eels have a completely newfound class of fluorescent protein that needs bilirubin to glow. These proteins likely helped shape the eels' evolution, and may help researchers developnew techniques in the lab. 

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Japan and the United States lead a small group of nations that are driving innovation in 3D printing, nanotechnology and robotics, three frontier technologies that hold the potential to boost future economic growth, a new WIPO report shows.

Amid lackluster worldwide economic growth, the World Intellectual Property Report 2015: Breakthrough Innovation and Economic Growth shows how previous game-changing advancements – such as airplanes, antibiotics and semiconductors – sparked new business activity. The report probes today’s promising breakthrough innovations, while urging governments and business to step up innovation-related investment.

We’ve been conditioned to equate tech innovation with images of lone inventors or startups housed in garages or incubators, not a company with 53,000 people spread across 17 businesses in 35 countries and a 118-year history. Yet the latter are resources that enable Dow to innovate competitive advantage, and how it does it is a contrarian argument on the merits of being big.

In his latest book, The Evolution of Everything, Matt Ridley argues that social engineering policies, whether initiated by governments or some other organization, are unlikely to reach whatever dedicated goal they have because ultimately it is the action of humans that change society and not the ideas of a select group of people.

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In his recent essay “The Myth of Basic Science” (Oct. 24), Matt Ridley argues that technological growth owes little to basic scientific research. Instead, he depicts technology as some sort of mystical living entity that is self-organizing and immune to any human intent to direct or accelerate it. “Technology will find its inventors,” he writes.

11 November 2015 – Japan and the United States lead a small group of nations that are driving innovation in 3D printing, nanotechnology and robotics, three frontier technologies that hold the potential to boost future economic growth, according to a new report by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).

Image: WIPO Director General Francis Gurry (2nd right) speaks to reporters at the launch of the 2015 World Intellectual Property Report (WIPR) on Breakthrough Innovation and Economic Growth on 11 November 2015. Photo: WIPO/Emmanuel Berrod

Emma Eisner, a 12-year-old with short hair dyed green in parts, has roped off an area around an art project she’s building from cardboard. “Go away, child,” reads a handwritten sign to ward off classmates. At about 10-feet long and 3-feet tall, the white structure looks like it could be a spaceship or maybe an elaborate tunnel. Actually, she says, "It's about how the human quest for knowledge has turned the world inside out.”

Need to build a house quickly? Or build a lot of houses quickly to shelter a growing population? This plastic mold framework is filled with cement and sand, with plumbing, electricity, window, and door frames placed "between the formwork." The shell of the house is ready overnight.

Moladi, from South Africa, is aimed at the huge need for affordable housing in that country. It's featured in the Cube, a recently opened design museum in the Netherlands, that promises "design for human needs" in its first show this month.

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"Our focus is not necessarily to build a city, but rather to grow a city." So says Chris Precht, one of the co-founders of Penda, a Beijing and Vienna-based architecture firm that has a new vision for a low-carbon future in China. What if cities were surrounded by pollution-sucking bamboo forests, and built from bamboo instead of steel?

"Bamboo is a underrated material, especially when it can be used locally," he says. As the plant grows—as much as a foot a day—it acts like an air purifier, generating up to 35% more oxygen than a similar stand of trees, while absorbing the same amount of carbon dioxide. As it's harvested, it automatically regrows without being replanted. And in a building, it's two to three times stronger than a steel beam of a similar weight.

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