BusinessWeek: Where Have You Gone, Bell Labs?

America needs good jobs, soon. We need 6.7 million just to replace losses from the current recession, then another 10 million to spark demand over the next decade. That's 15 million to 17 million new jobs. In the 1990s, the U.S. economy created a net 22 million jobs (a rate of 2.2 million per year), so we know it can be done. Between 2000 and the end of 2007 (the beginning of the current recession), however, the economy created new jobs at a rate of 900,000 a year, so we know it isn't doing it now. The pipeline is dry because the U.S. business model is broken. Our growth engine has run out of a key source of fuel—critical mass, basic scientific research.

Puncturing Equilibrium: Radical Innovation As New Market Emergence

In their review of the typology of radical economic innovation, entitled “When Is An Invention Really Radical? Defining and Operationalizing Technological Radicalness,” Kristina Dahlin and Dean Behrens (D&M) provide 3 useful criteria for defining a radical innovation, (Research Policy, Vol. 34, pp. 717-737, 2005).

BusinessWeek Interview: Google China's Kai-Fu Lee Debuts Innovation Works

Kai-Fu Lee became famous in 2005 when the engineering whiz left Microsoft, where he had created Microsoft Research Asia, to head search giant Google’s operation in China. Microsoft sued, charging that he violated a noncompete agreement, but eventually settled. This time, as Lee leaves Google, he’s sure to avoid a lawsuit, because he’s starting his own venture, which launches Monday morning in Beijing.

Basic Economics We All Need To Understand

Reading what follows may be of help if you are one who would like to have a better understanding of what the recent and future actions of our government may have on our economic future.

Entrepreneur's Journal: Is it possible to grow your business now?

By any historical standard, it's been a horrible recession. Just surviving has been a big accomplishment.

However, this "survivor mentality" can be a problem. If anything, it can prevent your business from eventually growing.

Indian agriculture needs a jump innovation

The world is witnessing urbanisation. In the next few years more than half of the global population will be living in cities. Many of these cities are typical delta metropolis, usurping the space most suited for agricultural production. Moreover, rural population will keep leaving the rural poverty trap and move towards cities that offer the connection to the 21st century network society.

Recession fuels innovation in IT sector, say experts

The economic downturn has offered an opportunity to the IT industry in India to evolve innovative strategies and overcome the weak links of the industry.

This was stated by the veterans of the IT industry at Envision 2009, a national level seminar on IT Leadership Strategies: Preparing for the Recovery, organized by the Xavier Institute of Management-Bhubaneswar (XIMB).

LEADING THROUGH THE STORM: HOW TOP BOSSES MANAGE DURING THE RECESSION

Leaders, take heed: There really might be no time like the present to launch a new product or service.

“This is a time when a lot of businesses are hunkering down,” said Chuck Bamford, a professor of entrepreneurship at Queens University of Charlotte and business consultant. “Typical competitors are not looking to do something new or different. … Providing you can financially afford it, take this as an opportunity to test out ideas and try to be innovative.”

Swiss Technology transfer projects approved

The Swiss National Science Foundation has approved 28 additional technology transfer projects for National Centres of Competence in Research in the hopes of stimulating the economy both in the short and medium-term. The projects are being funded by the Swiss federal government as part of its measures to stabilize the economy. With this, a total of 25 million CHF will be invested into developing new technologies.

10 Reasons why some Nations are Rich

Wealth in the world is not equally distributed. Some nations are very rich whereas others are very poor. The Western nations such as the US, West Germany, UK are very prosperous. On the other hand, economically poor countries such as those in the African continent and India, Pakistan are lagging behind. Why is this disparity so? Many economists have tried to answer this question and have suggested solutions to it, but yet it persists.

Entrepreneur Corner Roundup: Growth drivers, social media marketing and should entrepreneurs be more like teenage girls?

5 milestones to reach before raising venture capital – Many entrepreneurs assume once they’ve got an idea, the next thing to do is raise venture capital. That’s naïve, says Mike McDerment, the co-founder and CEO of FreshBooks. Here are the five signs you’re actually ready....

Editorial: Sober reflections on Labor Day, 2009

Labor Day 2009 will be remembered more for sober reflection than celebration in Silicon Valley. An 11.8 percent unemployment rate, nearly double that of a year ago, is on everyone's mind, despite a rising stock market.