In be-novative our goal is to connect ideas with people and resources to make breakthrough innovation happen anytime. So we’ve made a great inspirational calendar with the best 24 quotes ever on innovation and creativity to make your year the best it can be. Check it out, you can download it and print it out if you wish, enjoy! In 2016 inspire your world and let's drive more innovation together! "Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." /Emerson/ Cheers :) https://lnkd.in/br_ut4D If you have other favorite quotes, please share them with me :)

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When Chao Chen had to conduct a materials study during his second term at the Royal College of Art, he found inspiration while walking through London's Hyde Park on a rainy day. Picking up a pine cone, he noticed that it reacted to water by closing its outer shell. Now, he has developed a building material, based on the pine cone's anatomy, that can shapeshift in response to weather.

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Robots 3-D printing bridges in mid-air. Building materials that shape-shift in response to the rain. Office parks that actually look like parks. The most innovative architectural projects we covered in 2015 offer a compelling look at the big ideas shaping the future of the built environment. After all, today's gee-whiz experiments are the stuff of tomorrow's daily life. Here are 9 of the most compelling projects we encountered this year.

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Cities, with their dense mixtures of people and economic activity, have long been fonts of innovation. To start, density spurs innovation by pushing people and ideas together, enabling them to combine and recombine in new ways. And advances in transportation—from railroads and subways to automobiles, planes, and high-speed rail—increase the circulation not only of goods and people, but of ideas as well.

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As the year draws to a close, I want to reflect on FDA’s many accomplishments in these previous 12 months, the last nine of which it has been my pleasure to serve as Acting Commissioner. FDA has broad responsibilities – indeed, we are tasked with overseeing products that account for about 20 cents of the consumer dollar — so we work on a wide range of topics in any given year. In this and two additional blog posts over the coming days I’ll cover some of our key accomplishments in 2015. Each blog will examine a different area of FDA’s work. This first post will focus on medical product innovation – our role in making safe, effective and innovative products available to patients who need them.

(KANSAS CITY, Mo.) Dec. 29, 2015 – The Kauffman Foundation is recalling the programs and research that had the most impact this year. The highlights show that 2015 has been a transformative year for the Foundation’s leadership and its efforts to broaden its reach and sharpen its focus on education and entrepreneurship. The year-in-review lists key program initiatives, content and research, and grants of more than $72 million to 431 not-for-profit organizations in Kansas City and around the country.

The International Space Station is the longest-running continuously inhabited human outpost in space – this year it celebrated its 15th anniversary. As the ISS orbits the Earth it is essentially in a state of free fall, counteracting the Earth’s gravity and providing an ideal platform for science in space.

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A lot of factors go into finding the right job, and like many things in life, location plays a huge role. And while the coasts have long been considered industry hotspots, the best cities for jobs might surprise you.

According to Glassdoor’s Best Cities for Jobs report, the top three are Raleigh, North Carolina; Kansas City, Missouri; and Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, based on a comparison of the 50 most populated U.S. metro areas.

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I have a love-hate relationship with food. I love it; it generally hates me. Matter of fact, I love food so much that until a few years ago, I was extremely overweight. So overweight that I invented a piece of health tech to help me lose 80 pounds. It worked, and since then I’ve remained a healthy weight primarily by making sure I count my calories, don’t overeat, and get regular exercise.

On November 6, 1995, the first issue of Fast Company debuted. Its founders, Alan Webber and Bill Taylor, were former Harvard Business Review editors who had been working on the idea for a while: in fact, they'd produced a prototype version in 1993. With funding from media tycoon Mortimer Zuckerman, they began regular publication with a cover that famously declared that business is personal, computing is social, and knowledge is power. The mantra was so prescient that it still captures our perspective two decades later.

Every so often, a journalist who thrived in the old days decries the current state of mostly digital journalism and discourages youngsters from pursuing a career there. Things were so much better in the old days, these columns usually say. Nowadays, everybody's just chasing clicks, it's a race to the bottom for advertising money, great journalists can't find decent paying work, and the work isn't very satisfying — basically woe and gloom.

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Dec. 30, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Frost & Sullivan has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Malaysia Innovation Hub (MIH) to promote co-operation in the areas of business advisory, commercialization and marketing across sectors. The formal signing of the memorandum took place at MIH's headquarters at the University of Malaya yesterday witnessed by the representatives from the Alibaba Group and the Ministry of Higher Education. The agreement was signed by Tan Sri Dr. Ghauth Jasmon, the chairman of MIH and Hazmi Yusof, Managing Director Malaysia, Frost & Sullivan.

Living in Silicon Valley could open you up to a whole new world, where everyone seems to be chasing the next big idea.

But being in such a tight-knit community packed with like-minded people could have its downsides, too — like forgetting what the rest of the world looks, thinks, and acts like.

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If you had yourself a big tech idea in 2015, crowdfunding was as good a way as any to generate the necessary cash to see it off the ground. In fact, it was often the only realistic option.

From video games to smart beehives, smartwatches to bizarre card games, 2015 saw a diverse range of products attracting scarcely believable levels of funding from the general public.

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You've probably said it to yourself multiple times over the past few months, or maybe even years: "I need to take a vacation." You're an entrepreneur, and because you're passionate about your business, excited to see it grow, and overburdened with tasks and responsibilities, you've found it almost impossible to take time away from the office. You're working 80 hour weeks (or more), trudging through nights and weekends, and you're doing so somewhat happily because it's on your terms, but the long-term effects of that overworking is going to catch up with you.

As an entrepreneur, you never intend to displease your customers, but sometimes, bad publicity is predictable. If you behave responsibly, you can always overcome the risk of an unexpected brand image disaster. In the age of information technology, bad publicity can reach millions of users before you can post a...

Chris Lynch is still waging war on accelerators.

A little over a year ago at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s annual venture capital conference, Mr. Lynch, a general partner at Cambridge, Mass., venture firm Accomplice and former chief executive of data analytics company Vertica, tangled with David McClure of 500 Startups about the value of accelerators such as Mr. McClure’s.

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The year is 2020. The United Kingdom has enjoyed five years of economic prosperity and stability with a wholly Conservative government. We are heading back to the top of global economic tables for competitiveness, employment and public sector productivity. International businesses and investors recognise the United Kingdom as "the place to be". Britain is recognised as the world's leading hi-tech nation. Almost everyone has a tangible stake in the economy by holding shares and bonds in family businesses, mutuals and social enterprises. Above all people are planning confidently for their future.

In the virtual world of today, it is actually surprising that brick-and-mortar offices and stores still exist. With all of the modern technology that is available, it seems a real office could be ditched by just about every business, and choose a virtual office instead.

Some business owners already have made the switch, while others are holding onto their real office or storefront for dear life. Like anything else, virtual offices do have downsides to them. However, given all of the benefit that they provide, you really should strongly consider whether the virtual office is something your business should switch over to.