The most established tech hub in the Middle East, Israel is home to a slew of big-name companies such as project management tool Monday.com, last valued at $550 million, and navigation app Waze, acquired by Alphabet in 2013.

The majority of medical device companies continue to shy away from developing pediatric medical devices because the process is costly and the market is small. They don’t see the ROI. One organization that has been particularly active in advocating for the development of devices for this important population is the Sheikh Zayed Institute for Pediatric Surgical Innovation at Children’s National Health System, which in conjunction with the A. James Clark School of Engineering at the University of Maryland, started the National Capital Consortium for Pediatric Device Innovation (NCC-PDI) six years ago. NCC-PDI also added healthcare accelerators BioHealth Innovation and MedTech Innovator to the consortium recently and created the Pediatric Device Innovator Accelerator Program.

In this episode of the McKinsey Podcast, Simon London speaks with McKinsey senior partner Katy George and partner Enno de Boer about the future of manufacturing—think digital and advanced analytics, not robots.

Just about everyone wants more creativity and innovation these days. But what's the secret to getting it?

By the time the application window closed, Amazon had received 238 proposals from cities and regions throughout North America looking to become the second headquarters of the behemoth tech company.

State governments that offer resource, policy and infrastructure support to help aid technological innovation provide important resources for young companies, even if the technologies the companies are developing aren't a sure thing. But it is not enough for governments to offer this funding - especially if companies are unaware what is available.

The federal government’s 2019 budget released Tuesday contained funding for skills-retraining for mid-career workers and work experience for students, along with big money for high-speed broadband internet across the country.

The salty patches were small, at first — scattered spots where soybeans wouldn’t grow, where grass withered and died, exposing expanses of bare, brown earth.

Want to be a successful entrepreneur? Here are ten habits that billionaires, high profile investors and high growth startup founders have in common.

Surrounded by entrepreneurs and innovators hard at work building the businesses of tomorrow in North Brunswick’s CCIT Life Sciences Incubator, Governor Phil Murphy today showcased details of the proposed New Jersey Innovation Evergreen Fund (NJIEF), a groundbreaking new program to bring more venture capital investment to New Jersey while strengthening the Garden State’s innovation ecosystem.  

Elite athletes push themselves to perform at an extraordinarily high level. Whether they’re winning gold medals or taking their team to the championships, elite athletes find ways to push their bodies and minds beyond what the rest of us are capable of.

Early in my career, I was part of a team tasked with transforming operations for a healthcare services provider. The CEO was worried that employees were not committed to the company’s new strategy, which required an enormous shift in the corporate culture. People had historically focused on quarterly targets, but they now needed to prioritize caring for patients, being easy to do business with, and developing long-term relationships.

When I entered the venture capital industry, I admired the work of “father of venture capital” George Doriot – taking risks on revolutionary ideas and seeing them pay off. But I was a little mystified by the venture capitalists (VCs) of the current era. Based on the public versions of their success stories, I thought they were extremely lucky or they had a special gift of predicting the future or a combination of both. I also found them very intimidating, unapproachable and unrelatable. I didn’t want to do business the way they did.

AOL’s co-founder Steve Case is searching for the next big investment in places where venture capitalists by and large ignore. In his 35-ft big red bus, Case is scouring the middle of the U.S. with his $150 million “Rise of the Rest” fund, a money stream meant to flow to entrepreneurs in small to mid-size cities like Indianapolis, Detroit, and Birmingham. The goal is to jump start local economies, giving entrepreneurs often overlooked by traditional investors a shot at capital. Case has visited 38 cities and 26 states so far. 

The thousands of young climate change activists in more than one hundred countries that played hooky to march to save the climate on March 15th were vague on their definition of “renewables”. The mass hysteria among politicians, the press, and environmentalists is a constant bombardment about renewable energy and the goal of the Green New Plan for a super renewable grid.

Pay for top executives at big US companies is vastly higher than what everyday workers make, and a new report from The Wall Street Journal has found that CEOs have hit an eye-popping milestone in the size of their monthly paychecks.

Exercising for just 10 minutes a week is linked to a longer life, according to a new study published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine.

Why do groups stop innovating well when they grow large? How can large teams or companies or research groups innovate faster and better? 

Personal finance website WalletHub recently released a report on this year’s most and least innovative states, comparing all 50 states and the District of Columbia across 24 metrics pertaining to things science-, research- and development-related. With the U.S. poised to spend some $581 billion on R&D in 2019, here’s a look at the Top 5 states— and, conversely, the Bottom 5 — for innovation nationwide. (Data sets range from share of STEM [science, technology, engineering and math] professionals to R&D spending per capita.)

Barrett Daniels, Deloitte's national IPO services leader, joins "Squawk on the Street" to discuss the year ahead for some much anticipated IPOs.