Central to the innovation process in business is paying close attention to customer needs and moving swiftly to meet them with new products and services. In that spirit, we asked the 332 nominees for the 2010 Chicago Innovation Awards about their three greatest needs.
As the Chicago region emerges from the recession, its economic engine will be driven by the entrepreneurs who run its small- to medium-size businesses, many of them in the manufacturing sector. One piece of evidence that this sector is growing is that the number of nominees for the Chicago Innovation Awards rose by nearly 100 from the year before, a clear sign that it takes more than a lousy national economy to keep a good business down. It was in the teeth of the recession, for example, that 2009 award winner Groupon was launched and went on to become a multibillion-dollar company.
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Author: LUKE TANEN
