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Virginia Tech breaks ground on Innovation Campus | Alexandria Times | Alexandria, VA

Virginia Tech broke ground on the first of three academic buildings for its Innovation Campus in North Potomac Yard on Sept. 14. Although the groundbreaking was mostly symbolic, Virginia Tech ...

How Failure Actually Grows Your Innovation Culture

A single batch of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream produced at their Waterbury, VT plant contains 80,000 pints of ice cream. Of course, 80,000 pints is relatively small for an ice cream producing ...

KPIs Aren’t Just About Assessing Past Performance

Many companies track KPIs as a way of predicting performance. To really exploit the predictive power of KPIs, though, you need to map how the KPIs for your key stakeholders feed into each other ...

Pfizer’s vaccine machine

Talk about a pivot. When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla was one year into his tenure. Bourla, born and educated in Greece, is a 27-year veteran of the company. A trained ...

Pittsburgh Gets High Marks as a Place for Innovation - Pittsburgh Quarterly

Pittsburgh has one of the world’s top emerging startup ecosystems from which companies are born from new ideas, talented innovators and investment in their development, according to a new ...

President Biden Announces Members of President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology | The White House

WASHINGTON – Today, President Biden announced 30 of America’s most distinguished leaders in science and technology as members of his President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology ...

A Futurist’s Guide to Preparing Your Company for Constant Change

The time to prepare for change is not when it hits. It’s before it hits, and during times of relative calm. Reacting to change in the moment keeps you forever on the defensive, and the ...

Should Noncompete Clauses for Executives Be Legal? - WSJ

Many executives in the U.S. have noncompete clauses in their employment contracts that prevent them from working for a competitor or starting a competing business for a certain period after leaving ...

7 Ways To Highlight Your Personal Value To Investors - Startup Professionals Musings

Unfortunately, most of us don’t have enough resources to bootstrap our own startups, so we are completely dependent on investors to help turn great ideas into great businesses. Yet in my ...

BioTalk: From the 7th Annual BioHealth Capital Region Forum - Dr. Anthony Fauci - Biohealth Innovation

Listen to the audio as Rich Bendis, President and CEO of BioHealth Innovation conducts a fireside chat with Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director of the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Disease ...

Coming to Utah this October: Communities of innovation elevating technology across the globe - Utah Business

Salt Lake City — University research park directors, planners, builders, scientists, and innovators from around the globe will gather in person and virtually this October 18-21 in Salt Lake City ...

Deloitte Launches the Deloitte AI Academy to Advance Artificial Intelligence Proficiency for Business and Society

NEW YORK, Sept. 21, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Deloitte today announced the launch of the Deloitte AI Academy™ which is designed to help bridge the technology talent gap by developing and re-skilling ...

10 Important Things To Know If You Want An Entrepreneur To Mentor You

Seeking a mentor is a crucial step to success, especially if you're a young person just starting out in your career journey. Mentors can help their mentees learn from their own mistakes, widen their ...

The Ultimate Guide to Running Executive Meetings — 25 Tips from Top Startup Leaders | First Round Review

Great meetings don’t just happen, they’re meticulously crafted. At its best, an executive meeting strengthens the bonds of your leadership team, surfaces mission-critical problems facing the ...

How to Say “No” After Saying “Yes”

Whether you have overbooked yourself, realized you have a conflict, or otherwise can’t or don’t want to participate in a project, it’s essential to uncommit gracefully. Doing so will keep your ...

Triad Inno - Innovation districts vs. research parks – What’s the difference and why does it matter?

Visit almost any thriving metropolitan area, and you’ll notice at least one thing it has in common – a section of the city that’s buzzing with activity. Here you’ll find professionals, ...

8 Advantages To Building Your Own Startup Prototypes - Startup Professionals Musings

Back in the early 2000s, the Maker Movement took hold in California, based on the emergence of such do-it-yourself (DIY) tools as 3-D printers, and now sites such as SketchUp and Makerspaces have ...

Growing Entrepreneurs And Entrepreneurship: Lessons From Estonia

Famous entrepreneurs, such as Elon Musk and Steve Jobs, are often portrayed as mythical creatures who have left the womb imbued with the talent, burning desire, and tolerance for risk-taking ...

The World’s Most Innovative Countries, 2021 | INSEAD Knowledge

Innovation has, in many ways, flourished over the past 19 months. In the face of Covid-19, efforts to transform national economies towards a more ecologically and socially responsible approach, ...

South Korea cracks world's top 5 innovators while China edges Japan - Nikkei Asia

PARIS/NEW YORK -- South Korea has placed among the top five technological innovators for the first time, according to the latest global ranking, as other Asian economic powers moved up the ...

So You Hired a Consultant. Here’s How to Get Your Money’s Worth.

Many leaders solicit the help of internal and external consultants, and the return on that advice depends on who’s receiving it. The author, currently an internal advisor and formerly an external ...

Innovation continued despite COVID-19: New UN report | | UN News

According to the findings of the World Intellectual Property Organization’s (WIPO) latest Global Innovation Index, (GII) governments and enterprises in many parts of the world scaled up ...

A new age of American innovation - The Boston Globe

It’s infrastructure month. Congressional negotiators are deep in budget negotiations, trying to figure out how much of the Biden social and climate infrastructure proposals they can fit into a ...

8 Brand Strategy Rules From Elite Consumer Companies - Startup Professionals Musings

Every new business dreams of becoming the premier brand in their space, like Starbucks is to coffee, and Apple is to consumer electronics, but they have no idea how difficult that is to achieve. In ...

Why Every Entrepreneur Needs a Board of Advisors

When you think of boards, whether it's a board of advisors or a board of directors, you think of big companies. The prevailing wisdom is that boards are for large, established companies. But how did ...

Venture fund formed to invest in Nebraska-based ag startups | Local Business News | journalstar.com

Agriculture is Nebraska's top industry, so it makes sense that startup companies will turn up with the goal to solve problems and make operations more efficient. However, the companies starting out ...

7 Most Effective Routines Of Notable Business Leaders - Startup Professionals Musings

In my years of working with entrepreneurs, I have heard many times the promise that their new idea will create the next Amazon or Apple, but I rarely hear the more important promise that the founder ...

Making the Great Attrition the Great Attraction | McKinsey

More than 15 million US workers—and counting—have quit their jobs since April 2021, a record pace disrupting businesses everywhere. Companies are struggling to address the problem, and many will ...

Artificial Intelligence, Automation Aren’t Killing Labor Market, Reports Says - Nextgov

Concerns that emerging technologies like artificial intelligence and automation could wipe out wide swaths of American jobs aren’t backed up by data, according to a Sept. 13 report released by the ...

VCs make record bets on quantum computing | PitchBook

Scientists and engineers are still toiling in labs in a race to develop quantum computers that would significantly outperform traditional computers. But that isn't holding venture capitalists back. ...

Keeping a Diverse Team United in Polarized Times

There’s no question that working with a diverse group can be more challenging than contributing to a more homogenous one. There are more opportunities for misunderstanding and conflict, especially ...

BioHealth Capital Region Retains Strong Grip on No. 4 Spot of Top 10 U.S. Biopharma Hubs Eyes Third Spot by 2023 · BioBuzz

For 2021, the BHCR held onto the fourth-place position behind New York/ New Jersey, San Francisco Bay Area, and the greater Boston area. The latest ranking was revealed at the seventh annual ...