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New insights on how innovation districts are challenging economic and social divides

In cities around the world, a growing movement is redefining the spatial geography of the innovation economy. Innovation districts are evolving geographies of innovation anchored by ...

Population Shifting in the Midwest | Newgeography.com

My latest post is online at City Journal. I actually wrote it prior to the Indy op-ed I just put up, but for scheduling reasons they came out in the reverse order. This contains some of the ...

Culture Remains the Strongest Innovation Litmus Test – Innovation Excellence

For being members of a discipline that prides itself on discovering the unknown, innovation practitioners have a secret lust of commonplace predictability and yearn for security as much as any human ...

The venture capital model is wasteful, chaotic — and essential | Business | The Sunday Times

I have been reading the business plans of new ventures for more than 30 years, and while the presentations have become a lot slicker, I’m not sure the underlying propositions have improved ...

Richard Branson on 8 rules he swears by to have a successful career - Business Insider

By nearly any measure, Richard Branson is at the top of the success-o-meter of life. The multibillionaire launched his first business as a teenager. By 20, he had started a mail-order record ...

Deloitte study reveals the alternative workforce is becoming mainstream

A study of Global Human Capital Trends, undertaken by Deloitte, has revealed that alternative workforce models are steadily becoming the new-normal in South Africa’s job market. While the trend ...

Five Ways that DeepTech Startups are changing the innovation ecosystem - Moneycontrol.com

The future is now. Previously advanced fields like silicon chip technology and mobile technology have given way to newer cutting-edge ones like machine learning and quantum computing. This is the ...

Millennials of Tokyo: Connecting Creatives and Innovators via Experiential Events | JAPAN Forward

In the spring of 2018, three long-term Japan residents and friends decided to create a community of peers in Tokyo and tell their stories of living in the city while chasing their dreams. American ...

7 Steps to Living Your Life With Purpose

Are you struggling to create your dream life or business? If so, you are probably distracted by the “how.” What you should be focused on instead is identifying your calling. I know firsthand ...

Companies Founded by Women Finding it Difficult to get Venture Capital - Small Business Trends

There are more than 11.6 million businesses in the United States that are women-owned. Out of businesses that generate $1 million or more, 1 in 5 is owned by women. Being a female entrepreneur is ...

Don't Let These Myths Stop You From Starting a Company on Cheddar

The innovation economy requires new tech and disruptive ideas. Melissa Smith, head of specialized industries for middle market banking at J.P. Morgan, breaks down the myths preventing entrepreneurs ...

14 New Startups Emerge From UC Davis Innovations | UC Davis

Technologies developed at the University of California, Davis, enabled the foundation of 14 startup companies during the fiscal year ending June 30, 2019. “Research universities like UC Davis are ...

JumpStart Releases Annual Economic Impact Report: $1B+ in Economic Output in 2018

CLEVELAND, July 18, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- JumpStart Inc. has released its yearly economic impact report, tracking the outcomes of the startups and small businesses assisted by the organization and ...

Council Post: Innovation Comes By Listening, Not Seeing

“The introduction of something new” or “a new idea, method or device” is how the dictionary by Merriam-Webster defines innovation. No matter how we define it, I’m sure we all can agree ...

Laws, Leadership and Luck: Why Bayh-Dole Worked But the Federal Circuit Went Off-Course

I recently visited Egypt as part of a team led by the Departments of State and Agriculture, supported by the good folks at the AUTM Foundation. Egypt, like many countries, is looking at our model ...

Investors bet billions on health-care start-ups with paltry publication records

The publication record of health-care start-up companies doesn’t seem to matter to investors, according to an analysis of nearly 50 biomedical ‘unicorns’ — venture-capital-backed companies ...

Some shifts in venture capital financing of biopharma companies appear underway - MedCity News

Venture capital fundraising this year by biopharma startups is on course to fall behind last year, though it will be above the figure for 2017. But the biggest story may be where that funding is ...

Israel ranked among top 10 most innovative countries in the world - HEALTH & SCIENCE - Jerusalem Post

The GII is an annual ranking of countries by their capacity for innovation and their success. Israel has been climbing the ladder of the index since ranking 21st worldwide in 2016. Since then, ...

Amazon Worker Retraining Plan Is 'Drop in the Bucket’: VC | Fortune

Amazon committed last week to spend $700 million on retraining a third of its U.S. workforce. But the e-commerce giant’s effort, intended to equip workers with skills needed to compete in the new ...

Brain-machine interfaces are getting better and better – and Neuralink's new brain implant pushes the pace

Elon Musk grabbed a lot of attention with his July 16 announcement that his company Neuralink plans to implant electrodes into the brains of people with paralysis by next year. Their first goal is ...

Use Failure as an Opportunity to Reflect on Your Strengths

In a presentation to a group of executive job seekers in transition, a recruiter made the point that after years of reviewing C-level résumés, she had noticed a commonality: None of these top ...

Silicon Beyond the Valley: UVA Darden Alumni Predict Where Venture Capital Is Going Next | Newswise: News for Journalists

Newswise — For the better part of a half-century, the epicenter of venture capital in the United States has been located about 30 miles south of San Francisco, in the heart of California’s ...

Use Key Strategic Elements To Avoid Business Plateaus - Startup Professionals Musings

One of the biggest challenges I find for new business owners is for them to move from working in the business to working on the business. You are so engaged in building and selling your product or ...

The Dutch are direct, Canadians are diplomats. How leadership styles vary around the world | World Economic Forum

We know that different cultures prefer different leadership styles. Now new research shows how different countries favour certain character traits at work. If you’re a straight-shooter who likes ...

3 words to flex your team's innovation muscles: 'Yes, but, and'

Contrary to the widely held belief that brainstorming sessions should be a time only of "yes, and" — that is, a time free of any criticism or judgment — the most innovative ideas are typically ...

Viking History Is Melting Away in Greenland - Scientific American

Lining the fjords of Greenland are remnants of Viking-era Norse outposts that flourished for less than 500 years before they were mysteriously abandoned. And now this lost culture is experiencing a ...

Will Venture Capital Venture Into Opportunity Zones? – Commercial Observer

The newest version of the opportunity zones program was supposed to be a game-changer for venture capital. In April, the IRS released updated rules for the program, which clarified how operating ...

The surprising psychological effects of FaceApp's old age filter - Business Insider

If you've ever wanted to find out how you'll look in, say, 40 years, you can do it on a controversial app that's going viral, FaceApp. FaceApp is an AI-powered photo editing app that can make you ...

How to Reach Out to Someone Whose Career You Admire

We all have professional idols we’d like to meet. Sometimes we might luck into getting to say hello at a conference or having a mutual friend who can introduce us. But often, despite our ...

Minnesota’s startup ecosystem – Finance & Commerce

Tucked away in this year’s motley special session package at the Legislature was a bill authorizing the creation of Launch Minnesota, a $5 million public-private program to grow the state’s ...

The Power of Performance Reviews: Use This System to Become a Better Manager | First Round Review

Back when I was a young PM, one of my managers altered the trajectory of my career. It was my second year at Airbnb. I was doing okay, but not great. My new manager, Vlad Loktev, had taken over, ...

U.S. Targeting of Chinese Scientists Fuels a Brain Drain - Bloomberg

It was a big opportunity for a small research university. In 2013, Xin Zhao, a prize-winning Ph.D. from the College of William & Mary, landed venture funding to commercialize some of the ...

Channeling Innovation: How Does It Happen?

Many of the entrepreneurs I know have preconceived ideas about how innovation happens and how a business begins. They have visions of pondering, reading books from the biggest authorities and ...

Mastering the Art of the Outcome: How Guru Turned Customer Success Into a Company Cornerstone | First Round Review

The words outcome-oriented are written on an old whiteboard in Guru’s Philadelphia office, inscribed so long ago that the ink can no longer be erased from the board. That’s exactly how ...

Why Consultants Quit Their Jobs to Go Independent

The talent game for big employers is changing. In the past, organizations, and particularly professional service firms, could point to the door and remind any grumbling employees that it was cold ...

The Art of Persuasion Hasn’t Changed in 2,000 Years

Ideas are the currency of the twenty-first century. The ability to persuade, to change hearts and minds, is perhaps the single greatest skill that will give you a competitive edge in the knowledge ...

NIH is the World’s Largest Early Stage Life Sciences Investor That You Didn't Know About - NVCA

What can NIH offer to NVCA member firm’s life science portfolio companies? How can you get access to NIH funded companies? Since when does NIH have Entrepreneurs in Residence? Check out the ...

Venture Capital Struggles to Meet Hurdle Rate | Institutional Investor

Venture capital firms in the U.S. have struggled to meet their hurdle rates even as their performance has steadily improved, research by eFront found. Only 38 percent of VC funds tracked over two ...

Is Entrepreneurship the New MBA?

In the 1980s and 90s, Wall Street was the American Dream for those seeking wealth and success in the U.S., and an MBA was a rite of passage to the higher-level, higher-paying jobs. Not so much ...

The 10 U.S. colleges that pay off the most

Each year, high school students across the U.S. march through campuses on guided tours, pore over course catalogs, and frantically check mailboxes and inboxes for letters granting them admission to ...