Researchers have “fingerprinted” the white matter of the human brain using a new diffusion MRI method, mapping the brain’s connections (the connectome) at a more detailed level than ever before. They confirmed that structural connections in the brain are unique to each individual person and the connections were able to identify a person with nearly 100% accuracy.

Notes primarily taken by Professor David Kass, Department of Finance, Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland.  Additional notes taken by Beija Fu, Yanting Ma, and Shiyue Wu were also included.)

Warren Buffett (WB) (age 86) met with 20 MBA/MS or undergraduate students from each of eight universities/colleges, including the University of Maryland, on November 18, 2016.  (The other seven universities/colleges represented were, in alphabetical order, Boston University, Columbia University, Concordia (Montreal), Grinnell College, Marquette University, St. Louis University, and Yale University.)   Mr. Buffett responded to 20 student questions over 2 ½ hours.

Q: What makes someone a great entrepreneur?

A: This is a question I wonder about a lot, and in fact, you could say it is the question underlying this column.

I am happy to report that this week, we have some great answers.

I was fortunate enough to get to meet some of the best entrepreneurs on the planet this week at the annual EY Strategic Growth Forum / Entrepreneur of the Year Awards. I attend a lot of entrepreneurship events, both as a columnist as well as as a speaker, and this one quickly has become my favorite.

The business of pitching to investors can be intimidating. For many in the UK, it conjures up the bright lights and steely glares associated with the BBC's "Dragon's Den," the hit show in which budding entrepreneurs get three minutes to pitch their business ideas to multi-millionaire investors.

But the success of small businesses can often rest on success or failure, and especially in the competitive world of venture-backed startups, getting it right has never been more important.

The Princeton Review and Entrepreneur magazine recently released its list of top schools for entrepreneurship studies for 2017 and Temple Unversity snagged a coveted spot.

The ranking earned the school some bragging rights, too – no other Philadelphia university placed on the list.

EXPLORE THE STORIES BEHIND 100 IMAGES THAT CHANGED THE WORLD, SELECTED BY TIME AND AN INTERNATIONAL TEAM OF CURATORS

From roughly the time of Jesus to Napoleon, life changed little. Then the industrial revolution replaced muscle power with steam power and human existence was transformed. Incomes, life expectancy and population, which had long been locked in Malthusian conflict, began to reinforce each other and rise in tandem. It’s hard to overestimate how profound that change was. Prosperity, rather than being tied to land, became a function of the efficient use of capital.

Tesla founder Elon Musk made waves last month when he announced that the company would begin equipping all new vehicles with self-driving hardware.  

Although we're still at least a few years away from any city being dominated by self-driving cars, on Saturday Musk decided to give us a preview of what the future will be like with self-driving Tesla cars. 

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Digital communication means every business can be a global business, but even the most hi-tech sectors benefit when companies work in physical proximity. The informal conversations that take place in the community can all contribute to a rapid and productive exchange of ideas and skills.

Over the last 10 years, governments around the world have made an important shift in their economic perspective. Instead of looking to corporate giants as the mainstay of future growth, the focus has shifted to startups, entrepreneurship and the creative sectors. These are now recognised as the economy’s most sustainable sources of dynamism, innovation, employment and value creation.

FREDERICTON (GNB) – Site Selection Magazine has ranked New Brunswick as one of the most competitive provinces in economic development, second behind Ontario, and ahead of Quebec.

“New Brunswick is seeing momentum in economic development,” said Premier Brian Gallant. “By working together and implementing the Economic Growth Plan we will see more successes which will benefit New Brunswickers across the province.”

Imagine the Power of 13,000+ Angels The North American professional association of active accredited investors provides unparalleled access to trending ideas and professional knowledge to help improve returns and promote effective public policies for angels and startups.  Although not a funding source, ACA provides entrepreneurs an inside view into how angels think.

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The University of Florida is ranked third in the nation for licenses and options executed on technologies developed at the university level, a measure of how successful its ideas are in the marketplace, according to the latest statistics recently released by the Association of University Technology Managers as part of its annual licensing survey.

Every year, TIME selects the best inventions that are making the world better, smarter and—in some cases—a little more fun. In the past, we’ve featured everything from the real-life hoverboard to the desktop DNA lab. Here’s which ones made this year’s unranked list.

Robert’s Rules of Innovation II: The Art of Implementation is concerned with the gap between knowledge and implementation of innovation. Robert Brands noticed that business leaders praised the idea of “innovation” but failed to follow through. Brands attributed this lack of initiative to fear, a fear that America had faced before. For decades after the Great Depression, business owners were still afraid to invest in innovation. As a result, the economy’s potential wasn’t realized until much later.

Biohealth is a hot industry in various markets across the country. Access to federal government agencies, state programs and top research institutions have led Maryland to be the No. 6 biotech market in the country, bringing in $15 billion in research dollars to the state every year. But Richard Bendis, president and CEO of Maryland ...

As Maryland emerges as a hotbed for research and commercial opportunities in the biohealth industry, many small businesses in this sector see the state as a good place to grow. When William Hearl started building Rockville-based Immunomic Therapeutics Inc. a decade ago, much of the initial learning curve was finding that sweet spot between creating their ...

As of today, founders have a lot of options as to what kinds of accelerator programs they might want to try to get in to. There’s Y Combinator, Techstars and 500 Startups, among many others.

But with so many choices, it might be easy for an outside observer to not really directly distinguish between them. For Dave McClure — who wants to show that his firm 500 Startups can offer something more than the rest of those programs — that’s an issue. The accelerator program, which has been running for several years, is one in which the firm looks to put a lot of emphasis on growth.

It’s tempting to portray the rapid growth of the Chinese Internet as just one more example of China’s efforts to catch up with the West: Alibaba is the eBay of China, Baidu is the Google of China, Didi is the Uber of China, and so on. But China is actually conducting some fascinating experiments with the Internet (see “The Best and Worst Internet Experience in the World"). You just need to look outside the tech sector to notice them.

At 4.9 percent, the nation's unemployment rate is half of what it was at the height of the Great Recession. But that number hides a big problem: Millions of men in their prime working years have dropped out of the workforce — meaning they aren't working or even looking for a job.

It's a trend that's held true for decades and has economists puzzled.

In the 1960s, nearly 100 percent of men between the ages of 25 and 54 worked. That's fallen over the decades.

For Global Entrepreneurship Week, Virgin Media Pioneers have been hosting morning masterclasses to tackle five problems that entrepreneurs face. Together with Virgin Media Business, they aimed to help make small businesses VOOM with invaluable support and advice.