Here we highlight selected innovation related articles from around the world on a daily basis. These articles related to innovation and funding for innovative companies, and best practices for innovation based economic development.
In the 1950s and ’60s, researchers were curious to find out if there was a correlation between intelligence, creativity and high-performance. At the time, psychologist Ellis Paul Torrance was conducting a series of tests on children’s intelligence and creative abilities. They were challenged to do things like make an improvement to a toy so that other kids might like it more.
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There’s an old joke in software development, “How much time does it take to design software?” Answer: As long as you have scheduled for the design phase. I know. Not funny, “ha, ha” but pretty apropos.
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The norms of conducting international business are increasingly becoming standardised. But the behaviour of those around you is fed by cultural backgrounds.
One chilly morning in Paris, I was getting ready for a meeting with an important client. I would be spending the day with one of the top executives of Peugeot Citroën, preparing him and his wife for the cultural adjustments they’d need to make in their upcoming move to Wuhan, China.
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Startups fail everyday.
And depending on who you listen to, the crash and burn rate is anywhere from 50% to 90% within one to five years.
Because smart entrepreneurs know this, they seek help. Mentors, advisors, peer group entrepreneurs, business courses, masterminds and accelerators are a few options.
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WASHINGTON, April 2, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) is seeking nominations for its annual Tibbetts and Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Hall of Fame Awards.
Nominations can be submitted online at http://www.sbir.gov/news/2014-tibbetts-and-hall-fame-award-nominations. The deadline is 11:59 p.m. EDT, May 2, 2014.
The Tibbetts Awards are presented to those small businesses and individuals judged to exemplify the best in the SBIR program. The award is named for Roland Tibbetts, acknowledged as the father of the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program, and is presented to companies and individuals that promote the mission and goals of the SBIR program and the Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) program.
Germany is probably the only country that could produce a hip-hop hit about the buzz-killing nature of full employment. Yet Rostock-born rapper Marteria’s song Kids, which bitterly laments the boring, thrill-free world where everyone has a good job, says something important about the sub-zero unemployment rate:
Image: http://www.siliconhillsnews.comKnown as an entertainer, entrepreneur and humanitarian, M.C. Hammer also adopted social media tools early on. Hammer tweeted before most celebrities knew Twitter even existed. During meetings with Twitter’s founders Evan Williams, Biz Stone and Jack Dorsey, Hammer explored the emerging world of micro-blogging with his fans. He also began meeting with Google more than 10 years ago when the search engine had just a few thousand employees in Mountain View, Calif.
OTTAWA - Industrial innovation and commercialization in Canada needs to be both modernized and improved, according to Canada’s largest trade and industry association, Canadian Manufacturers & Exporters (CME).
CME sent a letter today to the Minister of State for Science and Technology the Honorable Greg Rickford, emphasizing how the Government’s science and technology program should be modernized.
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It seems like everyone is using crowdfunding to kick off their new business venture, be it a new coffee shop, grocery store or gadget. But there’s been significant debate about just how useful crowdfunding really is. For every successful project, there are many more that never get off the ground, even if they are able to raise some capital.
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A high sugar diet greatly increases the risk of cardiovascular disease regardless of body weight, according to a new study by the American Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The study, which is the biggest one of its kind to date and has included more than 10,000 people followed for up to 14.6 years, concludes that people who drink, for example, one soft drink per day increase their risk of cardiovascular disease by one-third.
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The key to getting any business content read is its headline. Take a lesson from print media, articles with boring titles never get read. Here are 20 words to make sure that prospects and customers read what your company posts. Numbers More specifically, 3, 5, 7 or 10 are clear winners. Even numbers are less popular. Every reader wants a simple step by step list to accomplish their task.
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Outsourcing is one of the earliest crucial decisions that startups have to make after inception. Often, the decision lies not in whether to outsource, but who to outsource to and how. This topic was discussed at a recent panel session in Singapore organized by Startup Jobs Asia. On the panel were web developer Michael Cheng, who sat on both sides of the fence at a startup and development house, Golden Gate Ventures partner Jeffrey Paine, Pirate3D founder Brendan Goh, and Jaryl Sim, founder of web development agency Tinkerbox Studios.
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At this year’s BIO CEO and Investor Conference in New York, I had the opportunity to meet Annalisa Jenkins, EVP and head of global R&D, Merck Serono. Jenkins has been busy working on a game-changing, singlesource CRO collaboration model with Quintiles. Understanding how and why she did it first requires insight into the leadership approach of her risk-enabling CEO, Belén Garijo (see page 24), followed by Jenkins’ detailed explanation of creating the model, along with some pretty good advice on building game-changing collaborations (see page 30). Finalizing this collaboration model won’t make her schedule any less busy; in fact, it just got busier.
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For consumers, the recent price war over storage has been a pleasant surprise. For Internet companies, though, it's been a cause for an extended wave of high fives.
“One of my CEOs declared to me the other day that last week's activity in the cloud may have been one of the most important weeks in technology history, but we won't realize it for many years to come,” wrote Jeff Bussgang, a general partner at venture capital firm Flybridge Capital.
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Most of us kick the year off with an online marketing bang, but about halfway through the year start running out of gas and lose focus. I’ve found that setting unrealistic goals and resolutions does more damage than good, so if you can focus on five simple online marketing must-dos, your chances of long-term success are realistic. Make 2014 the new benchmark for years to come simply by increasing your business’ online marketing performance. To help you achieve this goal, I have come up with five must-dos:
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During the past 25 years I've seen a lot of innovation councils (aka "innovation task forces") come and go.
Some of them looked good at the beginning and died a slow death. Some of them looked bad at the beginning and died a quick death. And some of them actually succeeded.
The second annual Start-Up City: Miami event, sponsored by The Atlantic, The Atlantic Cities, the Knight Foundation and the Creative Class Group convened venture capitalists, leading thinkers, and start-up founders yesterday to discuss entrepreneurialism and to share tips and expertise on successful startups.
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Sam Altman has been president of Y Combinator for just a few weeks but he already says he has a list of about 100 things he thinks it can do better.
The 29-year-old took some time to talk to me about what he learned as the founder of Loopt in the Mountain View, California's accelerator's first batch of startups in 2005 and what he thinks Y Combinator does well or can improve on.
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FoundersPad, the Bend-based technology accelerator focused on software startups, today launched a new program that offers customized, one-to-one mentoring. The new Growth Track program, led by a team of successful mentors and entrepreneurs, is dedicated to startups that have proven market traction and are looking to rapidly scale and grow their businesses.
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I have 3 tips to help YOU become a more effective business owner, artist, entrepreneur or person in general!
I have been self-employed, and now as a real estate professional, artist and speaker…since November of 2011. I had about $100 or less in the bank when I started, I had just backpacked in Australia, visiting the Great Barrier Reef, Sydney, Cairns and Melbourne on an adventure of love and self-discovery. Think “#Eat Pray and Love”. I recommend TRAVELING and SOLO BACKPACKING to anyone who wants to live a self-discovered, passionate and purposeful life.
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