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The 7 Biggest Time-Wasters in a New Entrepreneur's Day

Being a new entrepreneur is stressful, and that stress is compounded when you start realizing just how little time there is in a day. You’ll be managing more tasks and responsibilities than ever ...

Paddleboarders surprised by a pod of orca whales hunting seals

A pod of orca whales shocked a group of ecstatic paddleboarders near Deception Pass Bridge in Oak Harbor, Washington, on Wednesday. According to Jennifer Bull, who shot the video, the orcas were ...

Universities underpin economic growth | Innovators magazine

Innovations born in the world of academia have contributed more than a trillion dollars to the US economy over the past two decades, according to a new report. Examining the licensing of university ...

Best Places to Work 2017: The Extra-Large Companies - Philadelphia Business Journal

Welcome to the Philadelphia Business Journal's Best Places to Work 2017. Each year, the Business Journal teams with Quantum Workplace to find the very best workplaces in our region. How do we come ...

Science Is Necessary But Not Sufficient For Innovation

Nations need to have well-articulated strategies addressing science, innovation, competitiveness and productivity. Confusing or conflating these distinct but complementary goals is a recipe for ...

Knight Bill To Help Small Businesses Innovate Unanimously Passes Hurdle — Hometown Station | KHTS AM 1220

The Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business Technology Transfer Improvements Act of 2017, H.R. 2763, unanimously passed a House committee last week, moving one step closer to approval. ...

Looking Beyond H-1B Visas to Find Tech Talent

H-1B visa applications have declined for the first time in years, according to a recent report from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. The department announced last month that it received ...

3 critical challenges your business incubator should solve

To develop an idea into a business, incubation seems to be the new industry “normal.” There are thousands of incubators worldwide and each year that number is continuing to grow. There are ...

How Estonia Became The Digital Leader Of Europe

In the recent INSEAD/WIPO Global Innovation Index, Estonia was a very creditable 25th in the league table. The nation performed particularly strongly across digital metrics, whether in terms of ...

BC innovation groups release report to prove why it's Canada's next supercluster | BetaKit

Since the Canadian federal government announced that it is accepting applications for its $950 million ‘supercluster’ initiative, Canada’s top tech players have been going the extra mile to ...

Switzerland remains the world’s most innovative country

Now in its 10 edition, the Global Innovation Index surveys 130 economies using dozens of metrics - from patent filings to education spending - for a high-level look at the innovative activity that ...

The 4 Types of Innovation and the Problems They Solve

One of the best innovation stories I’ve ever heard came to me from a senior executive at a leading tech firm. Apparently, his company had won a million-dollar contract to design a sensor that ...

Senators Coons and Cotton introduce STRONGER Patents Act of 2017 - IPWatchdog.com | Patents & Patent Law

The Innovation Alliance commends Senators Coons and Cotton for introducing the bipartisan STRONGER Patents Act of 2017. This comprehensive legislation is exactly what is needed to strengthen our ...

$35.6 billion invested globally in university spinouts between 2013-2016 | SSTI

Over the past four years, 1,668 deals involving university spinout companies from across the globe attracted approximately $35.6 billion from 2013 to 2016, according to a new report from Global ...

THE INTERNET OF THINGS 2017 REPORT: How the IoT is improving lives to transform the world - Business Insider

The Internet of Things (IoT) is disrupting businesses, governments, and consumers and transforming how they interact with the world. Companies are going to spend almost $5 trillion on the ...

The Brussels Times - Innovation in EU: Uneven progress among member states

The EU's innovation performance last year continued to grow despite somewhat uneven progress observed around Europe. This is one of the main findings of the latest Innovation Scoreboard published ...

Lesson #10: To build a strong business, use good boards – Keystone Edge

When I meet new founders and suggest that they form an advisory board, I’m often greeted with an eye-roll. One of the main reasons people establish their own companies is to have supreme ...

“How Western Civilization Could Collapse” - BenariLTD

The title above is also the title of an article by Rachel Nuwer in BBC Future, a fascinating examination of the causes of societal collapse using research on this issue from a wide collection of ...

The Heart of Innovation: 25 Awesome Quotes on Creativity

"The things we fear most in organizations -- fluctuations, disturbances, imbalances -- are the primary sources of creativity." - Alfred North Whitehead "The chief enemy of creativity is 'good ...

Transferring Technology Can Leverage Global Investments

Today’s global economies are based on the command of knowledge and information. Knowledge in this sense is created by basic and applied research. Incorporating emerging and advanced technologies ...

The 10 Best Airports in the World

Tired of missing flights or being treated like another piece of luggage whenever you have to fly for travel? AirHelp.com recently released their 2017 rankings of the best airports in the ...

The Human Brain Builds Structures in 11 Dimensions, Discover Scientists | Big Think

The brain continues to surprise us with its magnificent complexity. Groundbreaking research that combines neuroscience with math tells us that our brain creates neural structures with up to 11 ...

Economic Nationalism and the Future of Global R&D

For years, companies have been expanding their research and development (R&D) footprint beyond the boundaries of their home country. But recent political and economic events have raised questions ...

Google’s Next Search Is for Housing

Google is a search company, an advertising company, and, lately, an autonomous vehicle company. It’s also…a real estate development company? Google said last week that it would acquire some 300 ...

New Report: Licensing of Academic Patents Has Contributed up to $1.3 Trillion to US Economy | Business Wire

SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The licensing of university research has made a significant contribution to US gross domestic product (GDP), industry gross output, and jobs over the last two decades, ...

The Economic Contribution of University/Nonprofit Inventions in the United States: 1996-2015

Using an input-output “I-O” approach to estimating the economic impact of academic licensing and summing that impact over 20 years of available data for academic U.S. Association of University ...

Where America's High Tech Cities Are (and Will Be) - CityLab

High-tech talent is a key driver of the wealth and competitiveness of cities. But it’s highly concentrated in places across the United States and the world, following a winner-take-all pattern and ...

Society for Human Resource Management: These are the fastest-growing perks among employers in 2017 - Washington Business Journal

Employers may be pulling back on some benefits in recent years — as in cutting cost sharing for pricey health care benefits— but at least a third of companies in a recent survey say they've ...