Top Articles of 2010 - Innovation America

What Sony played at its annual shareholder meeting this year

Innovation America's tagline is "The Daily Pulse of Global Innovation". See the impact that Global trends and Innovation are having around the world by watching this short, thought ...

NINE NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS SUPPORTING SMALL BUSINESS AND INNOVATION JOIN TOGETHER ON CONCERNS ABOUT SENATE FINANCIAL REFORM BILL

As national organizations that support the start-up and growth of innovative small businesses, we want to express the importance of ensuring that the Restoring American Financial Stability Act of ...

Collateral Damage from a Bad Hire

By Dr. Janice Presser, CEO, The Gabriel InstituteAsk any entrepreneur what it costs to make a hiring mistake and you'll likely be met with a groan and a 'double eye roll'. Everyone knows the ...

The 2010 TIME 100: The World's Most Influential People

In our annual TIME 100 issue we name the people who most affect our world ...

Reinventing the Business Plan, Funding Roadmap Sets a New Industry Standard in the Clouds.

"I've seen thousands of information technology innovations," said Richard Caruso, "and as an Ernst and Young 'Entrepreneur of the Year,' an annual competition judge, creative ...

The Power of Why

Simon Sinek’s TED Talk from TedxPuget Sound (Sept 2009) has been posted and is just awesome. He starts out with the question “Why is Apple so innovative,“ Why is it that Martin Luther King led ...

ASME and Clemson University Launch 1st AutoVenture Forum

A consortium of automotive officials, the Office of Breakthrough Innovation of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) and Clemson University’s International Center for Automotive ...

The World Entrepreneurship Forum Grows Internationally and Shares its Recommendations

LYON, France, March 30, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- Founded by EMLYON School Business and KPMG S.A., the World Entrepreneurship Forum is the first global Think-tank dedicated to entrepreneurs, creators of ...

When Bad Things Happen to Good Innovators

Dr. Janice Presser, CEO, The Gabriel InstituteSound familiar? Your startup seemed to have essential Angel funding ‘in the bag,’ but for some reason the money never arrives.A strategic alliance ...

The World's Most Innovative Companies 2010

Even in these tough times, surprising and extraordinary efforts are under way in businesses across the globe. From politics to technology, energy, and transportation; from marketing to retail, health ...

The Fundamentals of Innovation

How IBM, Hallmark, and Apple get innovation right—but not for the reasons you might think As the economic environment stabilizes, there's a temptation to return to business as usual. And ...

Angel investment tax credit in Minnesota: The Burden of Proof

ST. PAUL, Minnesota– In a packed State Building Office hearing room Tuesday, witness after witness rose to speak in support of H.F. 2750, a bill that would grant $32 million in tax credits over ...

Catching Up: The Role of State Science and Technology Policy in Open Innovation

This article examines the impact of the emerging model of open innovation on state public policy, particularly the practice of technology-based economic development in weak research and development ...

Filling the Kansas Entrepreneurial PIPELINE: Entrepreneurs discuss Fellowships

In its third year, the Kansas Pipeline Entrepreneurial Fellowship Program continued its mission to provide some of the state’s most promising startups with the right foundation for further ...

China's development benefited the surrounding countries

BEIJING, May 13 -- China is an Asian country with many neighboring countries. There are 14 countries border China, plus countries that face China across the sea, China has more than 20 surrounding ...

Doblin’s Ten Types of Innovation

I spent four days in Aspen last November at the Aspen Design Summit where I worked with Tim Brown, the CEO of IDEO, and Henry King, the Global Account Manager at Doblin amongst a few others ...

2010 Rural Small Business Trends

If you live in Luling, Texas, (population 5080) you don’t need another list of the top trends for big city dwellers. You want to know what’s happening in the small towns. It’s different. ...

Why Interviews Suck

Special to Innovation America by Dr. Janice Presser, CEO, The Gabriel InstituteNotice that I am making a statement, not asking a question. There is no question about it. Interviews ...

RSA Animate - Drive: Dan Pink and The surprising truth about what motivates us

RSA Animate - Drive: The surprising truth about what motivates ...

Innovation Perspectives – Decide to be Different

Every firm has the capacity to innovate, so what’s often lacking has to do with strategy and vision. To be an “innovative” company means being willing to be different – to upset the structure ...

10 Forums Every Young Entrepreneur Should Belong To

This is the ideal forum for any entrepreneur seeking information, help, ideas or feedback. Being an active member of the forum, I know first hand that they have one of the most helpful communities ...

Reverse Innovation a Popular Trend

Thanks to a number of spectacular successes obtained by blue-chip companies in recent years, Reverse Innovation is becoming a popular trend. Examples include GE's portable ultra-sound equipment ...

Harvard report on the geography of Entrepreneurial Innovation

A new report from Harvard asks "Why are some metropolitan areas so much more entrepreneurial than others? Silicon Valley seems almost magically entrepreneurial with a new startup on every street ...

New Tools for Assessing Regional Competitiveness

So much about the practice of economic development is information-driven and the Internet has facilitated the creation of several web-based tools that make data on regional competitiveness more ...

Top 25 Entrepreneural Colleges: Undergraduate Colleges

#1 Babson College, Arthur M. Blank Center for Entrepreneurship, Babson Park, MA#2 University of Houston, Wolff Center for Entrepreneurship, Houston, TX#3 University of Arizona, McGuire ...

50 Most Important African-Americans in Technology

He was breathless, but determined.This Navy veteran had worked an eight-hour shift until Saturday morning and then driven three hours from the Central Valley to participate in Catapult Innovation and ...

How to Build Competitive Innovation-Based Cluster Strategies(Bendis presentation in Heidelberg , Germany - Sept 30, 2010)

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