Top Articles of 2012 - Innovation America

What Sony played at its annual shareholder meeting in 2009

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 ...

SBA AND TREASURY SMALL BUSINESS FINANCING FORUM RECOMMENDATIONS

OBAMA ADMINISTRATION INNOVATIVE SMALL BUSINESS JOB STIMULUS FINANCING PLAN AND PROGRAM RECOMMENDATIONS As Submitted by Richard A. Bendis, President, Innovation America and Vice Chair NASVF ...

Who Put the ‘No’ in Your Innovation?

By Dr. Janice Presser, CEO, The Gabriel Institute You dreamt up something completely new. It is so cool that people don’t even know they need it yet. But, like their iPad, once they try it, ...

How Geniuses Think Differently - Business Insider

Creativity expert Michael Michalko recently wrote an excellent article, "How Geniuses Think" that explains what separates geniuses from the rest of the world. Michalko points out that geniuses ...

University of Oklahoma and Oklahoma State University join with Cowboy Technologies, LLC, and i2E, Inc. to Create Oklahoma Proof of Concept Center

New center will increase number of technologies spun out of universities and into marketplace A collaboration between the University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma State University, Cowboy Technologies, ...

Healthbox Launches Business Accelerator Program in Boston and Cambridge | FinSMEs

Healthbox, a Chicago, IL-based company that supports innovation and entrepreneurship in healthcare, is launching a business accelerator program in the Boston/Cambridge area. Up to ten New ...

The top 100 accelerator programs in the WORLD and their locations | How to Write a Business Plan

This is a great infographic from the guys at Startup Weekend, illustrating the locations of the leading accelerator and incubator programs from around the world in ...

10 quick tips to wrangle your email effectively | VentureBeat

Email has become unmanageable. For all of us. You hear it everywhere — people talking about their snowed in inboxes, the constant distraction, their deteriorating social lives. It’s all emails ...

Where Americans Are Moving | Newgeography.com

The red states may have lost the presidential election, but they are winning new residents, largely at the expense of their politically successful blue counterparts. For all the talk of how the ...

New AHRQ guide identifies successful design methods for development of consumer health IT

A new guide funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) “Designing Consumer Health IT: A Guide for Developers and Systems Designers” presents suggested recommendations for ...

6 Time-Management Tips From Accelerator Programs | Fast Company

For startup accelerator programs, teaching wannabe entrepreneurs time management skills is critical. These camp-like incubators have one of the steepest learning curves of any professional ...

Should patent and commercialization activities by faculty count toward tenure and promotion? | Science Codex

Increasingly, institutions of higher learning are including faculty member patents and commercialization activities in their calculus for offering tenure and promotion. However, a report published ...

These Are the Cities That Can Show Us How to Create Jobs - Jobs & Economy - The Atlantic Cities

As a newly re-elected President Obama reminded Americans early Wednesday morning, creating jobs and getting the economy back on track are the nation's top priorities. To better understand what ...

Can crowdfunding save ‘indie’ in India? | Firstpost

Despite the obviously ‘cool’ images ‘indie’ conjures up – of the black and white, rebellious, unfiltered cigarette-and-guitar kind – it isn’t easy being an indie-anything in the land ...

Crowdfunding Will Produce 1.5 Million New Jobs in 5 Years

Crowdfunding if it passes the Seante tomorrow, will be the catalyst for needed innovation and jobs growth in this country. Small business represents 65% of our Country's Gross Domestic ...

U.S. Entrepreneurship Rates Reverse Trend, Reach New Heights

Entrepreneurial activity in the U.S. is up 60+ percent and at highest level since 2005, according to the 2011 Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) U.S. Report Entrepreneurship in the United ...

New University of Maryland Center for Translational Medicine Aims to Improve Ways Medical Products are Developed

The University of Maryland School of Pharmacy has launched a Center for Translational Medicine (CTM) under the leadership of Joga Gobburu, PhD, FCD, MBA, to help improve medical product development ...

New Report Challenges Boston To Reinvent The ‘Innovation Economy’ | WBUR

According to the 2012 Boston Indicators Report, the state’s innovation economy needs to be reinvented. The report is published every two years and brings together information from public ...

10 Top Business Models for New Ventures Today

One of the toughest decisions for a startup is how to price their product or service. The alternatives range from giving it away for free (like Twitter), to pricing based on costs, to charging what ...

NIH Offers Commercialization Assistance Program to SBIR and STTR Phase II Awardees; Applications Due November 7, 2012

The purpose of this Notice is to announce the availability of a Commercialization Assistance Program (CAP) for NIH SBIR and STTR Phase II awardees. Now in its ninth year, this program is designed ...

How to make science the engine of growth

R&D may be the engine of growth and innovation, but it is also an expensive enterprise. In this time of austerity, policy makers and funders need to consider how to increase R&D ...

Cambridge technology cluster thriving thanks to university dynamism | Business Weekly | Technology | Biotechnology | Business news | Cambridge and the East of England

It was once considered sage to observe that ‘All Roads lead to Rome’ – indicating that all paths or activities lead to the centre of things regardless of the startpoint. In the case of ...

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