We are creating a directory of innovation spaces and facilities located throughout the world. ------------------------ CAN YOU PLEASE PROVIDE THE NAMES OF PEOPLE, COMPANIES, AND ORGANIZATIONS WHO CURRENTLY OR USED TO HAVE A FACILITY DEDICATED TO FOSTERING MORE INNOVATION OR CREATIVITY? ------------------------ I will share the final list with this group and publish it on my blog.

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Gerald SOLUTIONMAN Haman Founder, Thinkubator Innovation Spaces & Experiences This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Chicago Phone: 1-312-829-2852

Before you ever see a package dropped onto your doorstep from the sky, drones are going to force us to wrestle with some thorny questions about privacy.

New rules from the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration for the commercial use of unmanned aircraft lighter than 55 pounds have opened the door to what could be a massive industry. It’s much bigger than delivery drones, which are not yet practical or legal in the U.S. First we’ll see more drones doing things like surveying real estate and inspecting infrastructure such as roofs, high bridges, cell towers, power lines, and wind turbines.

With the visionary language of large federal initiatives like the “Cancer Moonshot” or provocative branding such as “NIH…Turning Discovery into Health®” and the National Institute of Health website further touting “revolutionary ideas often come from unexpected directions,” one might assume an equally ambitious approach is being taken to ensure federal life sciences research is going toward research with the most promise for positive impact and scientific advancement.  One of the calls of Vice President Joe Biden’s recent Cancer Moonshot report was urging not to accept a “business as usual” approach. A recent report underscores why that may be a problem at the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

Late last week Obama administration officials used NBC News to send Moscow a cryptic threat: The U.S. government is “contemplating an unprecedented cyber covert action” against Russia for allegedly interfering in the upcoming U.S. elections. Anonymous sources cited in the NBC story offered no details about what the U.S. might d, but said the White House has asked the CIA to cook up a “clandestine” cyber strategy “designed to harass and embarrass” Russian leadership, including Pres. Vladimir Putin.

LONDON, Oct. 24, 2016 -- By 2020, companies will have shifted the majority of their R&D spending away from product-based offerings to software and service offerings, according to the 2016 Global Innovation 1000 Study from Strategy&, PwC’s strategy consulting business. The need to stay competitive is the top reason why companies cited a shift in their R&D budgets towards software and services, and for good reason – according to the study, companies who reported faster revenue growth relative to key competitors allocated 25 percent more of their R&D budgets to software offerings than companies who reported slower revenue growth.

The Executive Vice President / Chief Operating Officer (EVP/COO) in this established nonprofit enterprise focuses on core functions that enable it to achieve its mission of innovation. This position focuses primarily on strategy, program implementation, fundraising and corporate operations. Average Kentucky Science and Technology Corporation (KSTC) annual revenues are $18 million.     

To apply, please email your resume and cover letter with salary requirements to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. Applications are due by November 30, 2016. Screening begins immediately.

Toward the end of her interview process with NerdWallet, Flo Thinh politely accepted a dinner invitation from its CEO, Tim Chen. But instead of getting Korean food with him, Chen said another person, Dan Yoo, would be joining her. The three-hour feast of Thinh’s favorite food was as top-notch as the company. Yoo asked about her career and interests, all the while promoting NerdWallet. At one point, Thinh was sold and said she could see herself working at NerdWallet and with Yoo, to which he replied: “Oh, yeah, but I haven’t signed yet.”

We're pleased to present the latest "Innovate" report for the University of Utah. Read it to meet amazing faculty and students and learn about their projects that are changing the lives of people in Utah and beyond. Get inspired, and then we invite you to get involved. The report is provided by the Internal Commercialization Coordination Council to celebrate and promote the University of Utah’s innovation ecosystem.

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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today in the Oval Office, Vice President Joe Biden delivered the Cancer Moonshot report to the President and the American public. The report summarizes the work of the Cancer Moonshot Task Force since its creation in January, and lays out the Vice President’s strategic plan for transforming cancer research and care. The report also includes the Cancer Moonshot Blue Ribbon Panel’s identified areas of scientific opportunity.

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As a Marine, I trained and served in some of the hottest and crappiest places in the world. I was with 3rd Battalion 6th Marines, and deployed for the Battle of Marjah in Helmand, Afghanistan. During the six years I was in the Marine Corps, I learned a lot of lessons that have served me well in many aspects of civilian life; but they have served me best in my endeavor to be a successful entrepreneur. It may not seem like a straight line from serving in the military to building a business, but I’ve found that I often use lessons I learned in my military service (except for digging chest-deep “fighting holes” in the woods, I’ve never used that particular one).

There are two macro trends occuring within venture capital (VC) which are combining to have a transformative impact. As has been noted repeatedly over the past several years, the VC landscape has morphed into a barbell structure, with lots of small funds on one end and a handful of large, megafunds on the other, with few moderate-sized funds in between.

The coupling of manufacturing and culture shows how far we can advance along the road towards an entrepreneurial society.

Do manufacturing and culture live in two separate and irreconcilable worlds—manufacturing in the world of things and culture in the world of ideas? Is manufacturing called upon to solve production problems, with culture pronouncing on ‘chief systems’ as in Galileo’s ‘Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems’? This is a shared vision of those who identify manufacturing with making and culture with thinking: the manual labour of artisans and technicians as opposed to the intellectual work of professors and scientists. As a result, this fault line fails to recognize that the factory is a culture that can and should go hand in hand with academia and research centres: you will otherwise have two half-cultures that do not make a single, whole culture.

Every leader will end 2016 with a story to tell. The leaders I speak to are working their butts off to make their stories end happily: they want stories about exceeding their goals with as many people as possible energized and positive.

Many leaders won't have this story to tell. Many will end the year with mediocre or worse tales. Tales with morals that include “our team didn't get it together” or “our company doesn't care about us” or “we never had a chance.” Why? Most leaders don't address one area of leadership that ensures a happy ending.

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA--(Marketwired - November 11, 2016) - Fenwick & West LLP, one of the nation's premier law firms providing comprehensive legal services to high technology and life sciences clients, today announced the results of its Third Quarter 2016 Silicon Valley Venture Capital Survey.

The survey analyzed the valuations and terms of venture financings for 149 companies headquartered in the Silicon Valley that raised capital in the third quarter of 2016.

This election has been hard on our country. I have had numerous conversations with people who struggle to call home and speak with family or friends because the divisions are too raw. These are people who now live in Los Angeles, San Francisco or New York City but grew up in Cincinnati, Central Florida, Utah, Michigan and similar places where their parents, families or friends may have different political views.

Many friends and colleagues have reached out privately either to grieve or offer kinds words of support. I guess that must mean that my public emoting was obvious and while many prefer private ways of dealing with the world around them I have always found solace in being part of a public, real-time community.

The day following the election of Donald J. Trump as President, a survey of leaders in biotechnology in the United States, conducted by GENETIC ENGINEERING & BIOTECHNOLOGY NEWS (GEN), showed that Trump’s presidency will negatively impact NIH research funding as well as STEM education;  a plurality said it will also spark a “brain drain” as foreign-born researchers educated in American universities will be more likely to leave.

Imagine. You lead a large basic-resources business. For the past decade, the global commodities supercycle has fueled volume growth and higher prices, shaping your company’s processes and culture and defining its outlook. Most of the top team cannot remember a time when the business priorities were different. Then one day it dawns on you that the party is over.

The National Science Foundation (NSF) estimates that U.S. research and development (R&D) funding reached an all-time high of $499.3 billion in 2015 – an increase of approximately $21.6 billion over 2014 levels ($477.7 billion). The $21.6 billion increase marks the third time in three years that overall U.S. R&D funding grew by more than $20 billion – $20.4 billion in 2013 and $21.1 billion in 2014.

RICH BELLIS 11.11.16 5:00 AM In the waning hours of Tuesday night with votes still tallying up, Canada’s immigration website crashed, presumably as U.S. users scrambled to figure out how to move across the border.

At many points in the long, ugly campaign that finally culminated in Donald Trump’s election to the U.S. presidency this week, many Americans vowed they’d move abroad if their candidate lost. There was always something unpatriotic about that sentiment: Democracy doesn’t just work best when there’s a loyal opposition, its very existence depends on it.

Individuals often struggle to know where they need to grow in order to move up to the next level. One of the best strategies for aspiring leaders to rise through the ranks in organizations is to create a personal board of directors. The board is a group of six to eight people you select to help with your professional development — individuals who can help you uncover your blind spots, provide specific feedback by seeing you in action, and, in some situations, advocate for you. They can help you navigate tumultuous political waters, provide you with insight on a regular basis that can inform the ways you work and think, and even change the minds of your toughest critics.