Said by Humphrey Bogart just before dying from cancer of the esophagus in 1957. Perhaps best known for his performance in “Casablanca,” Bogart was a heavy smoker much of his life. He won his only Oscar for his role in the 1951 film “The African Queen.”

Superflex, a “powered” clothing startup that was spun out of SRI International, the well-known robotics nonprofit, announced earlier this week that it has raised $9.6 million in a Series A round of funding.

The Menlo Park, California-based company is developing a lightweight, connected apparel that can be worn underneath regular clothing. It’s called “powered” because integrated electric circuits throughout the apparel act as muscles providing strength and mobility to the body’s actual muscles and joints.

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Dickinson Data is back at it. On Thursday it released a new infographic (below) showing which drug patents are set to expire in 2017.

It follows the template of its popular 2016 infographic, which highlighted several major biopharma threats and trends. Times were tough for AstraZeneca, which had $7.4 billion in sales under threat as Crestor and Seroquel XR lose patent exclusivity.

About 2,300 holiday seasons ago, the Greek philosopher Epicurus wrote a letter to his friend Menoeceus in which he noted: “a wise person does not simply choose the largest amount of food but the most pleasing food.”

As we find ourselves in another season of joyous excesses, we may wonder why we don’t heed this advice.

Jason, a general manager at a Fortune 100 company, worked hard. His businesses were thriving and his team liked working for him. Given his successes over the past year, Jason was hopeful that he’d soon be promoted to vice president. His company usually announced VP promotions in September and February. But in September, Jason wasn’t promoted; another GM was.

“Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason so few engage in it,” said Henry Ford. The best leaders know that free time for thinking is vital. They also know that productive and creative thinking arises from an empty mind…

It’s that time of year when we are all bombarded with advice for the year ahead. Advice about resolutions and plans you should make and goals you should set to ensure that 2017 is the best year you’ve ever had. It’s a lot of heavy lifting for your mind to deal with.

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Gallup and its partners conducted many studies in 2016 about key topics in K-12 and higher education. The findings from these surveys have helped leaders better understand educational outcomes and how to improve the student experience. The following list features Gallup editors' picks of some of the most important education research in 2016.

LAS VEGAS — The classic Polaroid camera just got revamped for the modern day. 

While Polaroid has previously launched instant print cameras mixed with digital such as with the Polaroid Snap, its newest project, Polaroid Pop, mashes digital and analog in a way that actually makes sense.

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For the past 20 or 30 years, innovation, especially in the digital space, has been fairly straightforward. We could rely on technology to improve at a foreseeable pace and that allowed us to predict, with a high degree of certainty, what would be possible in the years to come. That led most innovation efforts to be focused on applications, with a heavy emphasis on the end user. Startups that were able to design an experience, test it, adapt and iterate quickly could outperform big firms that had far more resources and technological sophistication. Agility was often the defining competitive attribute.

The gear that shined at the year's biggest tech show

Wallpaper-thin TVs, drones that can dive underwater, and a computer the size of a credit card. Those are only a few of the gadgets that have been unveiled this week at the annual CES gadget expo in Las Vegas, where companies in the tech, automotive, and home appliance industries flaunt their latest innovations.

LAS VEGAS — CES is more than just a showcase of what the latest technology has to offer — it's a cage match of competing tech trends. The gadgets and technologies we'll be using tomorrow battle it out for our money and attention, and when the dust clears some inevitably come out on top.

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Amid national and global changes in the Life Sciences sector, the Greater Philadelphia Region (GPR) is primed to be a national leader in the development of the Life Science breakthroughs leading to the next generation of health care solutions. 

From groundbreaking research that illuminates new biological mechanisms to advanced technologies that are solving global health issues, the GPR’s unique concentration of diverse resources positions the region to emerge as leader in life science innovation. Born from the region’s world renowned academic research institutions, top biomedical programs, and the presence of both small and large enterprises, these innovations can improve human well-being while providing significant economic returns.

It is a truism in the venture finance industry that valuing early-stage companies is more of an art than a science, especially when it comes to those at the very beginning of their journey. But, of course, for all the difficulty it involves, company valuation forms a crucial part of any startup’s or scale-up’s life, from the perspective of both the entrepreneur and the investor.

Here’s a simple question we’d like you to answer before you read further: Which of the nine maps below best describes what you think of as the heartland?

To help you get started: Do big cities belong in the heartland? (If not, choose a map with “holes” in it.) Does the heartland rigidly follow state lines? Does it venture south into Texas, or east into Pennsylvania? Choose one of the maps below.

WHEN the EPCOT Centre opened in 1982 it could not have been farther removed from Walt Disney’s original vision. Disney had wanted to build an “experimental prototype community of tomorrow”, or EPCOT, a Utopian town of 20,000 where a towering city centre would be covered by a dome, where there would be full employment and where new ideas and technologies were always being tested. When Disney died in 1966 that dream died with him. His successors turned EPCOT into a theme park that resembled a permanent world’s fair. Half of it was given over to visions of the future sponsored by corporations. The other half was a “world showcase” containing national pavilions with reproduction architecture—a faux-English pub in Britain, a miniature Piazza San Marco in Italy.

New data indicate that federal budget authority for research and development and R&D plant together totaled an estimated $149.0 billion (current dollars, preliminary data) in FY 2016, an increase of $10.5 billion (7.5%) over the FY 2015 level (table 1). This follows a $2.4 billion increase (1.8%) in FY 2015 and a $3.7 billion increase (2.8%) in FY 2014. Data are from the National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics, National Science Foundation. (All amounts and calculations are in current dollars, unless otherwise noted.)

While much of the first day of CES 2017 was focused on tech that will improve the ways we all see the world, day two gave us a better look into some of the new innovations and gadgets that will soon fill it going forward.

After taking many of the announcements from day two into account, we have one reaction: WTF?

Now that the holidays are over and the new year is in full swing, it’s time to head back to the lab to formulate fresh, smart, and effective ideas that will grow your organization.

Whatever the size of your firm, whether you’re B2B or B2C, and regardless of the industry in which you operate, here are four must do’s that you need to launch if you’re aiming to increase profits and market share over the next 365 days:

The university with a lasting historical and cultural heritage is fertile ground to plant the tree of knowledge whose different branches may interweave, mix, and grow in all directions. This is the case of the University of Maynooth. Founded in 1997, the University is both the youngest and one of the oldest institutions of higher education in Ireland, tracing its origins to the foundation of the Royal College of St. Patrick in 1795. It was there that Father Nicholas Joseph Callan (1799-1864), professor of natural philosophy, demonstrated the transmission and reception of electrical energy without wires with a device that is now known as electrical transformer. Professor Callan is best known for his work on the induction coil and for having built the world's largest battery: his work contributed to the fertility of innovative entrepreneurship during the Industrial Revolution. Discoveries, inventions and innovations have flourished in hybrid contexts such as the College of St. Patrick where an invisible thread tied together theology, philosophy, art and science – a legacy that the University di Maynooth has renewed, enriching it with new contents.

SAN FRANCISCO — For months, technology companies have pursued Amy Chang.

The calls are relentless, with several feelers a month, said Ms. Chang, the chief executive of Accompany, a Silicon Valley start-up. Even when she declines the overtures, the tech companies and their agents keep coming back, asking the same question: Will you please join our board?

“I turned down 15 to 20 first meetings” about joining a company board this year, said Ms. Chang, 39, who was an executive at Google for seven years before founding Accompany, which makes an executive-briefing app. “This whole thing is so crazy.”

Image: Amy Chang, the chief executive of Accompany, a Silicon Valley start-up, in Los Altos, Calif. Technology companies pursued her for months before she accepted an invitation to join the board of Cisco Systems. Credit Jason Henry for The New York Times - http://www.nytimes.com