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Newlogic's spin-out company, Newcare Medical, is working to receive a number of SBIR grants from the NIH.  One grant is to develop an ac...

When times get tough companies of all sizes and market positions seek ways to reduce expenses and conserve resources.  These cycles give ris...

With the economy improving, R&D organizations are coming back under the microscope to drive revenue growth. After an extended time of ...

The NIH is sponsoring an insightful conference on the future of telemedicine. Videocast is available here .

To flourish in this downturn, challenge the conventional wisdom that only cost-reducing wins. "Recessions provide fertile ground for l...

When times get tough companies of all sizes and market positions seek ways to reduce expenses and conserve resources. These cycles give ris...

Even in these tough times, surprising and extraordinary efforts are under way in businesses across the globe. From politics to technology, e...

The Guardian explains why NOW is the time for creative thinking and innovation. [Read more at the Guardian]

The BMW GINA Light Visionary Model is an design study that shows BMW designers' innovative design thinking. Featuring an outer skin ma...

e-HealthTech.org is a comprehensive resource for professionals developing new electronic health systems. Founded by a group of entrepreneu...

According to a new study published by the National Academies , a Washington organization that advises the U.S. government on science and tec...

A Massachusetts startup recently raised $6.5 million to build a global innovation outsourcing company based on the x-prize model. Innocenti...

Malcom Gladwell's (one of the WSJ's to 20 management gurus) essay on innovation featuring Nathan Myhrvold's Innovation Ventures,...

From the Wall Street Journal comes this year's crop of business gurus. The results, based on Google hits, media mentions and academic ...

According to Stall Points , research conducted by the Corporate Executive Board (see Harvard Business Review Magazine Article ), that show...

A problem in the way patent judges are appointed at least arguably invalidates every decision of the patent court, as decided by a panel tha...

The nation’s service industries suffered a slowdown in activity in April as inflation put a squeeze on businesses already pressured by falli...

Hidden within today's NYT article on the ongoing resuscitation of Kodak ( here ) is a lesson about how corporate structure can support i...

Wrigley's acquisition by Mars demonstrates, again, that simply spending more on R&D is not the answer when a company needs innovativ...

Thanks Bizarro!

Innovation: A creation whos express purpose; improving business performance, is dependent upon first-mover advantages - patentability is n...

Today, Marc is talking about Innovation on Demand in conjunction with Babson College to students from Bern University's executive MBA p...

Prediction markets, online virtual wagering communities are being utilized to analyze idea pipelines inside majore companies such as the Int...

One of the oldest barriers to innovation is “Not Invented Here,” a persistent bias of even the most creative people toward their own creatio...

Lou Reed may have made this remark specifically about the ubiquity of MP3 players and how their technological limitations reduce audio quali...

Another reason why I have zero respect for BusinessWeek when it comes to their 'reporting' of design and innovation. Splashed across...

Laura Lee writes in BusinessWeek about the role of design and innovation during the current economic downturn. "Design thinking is a us...

"Organizations do not innovate. People innovate. Inspired people. Fascinated people. Creative people. Committed people. That's wher...

Product Innovation Agenda 2010: Profiting From Innovation Today and Tomorrow This report by Aberdeen Group, a follow-up to their 2005 benchm...

Today's NYT Bright Ideas columnist Janet Rae- Dupree explores the paradox that as we gain knowledge our ability to innovate, create, ...

From the New York Times comes this article about the new relationship between academia and industry. The article highlights the relatively...

Ford is the world's second largest spender on R&D ( read ). At the same time, Ford's sales are dismal, falling an additional 18%...

At first blush, the iPhone from Apple, the new microprocessor family from Intel and the ubiquitous Google search engine have nothing in co...

From sartorial technology commentator, Fake Steve Jobs, comes a spot-on critique of the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) business. The post summ...

Another X-Prize has been announced , NASA held a competition to improve their spacesuits , DARPA is awarding prizes for self-guided vehicles...

Entrepreneurship and innovation are powerful forces that, when combined, can lead to the creation of great value. Last week, a Boston startu...

Product designers struggle all the time when trying to create optimal product experiences that drive sales and action. The biggest hurdle of...

Social scientists at the Southern Illinois University's Department of Psychology recently published the results of research into the lin...

From the NYT comes this thought provoking, extensential, article that hypothesizes our conscious existence is a computer simulation in the ...

Cambridge-based Y Combinator held it's demo day in Boston, unveiling 19 startup to VCs and investors. Although most of the presentatio...

Customer feedback is important information that is difficult to use properly. Proper use of customer input should focus on two areas: 1. An ...

Blogger Jeff Pulver has abandoned LinkedIn saying that "the more time I spent on Facebook, the less time I had for LinkedIn." He n...

It's a good time to be a start-up again, A lot of deals are getting looked at. There's an abundance of money. And there's a lot...

A few blogs have been referred to me recently. Unfortunately, I cannot recommend you spend your time at any of the following: Ideas 108 Ide...

For all the hoopla over the power and promise of user-generated innovation, consumer-directed design, and democratized innovation, the most ...

Our clients manufacture the majority of their products in China, or they had until recently. The growth of China's internal markets, in...

Not every business idea, invention, or startup is worth pursuing. In fact, it's often just as useful to know when to dump a good idea as...

It's a good bet that Denny Strigl has answered some tough questions about his decision-making recently. He's the COO at Verizon quot...

Fortune Small Business has an interview ( here ) with prolific hollywood inventor and patent holder George Margolin who is leading the Prof...

Congress is currently creating new legislation to reform our patent system. Unfortunately, but not unexpectedly, the proposed legislation w...

Tom Peters takes another look at the essence of innovation though the biography of the economist Joseph Schumpeter . ( Prophet of Innovati...

Once a year in Tokyo, Sony invites some lucky people to check out the super-secret stuff their Computer Science Laboratories (CSL) have been...

Finally, Business Week has taken a hard look at what really gone on at 3M since James McNerney took over as CEO in 2000. Over the last few ...

New York Times; Design That Solves Problems for World's Poor Business Week Online: The Healthy, High-Tech, Home

From the New York Times Opinion Section is an Op-Ed piece by Mark Helprin , a fellow at the Claremont Institute, and author of, among other...

I think too often we talk about innovation in the context of processes, incentive programs, and visionary individuals. What I think we ofte...

StarPack recently announced their 2007 packaging awards . Now in their 48th year, Starpack is the UK’s premier packaging industry awards p...

Dick Morley an Angel Invesotor consultant specializing in manufacturing & process controls, wrote this interesting article about the im...

From CNN Money.com is this article about successful US manufacturers. All the companies profiled have one thing in common; they are makin...

I have been a student of the business building strategies Jim Collins' introduced in his highly (understatement) influential book; Buil...

The U.S. Commerce Department is developing a series of innovation measurements it might use to drive public economic and innovation policy. ...

I'm reading Dan Pink's latest business book; A Whole New Mind . Just as information workers surpassed physical laborers in economic ...

As the creative/innovation economy develops we're learning to differentiate, value, and rank creative people. The Eskimos have a hundre...

Angel funding is on the rise; investing $25.6 billion in 2006, (a 10.8% increase over 2005), according to a report released by the Universit...

Business Week has a fluff piece on the 100 Greatest Innovation of All Time . It is maybe the most ridiculous Business Week Innovation artic...

Donald A. Norman , author of The Design of Everyday Things, has just published the tentative table of contents and two chapters of his new ...

Too many managers are focused on making projects 'on time and on budget'(OTOB). These purely internal goals have no relationship to ...

The dynamics that make an object (car, cell-phone, iPod) the must-have, real thing, are comlex. It's more than functionality, popularit...

Your client has a message to communicate: an argument, a sales pitch, a call to action. Your job is to give it form. You're an expert at...

Frogdesign has posted the video from last night's Design Mind event, where Valerie Casey led an excellent discussion with Eric Ryan, th...

For the first time an on-line game will have a 'virtual' bank tied to the 'real' world. Entropia Universe, will soon let pla...

The Segway was supposed to revolutionize how we all get around. Some thought it would become the urban transporter of choice. But the compa...

In Core77 comes this insightful article by Kevin McCullagh about designer's growing disastisfactgion with the indsutry of design: This...

The first buzzword of 2007 is here. Market researchers believe that 2007 will find consumers seeking out a new trend, which Robbie Blinkoff ...

Sadagopan's Weblog on emerging technologies, trends and thoughts has named innovation as the Dominant Mantra for 2007 . Citing Peter Dr...

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A number of fast-food restaurants are now experimenting with self-service kiosk to replace human interaction. I suppose this is the right d...

NASA announced a comprehensive plan for returning, and staying on the moon. It is a sweeping departure from the Apollo moon missions of the...

From Faultline , the weekly newsletter of Rethink Research , a London-based publishing and consulting firm, and reprinted in The Register , ...

Time Magainze just published their list of 2006's Best Inventions along with their 2006 Tech Buyers Guide , and Gadget of the Year po...

I recently discovered Phil McKinney's Killer Innovations Podcast , which is also the home of his biweekly podcast of the same name. The ...

Hasn't this been beaten enough already? Again, BusinessWeek asks " Does Big R&D Mean Big Returns? ". Their conclusion: Wh...

The Experientia Blog highlights an article from Henry Jenkins , the director of the MIT Comparative Media Studies Program and author of sev...

I was going through the day's pile of catalogs last night when I was surprised by the level of innovation found in Herrington's pag...

According to Rosabeth Ross Kantor, author of the article Innovation, the Classic Traps in the latest issue of Harvard Business Review, man...

You know that a concept is overblown when you start seeing businesses like Inventionland. It's a business based on the idea that if you...

GM plans to introduce a remote-control key fob with two-way communications next April that will allow drivers to not to lock/unlock the car...

Article from Fortune Small Business about how Builtny protects their intellectual properties. "Without the U.S. Patent and Trademark...

I'm a fan of Art Lebedev Studio. I think they have consistently generated some great virtual designs. Their work always appears to be of...

Popular Science has publicized their Best of What's New 2006 . We're not featured, yet!, but it's reference reading around here...

Huh? An article obviously written by an stockbroker in order to justify cutbacks, right? Maybe not. There's been a few articles about ...