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Over the past week, the official TED Blog has provided great coverage of the goings-on at TED 2007 in California, which this year has the tagline of "Icons. Geniuses. Mavericks." […]
Apple has a long track record of introducing innovative new products, such as the iPod and the iPhone, to popular and critical acclaim. In a witty satire piece, The Onion […]
In order to accelerate and improve the process of reviewing patents, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office is experimenting with wikis. As the Washington Post explains, it's all part of […]
On May 20, The New York Times Magazine is sponsoring the 2nd annual "Sunday with the Magazine" event, which will feature conversations with leading innovators and thinkers in fields such […]
Unfortunately, I wasn't able to catch the first episode of CNBC's The Business of Innovation TV series when it aired for the first time on Sunday night. However, it looks […]
As the Vice President of Technical Strategy and Innovation at IBM, Irving Wladawsky-Berger has emerged as one of the most important voices in the online innovation world. Which is why […]
I've heard a lot about these Acapulco cliff divers (clavadistas), and will finally get a chance to see them in action this week during a trip to Mexico. I'm willing […]
European innovation blogger Hannes Treichl has suggested a possible mascot for the Endless Innovation blog: the chameleon. What creature - if not the chameleon - best represents the fact that […]
n nWriting in the March 2007 issue of Harvard Business Review, business school professors Satish Nambisan and Mohanbir Sawhney describe how the Innovation Capitalist can help consumer product companies with […]
There's a tendency in certain circles to think of creativity and innovation as something that can be artificially created by introducing all kinds of cool-looking toys and doodads into the […]
I've been glued to CNBC for the past two nights, trying to make sense of that unexplained global sell-off in the world equity markets that started in China and ended […]
Within Scotland, economic development leaders are debating what to do about the country's "chronically low level of innovation" -- a situation made all the more distressing by the ability of […]
With much of the mainstream business media focusing on rapid, revolutionary change, it's always a treat to discover bloggers and consultants who adopt more of an evolutionary view of business […]
Patty Seybold of the Outside Innovation blog points to an interesting collection of posts from Warren Jones, who has assembled a list of 35 different business best practices for driving […]
Every now and then, the Wall Street Journal features results from The Patent Board, which has developed more than 50 indicators that track global patent activity relating to companies' innovation, […]
On Sunday night, CNBC aired the second part of its five-part Business of Innovation special: Revolution & Evolution. Episode Two of the series examines how some companies manage to innovate […]
n nToday is American pi day. Using the American convention of representing today's date as 03.14.07, it's easy to see why mathematicians are so excited about today's date, which very […]
n nJeff De Cagna, chief strategist and founder of Principled Innovation LLC, is hosting the first-ever Innovation Bloggers Virtual Forum on April 26. The event will consist of two separate […]
n n In a review of the new book Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days, Guy Kawasaki highlights a few of the stories and anecdotes he found most […]
In order for the Indian IT sector to make the next step in its economic development, it must embrace the broader world of business innovation. That's the thesis of a […]