Tuesday, August 11, 2009

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Innovation: Why don't users mind when Twitter breaks?

New Scientist
Innovation is our regular column that highlights emerging technological ideas and where they may lead. Millions of conversations around the world were ...
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How Whirlpool puts new ideas through the wringer

KIVI-TV
1 in innovation as well. Whitwam's pronouncement kicked off a flurry of ideas. Not all of them were sensible. "There were some wacky ones -- bicycles, ...
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White House tells agencies, think 'open innovation'

Computerworld
By Patrick Thibodeau Computerworld - The White House is telling its agencies to pursue an "open innovation"-approach to government, be visionary in their ...
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Gov 2.0: The Promise Of Innovation

Forbes
Citizens are empowered to spark the innovation that will result in an improved approach to governance. This is a radical departure from the old model of ...
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White House tells agencies, think 'open innovation'

Computerworld
The White House is telling its agencies, which are set to prepare budgets, to pursue an "open innovation"-approach to government, be visionary in their ...
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Monday, August 10, 2009

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Branded Research taps into innovation

Pasadena Star-News
By Kevin Smith, Staff Writer Rhett mcnulty co-founded Branded Research, an interactive marketing agency that develops applications for mobile devices. ...
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Meyers: Innovation lures great reputation

Denver Post
By Charlie Meyers David Maynard, left, and Patrick Sebile celebrate yet another award for their fast-rising firm. ( Special to The Denver Post ) The ...
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Innovation in your career development

Examiner.com
What does innovation mean to you as you seek a new career? Searching for a job in new way? Do you have to be really intelligent or creative to be innovative ...
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Guest commentary: Project Innovation moves from planning to action

Naples Daily News
By DOLPH VON ARX- Naples, Honorary chairman, Project Innovation Project Innovation endorser organizations include Florida Lt. Gov. Jeff Kottkamp; Ave Maria ...
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Sunday, August 9, 2009

Federal funds for Educational Technology and Innovation in K-12

Examiner.com
This August, the California Department of Education (CDE) has received a $71.6 million federal grant from the Enhancing Education Through Technology (EETT) ...
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Saturday, August 8, 2009

Websense Secure Web Gateway Awarded Product Innovation of the Year ...

Web 2.0 Journal
Websense received the North American Product Innovation of the Year Award for Web Content Management due to its innovative Web security products, ...
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Red Hat's JBoss road less traveled

CNET News
by Matt Asay Red Hat has announced its 2009 Innovation Awards, with some impressive finalists making the list. From Whole Foods to Harvard Business School ...
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Your Innovations Aren't Immortal

Bloomberg
But it is a crucial starting point for companies seeking to create competitive advantage through innovation. This is one of the key messages that ran ...
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Segway inventor Dean Kamen: Nationalized healthcare will kill ...

Reuters Blogs
Let's spend more on healthcare! An interesting chunk from a Popular Mechanics chat with Segway inventor Dean Kamen (via The Health Care Blog): We now live ...
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Premiers promote innovation to create Canadian jobs

Canada.com
"There's a great example of a national effort, at least a multi-provincial effort, on a major innovation opportunity for the country,andquot; Wall said. ...
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Panel Says NASA Should Reopen Innovation Institute

Science Magazine
'NIAC inspired an atmosphere for innovation that stretched the imagination and encouraged creativity,' the report released today concluded. ...
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HEARING SUMMARY: WASTE, FRAUD AND ABUSE IN THE SMALL BUSINESS ...

Trading Markets (press release)
... National Science Foundation "While the SBIR program is generally recognized as a successful program that has encouraged innovation and helped federal ...
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White House's top geek talks tech

San Jose Mercury News
Here is an edited version of the interview: A The president asked for input on how technology innovation can address a larger set of priorities. ...
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Crunch Time for Obama

FOXNews
In order to make this a reality, Mr. Obama needs a new blueprint based on the following pro-growth principles: Prioritizing US Innovation, ...
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Gov. Jindal Makes Appointments To Important Louisiana Innovation ...

Bayou Buzz
BATON ROUGE -- Today, Governor Bobby Jindal announced appointments to the Louisiana Innovation Council. This Council, in many respects can significantly ...
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Friday, August 7, 2009

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Obama: Innovation key to improving the economy

The Associated Press
WASHINGTON --- Future economic prosperity depends on building a new, stronger foundation and recapturing the "spirit of innovation," President Barack Obama ...
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Main Street Dyersburg approved for $15000 Innovation Grant

State Gazette
Phil Bredesen recently approved $330000 in Main Street Innovation Grants for 22 of Tennessee's Main Street Programs. Each participating community will ...
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Orion featured in new book designed to spur innovation

Herald Times Reporter
MANITOWOC --- A new book designed for "anyone seeking success through innovation" devotes a chapter to Orion Energy Systems Inc., detailing the company's ...
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Universities 'fail on standards'

BBC News
The report has also been challenged by Lord Mandelson, Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills. "I don't recognise the committee's ...
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Indian firms should invest in innovation, RandD

Livemint
Strategy for Indian companies is to invest in innovation and RandD (research and development) because that helps protect margins. ...
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Washington (Western in particular) as model for renewed American ...

Examiner.com
Admitted to the Union as the forty-second state in 1889, Washington state remains a beacon of innovation and academic excellence, an exemplary model for ...
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Obama: Country must recapture innovative spirit

Newsday
"Innovation has been essential to our prosperity in the past, and it will be essential to our prosperity in the future," Obama said Saturday in his weekly ...
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Obama Says GDP Numbers Show Recovery Act Working; Long-Term ...

Wall Street Journal Blogs
For communities like Elkhart to thrive, we need to recapture the spirit of innovation that has always moved America forward. That means once again having ...
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Obama: Stimulus Helped, But Rebuilding Economy Will Take ...

Washington Post
By Michael A. Fletcher President Obama cited new economic statistics showing that the recession is easing as evidence that the oft-criticized $787 billion ...
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Obama says innovation key to the future...GOP hits health care again

9and10 News
WASHINGTON (AP) --- President Barack Obama says a successful future is about innovation. In his weekly radio and Internet address, he cited fresh evidence the ...
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Obama: Investment, Innovation Will Lead to Prosperity

Voice of America
By VOA News US President Barack Obama says America's economy is improving, but future prosperity depends on long-term investment and innovation. ...
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BESU opens national innovation centre

Press Trust of India
Kolkata, Aug 1 (PTI) Collaborating with the industry, Bengal Engineering and Science University (BESU) has come up with a national level innovation centre ...
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Obama: Key to Future Is Innovation

LiveScience.com
That foundation would be built through innovation, the president said. "We need to recapture the spirit of innovation that has always moved America forward ...
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Graduates to get gap-year money

BBC News
The government is to pay for graduates struggling to get a job to go on trips abroad, The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills has confirmed. ...
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Want to Innovate but Avoid Risk? Offer a Prize.

Washington Post
But capitalism needs innovation, and innovation requires risk. So how can you innovate while getting someone else to shoulder the risk? ...
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Who doesn't like innovation?

Examiner.com
President Barack Obama, in this week's radio address:"Innovation has been essential to our prosperity in the past, and it will be essential to our ...
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UND Center for Innovation turns 25

Reiten Television KXMB Bismarck
AP GRAND FORKS, ND (AP) The University of North Dakota Center for Innovation is celebrating its 25th anniversary. The center is kicking off a year of events ...
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New PandG chief talks up value of research in innovation

Research Magazine
McDonald said that 'virtually all' the organic sales growth PandG has achieved in the past nine years has come from innovation, which was a key focus of ...
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Innovation: As With Moon Landings, So With Medicine

Town Hall
American innovation - combined with perseverance and courage - carried the Apollo moon program to success with the flight of Apollo 11 on July 19/20, 1969. ...
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Transverse Receives 2009 TMC Labs Innovation Award

Business Wire (press release)
'The TMC Labs Innovation Award granted to Transverse for blee(p)and#39;s CRM capabilities, is yet another example of how leveraging state-of-the-art technologies ...
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Federal CTO Chopra Meets Silicon Valley

InformationWeek
4 presentation sponsored by the Center for Democracy and Technology and TechNet, Chopra outlined the Obama Administration's plans to spur innovation, ...
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CTO: Time for govt innovation has arrived

ZDNet
US chief technology office Aneesh Chopra says he's working hard to enable the federal government to embrace innovation, user-friendliness and best practices ...
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The Price of Innovation

Atlantic Online
Dean Kamen has some lengthy thoughts on innovation that are well worth reading. As the article notes, besides the Segway and the world's first ...
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Red Hat Announces Finalists in Third Annual Innovation Awards

NewsBlaze
The awards are designed to recognize the outstanding use, innovation and extension of Red Hat and JBoss solutions by Red Hat customers, partners and the ...
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FCC under Genachowski: competition, consumers, innovation and ...

San Francisco Chronicle
In previous years, innovation had been discouraged, which is why people in the US have problems getting broadband, or getting good wireless phone service.
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Obama: Innovation 'more important than ever'

USA Today
"Innovation is more important than ever," Obama told a friendly crowd in Wakarusa, Ind., announcing $2.4 billion in new grants for the development of ...
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Nationwide Children's hopes new director will boost cancer innovation

MedCity News
Nationwide wants Peter J. Houghton to aggressively expand its commercialization efforts out of the institute. The hospital is designing new cancer therapies ...
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Chu touts innovation, announces grant

CharlotteObserver.com
... Chu today announced a $49 million federal grant to a Charlotte battery-component maker, a step toward what he called a new era of energy innovation. ...
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Tech's White House Wooing

Forbes
The group wants US leaders to recognize that innovation is the central driver of economic growth. This means boosting research and development, ...
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Anfang's Trades career marked by innovation, community service

Workday Minnesota
By Michael Moore ST. PAUL - When Dick Anfang became head of the St. Paul Building Trades two decades ago, one of his first moves was to make the ...
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New Nestl equals E9 prize for water, nutrition innovations

Water Technology Online
VEVEY , SWITZERLAND --- Nestl equals E9, the global food and beverage company, is establishing a new prize to encourage innovation in any of four areas: improving ...
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Innovation is The Way Out of Recession

KCBS
(KCBS) -- The nation's chief technology officer talked about innovation and the creation of more high tech jobs during a visit to Silicon Valley today. ...
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Thursday, August 6, 2009

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FCC: We'll be relentless for competition, consumers, innovation ...

ZDNet
Genachowski said the company will be relentlessly focused on competition, consumers, innovation and investment. And that focus means Genachowski will be ...
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Another Cowboys Stadium Innovation: The Stadium Nomad

NBC Dallas-Fort Worth
Hey, you! Yes you, Mr. Everyman! Wanna go to the Cowboys' luxe new stadium, but just don't think you can afford it? Well, I'm here to tell you that you are ...
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Customer Interaction Solutions and TMC Labs Announce 2009 ...

TMCnet
The TMC Labs Innovation Award distinguishes products that demonstrate innovation, uniqueness, and significant contributions toward improving communications ...
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Bring Different Innovation to Washington

Technosailor
He wanted to talk about innovation and technology startups in DC. For those who live around here, you know there's not a lot of them. ...
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Real Innovation for Verizon's TV Widgets Will Be in Your Hand(set)

NewTeeVee
Verizon announced today that it will be opening up its FiOS 'Widget Bazaar' to third-party developers as the company hopes to spur innovation around the way ...
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The King of Innovation Speaks

Inventors Digest
Oh yeah, he's also on a mission to rewire American culture and usher in a new era of innovation. By Mike Drummond Every generation or so, someone with ...
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The Innovation of Imitating Continues: Microsoft to open Retail Stores

The Nillabyte Perspective
As reported by CNET, Microsoft will be opening two retail stores; one in Scottsdale, AZ and another in Mission Viejo, CA. Both are expected to open later ...
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Innovation could save health care

Kansas City Star
By Doug Allen, Kansas City Star Midwest Voices columnist To save the health care industry from eventually collapsing, we need to offer consumers more ...
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Cash for Clunkers: Smothering Innovation?

EcoGeek
... what I'm trying to say is *facepalm*. Welcome to the government trying to spur innovation and, instead managing to stifle it extremely effectively.
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Hear: The Pros And Cons Of Financial Innovation

NPR
Second, regulation can overreach, in which case it stifles financial innovation. After newfangled financial products nearly brought down the global economy ...
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Main Street Innovation Grant funds kiosk in downtown UC for promotions

Weakley County Press
Union City Main Street has been awarded a $15000 Main Street Innovation Grant. The money has been used for the design, fabrication and installation of a ...
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Funding opportunities for small business innovation on horizon

Morris Daily Herald
Congresswoman Debbie Halvorson was pleased with the overwhelming bipartisan majority that supported small business innovation during the recent passage of ...
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Friday, July 31, 2009

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Davey: Better Commuter Rail through innovation, investment

MetroWest Daily News
Through innovation and investment, the Massachusetts Bay Commuter Railroad Company (MBCR) and the MBTA have restored performance to a superior level of ...
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Don't Stifle Innovation

Galen Institute
by Grace-Marie Turner The Washington Post is aligning itself with anti-innovation liberals in arguing that Congress should shorten the time frame in which ...
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Let The Markets Manage Search

Forbes
This is a young industry (recall that both Google and Yahoo! are only about 12 years old), and it is marked by incredible (and incredibly fast) innovation ...
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Oracle Recognizes Customers With First Annual Identity Management ...

Market Wire (press release)
Oracle's Identity Management Innovation Awards honor organizations for ground-breaking use of Oracle Identity Management solutions and were instituted to ...
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Talking Trains With IBM's Head Of Rail Innovation

The Infrastructurist
The media took notice last month when IBM announced it was opening a 'Global Rail Innovation Center' in Beijing. It was an intriguing and timely ...
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Think the Microsoft-Yahoo Deal Will Increase Competition Against ...

eWeek
In the short term, this deal will increase innovation and competition. But in the long term, it could end up doing the exact opposite. How can this be, ...
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Evaluating Obama's Pledge for Energy Innovation

New York Times
While the phrase R and D is familiar to most readers, the path from idea to innovation to established technology almost always involves two more D's --- with ...
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Innovation: Mexico City offering free health insurance to visitors

Newsweek
In a first-of-its-kind move, Mexico City will now automatically cover tourists with free health insurance for emergencies. If you're a tourist and you come ...
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Thursday, July 30, 2009

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It's Official: Microsoft and Yahoo Agree to 10-Year Partnership

PC World
For Web users and advertisers, this deal will accelerate the pace and breadth of innovation by combining both companies' complementary strengths and search ...
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Pair faces serious antitrust scrutiny

DailyTech
And I believe it establishes the foundation for a new era of Internet innovation and development. Users will continue to experience search as a vital part ...
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Idaho Innovation Council to meet Thursday in Boise

IdahoStatesman.com
The council is aimed toward advising the Idaho Department of Commerce, other state agencies and universities on ways to build upon the innovation industry ...
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Celebration of Innovation nominations due Friday

Bizjournals.com
Nominations for the Governor's Celebration of Innovation are due Friday for the awards that recognize the best in the state's technology sector. ...
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Ed. Dept. Gears Up for 'Innovation' Grants

Education Week News (subscription)
First, the department is working to widen eligibility for the innovation grants, because the criteria written into federal law would eliminate hundreds of ...
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Microsoft and Yahoo turn on the buzzword firehose

VentureBeat
Success in search requires both innovation and scale. With our new Bing search platform, we've created breakthrough innovation and features. ...
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Expert: Information security spending often restricts innovation

SearchSecurity.com
He urged security professionals to loosen restrictions that could hinder innovation at many companies. Merrill pointed out a recent study conducted by ...
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CONNECT Announces Five New Initiatives in Support of the San Diego ...

Market Wire (press release)
But the crisis in venture funding and collapse of the IPO market has put our innovation engine at risk. We are committed to ensuring that San Diego ...
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Wednesday, July 29, 2009

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NetCracker Focuses on Service Provider Innovation in New Podcast

Business Wire (press release)
(BUSINESS WIRE)--NetCracker Technology announced today the release of 'Innovation' --- the second podcast in its series 'Top 5 Steps Carriers Can Take to ...
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British Government To Civil Servants: Go Forth And Tweet

ChannelWeb
Neil Williams, head of corporate digital channels for Britain's Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS), published the 20-page "template" ...
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Biotech Bottleneck

Washington Post
Biologic drugs, medical therapeutics derived through biotechnology techniques, are an important and ever-expanding field of prescription drug innovation. ...
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Honoring Innovation

Computerworld
By Maryfran Johnson CIO - As team sports go, technology innovation may be the trickiest game of all to play. Nobody knows exactly how to keep score. ...
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Idaho governor remains hopeful about economy

Forbes
CL "Butch" Otter insists Idaho can muscle its way out of its worst economic environment in decades if businesses big and small focus on innovation and ...
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Brits give government Twitterers wings

Computerworld
Neil Williams, head of corporate digital channels at the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, posted a blog last week on the British Cabinet Web ...
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New York Giants Offense Will Need Innovation In 2009

Bleacher Report
by Matt Bertram (Scribe) It wasn't until I sat down and watched the replay of last year's Eagles vs. Giants divisional playoff game on NFL Network that I ...
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How CIOs Can Foster Innovation in IT

Computerworld
By deeply imbedding an emphasis on innovation into IT culture, even the meetings Skinner doesn't lead end focused on the future. And itand#39;s that ingrained, ...
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Finding Innovation`s Sweet Spot

CIO Insight
By Brian P. Watson In an arena where the status quo often dominates, innovation should be top of mind for any IT leader. Over the past few years, ...
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Twitter Tips From Downing Street

AdAge.com
The guide is written by Neil Williams, head of corporate digital channels at the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, who introduces it thusly: ...
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Tuesday, July 28, 2009

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The Continuing Pursuit of Innovation - Mariani Brings "Enhanced ...

PR Newswire (press release) - New York,NY,USA
Mark Mariani, CEO of Mariani added, "Our brand has always been at the forefront of innovation, and Enhanced Wellness continues to demonstrate our commitment ...
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Sun Microsystems Extends Leadership and Drives Innovation in ...

Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco,CA,USA
Most recently, Sun's Fedlet won the 'Best Innovation of 2009 Award' by Kuppinger Cole at the 2009 European Identity Conference. ...
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Innovation Taps Low Geothermal Heat

Reuters - USA
By Environmental News Network - Environmental News Network By Roger Greenway The goal is to enable power generation from low-temperature geothermal ...
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How to Get IT and the Business Working Together

Bloomberg - USA
By Susan Cramm My last blog discussed how to promote innovation by dismantling the mistrust that exists between IT and the rest of the business. ...
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As Verizon profit falls, president praises iPhone innovation

Apple Insider - Herndon,VA,USA
But all of those products are driven by the innovation brought by Apple and the iPhone, Strigl said. "When you think about what Apple has done in bringing ...
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SGI equals AE Customers Named as Finalists in Itanium Solutions Alliance ...

Business Wire (press release)
Masaryk University, a finalist in the Mission-Critical Data Innovation category, is located in the Czech Republic. It developed a massive online information ...
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American innovation in crisis

Examiner.com
Last month the Security Innovation Network (SINET), founded by an ex-Secret Service agent, Robert D. Rodriguez, organized a "non-Beltwayandquot; kind of conference ...
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Monday, July 27, 2009

CII --Deloitte meet: business leaders look to innovation for growth

Indian Express
... Business Leadership Summit' that concluded in Ahmedabad on Friday was that innovation should be used as an all- weather business promotion strategy. ...
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An innovation fund for community colleges

Sarasota Herald-Tribune
It ties money to reform and has the potential -- the potential -- to spur a wave of innovation. People who work at community colleges deserve all the love ...
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'Innovation Center' proposal is squishy

Lansing State Journal
This idea of a "Michigan Center for Innovation and Reinventionandquot; from Gov. Jennifer Granholm and MSU President Lou Anna Simon is a head-scratcher. ...
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Frank Gehry's 'flaky' marriage of inspiration and innovation

Buffalo News
By Jack Quinan Frank Gehry first gained public attention in 1978 when he purchased a common bungalow in Santa Monica, Calif., and surrounded it with skewed ...
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Chrome v Firefox: Can Innovation Happen Without A Fight to the Death?

The Moderate Voice
Firefox has captured nearly a quarter of the browser market by focusing on speed, security and innovation. Its success is all the more remarkable because it ...
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MDA and FutureTV Initiative Call for Proposals to Boost Innovation ...

SYS-CON Media (press release)
We are heartened that the major players of TV sector have come together to provide combined offerings to help support start-up innovation,andquot; said Michael Yap ...
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Saturday, July 25, 2009

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Immersion Unveils Touch Feedback Innovation for Laptops

I4U - USA
Immersion has unveiled a new first of its kind concept for laptops and portable devices that applies haptics technology to personal computer applications. ...
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ChangeTracker Wins Innovation Award

ProPublica - New York,NY,USA
by Mike Webb, ProPublica - July 24, 2009 10:39 am EDT We're proud to accept a Special Distinction Award from the Knight-Batten Award for Innovations in ...
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Neusoft Medical's Latest Innovation, NeuViz 16 CT Scanner, Approved...

Business Exchange - USA
Reactions to Neusoft Medical's Latest Innovation, NeuViz 16 CT Scanner, Approved by FDA for the... Please sign in to share your reaction on this article. ...
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Salesforce.com's Service Cloud Receives 2009 Innovation Award From...

Business Exchange - USA
Reactions to Salesforce.com's Service Cloud Receives 2009 Innovation Award From Network Products... Please sign in to share your reaction on this article. ...
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Federal grant helps UF create Florida Innovation Hub

University of Florida - Gainesville,FL,USA
The federal Economic Development Administration has awarded the University of Florida an $8.2 million grant to help create the Florida Innovation Hub at UF, ...
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Innovation Isn't Just for Startups

BusinessWeek - USA
By Rick Wartzman We can all picture the scene: A couple of guys toiling away in a cluttered garage, perfecting the next innovation that will shake an entire ...
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Innovation on Charlton dean's academic agenda

SouthCoastToday.com - New Bedford,MA,USA
Creativity and innovation can be enhanced through teaching methods that involve case analyses, projects that focus on business problems, and other methods ...
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Zeum: San Francisco's Children's Museum

San Francisco Chronicle
Our mission is to foster creativity and innovation in young people and their families. We're the only Bay Area museum where individuals of all ages, ...
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Friday, July 24, 2009

Chrome OS lies behind security innovation

ZDNet UK - UK
"The innovation [coming out] of the browser wars is bringing more and better security," Hoffman said. "The Chrome browser itself is fairly hardened, ...
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Does the App Store approval process hinder innovation?

MacFixIt (subscription) - Portland,OR,USA
There are many stories surfacing around the Web that throw a glaringly poor light on Apple's App Store approval process. Although many of these applications ...
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How Knowledge Can Hurt Innovation

Bloomberg - USA
What does this mean for innovation? Managers who have spent their entire lives working in an industry often suffer from the curse of knowledge. ...
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RSA Signs Innovation Symbility Solution in the UK

SYS-CON Media (press release) - Montvale,NJ,USA
(TSX VENTURE: AUT), and its UK partner the Innovation Group (LSE: TIG.L) are pleased to announce the adoption of Innovation Symbility, a mobile and desktop ...
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Innovation Group and Symbility win contract from RSA Insurance Group

Trading Markets (press release) - Los Angeles,CA,USA
The contract, enabled by the combination of Innovation Group's intellectual property and Symbility's skills and assets, provides RSA with a streamlined ...
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NASA Ames to Host Energy Summit to Accelerate Innovation

Space Ref (press release) - USA
News media are invited to attend the Council on Competitiveness' Western Energy Summit focusing on energy innovation and deployment on Thursday, July 30, ...
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ECC receives Innovation Award

ENC Today - Jacksonville,NC,USA
The Eastern Carolina Council has received a 2009 Innovation Award from the National Association of Development Organizations (NADO) for its Coastal ...
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Innovation at risk in disjointed NHS

Healthcare Republic - USA
Innovations that help people manage long-term conditions at home will not catch on until they are seen as part of wider health initiatives, experts warn. ...
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Pasadena-based medomics laboratory a hotbed of innovation

Pasadena Star-News - Pasadena,CA,USA
(SGVN/Correspondent photo by Suzanne Khazaal) And innovation helped this Pasadena-based laboratory develop a new test for early diagnosis of mitochondrial ...
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Health Reform Puts Innovation At Risk

Investor's Business Daily - USA
By SALLY C. pipesposted 07:01 PM ET President Obama and congressional Democrats have spelled out few details in their health reform plan. ...
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Thursday, July 23, 2009

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Green Recovery: Go Green Boldly to Build Momentum

Reuters - USA
Get creative: Encourage staff to ask heretical questions and implement strategies to nurture innovation. * Get engaged: Galvanize your staff by making a ...
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On Financial Engineering and Financial Innovation

Seeking Alpha - New York,NY,USA
Financial innovation should actually be able to build on that, jumping off from the edge of financial engineering. Taking something old and calling it ...
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What Should School Innovation Funded by the Stimulus Look Like?

Voice of San Diego - San Diego,CA,USA
Even if the plan proves to be legal, tiny classes may struggle to win fans from federal overseers eager to see other kinds of innovations. ...
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SPE announces date for Automotive Innovation Awards Gala.

ThomasNet Industrial News Room (press release) - New York,NY,USA
The Automotive Division of the Society of Plastics Engineers (SPE equals AE) International today announced that the date for its 39th-annual Automotive Innovation ...
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TSMC Extends Design Methodology Leadership to 28nm With Reference ...

PR Newswire (press release) - New York,NY,USA
Reference Flow 10.0 is one of the key collaborative components of the Open Innovation Platform(TM). The newest generation of the company's reference flow ...
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Corporate Responsibility as an Innovation Catalyst

Reuters - USA
This is where innovation and corporate responsibility go hand in hand. If you look at two of GE's biggest companywide initiatives, ecomagination and ...
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Administration Provides 'Fact Sheet' on Social Innovation Fund

Chronicle of Philanthropy (subscription) - USA
The Corporation for National and Community Service has posted a fact sheet about the new Social Innovation Fund, which will provide grants to help nonprofit ...
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Entergy Innovation Center officially opens

The Times-Picayune - NOLA.com - New Orleans,LA,USA
by The Times-Picayune CHRIS GRANGER/THE TIMES-PICAYUNEGuests tour the second floor conference rooms at the Entergy Innovation Center. ...
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Recession: The Mother of Innovation?

BusinessWeek - USA
But could a recession be the mother of innovation? After all, many of the world's enduring, multibillion-dollar corporations, from Disney (DIS) to Microsoft ...
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Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Gubernatorial hopeful Rick Snyder promises to bring innovation

Detroit Free Press
... for governor in 2010 this morning, promising to usher in a new era of innovation in Michigan and reject the failed policies of career politicians. ...
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Declining PC Sales? Blame Lack of Innovation

InternetNews.com
The "perfect storm" of the downturn, the troubles with Vista and the wait for Windows 7 could be mitigated with more innovation in the industry. ...
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Gubernatorial hopeful Rick Snyder promises to bring innovation

Detroit Free Press
Snyder said he will seek the Republican nomination for governor in 2010, promising to usher in a new era of innovation in Michigan and reject the failed ...
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Jose Antonio Vargas Leaves The Washington Post for The Huffington Post

New York Times - United States
He will oversee a new section about tech (coming this fall) and encourage site-wide innovation. The Huffington Post has been on something like a hiring tear ...
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Federal CTO Says US Lagging In Innovation

InformationWeek - Manhasset,NY,USA
By J. Nicholas Hoover The United States has fallen behind other nations in innovation, but has the capacity to regain its lead, federal chief technology ...
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Upcoming product adds capability to PSP

Ars Technica - Boston,MA,USA
"The innovation uses special optical components in unconventional ways,' states Eamonn Ansbro, an Optical Engineer who is co-Executive Director of RVI. ...
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When someone says "Financial Innovation" Put your Hand on Your Wallet

Huffington Post - New York,NY,USA
"Our society needs financial innovation, and still seems vulnerable to changing animal spirits and speculative bubbles that create truly big problems. ...
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KCC, WMU receive Business Innovation Award

Battle Creek Enquirer - Battle Creek,MI,USA
Kellogg Community College and Western Michigan University received a 2009 Innovation Michigan award for a new KCC/WMU Joint Admissions Agreement in ...
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Tuesday, July 21, 2009

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WNET.ORG and Tierra Innovation Unveil Content Management System ...

Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco,CA,USA
ORG, the public media provider in New York, and Tierra Innovation, a leading New York City digital firm, have developed a new content management system ...
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Financial innovation

Reuters Blogs - USA
In my blog entry this morning about Robert Shiller and his bonkers defense of subprime mortgages, I made an en passant reference to financial innovation ...
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Toshiba Brings High Style and Innovation Home With New Digital ...

Business Exchange - USA
Reactions to Toshiba Brings High Style and Innovation Home With New Digital Media Frames Featuring... Please sign in to share your reaction on this article. ...
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World Leaders in Education Innovation Meet in Albemarle Co.

WCAV - Charlottesville,VA,USA
Many of the nearly 700 educators attending the conference will discuss their ideas and innovations at EduStat University. Everyone is attending to learn ...
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Brazil BNDES Sees BRL43.3 Billion Investment In Innovation In 2010

CNNMoney.com - USA
RIO DE JANEIRO -(Dow Jones)- Brazil's investment in innovation is likely to reach 1.5% or 1.6% of gross domestic product next year, Luciano Coutinho ...
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Book review: Closing the Innovation Gap

Examiner.com - USA
In Innovation Ecosystems, the collaborative organisms include scientists, product developers, businesspeople, service providers, and customers, ...
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Hormel wins innovation award for product challenge

MinnPost.com - Minneapolis,MN,USA
The innovation award reflects the company's Billion Dollar Challenge in 2000 to generate $1 billion in sales from new products by 2009. ...
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Water engineering offers opportunities for innovation

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
... patent trends indicates that water engineering remains a young and emerging technology with plenty of unexplored "white spaces" for future innovation. ...
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Rep. Towns Votes to Boost the Economy, Innovation in Energy Technology

TMCnet
Jul 20, 2009 (Congressional Documents and Publications/contentworks via COMTEX) -- WASHINGTON - US Representative Edolphus "Ed" Towns (NY-10) today voted to ...
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Monday, July 20, 2009

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Unemployment Tops 10 Percent in Highlands County

Tampa Tribune - Tampa,FL,USA
TALLAHASSEE - The unemployment - rate - in Highlands County jumped to 10.4 percent in June, according to the Agency for Workforce Innovation. ...
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Wireless innovation face roadblocks

Grand Forks Herald - Grand Forks,ND,USA
Wireless innovation faces roadblocks in the future. (MCT) Sometimes you can recognize a revolutionary upheaval only in hindsight. You look back years later ...
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Solar Innovations, Inc.

PR.com (press release) - Levittown,NY,USA
Solar Innovations equals AE has recently moved their business to a new, state-of-the-art, Green facility in Pine Grove, Pennsylvania. This new building is located 15 ...
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Focus on innovation, RandD to drive Ericsson's business into the future

Manila Bulletin - Philippines
By RED R. SAMAR 'INNOVATION IS what drives us,' says Carl-Henric Svanberg, Ericsson's CEO at the opening of the Ericsson Business Innovation Forum held ...
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Historic economic downturn hurts innovation from the best and ...

The Express Times - LehighValleyLive.com - Lehigh Valley,PA,USA
by Joseph P. Owens\The Express-Times It was just a boilerplate line in an Associated Press story last week about signs of an economic recovery in China. ...
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Innovation outside of the recording studio

Examiner.com - USA
Promotion. To some, it's a dirty word, pure and simple -- they hate it, they hate it, they hate it. To others, it's all about technology -- social networking, ...
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innovation at starbucks

Gerson Lehrman Group - New York,USA
i think this could be a good change for starbucks, specially if they adapt this new strategy to what customers wants. to this new idea is crucial if they ...
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Sunday, July 19, 2009

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Editorial: From Texas to the moon

Dallas Morning News - Dallas,TX,USA
In his last speech, Kennedy heralded the innovation and contributions to aeronautics that came out of Fort Worth. Yes, out of Cowtown. ...
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Financial Invention vs. Consumer Protection

New York Times - United States
That is how innovation often proceeds --- by learning from errors and hazards and gradually conquering problems through devices of increasing complexity and ...
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The Crowd Is Wise (When It's Focused)

New York Times - United States
By STEVE LOHR FEW concepts in business have been as popular and appealing in recent years as the emerging discipline of 'open innovation. ...
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Saturday, July 18, 2009

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IBM, Spain Bank Join To Create New Technology Innovation Centre

Banking Business Review - USA
By Staff Reporter Caixanova, a Spain-based savings bank, IBM and its affiliate INSA have signed an agreement to promote technology innovation in Spain. ...
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Luna Innovations Files for Chapter 11 Reorganization

Business Wire (press release)
We intend to build on our history of innovation and product development, outstanding products, and excellent customer service. 'As previously reported ...
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Florida unemployment rate jumps to 10.6% in June

Bizjournals.com - Charlotte,NC,USA
That translates to 970000 unemployed out of a labor force of 9.2 million, according to the Florida Agency for Workforce Innovation. ...
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Innovation is alive and well

Vancouver Sun - British Columbia, Canada
In a new survey, 61% of business owners said they are investing in innovation and/or research and development this year, which may surprise ...
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Innovation and Economic Crises

Atlantic Online - USA
This past week, I've look at the trends in US innovation, commenting on Michael Mandel's powerful and compelling thesis about the deceleration and ...
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HUD Has Money For Green Innovation

The Faster Times - New York,NY,USA
That's important for green investors, because cities' scale and density make them great places to spread and refine low-carbon innovations. ...
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* Luna Innovations files for bankruptcy

Virginia Business Magazine - Richmond,VA,USA
Roanoke-based Luna Innovations Inc. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in a Virginia court Friday. The move follows a California juryand#39;s ruling in ...
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Review: 500 Days of Summer Brings the Innovation

Film.com - Seattle,WA,USA
However, innovation is where 500 Days of Summer really makes its mark. It zigs right when you think it's going to zag, and it often finds comedy in ...
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Business leaders celebrate innovation

MLive.com - MI,USA
Arn Boezaart, of GVSU's MEDC, and Bill Foley of The Right Place mingle in the crowd at Innovation Michigan. Hank Meijer, CEO of Lifetime Achievement award ...
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Using Prizes To Spur Innovation

Forbes - NY,USA
Prizes used to spark innovation are on the rise. Philanthropists--as well as players in the public and private sectors--must understand how to use them in ...
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Friday, July 17, 2009

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Avaak Praised for Innovation Efforts; Named to Elite 'AlwaysOn ...

Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco,CA,USA
Avaak was recognized for leading the industry with new emerging innovations---including its Vue equals 99 personal video network---and was selected by the AlwaysOn ...
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Cognition Therapeutics closes on $1.2M series A financing round

Bizjournals.com - Charlotte,NC,USA
based M5Invest Partners, economic development groups Innovation Works and the Pittsburgh Life Sciences Greenhouse and several individual investors. ...
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The New Geography of American Innovation

Atlantic Online - USA
Today I turn to the regional distribution of innovation across US regions. It's well-known that high-tech industries are concentrated and clustered in areas ...
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Gov't-Backed Industrial Innovation Investment Company to Be Launched

American Chronicle - Beverly Hills,CA,USA
The government-backed stock firm, the Innovation Network Corp. of Japan, to be set up July 27, will act as an investment fund for 15 years and funnel money ...
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GES and Exhibitgroup/Giltspur to Integrate Offerings to Bring ...

Exhibitor Online - Rochester,MN,USA
7/16/2009 - As part of an overall reorganization taking place through its parent company Viad Corp (NYSE:VVI), the GES Exposition Services (GES) and ...
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MobileBeat: Sprint says it must 'let go to enable innovation

VentureBeat - Fremont,CA,USA
Sprint-Nextel Corp., the US's third-largest mobile phone company, signaled it must take a more hands-off approach to keep pace with innovation at ...
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Florida ranks No. 4 for innovation

Bizjournals.com - Charlotte,NC,USA
The study looks at the importance of intellectual property and innovation in America, as well as the roles that innovation and creativity play in each state ...
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Cloud Computing Intersects IT Innovation

Ulitzer.com - Woodcliff Lake,NJ,USA
During the course of Kareem's keynote, he discussed SOA, cloud computing, and areas of innovation in the IT industry. As I look at each of these areas of ...
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CSC Presents Inaugural Innovation Awards to Life and Annuity ...

Business Exchange - USA
Reactions to CSC Presents Inaugural Innovation Awards to Life and Annuity Carriers at 2009 Users'... Please sign in to share your reaction on this article. ...
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Thursday, July 16, 2009

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O Brien: Wireless innovation faces roadblocks

San Jose Mercury News - CA, USA
Only when we're all there, with affordable devices and access, will we see the next great wave of mobile innovation. One final thought. ...
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IBM wins outsourcing deal from India's Innovation Auto Risk

Trading Markets (press release) - Los Angeles,CA,USA
It said the deal will reduce Innovation Auto Risk's capital expenditure on IT by 25%. Jyothi Satyanathan, country manager of IBM's India/South Asia division ...
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H2O Innovation Signs CAD$2.7 Million in Contracts

SYS-CON Media (press release) - Montvale,NJ,USA
These contracts-totaling CAD$2.7 million-bring the Company's sales backlog to CAN$25.7 million and reassert H2O Innovation's position as a key player in the ...
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Caixanova, IBM and INSA, in Agreement to Create a New Technology ...

PR Newswire (press release) - New York,NY,USA
As part of the agreement, IBM, through its affiliate INSA, will create a Technology Innovation Centre (CENIT) in Orense. The Centre, due to open later this ...
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Global Sources of American Innovation

Atlantic Online - USA
Yesterday, we looked at overall trends in US innovation measured by patents. Today, we break out US patents between US-resident and non-resident or foreign ...
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NHL, NBC announce multiyear extension

NHL.com - USA
The Hockey News called "Inside the Glass," "the biggest innovation to hit televised hockey in recent years." " Hockey has found a network that will let the ...
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Chicago Innovation Awards: A Role Model

BusinessWeek - USA
By Thomas D. Kuczmarski Eight years ago a close colleague and I launched the Chicago Innovation Awards to promote innovation in the Midwest. ...
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GSMA Opens 2010 Mobile Innovation Grand Prix Israel Tournament To ...

Mobile Dev and Design - Overland Park,KS,USA
Registration is now open through July 30 for the Israel Tournament of the 2010 Mobile Innovation Grand Prix competition, which the GSMA created to showcase ...
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Google graduates 'Tasks' from Gmail Labs, launches Calendar Labs ...

BusinessWeek - USA
So I was intrigued to get a look behind the curtain at the company's internal innovation process by means of its two latest announcements. ...
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Wednesday, July 15, 2009

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The acceptance of failure as a spur to innovation

San Francisco Chronicle - CA, USA
It seems that widespread innovation and success requires the acceptance of failure, and then a readiness to move on. That's generally true in Silicon Valley ...
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Karen Johnson Joins NY-Based Renewable Energy Company Innovation ...

Utility Products Magazine - Tulsa,OK,USA
New York, July 14 , 2009 -- Innovation Fuels, the New York-based renewable energy company that manufactures, markets, and distributes second-generation ...
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MANDIANT Joins McAfee Security Innovation Alliance

NewsBlaze - Folsom,CA,USA
... of information security solutions and services today announced that it has joined the McAfee Security Innovation Alliance (SIA) partner program. ...
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The tradeoff between financial innovation and risk

Globe and Mail - Canada
There's this tradeoff between financial innovation and the risk of total financial collapse. And I think that was widely ignored for the past couple of ...
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Stuck at NICE? Flash your Innovation Pass

The IN VIVO Blog - Norwalk,CT,USA
The Innovation Pass was a top action item within the UK governmentand#39;s new Life Sciences Blueprint, unveiled at Imperial College Business Center in London ...
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Nine ways to ignite innovation inside your company

Reliable Plant Magazine - Tulsa,OK,USA
'Innovation is the only ticket out of this recession,' asserts Douglas, author of The Firefly Effect: Build Teams That Capture Creativity and Catapult ...
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CTSA to be engine of innovation for College of Medicine

UF College of Medicine news - the insider - Gainesville,Florida,USA
By Karen Dooley As a recipient of the NIH Clinical and Translational Science Award, the University of Florida joins an elite group of medical research ...
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Imagination and risk key to innovation

Michigan Business Review - MLive.com - Ann Arbor,MI,USA
To co-founder Dale Williams, a good innovation comes from seeing a need for something, then having the ability to go and produce. pisat's initial product ...
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Senate Passes Kerry's Small-Business Innovation Plan

iBerkshires.com - North Adams,MA,USA
The Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs under the Small Business Administration offer ...
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Tuesday, July 14, 2009

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Open Government and Innovations Conference

CSO - Framingham,MA,USA
Facilitated by the Department of Defense, the Open Government and Innovations program will feature real-world case studies and insights presented by the ...
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GoECart Receives CQIA Innovation Prize for GoECart 8

PR Web (press release) - Ferndale,WA,USA
The company is receiving the CQIA's "Silver" Innovation Prize for its ecommerce software, which includes an innovative new Intelligent SEO equals 99 capability. ...
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Cloud Computing and the Promise of On-Demand Business Innovation

Intelligent Enterprise - San Mateo,CA,USA
The wow isn't just about technology; it's about process flexibility and reuse that will enable enterprises to quickly serve new customers and launch new ...
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Pearson Creates Education Innovation Fund With Revolution Learning

PR Web (press release) - Ferndale,WA,USA
Pearson has invested in a $10 million innovation venture fund managed by Revolution Learning. "Over many years, Pearson has pioneered a range of effective ...
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Measure proposes development of 'healthcare innovation zonesand#39;

FierceHealthcare - Washington,DC,USA
Democratic Representative Allyson Schwartz (PA) has filed legislation which would instruct HHS to pilot-test "healthcare innovation zones," a concept that ...
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Larry Irving to Step Down as Co-Chair of the Internet Innovation ...

SYS-CON Media (press release) - Montvale,NJ,USA
Larry Irving will step down as co-chairman of the Internet Innovation Alliance (IIA) in September, the IIA announced today. Irving will join Hewlett Packard ...
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New Technologies, Economic Opportunities Presented at Inaugural ...

Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco,CA,USA
A full list of participating companies can be found at: http://image.exct.net/lib/feed1178716d0c/d/1/Innovation%20Showcase%20Companies%2006-25-09.pdf ...
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Is Chrome OS a "Disruptive Innovation?"

Huffington Post - New York,NY,USA
Pundits quickly termed Chrome OS "classic disruptive innovation" that promised to up-end historic market leader Microsoft. Do the pundits have it right? ...
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Granholm plans 'innovation' center to replace Michigan Library

The Detroit News - Detroit,MI,USA
The Michigan Center for Innovation and Reinvention is intended to be more forward-looking and entrepreneurial-based than the current facility. ...
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Lansing history center gets innovation theme

Detroit Free Press - United States
Also, the Michigan Library and Historical Center in Lansing -- among HALand#39;s major functions -- would house a new Michigan Center for Innovation and Reinvention ...
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Monday, July 13, 2009

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Cheryl Perkins column: Making your innovation process clean, green

Appleton Post Crescent - WI, USA
No matter what the reason, the trend toward "clean and green" is driving the innovation agenda for many companies as customers, philanthropists and ...
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Legislation proposes creation of 'healthcare innovation zonesand#39;

ModernHealthcare.com - Chicago,IL,USA
has introduced legislation that calls on HHS to pilot test 'healthcare innovation zones' to improve patient outcomes while slowing the growth of healthcare ...
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Small Business Research and Innovation Act

East County Magazine - La Mesa,CA,USA
... Brian Bilbray and Duncan Hunter) voted to create new jobs and boost the economy by supporting the Small Business Research and Innovation Act, HR 2965. ...
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Will ObamaCare threaten medical innovation?

Hot Air - MD,USA
In a Washington Examiner column, Glenn relates personal stories of how his family members have benefited from innovation in medical treatments, ...
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Small Business Innovation and Research Act

Hudson Valley Press - Newburgh,NY,USA
... Congressman Maurice Hinchey (D-NY) this week helped the House pass the Small Business Research and Innovation Act, which modernizes and reauthorizes the ...
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Sexy Biz, Sexy Toys: The 'O' Awards nominees for Outstanding ...

Examiner.com - USA
The Outstanding Innovation Award for 2009 recognizes the best new product released in the last year. I have not personally reviewed ANY of the following ...
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Sunday, July 12, 2009

WU USHERS SMALL BUSINESS INNOVATION BILL THROUGH HOUSE

Trading Markets (press release) - Los Angeles,CA,USA
The Enhancing Small Business Research and Innovation Act will help America's entrepreneurs turn innovative technologies into commercialized products, ...
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Australia - MFA - Joint Press Conference with Innovation Minister ...

ISRIA - France
Mr Crean: Well thank you very much for coming, I'm the Trade Minister from Australia Simon Crean and I'm with the Industry and Innovation Minister from ...
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Saturday, July 11, 2009

Shenzhen Hit No.1 of the Top Ten Innovation Cities

Shenzhen Post - Shenzhen,Guangdong,China
1 of the top ten innovation cities The Press Conference for 2009 Chinese City Classification Chart was held in Hong Kong today. Shenzhen again exceeded Hong ...
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Continental Receives the Innovation Prize For Series Production Of ...

Autochannel (press release) - USA
This innovation prize is awarded by the Nuremberg-based Center for Transportation and Logistics Neuer Adler eV (CNA) to companies which have played a ...
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Opinion: Speeding up innovation to slow us down

Computerworld - Framingham,MA,USA
Innovations like e-mail, e-commerce and Web search crept in slowly and achieved mass adoption only after a cultural inflection point. ...
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A Helping Hand For Venture Capital?

Forbes - NY,USA
If your business wasn't eligible for a Small Business Innovation Research grant or a Small Business Technology Transfer Research grant last year, ...
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Site tied to UTA will promote inventions

Bizjournals.com - Charlotte,NC,USA
The site, which is called The Innovation Marketplace, was created and is operated by Eureka! Ranch. The Texas Manufacturing Assistance Center at UTA is a ...
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Ron Conway Outlines Twitter's Possible Revenue Schemes

Wall Street Journal - USA
Innovation does not happen in Sun Valley. Innovation happens in Silicon Valley.' On Wednesday at the Sun Valley media conference in Idaho, ...
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mocoNews - Verizon Wireless Looking To Woo RIM and Windows ...

Washington Post - United States
Verizon is participating in what's called the "Joint Innovation Lab," which is a consortium between Verizon, China Mobile, Softbank and Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) ...
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GM Gets a Fresh Start --- Will Green Innovation Rise From the Ashes?

Reuters - USA
But how much innovation can we really expect from a government-held (besides the US, the governments of Canada and the province of Ontario have also taken ...
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Friday, July 10, 2009

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Cypress Communications Receives 15th Innovation Award for Hosted ...

Trading Markets (press release) - Los Angeles,CA,USA
"The TMC Labs Awards are unique because they focus on quality of innovation and the level of impact a product has on the industry," said Frank Grillo, ...
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Innovation Still Seems a Mirage

New York Times - United States
There is much talk of innovation, and indeed the European Union has a program promising same, known as the Lisbon Agenda. Of all 27 member nations, ...
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Sprint CEO Hesse: Successful companies 'innovate during turbulent ...

Bizjournals.com - Charlotte,NC,USA
Tough markets won't stop that innovation, Hesse said. About 45 percent of Fortune 500 companies started either during a recession or a bear market, he said. ...
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Inside Intel's Chip Creation and Innovation

eWeek - New York, NY
Intel is the dominant microprocessor vendor in the world, holding an almost 80 percent share of the world's chip market, according to research firm iSuppli. ...
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Thursday, July 9, 2009

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The Carbon Trust's Low-Carbon Innovation Awards, 2009

guardian.co.uk - UK
The awards are showcasing practical innovation and development in the fields of low carbon-technology and energy efficiency. ...
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UK space science innovation brings inward investment

EurekAlert (press release) - Washington,DC,USA
Harwell Science and Innovation Campus in Oxfordshire is set to become the European centre of a major international organisation, and with it bring ...
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Howard Dean is right - Let's protect innovation in healthcare reform

Huffington Post - New York,NY,USA
I wanted to let you know about an important debate that's going on around health care reform that's been a bit under-the-radar. ...
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Biotech council: Biologics, innovation need protection from generics

Mass High Tech - MA, USA
A critical component of the biosimilars pathway is sufficient period of innovator exclusivity to promote the next cycle of innovation and discovery in life ...
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Center for Health Value Innovation Conducts Innovators' Summit ...

Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco,CA,USA
... sponsored by the Center for Health Value Innovation (www.vbhealth.org), to identify and weigh the 15 macro levers that drive health improvement and bend ...
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Innovation Unifying Theme at Digital Map Products' 2009 Customer Forum

SYS-CON Media (press release) - Montvale,NJ,USA
Ray Patchett, former city manager of Carlsbad, CA, and a frequent speaker on technical innovation, challenged the audience to push themselves to think in ...
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Monster to Open New Technology Center of Excellence and Innovation ...

NewsBlaze - Folsom,CA,USA
The Cambridge center is the latest addition to Monster's global innovation and development sites in Maynard, Massachusetts; Mountain View, California; ...
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Wastewater Treatment, Water Reuse and Odor Control - MAJOR ...

EcoWorld.com - Fair Oaks,CA,USA
Under development for the last two years, the new Innovation Center will open next month on a 22500 square foot site adjacent to the Greensboro wastewater ...
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Kenworth Receives 2009 Exemplary Innovation Award

Layover.com - Akron,PA,USA
KIRKLAND, Wash., - Kenworth Truck Company recently received a 2009 Exemplary Innovation Award from the California Economic and Workforce Development program ...
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Congress Passes Bill Enhancing Small Business Innovation and Research

Examiner.com - USA
Today HR 2965, the 'Enhancing Small Business Innovation and Research Act,' passed by a vote of 386 to 41 on the Floor of the House of Representatives. ...
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Wednesday, July 8, 2009

Innovation Is the Key to Smarter Schools ---And the Budget Crises ...

Education Week News (subscription) - Bethesda,MD,USA
Rather, they are fueling a real and overdue focus on innovation. The US Department of Education now has $5 billion in special funding to be used to promote ...
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NC's cap on charter schools puts a lid on innovation

News and Observer - Raleigh,NC,USA
States that limit charter schools limit their own opportunities to win additional federal funds. More importantly, they may limit choice and innovation that ...
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Innovation is Major Theme for Wood-Plastic Composites Conference

Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco,CA,USA
We will then take an in-depth look at innovation from the process and product viewpoint, as well as downstream product distribution and consumer needs. ...
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Zenoss Wins comptia softwareceo Software Innovation Award and ...

Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco,CA,USA
This year's comptia softwareceo Software Innovation Awards honored technological and business model breakthroughs that are at the forefront of ...
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Council for American Medical Innovation and Hoosiers Work for ...

SYS-CON Media (press release) - Montvale,NJ,USA
INDIANAPOLIS , July 7 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Council for American Medical Innovation headlined a forum on medical innovation today in Indianapolis ...
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UNC spinoff InnerOptic wins Small Business Innovation Research grant

Bizjournals.com - Charlotte,NC,USA
This is the second Small Business Innovation Research grant the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill spinoff has received in as many months. ...
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Statutory Damages: Quelling Innovation and Enabling Injustice

Public Knowledge Tech News and Comment - Washington,D.C.,USA
By Brian Rowe on July 7, 2009 - 2:29pm Last week, the jury in the retrial of Ms. Jammie Thomas-Rasset found that willfully infringing the copyrights of 24 ...
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Brookings spotlights Wells Fargo tech innovation

MinnPost.com - Minneapolis,MN,USA
... DC, think tank recently examined the websites of 68 private companies and determined that Wells Fargo's demonstrated the most "technology innovation. ...
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Tuesday, July 7, 2009

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Bleak Xmas Ahead -- Where's the innovation I need to fill the ...

ZDNet Blogs - USA
I feel like I'm in the bottom of an innovation chasm. I've got all of the cool gadgets from the last decade or two and I can't see anything new coming out. ...
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New Light in Old Bulbs

New York Times - United States
Indeed, the incandescent bulb is turning into a case study of the way government mandates can spur innovation. 'There's a massive misperception that ...
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Start-Ups Say Innovation Doesn't Grow on Trees

Washington Post - United States
The companies say that without the requirement to set aside money for the Small Business Innovation Research program, they have a tougher time securing ...
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Beware unintended consequences of innovation policies

Irish Times - Dublin,Ireland
We are witnessing such unintended consequences in Ireland's science and innovation policy. A central element of Irish science policy is to double the number ...
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SA's Technology Innovation Agency board announced and inaugurated

Creamer Media's Engineering News - Garden View,South Africa
On Monday (July 6) Science and Technology Minister Naledi Pandor inaugurated the Board of the long-awaited Technology Innovation Agency (TIA). ...
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National Coatings' New Center for Technical Innovation Facility to ...

Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco,CA,USA
'The new Center for Technical Innovation is a major step forward in our ongoing commitment towards providing the best roof coating technology and supporting ...
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Google Blog Search Innovation?

Search Newz - Lexington,KY,USA
Google has updated the homepage to Google Blog Search, but it seems more like a knee jerk reaction to other web sites, than true innovation. ...
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In Tour de France Season, Cycling Innovations Abound

Popular Mechanics - New York,NY,USA
Rider David Zabriskie (pictured on next page) works with Felt and his team, Garmin-Slipstream, to keep his 16-pound bike studded with innovations. ...
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Energy efficiency drives innovation for traditional bulbs

Washington Energy Services - Seattle,WA,USA
A report in the New York Times notes that a two-year old federal energy law has led to new innovations to help incandescent bulbs meet the higher ...
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Monday, July 6, 2009

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Returning Asians to fill talent gap, boost innovation

Reuters - USA
By Eveline Danubrata SINGAPORE (Reuters) - "Go East" is a message being heeded by many Asian professionals in the United States and Europe who see brighter ...
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Obama recognizes Redwood City nonprofit for innovation

Tri Valley Herald - Walnut Creek,CA,USA
Obama pointed to HopeLab and three other nonprofits as examples of successful social innovations, as he promoted a new program that provides support and ...
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Bluegrass visionary brings his innovation to Colorado

Denver Post - Denver,CO,USA
By Claire Martin Cameron Sellers of San Francisco uses duct tape to protect her fingers while playing the bass during an advanced instrument instruction at ...
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German press officer: Expo Shanghai Online revolutionary innovation

Xinhua - China
By Bi Mingxin BEIJING , July 5 (Xinhuanet) - The Expo Shanghai Online is a revolutionary innovation offering a chance for people from all over the world to ...
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Translation Please: Innovation And Independence

Multichannel News - New York,NY,USA
This applies to innovation, too. In cable, it goes way back. Old-timers will recall the move to addressable set-tops, back when life was 100% analog. ...
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Winning the Green Innovation Race

Atlantic Online - USA
By using this service you agree not to post material that is obscene, harassing, defamatory, or otherwise objectionable. Although The Atlantic does not ...
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Cap-and-trade: Legislation would create jobs, innovation

Seattle Times - United States
And, as a leader in clean-energy innovations, the Puget Sound region is uniquely positioned to greatly benefit from this historic legislation. ...
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Sunday, July 5, 2009

China to launch mid-term innovation plan

China Daily - China
By Liu Baijia and Wang Bo (chinadaily.com.cn) China will launch its mid-term scientific innovation plan within the year and multinationals are welcome to ...
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Down To Business: Should The Government Protect Innovation?

InformationWeek - Manhasset,NY,USA
Should ''innovation'' get the regulatory protection of product safety or the environment? It's time for a debate on what we believe about innovation. ...
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Tech Innovation USA: From Resilient Networks To Self-Scheduling ...

InformationWeek - Manhasset,NY,USA
US agencies are driving government IT initiatives that could soon make their way to businesses. By J. Nicholas Hoover John Foley The to-do lists of ...
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Workshop Series Delivers Innovation to Organizations, Theory of ...

PR Web (press release) - Ferndale,WA,USA
In today's economic climate, many organizations struggle with declining sales and increasing costs. Some choose to hunker down and weather the storm, ...
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Dancer Sees 'innovation that is richer than dances in the pastand#39;

The Epoch Times - New York,NY,USA
This show has a new innovation that is richer than dances in the past. I think it is very good.' Iris was moved by how quickly Shen Yun could achieve such a ...
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Saturday, July 4, 2009

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Social Innovation Fund: Promise or pie-in-the-sky?

Examiner.com - USA
Congress hasn't yet appropriated the $50 million Obama says the government will spend on this endeavor. But in a June 30 press briefing, he said White House ...
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Craftsman's Innovation Showcase Wants You to Make It So.

Wired News - USA
Maybe I'll just design one and send it in for Craftsman's inaugural Innovation Showcase: The tool company's looking for new gadgets to add to its hand tool, ...
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GE Global Research Celebrates 5 Years of Innovation and ...

Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco,CA,USA
'In just five years, the Munich technology center has become the hub of European technology and innovation for GE. The agreements signed today exemplify the ...
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Friday, July 3, 2009