Sunday, May 31, 2009

Innovation Works fights Pennsylvania budget cuts

Pittsburgh Business Times - PA, U.S.A
Scott Friedman, CEO of robotics company Seegrid Corp., says Innovation Works funding helps attract other investors. Budget cuts to Pennsylvania's technology ...
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Saturday, May 30, 2009

Innovation Lost? State's Budget Takes its Toll on Tech

Voice of San Diego - San Diego,CA,USA
And economists, along with local technology industry leaders, fear the long-term consequence if this pillar of the vaunted innovation economy in San Diego ...
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SurePayroll Named Stevie Awards' Finalist in Five Categories ...

PR Web (press release) - Ferndale,WA,USA
Business Innovation of the Year: This category also recognizes SurePayroll for its 1-Click Payroll Technology. Most Innovative Company: As a full-service ...
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Paul Niznik Joins Innovation Fuels As VP of Strategic Operations ...

PennEnergy - Houston,TX,USA
Innovation Fuels, the New York-based renewable energy company that manufactures, markets, and distributes second-generation biodiesel to customers around ...
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SurePayroll Named Finalist in SoftwareCEO Software Innovation Awards

PR Web (press release) - Ferndale,WA,USA
CompTIA membership extends into more than 100 countries and includes companies at the forefront of innovation; the channel partners and solution providers ...
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The Daily Start-Up: The Accidental Entrepeneur

Wall Street Journal - USA
Finally, if you're in the New England, don't forget to celebrate 'Innovation Month' starting Monday. It's part of a broader initiative to encourage ...
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Rethinking Global Innovation

Bloomberg - USA
Companies that don't find ways to love low-income markets will struggle to meet growth targets, and increasingly cede the innovation agenda to companies ...
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BELL Wins Prestigious Innovation Award

SYS-CON Media (press release) - Montvale,NJ,USA
The SBANE 2009 Innovation Award recognizes BELL's ability to demonstrate that dramatic results can be replicated at scale as the organization expands to new ...
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Friday, May 29, 2009

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CORRECTED: Health system discourages innovation

Reuters - USA
"We can definitely say that it's slowing down the rate of innovation," said Tim Kane, an economist with the Kauffman Foundation which promoted ...
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Solon Manufacturing Company Celebrates 60 Years of Innovation

Utility Products Magazine - Tulsa,OK,USA
Four fraternity brothers from Case Western Reserve in Cleveland created Solon Manufacturing Company in 1949. These four men were engineers, inventors, ...
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Google Talks HTML 5 and Innovation

WebProNews - Lexington,KY,USA
"Its rate of innovation has dramatically accelerated over the past 12 months, giving rise to an open web platform that's fundamentally more capable and more ...
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Google I/O 2009: A Wave of Innovation

AndroidGuys - Canton,OH,USA
Hello there! If you are new here, you might want to subscribe to the RSS feed for updates on this topic. Next up in the Google I/O 2009 is the second-day ...
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Chamber Crowd Gets Examples Of Growing Through Innovation

WWJ - Detroit,MI,USA
By Matt Roush The title of the presentation was "Encourage Growth Through Innovation," and the four speakers at Thursday's midday session at the Detroit ...
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Microsoft's Ballmer Discusses New Search Service

New York Times - United States
I think there are many years of great innovation left in the search space. In our research there was a lot to be optimistic about in terms of ways to ...
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Idavation celebrates innovation in Idaho

KTVB - Boise,ID,USA
Walt Minnick, local tech CEO Pete Gombert, and a 'geek panel' with four local 'inventive thinkers,' talking about how innovation is transforming people's ...
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Microsoft and Google face off over innovation

Financial Times - London,England,UK
Microsoft and Google each claimed to have come up with innovations that would change the way internet users experience search and email, respectively.
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Thursday, May 28, 2009

Copyright Needs Limits, As It Restricts Innovation

Huffington Post - New York,NY,USA
American innovation is not just about content creation. It is also about inventions that allow society to benefit from the uses of content, ...
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Recondo Technology Wins Red Herring 100 North America Award

PR Newswire (press release) - New York,NY,USA
"Red Herring recognizes companies based on quantitative and qualitative criteria, such as financial performance, innovation, management, global strategy, ...
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Waxman-Markey: What About Innovation?

Brookings Institution - Washington,DC,USA
But there's another perspective from which to assess the bill---whether it does enough to promote clean-energy innovation. As a recent report by my colleagues ...
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Canada's failure to protect intellectual property hinders innovation

Canada.com - Don Mills,Ontario,Canada
VANCOUVER --- Canada's reputation as the file-sharing capital of the world is contributing to the country's poor record in innovation, according to the ...
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Innovation and Sea of Change in the Residential Solar Market

Reuters - USA
By Renewable Energy World - Renewable Energy World By Isabelle Christensen The year 2008 will go down in history as the year that bred innovation in the ...
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Ask the Innovation Guru

BusinessWeek - USA
Are matters of anthropology and culture really at the heart of the financial crisis? Bruce Nussbaum assesses the impact of a global cultural shift in ...
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Canada's failure to protect intellectual property hinders ...

Canada.com - Don Mills,Ontario,Canada
Rheaume said a lack of protection for intellectual property rights, along with other factors, is hindering Canada's innovation performance. ...
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Top 5 Takeaways on Innovation and Entrepreneurship from Tim Draper ...

Xconomy - Cambridge,MA,USA
'One thing has not changed---innovation just keeps going. Where there is a problem, there's innovation,' he said. 'Ultimately, it's the entrepreneurs who ...
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Wednesday, May 27, 2009

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Location-awareness story wins Stanford Innovation Journalism pick ...

PR-Inside.com (Pressemitteilung) - Wien,Austria
Sixteen stories were nominated by Stanford Innovation Journalism 2009 Fellows from five different countries and discussed in depth by attendees in 16 ...
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MEDecision Demonstrates Commitment to Leading Health IT Innovation ...

Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco,CA,USA
The event's exhibit hall features more than 200 companies showcasing the latest innovations in technology and services designed to help insurers improve the ...
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Market-driving strategies: game changing innovation

Inquirer.net - Philippines
Simply put, market-driving strategies are 'game-changing innovation to create and conquer new market space while reinventing the business system. ...
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PricewaterhouseCoopers Names Sheldon Laube New Chief Innovation ...

PR Newswire (press release) - New York,NY,USA
NEW YORK, May 26 /PRNewswire/ -- PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PwC) announced today the appointment of Sheldon Laube as the firm's first Chief Innovation ...
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ESPN to open "Innovation Lab" in Orlando Florida

FanIQ - San Francisco,CA,USA
Uh, in case you were worried that ESPN didn't have enough time on its hands, the company is creating an "Innovation Lab" in Orlando at Disney World. ...
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Next innovation? When in-game ads and virtual goods merge

CNET News - San Francisco,CA,USA
The next big innovation will be when in-game ads and virtual goods merge--allowing users to interact with ads to purchase products. Dave Rosenberg dishes up ...
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Tuesday, May 26, 2009

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Don't let standards impede employee innovation

TechRepublic - Louisville,KY,USA
Jay Rollins says being too standards driven can be counterproductive to employee innovation. I find it interesting when I hear my IT colleagues make a ...
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IBM OPENS INNOVATION CENTRE TO SUPPORT VIETNAMESE FIRMS

Trading Markets (press release) - Los Angeles,CA,USA
... US technology giant IBM further expanded its reach into developing nations with the opening of the first IBM Innovation Centre in Vietnam on May 23. ...
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Banked population rises to 6.4 million

Kenya Broadcasting Corporation - Nairobi,Kenya
Uhuru said once the Bill is passed into law, it will help to safeguard public savings in the face of growth and innovation in mobile banking in the country. ...
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IT Firms Should Boost Skills Training

BusinessWeek - USA
Whitehall spends almost equals A314bn annually on procuring IT services, according to the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills -- part of equals A3175bn spent ...
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NASA products, by-products and innovations - swim suits, skates ...

Examiner.com - USA
Part one of this series (Today in history, May 25, 1961, Kennedy wants to put man on the moon) shared some of the "myths" of NASA and space age innovation ...
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New law to make banking easier

Daily Nation - Nairobi,Kenya
'Let the CBK do the catch up because we cannot anticipate innovation,' Mr Mwangi told the CBK governor. Prof Ndung'u called for the formulation of laws that ...
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University of Toronto to host Canadian mining innovation centre

Creamer Media's Mining Weekly - Garden View,South Africa
TORONTO (miningweekly.com) -- The federal government of Canada and the government of Ontario will each provide C$5,5-million in funding for a new Innovation ...
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3 Israeli medical device companies receive $1 million, open US offices

MedCity News - Cleveland,OH,USA
The innovation center's funding typically makes up about one-third of the first investment rounds for startups. Private equity deals could follow for each ...
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US health system discourages innovation

Reuters India - Mumbai,India
... in jobs they would like to leave because they cannot get health insurance elsewhere, calcifying innovation and mobility in the world's largest economy. ...
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Monday, May 25, 2009

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Power Innovation Game: a Practical Sustainable Design Experience

Dexigner - USA
The Power Innovation Game is an interactive, playful and practical workshop where you are guided through the principles of business development, ...
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RBTT cops HRMAJ Innovation Award

Jamaica Observer - Kingston,Jamaica
RBTT Bank Jamaica Limited was the recipient of the prestigious Human Resource Association of Jamaica (HRMAJ) Innovation 2009 Award for its Project Recast ...
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SAMAA TV Applauded For Best Practices In Innovation Journalism And ...

PR Web (press release) - Ferndale,WA,USA
The VINNOVA-Stanford Research Center of Innovation Journalism held the 6th International Conference on Innovation Journalism at Stanford University. ...
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Using Innovation to Save the Auto Industry

Seeking Alpha - New York,NY,USA
A great article by Charles Mann in the June Wired quotes Henry Chesbrough as recommending open innovation. Noting the slow rate of change in the industry, ...
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Where are all the startups?

Santa Rosa Press Democrat - Santa Rosa,CA,USA
By NATHAN HALVERSON During a recession, innovation flourishes as laid-off workers with big dreams and lots of time take advantage of their suddenly free ...
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Innovation and inspiration

Financial Times - London,England,UK
DSM still goes by the initials that stood for Dutch State Mines when it was founded more than a century ago. The letters are one of a few constants for a ...
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[ THE WEEKENDER ] The virtues of innovation and minimalism

Taipei Times - Taiwan
By Ian Bartholomew and Diane Baker It is a rare thing for an executive producer to receive a standing ovation in a theater, but Kenneth Pai's production of ...
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Hoping a Commission Will Boost Innovation

The Moscow Times - Russia
Take, for example, the presidential commission on innovation that he will chair every month. Medvedev hopes to leave his legacy in this sphere. ...
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Wonga pushes web loan innovation

Financial Times - London,England,UK
However, Wonga is pushing innovation in this market, harnessing technology to create a faster, slicker, more foolproof service. ...
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Sunday, May 24, 2009

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The Stem Cell Facelift: A Promising Plastic Surgery Innovation

Make Me Heal - Los Angeles,CA,USA
By Lois W. Stern, Editor-at-Large, Makemeheal.com The world of plastic surgery seems poised for innovation once again! How about a facelift without surgery? ...
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Who Says Innovation Belongs to the Small?

New York Times - United States
By STEVE LOHR FOR more than a decade, the prevailing view of innovation has been that little guys had the edge. Innovation bubbled up from the bottom, ...
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Friday, May 22, 2009

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Innovation Leads Elastic Path to Red Herring 100 List

Earthtimes (press release) - London,UK
The Red Herring 100 winners were selected by the editors of Red Herring on the basis of financial performance, technology innovation, quality of management, ...
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Clean Energy and Intellectual Property

New York Times - United States
On Wednesday, that group and representatives of General Electric, Microsoft and Sunrise Solar gathered in Washington to launch the Innovation, ...
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Netcordia Named a Red Herring 100 North America Winner

Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco,CA,USA
This win culminates a recent surge of innovation and growth for Netcordia. In just the past few months, the company has released version 3.0 of its flagship ...
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Obama Affirms Importance of State Policy Innovation By Making ...

Progressive States Network - Helena,MT,USA
The Obama administration announced on Tuesday a comprehensive national standard aimed at improving fuel economy and auto emissions through the ...
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Newton County School System selected to received prestigious HP ...

Covington News - Covington,GA,USA
'The grant award from Hewlett Packard (HP) is just another example of the dedication and innovation of the teachers at Newton High School,' said Sams. ...
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Krause resigns from Kansas State Olathe Innovation Campus

Bizjournals.com - Charlotte,NC,USA
Bob Krause resigned Wednesday as director of economic development for the Kansas State Olathe Innovation Campus, effective immediately. ...
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Reuters Summit-Tech firms balance cost cuts and innovation

guardian.co.uk - UK
The obvious place to look is research and development budgets, which are typically the last things to get cut at tech companies that thrive on innovation. ...
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Thursday, May 21, 2009

Interop CIO Bootcamp: How CIOs Can Drive Innovation

InformationWeek - Manhasset,NY,USA
Interop Las Vegas this week featured a 2-day workshop for aspiring CIOs and one presenter described how CIOs can actively and effectively promote innovation ...
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Bioscience construction may start by end of year

Kansas City Star - MO,USA
By KEVIN WRIGHT Olathe could see construction begin for the first set of buildings in the Kansas Bioscience Park and K-State Olathe Innovation Campus at the ...
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Kofax and Its CEO Earn TechAmerica's Top High-Tech Innovation Awards

Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco,CA,USA
Presented by TechAmerica's Orange County and Inland Empire Councils, the 16 th Annual High-Tech Innovation Awards recognizes technology companies, ...
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Nanostart-held Namos Reaches Final Round of IQ Innovation Awards

Nanowerk LLC - Honolulu,HI,USA
(Nanowerk News) Dresden-based Namos gmbh, a portfolio company of Nanostart AG, has reached the final round of the IQ Innovation Awards for Central Germany ...
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Greener By Design: Why and How Innovation Matters

Reuters - USA
Nahikian described the method that Steelcase -- which has long been an innovator with green designs -- uses to make change as "radical innovation. ...
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Council for American Medical Innovation Applauds the Confirmation ...

PR Newswire (press release) - New York,NY,USA
WASHINGTON, May 20 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Council for American Medical Innovation today expressed its support for the appointment and confirmation ...
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Class and Innovation

Atlantic Online - USA
Today, we turn to the relationship between class and innovation. It's a well-established truism that innovation drives economic growth and development. ...
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Wednesday, May 20, 2009

The Demise of Business Innovation

Naples Daily News - Naples,FL,USA
The most frustrating experience in converting from the private enterprise world to a publicly traded company, was dealing with an act of Congress that was ...
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GeekDad Visits the Charles River Museum of Industry and Innovation

Wired News - USA
So we went to the Charles River Museum of Industry and Innovation to see what high-tech looked like in the 1800's. The Charles River Museum of Industry ...
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TechWeb's Enterprise 2.0 Conference Unveils 2009 Program ...

PR Newswire (press release) - New York,NY,USA
New to the event this year is the Open Innovation Award that will be presented to the most notable example of enterprise 2.0 tools and best practices for ...
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Wal-Mart Strives for Sustainability Through Innovation and ...

Reuters - USA
By Leslie Guevarra - Leslie Guevarra [Editor's Note: This is an excerpt from a podcast interview Leslie Guevarra conducted with Rand Waddoups, ...
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Bioscience authority awards $4M for medical composite research

Bizjournals.com - Charlotte,NC,USA
It's part of $21.7 million The Via Christi Orthopedic Research Institute will receive over five years to develop the Center of Innovation for Biomaterials ...
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Hunter Leaves behind a Spirit of Optimism, Opportunity and Innovation

Navy Compass - San Diego,CA,USA
Hunter's philosophy statement is one of optimism, opportunity and innovation, 'I choose to view every challenge or potential threat as an opportunity to ...
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Our Brave New Competitive World

Wall Street Journal - USA
Intel's arguments that innovation over the last decade was vibrant, that the market share of its main rival, AMD, actually increased, and the market ...
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TechAmerica Orange County names High-Tech Innovation honorees

OC Metro - Newport Beach,CA,USA
BY Michelle SlieffPublished: May 19, 2009 01:03 PM TechAmerica Orange County last week held its High-Tech Innovation Awards at the Hilton Costa Mesa. ...
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Yahoo fights back with innovation

USA Today - USA
Who says online search is the strict domain of Google, and that innovation is kaput? A Yahoo search on Beyonce, for example, produces her official site, ...
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Tuesday, May 19, 2009

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Only 2% of apprentices new staff

BBC News - UK
England's Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills says ministers' priority is for public sector apprenticeships to go to new recruits. ...
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D-Link Wins TechAmerica High-Tech Innovation Award for Its ...

Market Wire (press release) - USA
... has won the regional TechAmerica High-Tech Innovation Award for its excellence in initiating Green innovations throughout the company and its products. ...
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Bluewolf to Present Insurers with Innovation Through Cloud ...

Trading Markets (press release) - Los Angeles,CA,USA
... software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions that drive insurance industry innovation and increase productivity while keeping their costs under control. ...
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Small Business In the Quest for Innovation, Are Customers an Obstacle?

CIO Today - Woodland Hills,CA,USA
Can a company blunt its innovation edge if it listens to its customers too closely? Can its products become dull if they are tailored to match exactly what ...
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Google CEO urges grads to turn off computers

The Associated Press
The Class of 2009 is graduating in a tough economic climate, but Schmidt says such downturns can be a time for innovation. He noted that Rice Krispies, ...
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UW-Whitewater, city agree on tech park location

Bizjournals.com - Charlotte,NC,USA
The Innovation Center is projected to cost about $5 million, with the overall technology park having an estimated price tag of about $10 million. ...
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Technological innovation could fight cancer, Arkansas scientists say

Arkansas News - Little Rock,AR,USA
LITTLE ROCK --- Scientists at two Arkansas universities say they have developed a method of detecting, tracking and killing cancer cells using tiny carbon ...
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Two Ways: Apple's Latest Innovation - Affordability?

Minyanville.com - New York,USA
An analyst at Sanford Bernstein predicts Apple (AAPL) will soon announce a new version of the iphone in an effort to boost sales and reach more ...
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Proposed Innovation Way conservation measures seen as "weakandquot;

Orlando Sentinel - Orlando,FL,USA
Habitat protections were one of the thornier issues raised when the overall vision for Innovation Way was approved in 2006. Crotty pitched the project as a ...
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Monday, May 18, 2009

Read all 'Innovation and entrepreneurship' posts in Cutting Edge

CNET News - San Francisco,CA,USA
Contestants submit business plans, which are then reviewed by a panel of judges who evaluate the plans based on their innovation, creativity, and business ...
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ASU: Innovation key to unlocking student potential

Arizona Republic - Phoenix,AZ,USA
We can unlock Arizona's potential as an innovation economy by educating our students in a way that allows them to be creative, that empowers them to ...
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Innovation culls interest for Ed.D. students

Arizona Republic - Phoenix,AZ,USA
Hightower, who wants to be a superintendent one day, said the innovation of ASU West's program and the location intrigued her - as did the grouping of ...
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The Winners of the King Abdullah II Award for Youth Innovation and ...

Al-Bawaba - Amman,Jordan
The King Abdullah II Award for Youth Innovation and Achievement was launched by His Majesty King Abdullah II Ibn Al Hussein at the World Economic Forum on ...
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Futurist: Reality Show Innovation

CQPolitics.com - Washington,DC,USA
Proof that prizes can spur innovation is in the Smithsonian's original Air and Space Museum in downtown Washington. That's the retirement home of ...
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KELLNER: Tech innovation from the courts?

Washington Times - Washington,DC,USA
If the fine stands against a promised appeal by Intel President and Chief Executive Paul Otellini, it would be a dark day for technological innovation, ...
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Sunday, May 17, 2009

Pa. health-care innovation shows results

Philadelphia Inquirer - Philadelphia,PA,USA
By Josh Goldstein After a year, the first 32 medical practices to sign up for the Rendell administration's chronic-care initiative reported that their ...
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Neb. congressman's award to honor innovation

CNBC - Englewood Cliffs,USA
... 3rd District wants to recognize those in the district who've helped strengthen their community through innovation, hard work and entrepreneurship. ...
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Saturday, May 16, 2009

Innovation Fuels Begins Biodiesel Sales in Milwaukee

World Energy Alternatives News - Boston,MA,USA
Innovation Fuels has begun selling biodiesel at its Port of Milwaukee terminal, the first US terminal that is dedicated to renewable fuels, ...
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Forbes praises iPod, SAS Institute at NC CEO Forum

Bizjournals.com - Charlotte,NC,USA
'The basic truth is, it's innovation that creates demand,' Forbes said. Forbes was the keynote speaker at the forum, held at the Prestonwood Country Club in ...
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equals 85as Lilly CEO warns about effect of reform on innovation

Pharma Times - London,UK
He added that 'encouraging innovation needs to be the purpose of US healthcare reform, not its victim," saying that 'it's innovation that explains why we ...
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"Best Practices for Networked Innovation: The New Business ...

SYS-CON Media (press release) - Montvale,NJ,USA
Vertical*i, a leading provider of innovation management software solutions has just released an exciting new thought paper, titled 'Best Practices for ...
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The Gaslight Anthem at Sasquatch: innovation, authenticity and ...

Seattle Times - United States
The other night, two friends/music writers and I argued into the wee hours about innovation and authenticity in pop/rock/rap/dance music, whether they ...
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Trammell Crow becomes partner in Missouri Innovation Park

Bizjournals.com - Charlotte,NC,USA
Trammell Crow Co. has signed on to be a partner in the proposed Missouri Innovation Park in Blue Springs, Brien Starner, president of the Blue Springs ...
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Logical Innovation Wins MIT's $100K: Ksplice, Global Cycle

College Mogul - New York,NY,USA
... at this year's MIT $100K Entrepreneurship Competition all come from different competition "tracks,' they share one common theme: logical innovation. ...
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Plan B for Cyber Innovation Center

KTBS - Shreveport,LA,USA
The Cyber Innovation Center is being built across Interstate 20 from Barksdale Air Force Base, which has lost its efforts to be headquarters of the ...
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Friday, May 15, 2009

Seizing the Silver Lining Checklist #2: Innovation Potential

Bloomberg - USA
#2: Does your organization have a handle on the future potential of innovation projects and existing businesses? Like it or not, most companies are going to ...
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Technology Innovation Heats up Ultra Mobile Device Market

TMCnet - USA
By Narayan Bhat, TMCnet Contributor The battle has really begun to get fierce in the ultra mobile device (UMD) market as technological innovation has kept ...
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Will Intel face antitrust case in Australia?

ZDNet - USA
I wish to highlight the EU ruling is about consumers, who were hurt by Intel's illegal conduct, but now will benefit from greater choice, innovation and ...
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Ballmer says innovation key to recovery

Computerworld - Framingham,MA,USA
In today's podcast: Ballmer says innovation key to recovery; Jobs not expected to appear at Apple's WWDC; Intel says EU testing antitrust law limits. ...
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Fear and Looting in America: Innovation or Casino Capitalism?

Huffington Post - New York,NY,USA
Every time someone calls for new financial regulations, Wall Street hoists the bloody flag of financial innovation: "If you regulate us, you will stifle ...
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Don't stomp on innovation, Lilly CEO urges DC

Indianapolis Star - United States
"Above all, health care reform must sustain and encourage innovation," Lechleiter said in a luncheon speech to the US Chamber of Commerce in Washington. ...
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African Think Tanks Receive $30 Million to Promote Innovation

Voice of America - USA
Twenty-four African think tanks from Kenya to Senegal will receive long term, flexible funding to create a space for innovation and research in Africa's ...
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Thursday, May 14, 2009

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Innovation Fuels selling biodiesel from port

Bizjournals.com - Charlotte,NC,USA
Innovation Fuels is shipping biodiesel fuel to customers around the world via the St. Lawrence Seaway from the Port of Milwaukee renewable fuels hub and ...
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Read all 'Innovation and entrepreneurship' posts in Cutting Edge

CNET News - San Francisco,CA,USA
But that won't stop innovation." As to what's next for the industry, Moore and Last agreed that "silicon reigns supreme" for now. Moore said that whatever ...
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EPA Recognizes Innovation in Clean Air Projects

U.S. EPA.gov (press release) - Washington,DC,USA
'This year's winners have built on that tradition of innovation to show what is possible in protecting human health and the environment. ...
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Intel Fined $1.45 Billion by EU for Antitrust Violations

PC Perspectives - Florence,KY,USA
Source: NYTimes Intel limited consumer choice and stifled innovation by preventing innovative products for which there was a consumer demand from reaching ...
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BR Chamber supports 'innovation agenda' bills

2TheAdvocate - Baton Rouge,LA,USA
The bills also double the Small Business Innovation Research credit portion of the program and make that credit refundable and extend the program from the ...
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Windows 7: Paint a Lemon and Call it Innovation?

ZDNet UK - UK
So you've got to be asking why is a company like Microsoft (a company historically championed for their innovation) being compared to a shady auto dealer. ...
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Luna Innovations Incorporated Q1 2009 Earnings Call Transcript

Seeking Alpha - New York,NY,USA
Thank you for your interest in Luna Innovations. With me today are Dr. Kent Murphy, the CEO of the company, Dale Messick, the Chief Financial Officer and ...
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Wednesday, May 13, 2009

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Seizing the Silver Lining Checklist #1: The Imperative

Bloomberg - USA
By Scott Anthony In just a few weeks, Harvard Business Publishing will release The Silver Lining: An Innovation Playbook for Uncertain Times. ...
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Fed's Lockhart says too soon to breathe easy

Reuters - USA
"We don't want to regulate innovation away but we do want to enable policy to evolve with it," he said. "In my view the goal should be to preserve the ...
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Hunt nominated for innovation award

Galesburg Register-Mail - Galesburg,IL,USA
... success of his process to generate electricity from water by using hydrogen is his nomination for the National Medal of Technology and Innovation. ...
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UK innovation nanotechnology patent landscape analysis

Nanowerk LLC - Honolulu,HI,USA
This reports on all UK patent data and reflects on UK innovation in the field of nanotechnology. The document can be downloaded from the nanoKTN website ...
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Discovery 09 Innovation and Technology Showcase Kicks Into High ...

Market Wire (press release) - USA
More than 2100 people flocked to Discovery 09 at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre, proving that innovation is recession-proof. ...
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Budget Cuts Threaten Innovation in the Classroom

Huffington Post - New York,NY,USA
Technology has changed our lives dramatically in the last 15 years. In what other place do you go today where it looks almost exactly like what it did when ...
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Tuesday, May 12, 2009

GE commits US$6bn to healthcare innovation

MTBeurope - UK
GE has announced a US$3 billion budget for the next six years for healthcare innovation aimed at delivering better care to more people at lower cost. ...
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Wolverine iPhone App Features Intriguing Innovation

Kotaku.com - New York,NY,USA
While the free X-Men Origins: Wolverine Feral Senses application for the iPhone is little more than a marketing tool for the console game, ...
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May is Student Design and Innovation Month--Enormous Growth Potential

BusinessWeek - USA
Students at design/innovation schools present their work publicly to their professors, peers and parents at the end of the semester. ...
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Kellogg Innovation Network (KIN) Hosts 'Etudes for Innovation'

Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco,CA,USA
'Etudes for Innovation is an exceptionally diverse and inspiring program featuring renowned international artists and innovators, 'said Rob C. Wolcott, ...
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To develop 'innovation economy,' Minnesotans urged to pull together

Finance and Commerce - Minneapolis,MN,USA
Tim Pawlenty vetoed a $262 million economic development bill that would have created a commission to foster the state's 'innovation economy. ...
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Cyber Innovation building sprouting quickly on I-20

Monroe News Star - Monroe,LA,USA
BOSSIER CITY --- The wind almost howls through the open expanse that is the fifth floor of the Cyber Innovation Center's headquarters building rapidly rising ...
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Smith: Encouraging invention and innovation

Austin American-Statesman - Austin,TX,USA
But to continue leading the world in innovation and invention, our patent system must be updated. Our system has become plagued with lawsuits from holders ...
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Monday, May 11, 2009

Yuma campus can be seedbed for innovation

Yuma Sun - Yuma,AZ,USA
BY TERRY ROSS, NEWS AND INFORMATION CENTER DIRECTOR It is possible that a long-needed change in higher education in Arizona could be in the offing due to ...
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Time line: At Stanford University, 100 years of innovation

San Jose Mercury News - CA, USA
Federal Telegraph and Telephone is founded by Stanford graduate student Cyril Ewell to commercialize arc transmitter technology developed by Valdemar ...
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Innovation in Caledonia

Journal Times - Racine,WI,USA
By Michael Burke CALEDONIA --- Unico will put its oil-pumping system up against anyone else's in the world. Since unveiling its Linear Rod Pump, or LRP, ...
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Team approach to innovation

Salt Lake Tribune - United States
By Celia R. Baker Ballet West's Hua Zhuang and Josey Silva in Peggy Dolkas' "Yes, but how did you get there?," part of the "Innovations" new choreography ...
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Tropicalia: Chris Keopfer's legacy will be his innovation

The News-Press - Fort Myers,FL,USA
By Kevin Lollar * klollar@news-press.com * May 10, 2009 If you've done much diving or fishing in the Gulf of Mexico off Lee County, you owe a large part of ...
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Swine flu crisis spurs innovation

Buffalo News - NY, United States
But a crisis can be used to spur innovation that could save lives, said Backer and others. 'The alarm has gone off,' he said. 'It's shown us that we don't ...
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Cyber Innovation post on Bossier horizon

Monroe News Star - Monroe,LA,USA
... fifth floor of the Cyber Innovation Center's headquarters building rapidly rising on newly cleared acres just east of Bossier Parish Community College. ...
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Sunday, May 10, 2009

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Keeping Mass. an innovation leader

Boston Globe - United States
... Harvard and the University of Massachusetts will drive the scientific and business innovation that will lead Massachusetts to a bright economic future. ...
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Launch of Imagine H2O Encourages Innovation in Water

Elites TV - Dickinson,TX,USA
The aim is to develop the Silicon Valley for water, an ecosystem of stakeholders to the next great water innovations. Water supply is perhaps our most ...
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R1 Intel, a Worldwide Provider of Global Innovation and ...

PR Web (press release) - Ferndale,WA,USA
R1 Intel equals 99 Introduces Technology Innovation Monitors, Entrepreneur Patent Roadmap equals 99, Executive Innovation Dashboard equals 99, Inventor Watch equals 99 and Technology ...
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Science innovations helps dryland farmers deal with food ...

Xinhua - China
In such a scenario, only crop research and innovation can empower these farmers to cope with the crisis, leading researchers feel, said a international farm ...
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GE to expend $3 billion on healthcare innovation

What is the Word - Navi Mumbai,Maharashtra,India
What is the basic intention of this healthcare innovation? It has been learnt that the basic objective is to help provide better care to more people and at ...
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Data, Not Design, Is King in the Age of Google

New York Times - United States
By MIGUEL HELF CAN a company blunt its innovation edge if it listens to its customers too closely? Can its products become dull if they are tailored to ...
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Saturday, May 9, 2009

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Massachusetts innovation vs. Silicon Valley tech culture

Mass High Tech - MA, USA
Silicon Valley's strength is the art of the deal; Boston's strength is the art of innovation, according to observers. 'I'm looking out my window into ...
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Pay-For-Performance Compensation Limits Innovation

InformationWeek - Manhasset,NY,USA
In one paper, "Is Pay-for-Performance Detrimental to Innovation?", Manso and Ederer describe the results of a commerce experiment conducted with three ...
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OCE Mind to Market Award Finalists Reinforce Ontario's Innovation ...

SYS-CON Media (press release) - Montvale,NJ,USA
Taking place May 11th and 12th in Toronto, Discovery is Canada's premier innovation and commercialization event and expects to attract over 2100 leading ...
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Strategyn Hosting Second Annual Global Innovation Conference in ...

Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco,CA,USA
Generating innovation ideas using the world's most powerful creativity triggers (a third breakthrough). Strategyn CEO Tony Ulwick will deliver two keynote ...
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Discovery 09 Shows There's No Recession for Ontario Innovation

SYS-CON Media (press release) - Montvale,NJ,USA
"In the current economic climate, innovation is crucial to Ontario's success and global competitiveness, and that's what Discovery 09 is all about," said ...
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Orlando a top spot for innovation

Bizjournals.com - Charlotte,NC,USA
Fast Company magazine's June issue places Orlando on a list of 12 cities around the world that offer the best environments for innovation. ...
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Secondary Sources: Deflation, Financial Innovation, Dollar Alternative

Wall Street Journal Blogs - New York,NY,USA
Financial Innovation: Writing for the Peterson Institute's Real Time Economics Issues Watch blog, Adam Posen and Marc Hinterschweiger look at how useful ...
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BFTP: Epidemic Innovation in Open Source Insurgency

Global Guerrillas - USA
Within open source insurgencies, innovation occurs quickly. A good way to understand why, is to treat the spread of tactical innovation from one group to ...
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Friday, May 8, 2009

The Recovery Starts Here---Xconomy Announces XSITE 2009 Event to ...

Xconomy - Cambridge,MA,USA
But every day here at Xconomy we write about the unrelenting pace of innovation and see firsthand how, if anything, the pace has picked up during the ...
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GE launches $6B healthcare initiative

FierceHealthcare - Washington,DC,USA
GE has announced plans to spend $6 billion in a new healthcare initiative focused not only on its core area of health IT, but also on healthcare innovation ...
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Commerce Secretary Locke: Adversity encourages innovation

Bizjournals.com - Charlotte,NC,USA
Locke's presentation was billed as a 'Town Hall Meeting on Innovation and the Economy.' He said it is up to each community to decide where its future lies. ...
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Innovation Pressure

Atlantic Online - USA
He goes on at some length about what a bold innovation up-tempo basketball is, and how it completely changes the game in favor of the scrappy underdog. ...
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The IBM Mainframe: 50 Years of Big Iron Innovation

eWeek - New York, NY
Initially built for the US Department of Defense. The first production machine shipped from Poughkeepsie, NY, to the IBM Technical Computing Bureau at World ...
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Karsten reaches 50 far bettering its age in innovations

CBSSports.com - USA
It's almost mind-boggling to consider all the innovations Karsten Solheim brought to clubmaking. But taking stock of his achievements every so often helps ...
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Darzi bid to drive NHS innovation

Healthcare Republic - USA
Health minister Lord Darzi wants to target innovation in primary care, he tells Tom Moberly. NHS attitudes to innovation need to be shaken up so that new ...
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Activision Promising Biggest Music Game Innovations Since Original ...

G4 TV - Los Angeles,CA,USA
Activision Blizzard is promising 2009 will be the year music games experience such a shift with the combination of DJ Hero and currently secret innovations ...
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Thursday, May 7, 2009

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Mayor Heartwell's message to auto recovery official: See our ...

Michigan Business Review - MLive.com - Ann Arbor,MI,USA
... Rapids isn't waiting for the federal government to help it, but it welcomes change Washington can deliver to encourage innovation and job creation. ...
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$50 Million Social Innovation Fund To Target Education, Health ...

The NonProfit Times - Morris Plains,NJ,USA
Those themes will key the $50 million Social Innovation Fund approved as part of the $5.7-billion Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act, signed by President ...
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Bayer CropScience expanding, creating 128 jobs in Morrisville

Bizjournals.com - Charlotte,NC,USA
But the company now plans to open a new Bayer CropScience Research and Development Innovation Center in Morrisville, where it will lease existing laboratory ...
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Putnam's Reynolds Focuses on Innovation

Financial-Planning.com - New York,NY,USA
By John Morgan, Money Management Executive Robert L. Reynolds loves a challenge. Without question, he certainly faces one. Trying to restore Putnam ...
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The new Kindle's big innovation: A higher price

VentureBeat - Fremont,CA,USA
As expected, Amazon announced a new version of its Kindle eBook reader today, with a larger screen for reading newspapers and textbooks. ...
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Canada's progress in science, innovation mediocre, study finds

Globe and Mail - Canada
The study by the Science, Technology and Innovation Council tracks Canada's performance by an array of measures including federal and business spending on ...
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Does the White House Office of Social Innovation Need a Different ...

Chronicle of Philanthropy (subscription) - USA
... expert and Chronicle contributor, isn't thrilled with the details that have begun to emerge about the White House Office of Social Innovation. ...
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Fed lab head pushes for innovation in green energy

Forbes - NY,USA
"The US has the best innovation engine in the world. We risk losing that if we don't invest" in research and development, Arvizu said at the Denver ...
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Wednesday, May 6, 2009

Innovation provides critical research funding at MSU

Lansing State Journal - Lansing,MI,USA
WASHINGTON - Michigan State University horticulture professor James Hancock was several years into his breeding experiments before he realized he was onto ...
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Kofax and Its CEO Named as Finalists for TechAmerica's High-Tech ...

Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco,CA,USA
Presented by TechAmerica's Orange County and Inland Empire councils, the 16 th Annual High-Tech Innovation Awards recognize local technology companies, ...
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Energy Innovation Group Projects 500000 Unit California ...

SYS-CON Media (press release) - Montvale,NJ,USA
Energy Innovation Group is already engaged in significant energy efficiency and demand response marketing and has identified corporate and utility interest ...
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President Obama's three percent solution

Reuters - USA
Now is the time to make technology and innovation a cornerstone. In the last three months we have made a good start, making broadband, health-care ...
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Innovation Expo Will Spotlight and Promote New Ideas

PR Newswire (press release) - New York,NY,USA
DETROIT, May 5 /PRNewswire/ -- In addition to interactive discussions with our nation's top leaders, The National Summit will feature Innovation Expo, ...
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Canadian Science, Tech Council Pushes For Innovation

AHN - USA
Ottawa, Ontario (AHN) - On its first public report slated for release Tuesday, Canada's Science, Technology and Innovation Council came to the conclusion ...
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Maybe a textbook case for innovation

Marketplace - Los Angeles,CA,USA
Some may be skeptical, but the device could bring innovation to the textbook industry. Janet Babin reports. Steve Chiotakis: Digital book readers have ...
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Obama asks for $50M for non-profits

The Associated Press
First lady Michelle Obama planned to tell an audience at a New York City magazine party Tuesday night that the White House Office of Social Innovation and ...
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paidContent.org - @ Digital Hollywood: Tracking The Innovation And ...

Washington Post - United States
Where's the best place to find examples of innovation and monetization in digital content? Big media companies with massive budgets? VC-backed indie studios ...
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Tuesday, May 5, 2009

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Promotional Products Retailer 4imprint 'Building a Culture of ...

PR Web (press release) - Ferndale,WA,USA
Those cultural differences are the topic of 'Building a Culture of Innovation,' a new white paper from imprinted items retailer 4imprint, available at ...
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Scicom cuts work force by 145 at primary US operations in Tampa

Bizjournals.com - Charlotte,NC,USA
So far this year, 11898 workers across the state have lost their jobs, according to Workforce Innovation, up 57 percent from the 7578 reported statewide by ...
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Lectra Showcases Latest Innovations for Industrial Fabrics at the ...

SYS-CON Media (press release) - Montvale,NJ,USA
Lectra (booth #2108) will showcase its latest innovations for automating wind blade development and production, the vectortechtexfx cutting solution for ...
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X Prize Offered for Health Care Innovation

Voice of America - USA
Since then, the foundation that sponsors the X Prize has offered other incentives for technical innovation. The latest is the $10 million Healthcare X Prize ...
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Navigon Exits US; Will It Take GPS Innovation With It?

PC Magazine - USA
Navigon is going to refocus its resources on software development, so weand#39;ll continue to see the results of their innovations in other manufacturers' ...
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Preserving innovation marks Chrysler's best hope of surviving ...

MLive.com - MI,USA
But the only element that absolutely must survive Chrysler's bankruptcy process is innovation. Many critics would argue that Chrysler's engineering and ...
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Monday, May 4, 2009

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Kingsport in running for Innovations Award

Kingsport Times News - Kingsport,TN,USA
The Ash Institute for Democratic Governance and Innovation at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University has announced the 2009 Top 50 ...
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Sikh Student Part of the Innovation Group for Zero-Pollution Motorbike

Panthic Weekly - Concord,CA,USA
The innovation by the students at the Guru Nanak Dev Ji Engineering collage is being considered a massive step towards the development of more economical ...
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UC San Diego's 'Campus-to-Community' Innovations Boost California ...

Newswise (press release) - USA
For the year ending in June 2008, UC San Diego reported 364 new innovations -- averaging one a day for every day of the year -- adding to the campus's ...
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Obama's Lisbon Agenda

Wall Street Journal - USA
Mr. Obama practiced innovation instead of just talking about it. This is in stark contrast to the European way of fabricating carefully negotiated, ...
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Sunday, May 3, 2009

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Shell's Perdido platform provides lessons in innovation

Houston Chronicle - United States
By KRISTEN HAYS Perdido's project manager, Dale Snyder, says the platform's remote location required a string of innovations. The annual Offshore Technology ...
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Cyber Innovation Center anchor rising

Shreveport Times - Shreveport,LA,USA
By John Andrew Prime * jprime@gannett.com * May 2, 2009 The wind almost howls through the open expanse that is the fifth floor of the Cyber Innovation ...
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Innovation and cooperation work wonders

The News Journal - Wilmington,DE,USA
Driving north on I-495 this week it was hard to miss the flashing sign: andquot;Safe Surrender Exit Ahead." The sign pointed the way to New Destiny Fellowship ...
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An Onus of Innovation

Insurance Networking News - New York,NY,USA
By INN Editorial Staff May 1, 2009 A survey reveals that businesses are looking toward their information technology departments as a source of innovation. ...
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Innovations set to leap into public view

Financial Times - London,England,UK
By Tim Bradshaw The bbc's research and innovation labs are focused on bringing the latest technology into the public domain, Tim Bradshaw reports . ...
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Saturday, May 2, 2009

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Steve Blow: Psychiatrist says he has an eye for innovation

Dallas Morning News - Dallas,TX,USA
It was a first in my 35 years in journalism -- a news release from someone announcing he had been branded a kook. It's not nice to stare, but that's how Dr. ...
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The PANIIT 2009 Global Conference: Entrepreneurship and Innovation ...

International Business Times - New York,NY,USA
... HP Labs, Hewlett Packard Corporation are just a few of the speakers that will be addressing the PANIIT 2009 audience on innovation and entrepreneurship. ...
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The Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum Presents ...

Media Newswire (press release) - New York,NY,USA
In fall 2009, Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum will present "Design USA: Contemporary Innovation," an exhibition celebrating the accomplishments of the ...
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Stanford Social Innovation Review Honored With 2009 Maggie Award ...

Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco,CA,USA
(BUSINESS WIRE)--Stanford Social Innovation Review has been honored with a 2009 Maggie Award for its successful redesign. Judged on its editorial package, ...
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GETTING PERSONAL: Downturn Weeds ETFs, Innovation Continues

Wall Street Journal - USA
However, innovation is continuing, and launches this year include a hedge-fund replication ETF and bond ETFs. Interest and pioneering in these resilient ...
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Innovation Works invested $5.4 million in 84 companies last year

Bizjournals.com - Charlotte,NC,USA
By directly investing $5.4 million in 84 companies last year, Innovation Works became the third most active seed-stage investor in the country. ...
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US Continues to Lead on Innovation, Says LCD Pioneer

Wired News - USA
America is facing an innovation crisis as the federal government has cut back on spending, other experts have said. Heilmeir isn't buying that. ...
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Brand Velocity's Knowledge-Worker Innovation

BusinessWeek - USA
By Rick Wartzman Jack Bergstrand, who used to oversee information technology at Coca-Cola (KO), launched the consulting firm five years ago with a goal of ...
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The Best Business Model

BusinessWeek - USA
Business model innovation is often self-defeating and self-destructive. The real problem with business model innovation is that it dilutes the incentives to ...
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Friday, May 1, 2009

RTI Biologics Highlights Biologic Innovations at 2009 Arthroscopy ...

Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco,CA,USA
'We are excited to highlight our most recent innovations, along with our expansive existing portfolio of products.' The RTI Biologics Sports Medicine booth ...
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Sterling Commerce Announces Innovation Award Winners at Customer ...

Market Wire (press release) - USA
... 2009 Innovation Awards, which recognize companies that have demonstrated innovation and vision in applying technology to achieve competitive advantage. ...
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NineSigma Report Benchmarks State of Open Innovation

NewsFactor Network - Woodland Hills,CA,USA
CLEVELAND, Ohio --- April 29, 2009 --- NineSigma, the leading provider of open innovation solutions, today released the results of its first open innovation ...
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