Innovation Hot Spots: Thomson Reuters Analysis of World Patent ...

PR Newswire (press release) - New York,NY,USA
The research paper, Innovation Hot Spots: Mining Patent Data for Tomorrow's Breakthroughs, tracks unique inventions published in patent applications and ...
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Eco-innovation 'offers opportunity'

Irish Times - Dublin,Ireland
New 'eco-innovation' technologies being developed in Ireland and elsewhere offer a major opportunity for the EU economy, the Environmental Protection Agency ...
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The Silver Lining: An Innovation Playbook for Uncertain Times

T+D - Alexandria,VA,USA
Maybe the answer lies in the subtitle: An Innovation Playbook for Uncertain Times. Anthony focuses on innovation as a performance indicator for companies. ...
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Venture Capital: Innovation, or Big Business in Disguise?

Huffington Post - New York,NY,USA
Steve King at Small Biz Labs this morning has a good summary of the debate about venture capital and government-funded Small Business Innovation Research ...
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UK Govt To Invest GBP150M In New Innovation Fund

Wall Street Journal - USA
Lord Drayson, Minister for Science and Innovation, said GBP100 million of the GBP150 million will come from the Department of Business, Innovation and ...
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Predicting Innovation

Atlantic Online - USA
As for modeling innovation, that's always been the Achilles heel of economic forecasting. In this piece, Eban Goodstein and Hart Hodges trace a history of ...
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Gov. Perry Announces $250000 Emerging Technology Fund Investment ...

KOSA - Odessa,TX,USA
'The ETF is super-charging the research environment in our state and propelling us to the forefront of technology innovation by harnessing amazing ideas and ...
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Using Design to Drive Innovation

BusinessWeek - USA
More recently, it's been innovation, innovation, innovation. As design thinking seems poised to sweep away some of today's celebrated innovation practices, ...
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At Newseum, great minds gather to explore innovation

Philadelphia Inquirer - Philadelphia,PA,USA
Those were just a few crumbs tossed off at what was billed as "a summit on the state of innovation," but felt closer to an old-fashioned salon. ...
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Letters: Fossil fuel curbs force energy innovation

Amarillo.com - Amarillo,TX,USA
What she fails to mention is that the curbs on fossil-fuel use will force innovation to clean energy which will produce new jobs. ...
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Science Fiction and Tech Innovation

Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies - Hartford,CT,USA
io9's head honcho Annalee Newitz talks about the relationship of science fiction and technological innovation at Webstock09. 'Just two decades ago, ...
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Education requires innovation, technology and infrastructure

Livemint - Delhi,Delhi,India
We need to focus on new processes and innovation. I do not agree with the criticism that the government is emphasizing higher education at the cost of ...
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Innovation taskforce appointed to advise Government

Irish Times - Dublin,Ireland
TAOISEACH BRIAN Cowen has announced the appointment of an innovation taskforce to advise the Government on its strategy for positioning Ireland as an ...
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US Energy Secretary Chu looks to innovation to solve warming crisis

Palo Alto Online - Palo Alto,CA,USA
During a two-hour lecture at times punctuated with humor, Chu told SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory scientists that science and innovation will be ...
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BMW 7 Series Takes Innovation Lead in the Luxury Class

Autochannel (press release) - USA
MULGRAVE, AUSTRALIA -- June June 26, 2009: The new 7 Series features a host of cutting edge new technologies, many of which are not offered by key rivals, ...
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Six Myths of Innovation

CIO Insight - Northbrook,IL,USA
By Samuel Greengard Technology drives innovation. You've heard this one before, but it's easily lost amid the daily hubbub: Technology merely facilitates ...
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Innovation Fuels Consolidates NY Offices

Truck.Net (press release) - Lebanon,MO,USA
Syracuse, NY, -- Innovation Fuels, the New York based renewable energy company that manufactures, markets, and distributes second-generation biodiesel to ...
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When it comes to the economy, innovate to stimulate

Newsday - Long Island,NY,USA
The keys to economic prosperity are an entrepreneurial spirit and openness to innovation, but these must constantly be nourished by scientific research. ...
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A reader's guide to Clay Christensen and disruptive innovation

FastForward Blog - Boston,MA,USA
It started from a simple observation that transformative innovations that reshaped competitive landscapes and created new industries almost invariable came ...
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The Mother of Innovation

The People's Voice - Nashville,TN,USA
China is seeking profound industrial and commercial innovation and a primary position in the world's economies. By focusing on birth ratios as the symptom ...
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Letters: Government as Innovator

New York Times - United States
Re 'Can Government Till the Fields of Innovation?' (Unboxed, June 21), which examined national efforts around the world to turn ideas into products and ...
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HEARING OF THE\, SUBCOMMITTEE ON TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION OF THE ...

Federal News Service (subscription) - Washington,DC,USA
WITNESSES: GREGORY C. WILSHUSEN, DIRECTOR, INFORMATION SECURITY ISSUES, GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE; MARK BREGMAN, EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT AND CHIEF ...
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Innovation called vital for biotech to survive

San Francisco Chronicle - CA, USA
Biotech firms need a new burst of innovation in fields like diagnostic testing and biofuels production to adapt to a changing marketplace, a veteran biotech ...
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Genachowski Approved as FCC Chairman

Wired News - USA
Genachowski, a former law school classmate of President Obama's, chaired the advisory committee that came up with the president's technology and innovation ...
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Reform must protect US lead in medical innovation

The News Journal - Wilmington,DE,USA
The US health care system leads the world in medical innovation. Strengths of the current system include many of the world's top physicians, ...
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How Stanford's Knight Fellowships are revamping for innovation

Nieman Journalism Lab at Harvard - Cambridge,MA,USA
The Knight Fellowships at Stanford are in the process of stepping away from that sameness by refocusing the program on innovation and entrepreneurship. ...
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Innovation persists in Tampa Bay

Tampa Bay Business Journal - Tampa,FL,USA
'I was quick to realize the potential of these innovations out into the marketplace,' said Fries. USF receives licensing and royalty fees on the technology ...
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GE to Build $100M Energy, Smart Grid Innovation Center in Michigan

Earth2Tech - San Francisco,CA,USA
But Michigan is hoping to build more than factories --- we're also beginning to see what might be the seeds of an innovation economy. ...
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O'Brien: Boston tech scene on the rebound

San Jose Mercury News - CA, USA
I lived in Cambridge from 2006 to 2007 and I remain incredibly fond of the place and impressed by its innovation economy. But as anyone who has watched San ...
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IBM touts encryption innovation

NetworkWorld.com - Southborough,MA,USA
By Michael Cooney , Network World , 06/25/2009 IBM today is saying one of its researchers has made it possible for computer systems to perform calculations ...
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MSU, Motorola Foundation partner to inspire tomorrow's innovators

MSU Today - East Lansing,MI,USA
Michigan State University's College of Engineering has received an Innovation Generation grant from the Motorola Foundation to bring middle school and high ...
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Microsoft: UK leads way in innovation

CRN - UK - London,England,UK
UK IT decision makers are devoting more of their budget to innovation than their counterparts in the US and Germany, according to a study commissioned by ...
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Expanding the Portfolio of School Innovations

Huffington Post - New York,NY,USA
Innovation is the current coin of the realm, pursued by the private and public sectors as the fountain of youth that will revive our ailing economy and ...
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Xconomy Summit Hits Boston: Lessons on Innovation, Plans for ...

Xconomy - Cambridge,MA,USA
Indeed, there were plenty of signs that the innovation economy is on the mend yesterday at XSITE, The Xconomy Summit on Innovation, Technology, ...
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Casino report touts benefits to Pa. of table games

Philadelphia Inquirer - Philadelphia,PA,USA
The 28-page economic analysis, compiled by Denver-based Innovation Group and paid for by three companies that own casinos in the state, comes as momentum ...
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Two Bills To Renew SBIR Program Clash On VC Inclusion

Wall Street Journal - USA
By Tomio Geron A bill that would reauthorize the Small Business Innovation Research program was unanimously passed, 22-0, Thursday by the House Committee on ...
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The Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology and the Motorola ...

FOXBusiness - USA
The Motorola Foundation's Innovation Generation grants support programs that engage students in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) to build ...
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Stonebranch Presents World-Class Speakers at Innovation Europe 2009

SYS-CON Media (press release) - Montvale,NJ,USA
At Innovation Europe, participants have the unique opportunity to talk directly to Frank Kenney in scheduled one-on-one meetings about their company's ...
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Mayo Clinic Center for Innovation to Sponsor a Collaborative ...

PR Newswire (press release) - New York,NY,USA
ROCHESTER, Minn., June 24 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Mayo Clinic Center for Innovation will host Transform, a collaborative symposium on innovations in ...
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MarketLive Launches Client Innovations(TM) to Accelerate eCommerce ...

SYS-CON Media (press release) - Montvale,NJ,USA
MarketLive Client Innovations combines leading eCommerce technologies with proven Intelligent Selling(TM) best practices to boost overall retail business ...
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UK leads the world in IT innovation and green issues

Computing - London,UK
UK IT managers devote more of their budget to innovation and green IT than their global counterparts, according to a Microsoft-commissioned survey carried ...
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INNOVATION: Good ideas are not enough

North County Times - Escondido,CA,USA
A lack of any one of those four "C"s means the innovation probably won't be adopted. Dan Cook knows this lesson through tough experience with his ...
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EMC announces RandD expansion in Cambridge

Boston Herald - United States
The Hopkinton-based information storage provider has launched EMC Research Cambridge, which will focus on boosting emerging technology innovation and ...
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UK leads on green IT, innovation, investment

IT PRO - London,England,UK
By Miya Knights, 24 Jun 2009 at 08:15 IT professionals in the UK are devoting more budget to innovation and green issues than their counterparts in the US, ...
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Mobile phone users could get call rate discounts of up to 99 ...

MarketWatch - USA
The Ericsson mobile Innovation Center was founded in 2008 to develop mobile applications focusing on meeting the needs of poor and rural populations. ...
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Pharma pros asked to share knowledge

Bizjournals.com - Charlotte,NC,USA
It aims to be the catalyst for "engineering pharmaceutical innovation" by providing members with opportunities to develop technical knowledge, ...
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US to Lend Billions to Ford, Nissan for Fuel-Efficient Vehicles

Washington Post - United States
... the president's new fuel standards," said Energy Secretary Steven Chu, addressing a crowd at Ford's Research and Innovation Center in Dearborn, Mich. ...
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SBA and IEEE-USA Partner to Promote Innovation, Job Growth

Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco,CA,USA
... are established in electrical engineering, computer science, and related disciplines dedicated to fostering technological innovation and excellence. ...
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BioWave Innovations, LLC and ComVest Capital, LLC to Invest $1.5 ...

Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco,CA,USA
OB) is pleased to announce that it has received a $1.5 Million investment in growth capital and debt restructuring from BioWave Innovations, LLC and ComVest ...
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America's Health Care Priorities IV: Businesses, Competition and ...

New York Times - United States
The third batch --- about businesses, competition and innovation --- is below. Find other proposals from economists, patient and consumer advocates, doctors, ...
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Stanford Program in Design Thinking Advances Long-Range Innovation ...

Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco,CA,USA
Leifer has delivered innovation workshops to companies worldwide, including SAP, Ford, Nokia, Siemens, Intel and Audi. 'Businesses are moving fast and we ...
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Survey: US Spending Least on IT 'Innovation'

InternetNews.com - New York,NY,USA
The trick is how to keep innovation going under the current tight budgetary situations, so that IT shops can capitalize on a rising economy when the ...
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Blue Vector Wins CompTIA's 2009 SoftwareCEO Innovation Award

Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco,CA,USA
(BUSINESS WIRE)--Blue Vector today announced that the company has won CompTIA SoftwareCEO magazine's 2009 Software Innovation Award. ...
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Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) -- Proliferation of 3G and continued focus ...

Research Oracle - London,England,UK
High unit shipment growth expected in iphone business: Apple Incorporated (Apple) successfully ventured into the mobile communication business with the ...
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SurePayroll Wins 2009 CompTIA SoftwareCEO Innovation Award

PR Web (press release) - Ferndale,WA,USA
By winning a SoftwareCEO Software Innovation award, SurePayroll has demonstrated it is at the forefront of innovation. On behalf of the worldwide membership ...
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World Workplace 2009 Conference and Expo Brings Latest Workplace ...

Emediawire (press release) - Ferndale,WA,USA
He will make the case that going green -- especially during an economic slowdown -- saves money to help you survive, drives innovation to create value for ...
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Two WMU initiatives named state innovation finalists

WMU News - Kalamazoo,MI,USA
That evening, the 2009 Innovation Michigan Exposition will be held at Grand Valley State University's Pew Campus in Grand Rapids, and eight of the 39 ...
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Energy Innovation Should Trump Job Creation

BusinessWeek - USA
Transforming our national energy system will require broad public support and collaborative innovation across sectors. The current economic crisis is a ...
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Patent Legislation Will Stifle Innovation

Worcester Business Journal - Worcester,MA,USA
The ability to think up an invention, patent it and subsequently make money off the idea is central to continued innovation. There are many instances where ...
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New Beach school hopes to mix innovation, success

The Virginian-Pilot - Norfolk,VA,USA
In order to get the best experience with our full-size images, you should enable JavaScript in your browser. The stakes are high for the city's first ...
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The Family Business Consulting Group Publishes Article on ...

PR Web (press release) - Ferndale,WA,USA
Senior associate of The Family Business Consulting Group, Joe Schmieder, provides a summary of his recently published article, Innovation: The Worst of ...
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Educate and innovate was the idea at summit

Detroit Free Press - United States
And his ideas propelled this city, this state, and much of this nation through a grand century of prosperity derived from innovation. ...
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Special Report: Men's Fashion From South Korea, Innovation in Menswear

New York Times - United States
By REBECCA VOIGHT South Korea is shaping up as the next hotbed of innovative menswear, with three of its most prominent designers creating tailoring with a ...
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Name Dropping, June 21, 2009

San Jose Mercury News - CA, USA
This year's auction raised more than $100000 to help benefit the Fogarty Institute for Innovation. The Fogarty Institute for Innovation is a nonprofit ...
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Speed Up Tech Innovation

DefenseNews.com (subscription) - USA
By JACK CRONIN We need to change the way we think about innovation and precision. Affordable innovation is a change in precision systems where we focus not ...
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In Search of Innovation

Wall Street Journal - USA
The authors describe methods that successful companies use to keep innovation strong. By opening the site up, Lilly gets wider access to individuals and ...
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6/24/09: Global Markets, Local Business: Succeeding Through ...

Bizjournals.com - Charlotte,NC,USA
Join us as we continue exploring the successes of Columbus companies doing business oversees. Discover how being "international" can take on many forms. ...
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Innovation Insights, and How Microsoft Enabled the Internet, From ...

Xconomy - Cambridge,MA,USA
Ask Dan Rosen to define innovation, and he'll say it's 'a breakthrough in technology that leads to a business breakthrough.' Itand#39;s a concept that Rosen is ...
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Innovation in focus for Juneteenth

Columbus Dispatch - Columbus,OH,USA
Inside the pavilion, James Ince, a curator from the Museum of Black Inventions and Innovations based in Brooklyn, NY, asked the children who invented peanut ...
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Technology conference looks to future of innovation

News14.com - Charlotte,NC,USA
Business and technology leaders discussed the future and innovation of technology. The North Carolina Technology Association sponsored the event. ...
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Gray appointed interim director KS Innovation Center for Advanced ...

High Plains Journal - Dodge City,KS,USA
Leading science manager Jim Gray has been appointed Interim Director of the Kansas Innovation Center for Advanced Plant Design effective May 19. ...
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Florida's unemployment rate reaches 10.2% South Florida Business ...

Bizjournals.com - Charlotte,NC,USA
That translates to 943000 unemployed out of a labor force of 9.2 million, according to the Florida Agency for Workforce Innovation. ...
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Bing to define Microsoft's capability to innovate

TG Daily - USA
It seemed that Steve Ballmer was delivering pretty much on the expectations of Chicagoans when he talked about the opportunities of innovation and increase ...
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Openet Awarded 2009 INTERNET TELEPHONY equals C2 equals AE TMC Labs Innovation Award

TMCnet - USA
Partner Service Controls Solution Recognized for Exceptional Innovation DUBLIN, Ireland equals EF equals BF equals BDJune 19, 2009 equals EF equals BF equals BDOpenet, the leading provider of Transactional ...
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XConnect Wins Global Telecoms Business Innovation Award for Korean ...

SYS-CON Media (press release) - Montvale,NJ,USA
XConnect, the leader in Voice over IP (VoIP) and Next Generation Network (NGN) peering, today announced that it has received a 2009 Innovation Award from ...
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Central Florida jobless rate hits 10.2%

Bizjournals.com - Charlotte,NC,USA
... rate climbed into the double digits for the first time since 1976, hitting 10.2 percent in May, the Florida Agency for Workforce Innovation reported. ...
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FCC chair-designate to look at mobile handset deals

Washington Post - United States
Copps, a Democrat, said that he has asked officials to begin crafting such a proceeding to examine the effects on consumer choice and innovation. ...
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Tech Payoff for Companies Remains Elusive, Study Finds

New York Times - United States
equals E2 equals 80 equals 9CBut this index is an effort to look at what is happening to the economy's potential for innovation, and that's where I think they are right on, equals E2 equals 80 equals 9D he said. ...
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Interesting combinations yield innovation at Vita Restaurant and Bar

The Star-Ledger - NJ.com - Newark,NJ,USA
by Cody Kendall/For the Star-Ledger As defined by chef Paul Bogardus at Vita, the stylish restaurant in the equally sleek Dolce Hotel, the concept goes this ...
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Ask the Innovation Guru

BusinessWeek - USA
AG Lafley is leaving Procter and Gamble after building a robust internal innovation culture. What should he do next? Bruce Nussbaum has some ideas This page ...
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Innovation Economics Can Fight Global Warming

BusinessWeek - USA
To really avert climate change, the government needs to adopt an explicitly green innovation policy. Unfortunately, green innovation is getting short shrift ...
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Two Mass. residents win news innovation awards

Boston Globe - United States
By Johnny Diaz Two Bay State residents who proposed new digital media experiments were among the winners in the 2009 Knight News Challenge. ...
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Google Hunkers Down on Software Projects With "Innovation Reviews"

eWeek - New York, NY
So Google is holding meetings, or rather "innovation reviews,andquot; where Schmidt and Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin listen to product pitches ...
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Knight Foundation's new round of $5.1m for news innovation projects

guardian.co.uk - UK
The Knight Foundation has announced nine winners of the third round of Knight Challenge funding, the US initiative to support innovative new models for ...
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Panelist calls for US innovation

Detroit Free Press - United States
12:09 pm | Innovation was the word of the day during this morning at the National Summit in at the Renaissance Center in Detroit. ...
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Obama: Free market key to innovation, creativity

MarketWatch - USA
... not to stifle the market, but to strengthen its ability to unleash the creativity and innovation that still make this nation the envy of the world."
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Research In Motion's (RIMM) CEO Talks About Innovation

StreetInsider.com (subscription) - Birmingham,MI,USA
Balsille is talking about innovation and how RIMM continues to innovate and introduce exciting new products every few months. rim's Balsille said its grown ...
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eBay woos large retailers, promising more innovation to come

InternetRetailer.com - Chicago,IL,USA
More innovation is coming, Tilenius promises. 'We're a company in transformation,' she says. 'You'll see more change from us and we think it's more change ...
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Ford CEO says regulation often hurts innovation

The Associated Press
CEO Alan Mulally says regulation has stymied innovation among business and manufacturers in the United States. Speaking on at The National Summit Wednesday, ...
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Ford CEO says regulation often hurts innovation

The Associated Press
CEO Alan Mulally said government regulation in many ways has hurt innovation among businesses and manufacturers in the United States. ...
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Pointless Financial Innovation?

Atlantic Online - USA
But what about Kwak's point that such products don't serve as an example of Bernanke's criterion of financial innovation -- that they don't help to allocate ...
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US losing its edge in innovation, survey shows

San Jose Mercury News - CA, USA
By Frank Davies WASHINGTON --- Eight in 10 Americans say the United States will lose its innovation advantage in the global economy over the next decade, ...
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McGraw-Hill Education Announces 'Center For Digital Innovationand#39;

PR Newswire (press release) - New York,NY,USA
The McGraw-Hill Education Center for Digital Innovation is developing digital platforms that are customized by state standards, district requirements, ...
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market2lead a Finalist for comptia softwareceo Software Innovation ...

Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco,CA,USA
The judges recognized the value of our innovations around lead nurturing and specifically the ability of our automated marketing system to arbitrate for ...
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Global CIO: Six Lessons CIOs Must Learn From Coke's Dazzling ...

InformationWeek - Manhasset,NY,USA
... conceive and execute true innovation, so be a leader and start making new connections that lead to new insights, new experiments, and new opportunities.
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Green Innovation and Product Safety

Reuters - USA
By Joshua Saunders - Joshua Saunders The new buzz phrase in the green world is "sustainable innovation." Mentioned at nearly every green conference and on ...
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Survey: US Residents Unsure of Future of Innovation

PC World - USA
Many US residents say that other countries provide a more innovation-friendly environment, according to a survey conducted by polling firm Zogby ...
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SGI equals AE Demonstrates Data Center Innovations at Gartner Summit in Orlando

Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco,CA,USA
... FL, in Booth N. SGI will also present best practices in cluster computing, including a unique look into technology innovation at the cabinet level. ...
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Feds need to ensure that US innovation results in domestic ...

MLive.com - MI,USA
by Sven Gustafson | Michigan Business Review The federal government needs an integrated approach to ensure that US companies manufacture the next-generation ...
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Money, money, money and medical innovation

FierceBiotech - Washington,DC,USA
"Bad news, [medical innovation] takes money," said Dick Gephardt, delivering the opening remarks at Friday's Best and Brightest Forum on Medical Innovation. ...
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Winner announced of the first Photonics21 Student Innovation Award

Nanowerk LLC - Honolulu,HI,USA
(Nanowerk News) PhD Student Yannick Chassagneux is the winner of the first Photonics21 Student Innovation Award. Jan Ostoja-Ostaszewski, Member of the ...
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Keynote speaker praises American innovation

Detroit Free Press - United States
And deep down, he admitted, he can't help but be optimistic about the future due to Americans' spirit of innovation and willingness to take risks. ...
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INTERNET TELEPHONY's 2009 TMC Labs Innovation Award Winners Announced

TMCnet - USA
Norwalk, CT, June 15, 2009 - Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC (News - Alert)) today announced the winners of the 2009 TMC Labs Innovation Award ...
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Changing Times Brings Innovation

OregonLive.com - Portland,OR,USA
Stay tuned for more on this story as they increase their business through innovation and change capitalizing on the undeniable fact that diners are scaling ...
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Microsoft brings international partners' innovation to the Kingdom

Al-Bawaba - Amman,Jordan
'Through this meeting, Microsoft aims to study and analyze the technological innovations achieved by its international partners in their countries to find ...
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Companies tout innovation, but it doesn't always lead to profits

Chicago Tribune - United States
By Andrew Leckey In some years, more news stories have been generated about NBC than about its parent company, General Electric Co. ...
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Microsoft CEO Ballmer to push innovation

Detroit Free Press - United States
ANSWER: For decades, the US has been the global model for how to build a vibrant economy that creates sustainable growth and opportunity through innovation. ...
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Tech revolution: Innovation is the key

Bismarck Tribune - ND, USA
By THOMAS LEE MINNEAPOLIS - The idea of American innovation conjures up images of the plucky inventor, toiling away in a makeshift lab in the basement for ...
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Qatar Foundation launches the first ever WISE AWARDS to recognise ...

PR Web (press release) - Ferndale,WA,USA
Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Community Development, initiator of the first ever World Innovation Summit for Education - WISE dedicated to ...
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TCF blasts Carr over innovation strategy

The Age - Melbourne,Victoria,Australia
FMAA executive director Peter Eames said it was a "complete mysteryandquot; where footwear fitted into the budget's TCF innovation package. ...
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Husky fried ride bus wins innovation award

SCSU University Chronicle - St. Cloud,MN,USA
The fuel used to power the Husky Fried Ride bus uses 70 percent recycled vegetable oil. SCSU received a 2008-2009 Innovative Partnering and Collaboration ...
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Trend Micro's Eva Chen to Discuss Technology Innovation at The ...

SYS-CON Media (press release) - Montvale,NJ,USA
DETROIT , June 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Eva Chen , co-founder and CEO of Trend Micro will discuss technology innovation on a technology panel at The National ...
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IBM opens rail innovation facility in China

Progressive Rail Roading - Milwaukee,WI,USA
The center will address passenger reservations and service, asset utilization and productivity, track and infrastructure surveillance, scheduling, ...
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Innovation Campus Progressing Smoothly

KOLN - Lincoln,NE,USA
Noddle also says the input from the community is helping give the Innovation Campus project some shape and form. "There's a vision for a big idea that's ...
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Unleashing the Next Wave of Engineering Innovation

Reuters - USA
By Cameron Burns - Cameron Burns There's a joke e-mail that seems to circulate on the Web every eight months or so. It includes images of outrageous design ...
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Science policy scrutiny 'at risk'

BBC News - UK
The warning comes in a report by the Innovation, Universities, Science and Skills Committee (IUSS). With science and business merged into the new Department ...
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Voices of Le Mans: Paul Drayson

Newsday - Long Island,NY,USA
For the first time as a competitor, the United Kingdom's Minister of State for Science and Innovation is at the 24 Hours of Le Mans - the birthplace of ...
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Survival of companies hinges on innovation: Premji

Hindu - Chennai,India
BANGALORE: Continuous innovation is a necessity in the global economy, Wipro Chairman Azim Premji said here on Friday. 'Many large companies will fall by ...
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US CTO: America Needs To Rekindle Tech Innovation

ChannelWeb - Manhasset,NY,USA
Chopra also spoke about "pillars" or areas that he believes will help drive technology innovation. Those pillars include harnessing the potential for ...
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IBM Opens Rail Center In Beijing; Eyes China's Rail Spending

CNNMoney.com - USA
( IBM ) opened a Global Rail Innovation Center in Beijing Thursday, in a bid to profit from increased spending on rail infrastructure in China and around ...
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Turbulence Drives Innovation

National Post - Toronto,Ontario,Canada
Turbulent times are a driver for innovation. From a scarcity mentality frequently springs a powerful mandate to change and create. The business landscape is ...
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Climate Change and Intellectual Property

New York Times - United States
But several high-tech multinational companies, along with the US Chamber of Commerce, recently set up the Innovation, Development and Employment Alliance to ...
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NCFST PATS Process Wins 2009 IFT Food Expo Innovation Award

Food Processing - Itasca,IL,USA
Incoming IFT President Marianne Gillette presented the IFT Innovation Award crystal sculpture at the Sunday morning keynote session to C. Patrick Dunne, ...
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IBM opens railway innovation center in China

AFP
SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) --- IBM on Thursday opened a Global Rail Innovation Center in China where industry leaders, researchers, and universities can collaborate ...
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Obama`s CTO Talks Healthcare IT, Security, Cloud

eWeek - New York, NY
'As CTO, it is incumbent upon me to achieve on the president's goals that we harness the power of our nation's innovation to advance the economy,' said ...
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Remarkable Array of Applications Shortlisted for IBC Innovation Awards

Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco,CA,USA
The IBC Innovation Awards are unique in celebrating not just technology but the application of that technology in the real world. ...
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Firm says Chopra wants innovation in health IT

FCW.com - Falls Church,VA,USA
He indicated that innovation by RFP is silly because RFPs stifle innovation with long lists of requirements,' wrote Kristina Mulholland, the company's ...
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BBVA Compass Awarded 2009 Innovation in Banking Technology Award ...

PR Newswire (press release) - New York,NY,USA
HOUSTON, June 11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- BBVA Compass announced today that The Banker magazine has awarded the company an Innovation in Banking Technology ...
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Kraton Polymers Stresses Innovation, Green and Cost Efficient ...

Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco,CA,USA
Bradley added, 'Frost and Sullivan recently recognized our pioneering innovation with the 2009 North American Technology Leadership of the Year Award. ...
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Protecting Innovation and Progress in Medical Care

Galen Institute - Alexandria,VA,USA
Comparative effectiveness reviews also have the risk of stifling innovation. If allowed to dictate the preferred practice of medicine, physicians are ...
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Credit Cards: The Interplay Between Innovation and Regulation

Seeking Alpha - New York,NY,USA
Credit cards are an interesting if perhaps extreme case of the interplay between 'innovation' and regulation in the financial industry. A long time ago, ...
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Energy Innovation Group, Ltd. Achieves ISO/TS16949 Certification

Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco,CA,USA
(BUSINESS WIRE)--Energy Innovation Group Ltd. (EIG) a manufacturer of high energy and power density lithium ion batteries today announced it has achieved ...
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Fiat closes Chrysler deal -- with no money down

Christian Science Monitor - USA
The US carmaker -- with a history of innovation and of near-failure -- is getting a new lease on life. Through bankruptcy, it will shed a big debt burden. ...
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Cynthia Lorenzo appointed to lead Agency for Workforce Innovation

Bizjournals.com - Charlotte,NC,USA
Cynthia Lorenzo, who has been interim director of the Florida Agency for Workforce Innovation since February, was named executive director of the agency by ...
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CEO Legacies: AG Lafley Vs. Bob Nardelli

BusinessWeek - USA
Lafley is leaving a company he transformed using cutting edge design and innovation methods while Nardelli left two companies---Home Depot and Chrysler in ...
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Apple Debuts Safari 4 Browser With Promises Of Speed And Innovation

ITProPortal - London,UK
Apple has unleashed the finalised version of its signature web browser, tagged as 'Safari 4', which the company is touting as the 'world's fastest and most ...
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An innovation hero exits

The Patriot-News - PennLive.com - Harrisburg,PA,USA
Lafley led the company through the acquisition of Gillette, an aggressive move into cosmetics, and innumerable product innovations (SpinBrush, Febreze, ...
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Video: Dow Corning Transforms Business to Focus on Innovations in ...

PR Newswire (press release) - New York,NY,USA
Innovation: The Dow Corning(R) brand will focus exclusively on serving differentiated solutions and new applications for customers who want innovation, ...
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Opera 10 Beta Continues Browser's Innovation Trend

eWeek - New York, NY
Opera was the first browser to provide tabs, and, with the beta of Opera 10, the innovations continue with an excellent tab system that can be resized to ...
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Dow Corning Announces Business Transformation Focused on ...

USGlass News Network (USGNN) - Stafford,VA,USA
The expanded online marketplace is part of the company's new business transformation that Chermside said is focused on efficiency, innovation and ...
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Coral Reefs and Innovation

Huffington Post - New York,NY,USA
Mario Morino posted a nice piece recently about the need to nurture "coral reefs" for innovation in the US. I like his metaphor very much, and he notes we ...
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Google's Schmidt dings Bing

CNET News - San Francisco,CA,USA
We are about search, we're about making things enormously successful, by virtue of innovation." Bing has been well-received in its first trip around the ...
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Three Innovation Don'ts

Eds - TX,USA
asks Jean Lehmann, Americas Regional Innovation Lead at EDS, an HP Company and an EDS Fellow. 'I look at ideas as fuel for innovation. ...
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Paterson has plans for 'new economy'

Bizjournals.com - Charlotte,NC,USA
New York state will commit up to $100 million over several years to the so-called Innovation Economy Matching Grants program, one of several initiatives ...
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Think Tank Pushes Broadband Enterprise Zones

InformationWeek - Manhasset,NY,USA
The Institute For Policy Innovation filed its comments with the FCC on Monday, saying such zones could identify areas that lack broadband access and ...
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Biocon sets up innovation cell at ISB

Times of India - India
Bangalore: Indian School of Business, in association with biotechnology company Biocon, launched the Biocon Cell for Innovation Management on Monday. ...
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Marshall K. Wells, 1934-2009: 'Foundryman' kept family firm ...

Chicago Tribune - United States
By Rick Kogan | Tribune reporter But Mr. Wells proved himself a visionary modern thinker. As the chief executive officer and chairman of the Wells ...
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Poll: US People Unsure of Future of Innovation

PC World - USA
Those answers may raise questions about the US environment for innovation and entrepreneurs, said some panelists at a forum on tech innovation hosted by ...
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Apple's WWDC -- Few Surprises, Few Innovations

PC World - USA
And, it also opens room for speculation that innovation may stall without Jobs at the helm. Apple's new MacBook Pro notebooks don't help promote the ...
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Barcelona's Big Bet On Innovation

BusinessWeek - USA
By Pete Engardio Few neighborhoods more dramatically illustrate urban planners' shifting attitudes toward industry than Barcelona's Poblenou district. ...
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NEVADAN AT WORK: With eye for innovation, entrepreneur puts name ...

Las Vegas Review - Journal - Las Vegas,NV,USA
By BENJAMIN SPILLMAN Position: Chief executive officer, The Siegel Group Nevada Inc.; president/managing principal of approximately 36 entities. ...
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US-ISLAMIC WORLD: Obama's cooperation plan

University World News - Durban,KwaZulu-Natal,South Africa
... States in higher education, science, technology and innovation in a bid to promote the development of knowledge-based society in the Muslim world. ...
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Lorain County Community College recives $1.5 million for local ...

The Plain Dealer - cleveland.com - Cleveland,OH,USA
Lorain County Community College received a $1.5 million grant to benefit its Innovation Fund, which supports entrepreneurs growing technology-based ...
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The race for clean-energy innovation

Boston Globe - United States
It establishes "clean-energy innovation hubs" around the country to help researchers and inventors move their ideas from the lab to the market. ...
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Personal Reinvention: Innovation Inventory #10

Bloomberg - USA
... non-competitive company that might be willing to do a "job swap." These activities are time-tested ways to begin to build your innovation muscles.
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State workers honored for innovation at awards luncheon

Tallahassee.com - Tallahassee,FL,USA
By Stephen D. Price * Florida Capital Bureau * June 6, 2009 State employees who have helped a cash-strapped state save money received special honors Friday ...
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Proposal would allow more charter schools to open

StarNewsOnline.com - Wilmington,NC,USA
A federal official with 'innovation' in his department's title can't refute that. of the US Department of Education's Office of Innovation and Improvement. ...
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An Innovation-Oriented Economy? Let's Tax Them to Death, First.

Hot Air - MD,USA
When President Obama heralds his desire to build an innovation-oriented economy, you'd think that he'd try to make innovation easier. But, apparently not. ...
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Connecticut commits $2M to match fed tech innovation grants

Mass High Tech - MA, USA
The federal program known as the Technology Innovation Program (TIP) is supported by the National Institute of Standards and Technology, and has $25 million ...
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The Stalled Promise of Innovation

New York Times - United States
Today's idea: Despite an enduring belief in America's innovative spirit, there's growing evidence that a shortfall in innovation over the past decade ...
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Open Platforms and Innovation

The Industry Standard - San Francisco,CA,USA
It's the finish of Steven's piece where he talks about "end user innovation" that is so brilliant. He makes this "larger point about modern innovation":
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Why the Smart Grid Won't Have the Innovations of the Internet Any ...

Earth2Tech - San Francisco,CA,USA
The ultimate vision of that landscape is that real time energy data unleashes innovations and applications that we haven't yet thought of, ...
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Etisalat Misr Receives Genesys Customer Innovation Award

TMC Net - Norwalk,CT,USA
Judges reviewed three criteria to determine the scores, including innovation, optimization and improving the customer experience. ...
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Quick Edit | India's innovation decade

Livemint - Delhi,Delhi,India
The poem was written in a different context around a hundred years ago, but Patil used an evocative phrase from it to call for a new culture of innovation. ...
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The Next Climate Deal: How Big is the Battle for Cleantech IP?

Reuters - USA
... the US Chamber of Commerce pulled together a small, motley crew of companies with a stake in upcoming climate policy to launch its Innovation, ...
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Lane cites innovation as key to US recovery

Charleston Gazette - Charleston,WV,USA
Lane, a West Virginia University graduate and former president of computer software giant Oracle Corp., said America is slowing down on innovation. ...
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Weber Shandwick unveils social innovation practice

PRWeek - New York,NY,USA
NEW YORK: Weber Shandwick announced the launch of its global social innovation specialty practice on June 2, although it began the initiative much earlier. ...
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@DW Global Media Forum: Constructive innovation journalism

guardian.co.uk - UK
One of the first panels looked at "Constructive Journalism Innovation", and I went there hoping to hear about how we could find a business model to support ...
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Media Alert: Research Reveals Innovation is as Strong as Ever ...

SYS-CON Media (press release) - Montvale,NJ,USA
The convergence of GSM and CDMA carriers under the LTE standard is set to provide developers with an environment that helps take innovation to the next ...
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Goldense Group, Inc. [GGI] Announces 7th RandD-Product Development ...

SYS-CON Media (press release) - Montvale,NJ,USA
The ability of top managers and professionals to direct and manage Innovation in their companies is the focus of the 7th RandD - Product Development ...
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E3 2009: Nintendo and Sony, the futuristic innovation race is on

BusinessWeek - USA
John Price and Nicole Fawcette of Toronto-based Youthography are at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) in LA, covering the latest in gaming evolution ...
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Project Innovation tour stops at North Naples software company

Naples Daily News - Naples,FL,USA
Thursday's tour was the sixth this year to be organized by Project Innovation, a project led by the Economic Development Council of Collier County and ...
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PRINCETON: Katie Couric tells grads: 'We need innovation'

Packet Online - Princeton,NJ,USA
By Kristine Snodgrass, Staff Writer PRINCETON --- Katie Couric encouraged Princeton University's Class of 2009 to transform its good fortune into action to ...
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The Daily Start-Up: Third Time's A Charm For IPOs?

Wall Street Journal - USA
A lack of innovation, we cry out. But Tom Koulopoulos, the founder of IT consulting firm Delphi Group, believes we need to get the thought out of our heads ...
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E3 2009: Nintendo and Sony, the futuristic innovation race is on

Media In Canada - Toronto,ON,Canada
You can expect Nintendo's showing to be heavily criticized for their inability to achieve a "wow" factor in the innovation department. ...
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TechMaine Honors Maine Innovation Community

MaineToday.com - Portland,ME,USA
WESTBROOK, ME --- June 3, 2009 --- TechMaine: The Technology Association of Maine announces the winners for its sixth awards ceremony for Maine's technology ...
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Building an Innovation Factory: Innovation Inventory #9

Bloomberg - USA
Does your organization have systems and structures to make innovation repeatable? There is a long held view that innovation is random. ...
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Tech Innovation Still Alive and Well

Daily Reckoning - American Edition - Baltimore,MD,USA
By Ian Mathias 06/03/09 Baltimore, Maryland 'There is every reason to believe that the current economic downturn will not significantly slow tech innovation ...
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What was the point of bailing out GM?

Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
Additionally, auto suppliers are crucial to innovation in American manufacturing as a whole (not just in the auto industry), and US auto production is a key ...
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Snowe Announces Small Business Innovation Research Grant for ...

Trading Markets (press release) - Los Angeles,CA,USA
... Farm in Dresden will receive an $80000 grant from the US Department of Agriculture as part of the Small Business Innovation Research Program (SBIR). ...
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SmartVault Wins CPA Technology Advisor's Tax and Accounting ...

Market Wire (press release) - USA
The Innovation Awards are sponsored by The CPA Technology Advisor to recognize innovative developments in technologies that benefit the tax and accounting ...
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Weber Shandwick Launches Social Innovation Specialty Practice

PR Newswire (press release) - New York,NY,USA
NEW YORK, June 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Weber Shandwick announced today it has launched a global Social Innovation specialty group. Social Innovation expands and ...
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InnoCentive and Nature Publishing Group Launch nature.com Open ...

Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco,CA,USA
Jointly hosted on InnoCentive.com and nature.com, the nature.com Open Innovation Pavilion provides a hub for scientific collaboration and open innovation. ...
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Microsoft's E3 press conference coverage: Xbox Live innovations

Examiner.com - USA
Microsoft's press conference on Xbox Live innovations followed its gaming news, but in many ways, the innovations have a wider impact on gamers than the ...
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Excerpt: 'The Innovation Zone'

Forbes - NY,USA
Tom Koulopoulos is the founder of Delphi Group and author of The Innovation Zone. Below, an excerpt from the book. I recall a discussion I had some years ...
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The New Rules of Managing Innovation

BusinessWeek - USA
Here, let's talk about four trends that we see shaping innovation in the near term, and how you should respond. The rules of the game are changing quickly, ...
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Snap-on launches innovation through facility, meeting

Search-Autoparts.com - North Olmsted,OH,USA
In partnership with Snap-on Tools' grand opening of its new Innovation Works facility, the company also brought together leaders from the automotive ...
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Why I Don't Want to Own General Motors

HarvardBusiness.org - Cambridge,MA,USA
Will this promote innovation and industries of the future? No. Okay, maybe there is some prospect of a leaner, more competitive company being created in the ...
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MEDecision Continues Commitment to Health Care Technical ...

Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco,CA,USA
The release continues MEDecision's growing momentum in the marketplace and reinforces its commitment to technical innovation that facilitates nationwide ...
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Bradley A. Perkins, MD Chief Strategy and Innovation Officer for ...

SYS-CON Media (press release) - Montvale,NJ,USA
He will oversee the company's business strategy and innovation efforts including clinical safety and quality programs, clinical service line improvement and ...
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Snap-on opens 'innovation' center The Business Journal of Milwaukee

Bizjournals.com - Charlotte,NC,USA
Snap-on Inc., a manufacturer of professional tools, diagnostics systems and equipment, has opened "Innovation Works," a new research and development center ...
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colorqube Wins Technical Innovation Award

Printer Ink Cartridges News and Blog - San Diego,CA,USA
The Xerox colorqube 9200 Series multifunction printer, which was released only last month, was given a Technical Innovation Award. ...
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History Repeating?

FOXNews - USA
Monday's filing effectively closes a history that had been one of innovation and success, followed quickly by bureaucracy, political pandering and failure. ...
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This June, let ideas bust out all over

Boston Globe - United States
It was also the start of "the most significant depression in Boston's history," says Bob Krim, executive director of the Boston History and Innovation ...
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Magid: Don't count Microsoft out in search

San Jose Mercury News - CA, USA
"Brand doesn't substitute for innovation, but innovation doesn't substitute for a brand consumers can get their mind around," he said. ...
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County Attorney Plans To Retire June 30

Washington Post - United States
The city received the Outstanding Achievement in Local Government Innovation award May 14 from the Alliance for Innovation, a national networking ...
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STEPHEN HENDERSON Michigan workers must now build a new mind-set

Detroit Free Press - United States
Panels were organized around the nuts and bolts of the new world we face -- green technology, growth and innovation, entrepreneurial diversification. ...
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PhillyDeals: Competition proposals could hit hard

Philadelphia Inquirer - Philadelphia,PA,USA
That's how Carrier tells it at the start of his book, Innovation for the 21st Century: Harnessing the Power of Intellectual Property and Antitrust Law, ...
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Shared theme adds innovation to program

Buffalo News - NY, United States
By Herman Trotter In this weekend's concerts by the Buffalo Philharmonic, Music Director JoAnn Falletta offers a quite innovative all-Beethoven program. ...
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Canada's New Product Awards Celebrate Innovation

Gourmet Retailer - Coral Gables,FL,USA
Each product was graded against five criteria: uniqueness and innovation; product characteristics; presentation and packaging; overall consumer value; ...
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