On Wednesday, The New York Times on the Web flashed a headline that caught my eye: "U.S. to Unveil $1 Billion Aid Package to Repair Georgia." Wow, I t...
Plenty | Dave Burdick | Posted 09.05.2008 | Green
Plenty magazine has named its top 20 people and top 20 businesses in the game of green innovation. They seemed to have skipped me, but next year I'm g...
Judy Estrin | Posted 09.03.2008 | Business
Science does not belong to the right wing or the left, and the hijacking of science policy by ideologues has had a chilling effect on innovation.
Robert D. Atkinson, Ph.D. | Posted 08.21.2008 | Business
Virtually all policy makers involved in economic policy subscribe to a particular economic doctrine, even if they may not be aware of which "camp" they are in.
Richard Laermer | Posted 07.30.2008 | Living
Gumby is more than ever becoming key to success in whatever world you tool around in. Gumby is attitude. Gumby is action. Gumby is results.
Rebecca Fannin | Posted 07.28.2008 | Business
China was missing from talk at two major conferences in the Bay Area. The Valley doesn't want to admit its tech dominance is being challenged by a country that just a few years was a manufacturer, not an inventor.
Alvaro Fernandez | Posted 07.25.2008 | Living
As brain fitness and training becomes mainstream and new "brain trainers" appear, we can observe a number of trends given significant market growth and recent research findings.
Kiff Gallagher | Posted 07.21.2008 | Entertainment
The critical skills a child develops when she struggles with her instrument or finds her voice in a choir are the same ones needed to succeed in the creative economy and solve our greatest future challenges.
Rebecca Fannin | Posted 07.07.2008 | Business
What I sense in China is an optimistic spirit of millions of young people. It is uplifting to be around -- whereas as much as I don't like to admit it, Ohio is depressing and depressed.
John Kao | Posted 06.23.2008 | Business
We've got immediate economic and security issues. But the big issues of day -- energy policy, health care reform, education -- are the kind of wicked problems that desperately require innovation.
Jeff Madrick | Posted 06.20.2008 | Politics
Karl Rove should do a little more reading and a little less writing -- and rely on knowledge and pragmatic solutions rather than knee-jerk ideology.
Margaret Heffernan | Posted 05.21.2008 | Business
Whichever innovation guru you read, you won't find references to customers. But nothing compares to the creativity that could come from consumers if companies only knew how to talk to them.
Robert Weissman | Posted 05.01.2008 | Business
The nations of the world are currently debating how to design new medical research and development (R&D) mechanisms to serve the twin goals of promoti...
Rep. Patrick Kennedy | Posted 04.01.2008 | Politics
We have the most talented workforce in the world, but we need to make sure that our education and immigration systems are working in concert to maintain and expand on that advantage.
John Kao | Posted 03.14.2008 | Business
Singapore provides existent proof of the importance of government — at least for one nation — in driving an innovation agenda. And it is a fascinating example of how innovation stewardship can work.
Scott Anthony | Posted 03.03.2008 | Politics
The corporate equivalent of a poll is market research. The problem comes when managers believe that the results of market research represent reality.
John Kao | Posted 02.08.2008 | Politics
So I began to see Detroit as a microcosm of sorts for what is happening in the US as a whole — now pausing to consider where the future sources of value are coming from, how to be global, how to overcome highly dysfunctional attitudes towards education, pondering how to create a vibrant hub for talent — in short, trying to figure out how to be an innovation city.
Krisztina Holly | Posted 02.06.2008 | Politics
I'm here to say that you can keep the change. What matters is innovation. And innovation is an entirely different matter.
John Kao | Posted 01.18.2008 | Politics
The innovation frame in national politics has been conspicuous by its absence. Instead, we have heard increasingly frequent (and tedious) calls for change. But change is driven by innovation.
Gerald Bracey | Posted 12.19.2007 | Politics
The next time someone starts ranting about math and science scores dooming us to a future of mediocrity, give 'em a copy of the Global Competitiveness Report.
John Tepper Marlin | Posted 12.08.2007 | Business
Why do Colorado and Ohio rank higher than the Empire State in small business innovation?
Gary Hamel | Posted 12.06.2007 | Business
In the years to come, progressive companies will use the Web to overcome the shortcomings of their antiquated, bureaucracy-based management models.
C. L. Max Nikias | Posted 11.26.2007 | Business
We require a national renaissance of the arts and humanities, so that American imagination can continue to fuel American innovation.
Dr. R. Keith Sawyer | Posted 11.13.2007 | Business
The creative entertainment industry argues that if they don't make money from legal sales, then the creative wellspring will dry up. What's often lost in the legal battles is any awareness of actual research on what might make our society more creative.
Erica Jong | Posted 10.11.2007 | Media
They could have given it to Philip Roth for paeans to his penis. But, amazingly, the Nobel committee decided to recognize a woman writer whose work has opened up the female soul to literary scrutiny.
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New York Times | Thomas Friedman | Posted 09.07.2008 | Business