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Manufacturing Institutes: A Key to Revitalizing U.S. Manufacturing

Robert D Atkinson Information Technology And Innovation Foundation
January 30, 2014
In Tuesday’s State of the Union, President Obama announced that his Administration will launch six new Institutes of Manufacturing Innovation—joining ones already established to promote innovation in additive manufacturing in Youngstown, Ohio and in next-generation power electronics manufacturing in Raleigh, North Carolina—as part of a National Network for Manufacturing Innovation (NNMI).

Facebook, Games and the Power of Failure

Rina Onur Peak Games
January 24, 2014
Disruptive innovators must be willing to fail. This a lesson you pick up from spending time in Palo Alto, California – that little corner of the world from where so many world-changing companies have emerged. There is a profound sense of freedom there that comes from a cultural belief that it’s okay to try and fail, because you can always try again. I believe we need more of that freedom, not only in my country, Turkey, but across Europe.
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Remaking Higher Education: The Maker Lab at Abilene Christian University

Dr John B Weaver Abilene Christian University
January 13, 2014
The innovative promise of higher education is stunted too easily.  Unique student aspirations give way to new student standardization; dreams of transforming the world give way to curricular conformity in the school.  Institutional mechanisms of academic degrees can render a student’s creativity “just another brick in the wall.”
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