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Innovation

5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week

Tomas Kellner
March 31, 2016
Scientists in the U.S. designed a living “minimally viable” synthetic species in a lab, their colleagues in Singapore  commandeered a beetle with electrodes and turned it into a cyborg, and a team in Scotland found sections of the human genome where changes in DNA can shorten life expectancy by as many as three years. Amateur astronomers also spotted a mystery object slamming into Jupiter. Read on.
 

 
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STEM

The Future of Science Is Big (Data) and Tiny (Nanoscale) - Interview with France Córdova of the National Science Foundation

France Cordova Director Of The National Science Foundation
December 27, 2015

The head of the National Science Foundation discusses the promises and challenges of science and tech research, including the need to scale up the U.S. innovation ecosystem and make it more evenly distributed geographically.

 
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Zeroing in on the Big Picture

GE Look Ahead
December 31, 2014

Why, where and how companies will innovate in 2015

If patents are viable proxies for innovation, then “innovation is on the rise”, states the Thomson Reuter’s 2014 State of Innovation report. The computing sector alone logged in 300,000 unique inventions. Rounding out the report’s top five most innovative industries were telecommunications (126,000 patents), automotive (123,000), semiconductors (97,000) and medical devices (75,000). All five industries had more R&D activity in 2013 than in the year before.

 
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Perspectives

Cultural Shift in the Industrial Internet Age — Q&A with Edward Youdell

Ed Youdell Fabricators And Manufacturers Association
October 30, 2014
The rise of the Industrial Internet and Big Data has the power to transform industries, with data captured by connected machines enabling companies to capture efficiencies across operations and potentially achieve zero downtime.
 

To realize the benefits of these technologies, however, companies need to ensure that data analytics are being applied in the most effective way and communicated to the right people. That often requires a cultural shift throughout the operations — from the C-suite to the shop floor.
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Thomas A. Stewart: The U.S. Middle Market Has Found a Higher Gear

Thomas A Stewart National Center For The Middle Market
October 29, 2014
U.S. unemployment has at long last fallen below 6 percent. Gross domestic product growth has recovered following a stumble early in the year. The economy seems to have settled into a decent growth rate — better than desultory but worse than ideal.
 
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Mark Muro, Scott Andes and Matthew Stepp: Department of Energy’s National Labs Can Also Be Regional Hubs

Scott Andes Brookings Institution
Matthew Stepp Information Technology And Innovation Foundation
Mark Muro Brookings
September 24, 2014
The Department of Energy’s 17 national laboratories are a $12.5 billion network of potentially transformative basic and applied R&D hubs located in or near many of the nation’s metropolitan areas. However, the labs are today underutilized as true economic assets.
 

How can they be better leveraged?

There are lots of ideas out there, but as we argue in a new paper, one of the most effective ways for the labs to increase their economic impact is for them to “go local” and engage more in the advanced industry ecosystems within which they reside.
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Robert D. Atkinson: Driving Economic Evolution

Robert D Atkinson Information Technology And Innovation Foundation
September 23, 2014
Ever wonder why innovation policy gets so little attention in Washington? One reason is the manner in which policymakers — and the economists who advise them — conceptualize the economy.
 
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Jennifer Brant: Protecting Trade Secrets to Stimulate Knowledge Flows

Jennifer Brant Innovation Insights
September 04, 2014
As part of a debugging project, an employee of an Indian company, Geometric Ltd., was given access to software source code owned by SolidWorks, a U.S.-based client of the firm.
 

After leaving Geometric, the employee was caught trying to sell the software code to SolidWorks’ competitors. Because Indian law does not recognize the misappropriation of trade secrets, it was not possible to sue the individual. Since the source code belonged to SolidWorks — not Geometric — he technically had not stolen from his employer.
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Fracking Industry Looks for Ways to Vanquish its Water Habit

Bennett Resnik Vermont Law School
July 28, 2014
The hydraulic fracturing industry remains a high growth sector. But its use of water pre- and post-production has come under scrutiny as the world edges closer toward a global water crisis.
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What is a National Innovation System and Why Does it Matter?

Robert D Atkinson Information Technology And Innovation Foundation
July 03, 2014
In the conventional view, innovation is something that just takes place idiosyncratically in “Silicon Valley garages” and research and development (R&D) laboratories. But in fact, innovation activities are best understood as being embedded in a broader national innovation system (NIS), which is central to innovation-based growth and the ultimate health of an economy.
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