Last Updated Stories in Innovation

Recession: the catalyst of innovation

At the Stanford 2009 roundtable, renowned speakers seemed to agree that innovation will be the means by which the US will come out of this recession. In fact, voices were very hopeful of a recovery: We have seen...

Date-rape drug-testing lip-gloss debuts (seriously!)

"A lip gloss that comes with a date rape drug testing kit has been launched in the UK with plans to make it available in vending machines in bar and club toilets."When I first saw this headline, I thought that it was possibly satirical, possibly in poor taste, possibly even...

Is Your Startup a "Nice to Have" or "Must Have"?

With the downturn in the economy, numerous people are talking about starting a new business or company. Whether it’s a technology startup or new restaurant idea, I’ve heard of more and more people meeting to brainstorm and working to bring their ideas to fruition.Whether...

Victory for W2 Café

City Council today approved the W2 Social Enterprise Café on the ground level of the Woodwards redevelopment. This is a historic victory for W2 Community Media Arts Society who has been in a four year RFP...

Innovation From the Global South

A major study has documented a rising tide of scientific innovation coming from Asia's fast-developing countries, especially India and China. Conducted over 18 months by UK-based think tank Demos, it challenges...

Criminal behaviour – it's all in the game

"The Los Angeles police department is fighting street gangs. It reports that in the past five years there were more than 23,000 verified violent gang crimes in LA, including 784 homicides, nearly 12,000 felony assaults, approximately 10,000 robberies and just under 500 rapes....

VENTURE CAPITAL IS ABOUT INVESTING

By: Roman Kikta If we open any newspaper, we are sure to find yet another epitaph for the financial, automotive and a various other industries. Granted, these are some of the toughest times our industry has endured, yet we should not lose sight of the big picture: our world...

Ground the Airbus?

To date, there have been 23 fatal Airbus crashes, killing 2,584 people. EXCERPT: Used in law, science and philosophy, a rule known as Occam’s Razor requires that the simplest of competing theories be preferred to the more complex, and/or that explanations of unknown...

Maneuver your wheelchair using your brain

discover mind powere to the nth degree"This special wheelchair can be controlled using a 3D map wherein their surroundings are plotted. That map will appear in front of them while users will wear a cap. This cap...

The race for the First Manned Mission to Mars has begun.

By, Uwe Paschen. The Race for the first manned mission to Mars has begun.  The six volunteers from Russia, France and Germany chosen  out of some 6000 candidates have started the first simulated trip to mars in...

The Birth of Trinity: Web 3.0

Search Engine Optimization, Social Media, and The Emergence of the New Fourth Estate  In the wildly popular 1960’s television series Star Trek, Captain James T. Kirk would often turn towards his engineer, Officer ‘Scotty’ <?xml:namespace prefix = st1...

Economy’s turnaround (part 3)

In the two previous issues about this subject the economy is judged from the Macro and the Business viewpoint. Macro deals with the overall approach as bank institutions, while Business with the industrial side of...

Hybrid Hype

Thinking about innovation? Than let’s innovate the right things. The environment will suffer from the economic downturn that soon will become a global depression.Much is written about tailpipe CO2 that should be...

Introducing.... Emily Carr's New Look !

Emily Carr University of Art and Design in Vancouver, Canada has launched a new identity. It is a new logo - a circle. Shown here as a (really nice) animation. I like it, do you? "To accompany Emily Carr's brand-new university status and name change, we've revamped our...

closeSign in to NowPublic

is reporting from