innovation

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by PhilanTopic
When McKinsey & Co. released its seminal study Big Data: The Next Frontier for Innovation, Competition, and Productivity, the firm confidently predicted that the world was "on the cusp of a tremendous wave of innovation, productivity, and growth...
by Harvard Business Review
Remember just a decade ago when the term "inner city" basically meant "dead city," conjuring up images of destruction, dereliction and despair? Today, inner cities are "in" — innovative, hip hotbeds of convenient culture, commerce and connection....
by Michael Smith
This Tuesday, June 12, the Case Foundation will co-host our second White House conference on the use of prizes and open competitions to spur innovation in the federal government—and we want you to have a front row seat! The conference, “...
by The Case Foundation
Yesterday evening we learned that Steve Jobs, the co-founder of Apple and one of the most inspiring innovators of our time, had lost his battle with cancer at age 56. Perhaps appropriately so, devices he created were often the channels through which...
by Sokunthea Sa Chhabra
Fellows Friday is a weekly series on the TED Blog that profiles one TED Fellow each week. We have asked the Fellows to answer our question below to share their knowledge and advice with other social entrepreneurs, innovators, and changemakers who...
by Sokunthea Sa Chhabra
Fellows Friday is a weekly series on the TED Blog that profiles one TED Fellow each week. We have asked the Fellows to answer our question below to share their knowledge and advice with other social entrepreneurs, innovators, and changemakers who...
by Michael Smith
Whether it’s social innovation or the innovation economy, most folks agree that the key in igniting transformative breakthrough must be innovation and the innovators behind them. That’s the idea at the heart of the Obama Administration’s newly...
by Nathan Waterhouse
OpenIDEO is a community that brings together human-centered design methods with a web-based platform to tackle social issues. It’s a platform that deliberately addresses the question: Is a crowd better at solving problems than just a small team or...

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by The Tech Museum of Innovation
A signature program of The Tech Museum of Innovation, The Tech Awards is an international awards program that honors innovators from around the world who are applying technology to benefit humanity.