Economic expansion depends more and more on innovation — not simply producing more goods and services, but producing ever newer goods and services. This issue of eJournal USA seeks to show that innovation needs the right conditions to emerge.
Volume 14, Number 11, ISSN 1948-4399 (online)
David Nordfors, Co-founder and Executive Director, VINNOVA - Stanford Research Center of Innovation Journalism
Innovation is invention plus introduction, and it is increasingly seen as crucial for economies and governments alike.
Rocco Leonard Martino, Founder and President, CyberFone Technologies
Those cultures that allow their people to dream, innovate, and produce will be the winners in the race for economic independence.
G. Pascal Zachary, Journalist, Author, and Teacher
Silicon Valley and other geographic clusters of innovation emerge for practical reasons.
Alex Soojung-Kim Pang, Research Director, Institute for the Future
Scientists and businessmen are learning more than ever how to collaborate for innovation.
Charles W. Wessner, Director of Technology, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship, National Academies
A public-private partnership helps small businesses bring their innovations to market.
James P. Andrew, Senior Partner, Boston Consulting Group
Effective governmental policies can have a very positive impact on domestic companies’ ability to innovate.
Michael A. Gollin, Partner, Venable LLP
An effective system for protecting patents, copyrights, and other intellectual property promotes innovation by balancing exclusive rights with accessibility.
A computer science researcher sees a way to make the Internet more available to the blind and visually impaired.
A nicked pearl opens a treasure of innovation.
Innovators with complementary skills can make things happen.
An innovator combines three good products into a new service.
A Belgian innovator comes up with a way to make a clean profit.
Books, articles, Web sites, and films on innovation
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