Tracking the Worldâs Appetite for Innovation
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In its quest for what it calls ânew metrics for the knowledge economy,â a nonprofit research group has come up with an index of global innovation confidence.
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Microsoft researchers from the software giant's labs around the world gathered on Tuesday to conspire on innovations intended to change the world.
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SEATTLE -- High-tech companies don't release products anymore, they provide solutions. And those solutions don't simply run a program. They enable experiences, optimize agility, or make passions come alive. Say what?
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AppleÂs latest developments are laying the groundwork for some ambitious ideas down the road.
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Looking beyond the market's favorite metric.
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It's not exactly light reading, but there's plenty of good news in a report from the National Academy of Engineering. It's a list of the "Grand Challenges" in engineering this century compiled by an array of experts like the genetics researcher J. Craig Ventner and Google's Larry Page. What's encouraging isn't so much the list [...].
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The investors are looking beyond Silicon Valley, and beyond the Internet and biotech.
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Nanotechnology research advances are happening with such frequency these days that the individual achievements are losing some of their power to awe â until you stop and think about them. Take two successes announced in recent days: the creation of the worldâs most powerful electron microscope and the invention of a new [...].
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A predictions market about technology that can benefit from the wisdom of crowds.
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Vive La France! Column Last week, a report emerged with one of the most unlikely conclusions in the short history of digital policy. The report was built around yet another ranking of the technological performance of different countries around the world.â¦
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Americans know a good deal when they see it. Today a group of  leading scientists and practitioners from several fields -- agriculture,  medicine, economics, education, engineering -- is making a proposal to  the world. If  rich and poor countries will follow through on the promises  they have made over the past five years  to fight extreme poverty and disease -- and rely on the best science and technology in doing  so -- the world can save millions of lives and extricate hundreds of millions of  its poorest people from the trap of extreme poverty. The cost is a mere 50 cents out of every $100 of rich-world income in the coming decade.
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This yearâs big story was mainstream marketers embracing new technologies like podcasts, video-on-demand, blogs, social networking and video sharing.
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Two firms are racing to map the world as the Internet goes increasingly mobile with ever more sophisticated gadgets for people on the move.
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Semiconductor and cell-phone technology converge in fast food.
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Sometimes the innovation elves just miss the mark. Without a doubt, 2004 saw the debut of some great new products, like the cellphone that keeps track of blood sugar levels
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By Whitesides, George M  Travelogues from Lilliput THE DANCE OF MOLECULES: How Nanotechnology Is Changing Our Lives. Ted Sargent, xx + 234 pp. Thunder's Mouth Press, 2006. $25.  NANO-HYPE: The Truth Behind the Nanotechnology Buzz. David Berube. Foreword by Mihail C. Roco. 521 pp.
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This yearâs big story is mainstream marketers embracing new technologies like podcasts, video-on-demand, blogs, social networking and video sharing.