Tag: innovation
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Executives Believe They Are Innovators, But Employees Disagree
It helps the bottom line to be an innovator. Innovative companies also have another edge: they’re more attractive places to work. A new survey finds given a chance, most people would leave their current jobs for the chance to work at such a company. So how does one know they’re working at such a wonderful…
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It’s Never Too Late For Innovation Resolutions
Bill Fischer , CONTRIBUTOR Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. Innovation Resolutions by Abhijit Bhaduri, used with permission It’s almost May and despite all your good intentions to change your innovation habits, you have little to show for it. What we recently referred to as the “new year” is almost half-way done and…
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Africa’s banks lag behind on innovation in financial services
Regulators stifle development by failing to understand changing sector African central banks are stifling development by failing to keep up with financial services innovation, according to the head of a UN economic agency and industry executives. Mukhisa Kituyi, secretary-general of the UN Conference on Trade and Development, said regulators did not have “adequate understanding . . . of the…
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Is There A Magic Formula For Scientific Innovation?
Innovation remains a “holy grail” for business where it may unlock new sources of income and in science where it increases our knowledge and promotes the careers and status of the innovators. The work produced in Bell Laboratories in the late 40’s through the 60’s, e.g., the transistor, is legendary for its innovative impact.…
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RESEARCH FUND EMBRACES INNOVATION
The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, a $3 billion endowment funding scientific research programs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has helped finance life-changing scientific innovation, from human embryonic stem cell treatments to the processing technologies that underpin modern computing. An equally bold and experimental ethos underscores investment strategy at the fund. A risk parity strategy with…
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Scotland continues its tradition as a nation of innovation
MEDICINE, entertainment and communications are just three of the many fields in which Scottish inventions and innovation have led the way – Alexander Fleming gave the world penicillin, John Logie Baird television and Alexander Graham Bell, the telephone. They managed to make their mark without the help now available in 21st century Scotland, which is…
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Research Explores The Best Era For Innovation
I wrote recently about a study from the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research that highlighted how truly novel ideas are not only harder and harder to come by, but they tend to be ever more expensive to explore. It creates the impression that our innovative capabilities pale in comparison to those of bygone eras.…
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CES 2018: A STORY OF INNOVATION
Credit: Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg What’s really new at CES 2018? This year, CES will be a gathering of professionals from almost every industry. Together they will architect the technological evolution of human interaction and communication. CES has transcended its “consumer electronics show” initialism, and now it tells a story of innovation unlike any we’ve seen before.…
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Q&A: L’Oréal’s Head of Innovation Labs on What’s Working and Not Working With Wearables
L’Oréal thinks the big future of wearables is getting smaller. Specifically, wearables will be the size of one of your fingernails. Literally. Two years ago, L’Oréal launched a heart-shaped patch called My UV Patch with La Roche-Posay sunscreen that sticks to skin and uses Bluetooth technology to push data about a person’s exposure to UV…
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The cryptocurrency bubble is strangling innovation
Sure, fine, maybe it’s a bubble. OK it’s definitely a bubble, but that’s a good thing, a bubble brings attention and investment in infrastructure, which breeds real innovation. Right? Look at the dot-com boom. A lot of people lost a whole lot of paper money, but it brought us a cheap worldwide fiber backbone…
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