Steve Jobs Solved the Innovator's Dilemma - James Allworth - Harvard Business Review

Steve Jobs Solved the Innovator's Dilemma - James Allworth - Harvard Business Review: "My passion has been to build an enduring company where people were motivated to make great products. The products, not the profits, were the motivation. Sculley flipped these priorities to where the goal was to make money. It's a subtle difference, but it ends up meaning everything."

Review of Federal Support to Research and Development - Innovation Canada: A Call to ActionExecutive Summary

Review of Federal Support to Research and Development - Innovation Canada: A Call to ActionExecutive Summary: The Panel's Advice in a Nutshell

Create an Industrial Research and Innovation Council (IRIC), with a clear business innovation mandate (including delivery of business-facing innovation programs, development of a business innovation talent strategy, and other duties over time), and enhance the impact of programs through consolidation and improved whole-of-government evaluation.

Simplify the Scientific Research and Experimental Development (SR&ED) program by basing the tax credit for small and mediumsized enterprises (SMEs) on labour-related costs. Redeploy funds from the tax credit to a more complete set of direct support initiatives to help SMEs grow into larger, competitive firms.

Make business innovation one of the core objectives of procurement, with the supporting initiatives to achieve this objective.

Federal Government Cloud – Innovation Nation Supercomputer | SYS-CON MEDIA

Federal Government Cloud – Innovation Nation Supercomputer | SYS-CON MEDIA: A common and core theme is the role a Cloud environment can play in implementing a Shared Services initiative. Recently the Canadian Federal Government announced the Shared Services department initiative, seeking to drive considerable cost savings by consolidating multiple, duplicated email and network systems to just one.

Dynamic Growth In Sri Lanka: The Innovation Imperative | The Sunday Leader

Dynamic Growth In Sri Lanka: The Innovation Imperative | The Sunday Leader: True, Steve Jobs was a tech titan, a once in a century kind of innovation genius. But neither he nor the Apple company could have done it alone. The key innovation of this nature is bolstered by a myriad of supporting structures – what is known as an ‘innovation system’.

The Innovation Journalism Blog: EU Commissioner Potocnik: EU Needs Innovation Journalism

The Innovation Journalism Blog: EU Commissioner Potocnik: EU Needs Innovation Journalism: Why should he be interested? As society becomes more innovative, it makes sense that it becomes more important to communicate how knowledge becomes valuable for people.

Collaboration between Stanford Innovation Journalism Center and a Pakistani TV station honored

Collaboration between Stanford Innovation Journalism Center and a Pakistani TV station honored: Four Pakistani journalists come to Stanford each year as InJo fellows, funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). The objective of the fellowship is to train international journalists to cover the innovation economy and network with U.S. media outlets. Fellows participate in workshops and conferences at Stanford and work with newsrooms across the nation covering issues relating to innovation. Fatima Akhtar, anchor and team member of the award-winning SAMAA series, will begin a five-month fellowship at the InJo Center in February.

SPRIS: New project to boost Tunisia's innovative research system

SPRIS: New project to boost Tunisia's innovative research system: Higher Education and Scientific Research Minister Refaat Chaabouni pointed out that "only a rigorous and viable national innovation system is able to boost the nation's collective intelligence and transform it into riches and employment."

The Island

The Island: As Apple’s co-founder Steve Jobs bids adieu to an ipod/iphone/ipad/macbook crazed world, it brought to the fore how much technological innovation has touched the lives of millions, and become so important in this new dynamic global economy. Jobs was a veritable trailblazer in innovation, with Apple products forever changing the way people interact with technology.

In Praise of Steve Jobs: Capitalism, Cybernetics, Typography | FlaglerLive - Your News Service for Flagler County News Palm Coast News Bunnell Flagler Beach Beverly Beach and Marineland

In Praise of Steve Jobs: Capitalism, Cybernetics, Typography | FlaglerLive - Your News Service for Flagler County News Palm Coast News Bunnell Flagler Beach Beverly Beach and Marineland: Mind you, Jobs did not create this new age wrought by computers. Norbert Wiener, whose best known book was God and Golem, published in 1964, invented the term cybernetics in the early 1940s. Cybernetics has all to do with machines and man and then machines making machines. The upshot was that computers would give every person extraordinary new labor power and thus transform the world.

NESTA - Thrills! Spills! Procurement!

NESTA - Thrills! Spills! Procurement!: Most recent policy reports in the field recommend that government make better use of procurement to encourage innovation: from Lord Sainsbury's Race to the Top in 2007 and DIUS's Innovation Nation in 2008 to Sir James Dyson's Ingenious Britain in 2010 and reports by think tanks from Policy Exchange to Demos and the IPPR.

Scientists 'See' YouTube Videos in the Mind - ABC News

Scientists 'See' YouTube Videos in the Mind - ABC News: "This is a major leap toward reconstructing internal imagery," said Jack Gallant, professor of psychology and coauthor of a study published today in Current Biology. "We are opening a window into the movies in our minds."