Innovation


Recent Innovation Articles

The World's Most Unreasonable Entrepreneurs

The founders of the Unreasonable Institute in Boulder, Colorado, are fostering intense camaraderie among entrepreneurs who hope to solve the world's problems.  Read more

Chronicles of a Young Serial Entrepreneur

As Matt Mickiewicz prepares to launch his fifth company, the 27-year-old Vancouver native talks about being a young entrepreneur and the importance of being ...  Read more

How to Get the Most out of Your Co-working Space

A co-working space is not just a rented desk. It's a source of inspiration, collaboration, and for some, a source of business.  Read more

Restoring Trust to Banking

Smart companies such as Venmo, BankSimple, and PayPal are experimenting with clever ways to rebuild trust in the banking system.  Read more

Steve Jobs, Circa 1985

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So, You Think You're an Entrepreneur?

Each day, Inc .'s reporters scour the Web for the most important and interesting news to entrepreneurs. Here's what we found today: ...  Read more

Twitter Now Worth $3 Billion

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Kayak Goes IPO

Here's an...  Read more

Facebook's Grand E-Mail Plans

Yup, it's real : Today I'm excited to announce the next ...  Read more

Facebook Wants to Kill E-Mail

And you thought Facebook was already taking over your life: Back in February we wrote about Facebook's secret Project Titan&nbs...  Read more

10 Tips for Licensing Intellectual Property

How can you make sure you're getting your innovations into new places while still getting a good deal for all your hard work? Follow tips from the pros.  Read more

How to Set Up a Hackathon

Cue the laptop brigade and fire up the Keurig: Hosting a hackathon might just be the answer to spurring innovation at your company.  Read more

Making the Coolest Use of Space

The cubicle is officially out. What's in? Walls that move, plentiful collaboration spaces, and flexible seating arrangements. Oh, and alternate modes of indo...  View slideshow

Innovative, Functional Flagships

Warehouses, showrooms, and hundreds of offices: These supreme spaces do it all in style.  View slideshow

Innovative Office Interiors

Playful shapes and colors abound in these entries. You can be there are no beige cubicles in these inventively designed workplaces.  View slideshow

The Coolest Converted Office Spaces

From a derelict barn to an airy design studio; from a vintage city utility headquarters to a LEED-certified office gallery. Meet the masters of repurposing.  View slideshow

The Best Green Offices

From a futuristic eco-atrium to using exclusively second-hand furnishings, these offices are so environmentally friendly that workers can feel green all over.  View slideshow

The Coolest Home Offices

Go climb a tree...to your office. These outstanding home workspaces are refreshingly creative.  View slideshow

What Would Richard Branson Do?

Looking for inspiration from innovators can help you tackle tough problems. Here’s how Finnish shoemaker Pomarfin found an answer.  Read more

Tesla Finds Another Partner

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Surprise! Pay Walls Make Money

TechCrunch crunches the numbers on News Corp's decision to...  Read more

Risk and the Entrepreneur

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How CEOs Lie

Stanford researches tackled the problem of corporate doublespeak in a recent survey of conference calls. They looked for speech patterns of CEOs who subse...  Read more

Innovation: Flexible Circuit Boards

Vorbeck Materials’s new graphene-based ink can be used to print circuit boards that can be twisted, creased, or peeled off like a sticker.  Read more

Review: MacroWikinomics

Authors Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams highlight organizations that are embracing Wikinomics.  Read more

Tapping Customers for Product Ideas

E-commerce company Volusion designed a system for collecting customer feedback — and turning it into new products.  Read more

4 Tools for Collecting Customer Feedback

Get Satisfaction, UserVoice, and other tools help businesses tap customers for ideas.  Read more

Reinventing the Computer Mouse

A look at computer mice designed to be easy on the eyes and the wrist  Read more

How Would You Sell Temporary Wallpaper?

Four seasoned entrepreneurs offer marketing strategies for Tempaper.  Read more

The Demand Economy

How to locate deep pools of demand in a shrinking marketplace  Read more

The Growing Cost of Doing Business in China

Small businesses such as Olive Juice and Gonzo Games grapple with rising prices.  Read more

Hot Market: The Outsourced Work Force

More businesses are turning to remote workers. But can you really be sure that your off-site employees are working?  Read more

An Automotive Rebirth

This is very cool :  Wi...  Read more

What Would Thomas Edison Do?

An innovation blast from the past. Plus, the business of All Hallows Eve, and the rest of the day's news.  Read more