Innovation


Recent Innovation Articles

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

Zuckerberg on "The Social Network"

At Startup School , Jessica Livingston asked Mark Zuckerberg what the Social Network got wrong. It ...  Read more

Zynga Surpasses Electronic Arts

Wow :  Read more

10 Tips for Making Employees Love Their Office

Forget the ping-pong table. Master the basics that make workers productive – and happy – in their office space.  Read more

10 Tips for Giving an Important Speech

Get ready to fearlessly step on stage in front of a large audience.  Read more

Google's Car Will Change the World

Imagine a world without traffic jams, with online bidding for parking spaces, and the end of drunk driving.  Read more

Is Your Company Boring?

TrendHunter.com founder Jeremy Gutsche offers up tips to help your business stay innovative even as it becomes more predictable.  Read more

Entrepreneur Wins $625 Million Payout From Apple

Yale University professor David Gelernter said Apple's software infringed on three of his patents. A federal jury agreed.  Read more

Elon Musk's Guide to the Galaxy

For the founder of SpaceX, Tesla Motors, and SolarCity, the journey is just beginning.  Read more

Innovation: Let There Be Light

1366 Technologies has developed a more efficient way to produce silicon wafers for solar panels.  Read more

How to Adapt Products for Different Markets

How Violight adapted its toothbrush sanitizer into a cleaning product for cell phones.  Read more

How Groupon Handles Copycats Overseas

How the daily-deal site defends itself in global markets.  Read more

Would You Buy Underwear By Subscription?

The CEOs of Tommy Bahama and Bonobos weigh in on Manpacks's plan to sell men's underwear subscriptions.  Read more

How to Hire for Creativity

If you want to build an innovative company, you had better make it your business to find employees who think outside the box.  Read more

The Secret to TechCrunch's Success

Two words: Good writing. The company just sold itself to AOL for a Read more

An Entrepreneurial Safari

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

Groupon's Expansion Strategy

In its quest to become the global powerhouse of online daily deals, Chicago-based Groupon is buying up copycat websites overseas.  View slideshow

Developers Bet on Google's Android

The search engine giant's operating system has the best long-term business prospects, according to a new survey.  Read more

The Key to the Facebook Movie

Paul Graham's classic essay on why nerds are not popular may help explain the improbable rise of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg.  Read more

FCC Opens Up Unlicensed Airwaves for Innovation

The so called 'white spaces' would house super Wi-Fi, with longer ranges and the ability to pass through walls.  Read more

Mark Zuckerberg Gives Newark an Education

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

New Search Engine Optimization Methodology

While teaching a social media class last Friday in Columbus, OH, I ran across a company at the technology incubator up there called Read more

Facebook's Dirty Tricks

The more dirt we get on on Mark Zuckerberg—the Facebook founder and, now, bonafide Holl...  Read more

SBA Awards Grants to Economic ‘Clusters’

Agency is seeking to encourage collaboration between small businesses, the public sector, developers, and institutions to advance local industries.  Read more

Breakfast With Richard Branson

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

Meet Google's Resident 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