Innovation


Recent Innovation Articles

NYU Professor Implants Camera In Skull

A photography professor at New York University surgically...  Read more

How to Develop a Prototype

Developing your prototype definitely requires a strong knowledge of your product and it may require some elbow grease.  Read more

Innovation to Help You Concentrate

How new technologies like Instapaper and Trippy help people concentrate and focus on meaningful tasks.  Read more

The Dark Side of Web Tracking

The Washington Post exposes a Read more

How to Bring an Eco-friendly Product to Market

With more sophisticated consumers and a stricter FTC, creating a green product is no longer a magic bullet to sales. But done right, it can still help you st...  Read more

How to Raise $10 Million in One Day

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

Banking on the Bacon

Bacon has proven to be a viable hedge against the recession -- its frenzied popularity has migrated from the Internet into the products of innovative entrepr...  Read more

Entrepreneurs We Love…Because They're Creating a Cleaner, Greener Life

To the men and women who light up the dark, keep us healthy, and create innovative solutions to everything from poverty to street-cleanup.  View slideshow

2010: The Year in Innovation

A look at fascinating breakthroughs that promise to slash automobile emissions, make harnessing the sun's power less costly, and even help kids learn how to ...  View slideshow

Review: Saving Your Good Idea from Getting Shot Down

How to sell your ideas to the people who matter.  Read more

How to Kill a Bad Idea

Jason Fried tells us why no is the most important word an entrepreneur can learn.  Read more

Innovation: Probability Processing Chip

Lyric Semiconductor’s new computer chip goes beyond zeros and ones and allows it to process information using probability.  Read more

Entrepreneurs in the News

The latest buzz on Tim Ferriss, Stephen Ou, and Kelly Ripa  Read more

Understanding How Innovation Happens

Eugene Fitzgerald, an MIT professor of materials science, talks about how the U.S. can still be an innovation leader.  Read more

How Would You Sell Custom Stuffed Animals?

Four entrepreneurs offer marketing strategies to a start-up that sells custom toys.  Read more

4 Tips for App Planning

Before you spend a dime on an app, take these four steps.  Read more

Behind the Groupon-Google Deal

Well, it's safe to say that Groupon is hot. The local coupon site, founded just two years ago in Chicago, appears poised to accept a Read more

How to Run a Brainstorming Session

Line up the white boards and ditch the judgment. Here's how to encourage an open flow of ideas and spur innovation.  Read more

I Thought Google Said "Don't Be Evil"

Just over a week ago, Google turned off 800-GOOG-411. This...  Read more

Review: Personality Poker

Author Stephen Shapiro shares his technique to identify your personality and where you best fit in an organization.  Read more

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

Some weekend reading , via Read more

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

Here we go again : Read more

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