Built to Survive: The Darwin Approach to Business
According to evolutional theory, only the fittest survive. Here's how it works in the business world. Read more
Research and Development
Recent Research and Development Articles
How Miniskirts Changed the Food World Forever
Thanks to the innovative cuisine of Ferran Adria, few people can remember a time before molecular gastronomy. But what does that have to do with short hemlines? Read more
Innovative Product Mashups
Sometimes innovation is as simple as turning a ketchup bottle upside down. But what about putting bug repellent in clothing or carbonation in milk? It's conv... Read more
5 Ways to Kill a Brainstorming Session
As brainstorming has become customary, has it also lost its sparkle, and value, for your company? Here's where you may have gone wrong, and what to avoid in ... Read more
The Case for Letting Your Customers Design Your Products
Why limit your company's brainpower to your employees? Here's how to tap the crowd to research new concepts, innovate, and design new products or services. Read more
How to Develop a Disruptive Product
One of the world's oldest publishing companies brought in a ringer to revolutionize the way the company does business. The result? The first fully-interactiv... Read more
7 Unique Brainstorming Techniques
Want to encourage creativity amongst your team? We asked CEOs, creative writers, and a comedy instructor, their tips for drawing out good ideas. View slideshow
How to Tap Employee Ideas
Encouraging your employees' creativity can not only create an engaging work environment, but create new business. Seven experts share their tips on getting e... Read more
How to Make the Most of Your Time at an Incubator
Incubators like Y Combinator and DreamIt Ventures are helping young companies get their start. Here's how to make the most of your time at an incubator. Read more
How I Did It: Lessons Learned: When Things Go Viral 
BuzzFeed founder and CEO Jonah Peretti talks about how an e-mail exchange with Nike led to his idea for promoting social content across the Web. Watch video
The Online Business Incubator
Wicked Start, an online incubator for early-stage start-ups, provides practical, no cost or low cost resources. Read more
10 Start-up Incubators to Watch
Businesses that go through incubators historically have a close to 90 percent survival rate. We've pinpointed some of the most productive. View slideshow
The Downside of Traditions
It's time to deeply question the traditions of the past and focus on reinventing the future. It's time to question. To imagine. To innovate. Read more
Inc. 5000 Applicant of the Week: SpaceWorks Enterprises
By analyzing and directing future space technologies, SpaceWorks helps decide which aerospace projects should take flight and which should stay grounded. Read more
Is the Oil and Gas Industry Getting a Bad Rap?
I’ve been researching the oil and gas industry lately. This industry has a negative stigma attached to it as being very environmentally insens... Read more
Renaat Ver Eecke Interview: Customer Research Leads to Success
Recently, I had the pleasure of speaking with Navman Wireless’s Vice President,... Read more
How to Speed Up Your Prototyping Process
Engineers who get too hung up on perfecting a prototype often lose sight of the bigger picture and waste precious development time. Here are a few ways you c... Read more
5 Rules of Success From Brooklyn's DIY Masters
Experts on makeshift innovation held court at the first DIY Business Association Conference in Brooklyn. They share their unconventional wisdom with Inc.com. Read more
How to Get Unstuck
With the deadline for an important business-related opportunity looming, I began my day today with a sinking sensation in my heart and stomach. I have bee... Read more
7 Steps to a Culture of Innovation
Hyper-growth companies often credit a culture of innovation as their primary driver of success. They deploy creative thinking to attack problems big and smal... Read more
The Case Against "Sexy" Innovation
What the world needs isn't more ideas—it's better, more innovative systems for executing them, says author and ChangeLabs founder Peter Sheahan. Read more
6 Cool Tools for DIY Prototyping
A new wave of DIY engineers is transforming innovation into something that can be done at the kitchen table. Thank the maker movement for the technology that... View slideshow
Coping With Fear, Frustration, and Euphoria
Back in November I took the Kauffman Foundation's FastTrac program, a boot camp for aspiring entrepreneurs. I spent sev... Read more
Innovation: Silicon-Based LED Chips
Bridgelux says it has developed a cheaper way to produce LED bulbs. Read more
Innovation: A Long-Distance Fingerprint Scanner
Advanced Optical Systems says it has developed a device that can capture fingerprints from up to 6.5 feet away. Read more
Google Prank Becomes a Reality
On April Fool's Day, the prank that was the biggest hit in the office was Google Mo... Read more
Beyond Googling Yourself: Greplin
Admit it, you've Googled yourself to see what pops up. When I Google myself, what comes up on the first page is my company's website, Inc.com, Wikip... Read more
Why Math and Science are The New Cool Subjects
Neal Bascomb discusses his new book on the FIRST technology competition and the high school students whose hard work makes it possible. Read more
Inc. 5000 Applicant of the Week: Berkeley Bionics
This California company developed a bionic exoskeleton that gives paraplegics new legs. Read more
IBM’s Super Computer Watson
On February 16 th , IBM's super computer, named Watson, Read more
When the Body Rejects Technology
In November, I wrote about an NYU professor implanting a camera in the ba... Read more
Discovering the Best Business Ideas
Andy Boynton and Bill Fischer, authors of The Idea Hunter, talk about the keys to successful innovation. Read more
An SBDC Focused on University Research
The North Central Indiana Small Business Development Center focused on spurring innovation by helping university researchers bring their ideas to market. Read more
President Obama in the Valley
What exactly happened at the president's CEO huddle? Plus, Apple's App Store investigated and the rest of the day's news for entrepreneurs. Read more
When Hackers Become Makers
How the practice of hacking is going mainstream and creating good. Read more
