Charles Jacobs Goes Inside the Entrepreneur's Brain
Leading corporate consultant, Charles Jacobs discusses how brain structure can impact business management. Read more
Research and Development
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How to Guard Against Patent Infringement
Once you've received patent protection, enforcing it is mostly your job. Here's how. Read more
How to Protect Your Invention
Advice and tips on how to protect a new invention from copycats and competitors Read more
Innovation: The HyDRAS Robot
The Snakebot The design for Dennis Hong's latest robot came to him in his sleep. "In dreams in the middle of the night, I see these lines and col... Read more
Business Authors' Nightstand Notables 
Hear from Seth Godin, Jack Stack and other business authors on the books they like to keep by the bedside. Watch video
Is Your Patent Safe?
Supreme Court asked to hear a case that would determine whether business methods in any industry are patentable. Read more
The Recession Begets Innovation
A recent survey says that as company budgets shrink, staff creativity flourishes. Read more
A Conversation with Tesla CEO Elon Musk
The founder of Tesla and SpaceX speaks with Inc. senior writer Max Chafkin at the 2008 Inc. 5000 conference in National Harbor, Maryland. Watch video
Inc. 500 Status is Just the Beginning
Learn how nine firms increased revenue from an average $14 million to $800 million from the author of the best-selling The Breakthrough Company: How Every... Watch video
Editor's Letter
Recently, as I sat down to write this letter, I decided first to check my e-mail to see what might have landed overnight. Among the scores of missives th... Read more
Innovation: The Outer Limits
The hottest, most mind-boggling high-tech products are coming not only from corporate behemoths but also from start-ups you've never heard of. Read more
Special Report: Innovation
Innovation is as much about smart processes as shiny new products. Here's how some of the nation's smartest companies inspire their people, capture new ideas... Read more
Innovation: Making Inspiration Routine
It's not about brilliance. Valuable new ideas are the product of hard work and smart, disciplined processes. Read more
The Customer is the Company
Threadless churns out dozens of new items a month -- with no advertising, no professional designers, no sales force and no retail distribution. And it's neve... Read more
The Start of a Beautiful Friendship
Partnering with your customers on R&D. Read more
Looking Back, Moving Forward
Bob Galvin helped transform Motorola from a small tech company into a household name. Today, in his mid-80s, he's turning his attention to several new ven... Watch video
What's Next: The Cost of Competence
In a fast-changing world, here's one more thing to worry about: being too good at what you do. Read more
Find It. Use It.
It's a good bet your company possesses intellectual property it isn't exploiting. Here's how to identify those assets and turn them into new business. Read more
What's Next: The Idiocy of Crowds
Collaboration is the hottest buzzword in business today. Too bad it doesn't work. Read more
Portrait of an Agile Manufacturer
Know who understands how a factory works? Factory workers. Read more
How to Profit from Market Research
Knowing what your customers want and how they want it is essential to any business. Here's how to gather information through market research. Read more
What's Next: Custom-Made for All
No two clients are the same. Your services shouldn't be, either. Read more
Stuck? Pass the Play-Doh
If you need to unlock employee creativity, try taking them to a playful workspace. Read more
What You Can Learn from Starbucks
Maybe it's because I've just spent some time in London, Paris, and Berlin -- and have seen the cultural success of Starbucks in locales whose immune syst... Read more
Thinking Small
Forget about finding the killer app. New research shows that smaller ideas pack a bigger payoff. Read more
A Perfect Brainstorm
What cutting-edge science tells us about mastering the art of the brainstorm. Plus: Why do the best ideas always seem to happen in the shower? Read more
Book Review: Experimentation Matters
Experimentation Matters by Stefan H. Thomke Harvard Business School Press 307 pages $27.95 Stefan Thomke, ... Read more
Faster Tech Transfer
Carnegie Mellon University is trying to streamline technology transfer. Read more
Spy vs. Spy
Corporate espionage is a fact of life. Here's how to protect yourself. Read more
Driven by Design
Modo used to be just another struggling manufacturer in a crowded niche. Now it's virtually untouchable. Its secret: design. Read more
Creation Nation
Wondering where the next hot food ... hit toy ... big band ... miracle drug will come from? Chances are, from entrepreneurs just like you who are furiously c... Read more
Innovation, We Trust
In the final installment of our three-part series on innovation, Inc focuses on how today's economic trends will effect the innovative entrepreneurs... Read more
The Innovation Factor: The Series
In its three-part special series on innovation, Inc focused on companies and company leaders that have made innovation an integral part of their bus... Read more
Mail: September 2002
Readers react to recent Inc magazine articles. Read more
High Concept: This Phone's for You
The next great advance in wireless? One word: plastics. Read more
