Entries from BizBox Blog on Slate tagged with 'Innovation'

Why You Should Care About The Patent Office

The AP takes note of one little-reported consequence of the credit crash, the recession, and the rest that helps more fully flesh out their implications. Namely, applications for patents are down. The article blames the recession for this trend: it...

Highlights From Judy Estrin's BizBooks

Last Friday, we hosted Judy Estrin--entrepreneur, former Cisco executive, and author of Closing the Innovation Gap--as part of our of our BizBooks discussion series. Estrin is a big believer in innovation, and in the importance of the cultivation of...

Keep Helping Small Business

Though we tend to be big fans of journalist and editor Michael Kinsley--he did, after all, found our sister site Slate--we're going to have to take grave issue with a post he recently wrote on The Daily Beast titled,...

Innovation

Susan hit it on the head with “Necessity, the Mother of Invention.” In today’s world of advertising, we simply cannot get away from it. This means a large part of our population can simply tune it out. To communicate with...

Innovation

In college I immersed myself in the ethic of outdoor experiential education. One of many inspiring readings from Outward Bound that I’ve kept for the last fifteen years is a short quotation from Woodrow Wilson Sayre’s book Four Against Everest....

Bucking the System

I think Susan is right to suggest that a powerful means of innovation is to look beyond the expected way of doing things in order to compensate for a perceived limitation. This isn’t as easy as it sounds because, while...

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