Notwithstanding Plato’s 2,400-year-old proverb, necessity alone is not the mother of invention. It also requires opportunity. An individual’s likelihood of becoming an innovator reflects parental ...

Australia’s research and innovation system is “broken” and needs “bold reform”, according to a major new independent report released on Tuesday. Titled “Ambitious Australia”, it’s the culmination of a ...

Sometime in the next 15 years, the same technology that produced the world’s first photograph will allow us to make the most powerful, densely packed silicon microchips allowed by physics. It will be ...

A new Army organization aims to meld service leaders’ mandates to cut bureaucracy and adopt a venture-capital mindset with their push to turn soldiers’ ideas into manufactured gear. The Pathway for ...

The Northwestern Innovation Institute (NI Institute) at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management today announced the Northwestern Innovation Prize for Human-Machine Partnership (NI Prize ...

North Little Rock’s haven for tinkerers, programmers, crafters, entrepreneurs and makers of all kinds apparently will close up shop at the end of this year. The North Little Rock Public Library System ...

Nike has been soundly criticized in the past several years for its lack of innovation, a misstep that led to declining sales and profits — and the replacement of its chief executive officer — and ...

Organizations have been investing more than ever in digital technologies, most notably data and AI. Nils Olaya Fonstad is an Academic Research Fellow at MIT’s Center for Information Systems Research ...

There are two ways for Western companies to sack lots of people. The American one involves the boss inviting hundreds of unsuspecting employees on a Zoom call, offering them a few months’ wages as ...

Even as the pressure to innovate grows, many companies are finding it harder and more expensive to bring new ideas to life. This slowdown is often attributed to rising R&D costs, longer development ...

Short interest is the number of shares that have been sold short but have not yet been covered or closed out. Short selling is when a trader sells shares of a company they do not own, with the hope ...

The Innovation by Design Awards celebrate the people and companies behind some of the world’s best and most thought-provoking design work. This year, Fast Company is recognizing nearly 300 projects ...