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Managing Disasters With Small Steps

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A week ago, Elizabeth Sheehan, the founder of Containers to Clinics, a nonprofit organization in Dover, Mass., was preparing to deploy the group’s first medical clinic overseas. Made from two shipping containers, it was to be sent to the Dominican Republic, where it would begin to fulfill the group’s long-term goal of building [...]

Seeing Customers as Partners in Invention

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IMAGINE a planetarium-style presentation about the future of technology, followed by a tour of dozens of hands-on exhibits — whether of sandlike microparticles that flow like liquid in a beaker, pictures that appear three-dimensional or concrete that floats.
Is it the latest science museum, or a new Disney attraction? No, it’s the “World of [...]

The Key To Innovation: Putting Ideas And Information Together In New Ways

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There’s a new, massively detailed, study coming out on the secrets to being a great innovator, and the key finding really stands out:

“What the innovators have in common is that they can put together ideas and information in unique combinations that nobody else has quite put together before.”
Notice that one of the [...]

An Innovation Agenda

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The economy seems to be stabilizing, and this has prompted a shift in the public mood. Raw fear has given way to anxiety that the recovery will be feeble and drab. Companies are hoarding cash. Banks aren’t lending to small businesses. Private research spending is drifting downward.
People are asking anxious questions about America’s [...]

Indian girl’s innovation: Charge phone through its radiation

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Guwahati: A school girl has developed a technology which will convert the radiation given out by mobile phones into heat and relay it as electrical energy back to the battery inside. Asmita Rekha Bora, a class XI science student of Kendriya Vidyalaya, Khanapara in Guwahati has come out with this charger.
The [...]