Optimize has a great article on Global Innovation. More notably, how IBM has leveraged the venture capitalist group in order to anticipate innovation.
“We spent a year determining how best to address this emerging opportunity and ultimately decided that building an ecosystem of partners—working together rather than in competition—would be essential to our [...]

The Technology Review website released its annual list of 10 emerging technologies. What are those? According to the website’s description “10 technologies we find most exciting and most likely to alter industries, fields of research, and even the way we live”. Below you will find each of the 10 technologies with a direct link to the article describing it:

Innovation Insights is an annual conference that takes a look into several innovation facets, including: sourcing strategies, globalization and innovation, tools and methods to foster innovation, core technologies and so on.

What makes some countries grow faster than others? Why China was able to achieve such an outstanding development over the last decade? The Harvard Working Knowledge website published an interesting interview with Richard Vietor who wrote a book called “How Countries Compete”.

Below you will find the most popular posts of February 2007, check them out if you missed any.

India is one of the fastest growing economies in the world, and its business leaders are determined to keep the engine working. Recently, in fact, they concluded the annual Leadership Forum to deal with the issues of innovation and scarcity of theme, specially on the IT industry.

Fast Company just released the sixth “Fast 50” list. Those are companies and initiatives that are supposed to write the history for the next 10 years. Below you will find the first 10:

There is an interesting article over the Fobes magazine titled “How to be a Disruptor”. In the article Clayton Christensen, author of The Innovator’s Dilemma, argues that for every successful disruptor dozens have tried and failed.