Changing the world is no easy task — entrepreneurs know that more than anyone. But what if it was a little more fun?
There are lots of things we know we ought to do — recycle, take the stairs instead of the elevator, not litter — but they’re kind of a pain so we don’t always [...]

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Want to know what Chinese takeout, drug runners, and violins have to do with educational innovation? Watch the video.
We’ve written about innovation in the face of hardship before (like with last summer’s protests in Iran and war spurring telemedicine). This time, we’re looking at education. In a recent TED talk, Charles Leadbeater, a financial journalist turned [...]

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Is your business ready for 2010 and beyond?
Have you seen the “Did You Know?” video yet? Sony Corp just showed it at their annual shareholders meeting.  It highlights the pace of innovation and how it’s expected to accelerate in the next decade.  It was also featured in Time magazine (”What College Students Don’t Know”) and [...]

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Never fear, help is here.
The U.S. Commerce Department is doing two things to aid aspiring entrepreneurs of today: the creation of the Office of Innovation and Entrepreneurship within the Department of Commerce and the launch of a National Advisory Council on Innovation and Entrepreneurship.

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At its core, entrepreneurship is about solving problems.
As protests continue in Iran, the news is filled with stories of innovators rising to meet the challenges created by the media crackdowns. They’ve used Twitter to confound censors, engineered ways around blocked websites, and found ways to increase internet access. With 70% of Iran’s population [...]

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