Newsweek
12 Jul. 2010
Back in 1958, Ted Schwarzrock was an 8-year-old third grader when he
became one of the “Torrance kids,” a group of nearly 400 Minneapolis
children who completed a series of creativity tasks newly designed by
professor E. Paul Torrance. Schwarzrock still vividly remembers the
moment when a psychologist handed him a fire truck and asked, “How could
you improve this toy to make it better and more fun to play with?” He
recalls the psychologist being excited by his answers. In fact, the
psychologist’s session notes indicate Schwarzrock rattled off 25
improvements, such as adding a removable ladder and springs to the
wheels. That wasn’t the only time he impressed the scholars, who judged
Schwarzrock to have “unusual visual perspective” and “an ability to
synthesize diverse elements into meaningful products.”
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Wall Street Journal
09 Jul. 2010
America's economy is in danger of losing what has always been our
greatest competitive advantage: our genius for innovation.
A
recent study ranked the U.S. sixth among the top 40 industrialized
nations in innovative competitiveness, but 40th out of 40 in "the rate
of change in innovation capacity" over the past decade. The ranking,
published last year by the Information Technology and Innovation
Foundation, measured what countries are doing—in higher education,
investment in research and development, corporate tax rates, and more—to
become more innovative in the future. The U.S. ranked dead last.
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North Central Florida Business Report
30 Jun. 2010
The founders of an innovative Gainesville tutoring service will soon be
promoting their product to colleges across the country, with the help of
the $50,000 they’ve received as winners of the first Cade Prize for
Innovation.
Matt Hintze, co-founder of Tutor Matching Service (TMS),
says he and his partners are humbled to win the prize but plan to make
the most of it. They will be supplementing the $50,000 with a
substantial investment of their own to hire staff that can fine-tune and
market their service, Hintze says. Their ultimate goal: to create an
online learning system that can match students and tutors the way online
dating sites match compatible couples.
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Gainesville Sun
20 Jun. 2010
Every film needs a director, and so does every museum, hence Dorrie
Hipschman's hire.
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She'll take over as executive
director of the Cade Museum for Innovation and Invention, a museum
dedicated to promoting creativity and innovation and named in honor of
Dr. Robert Cade, the lead inventor of Gatorade.
The museum foundation plans to break ground on
their 55,000-square-foot facility by 2012 and finish by 2015. Hipschman
will start Aug. 16, replacing interim executive director Richard Miles,
husband of Phoebe Cade Miles, Dr. Cade's daughter.
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Gainesville Sun
16 Jun. 2010
Call it the Hub-bub - the groundswell of chatter about Alachua
County's emerging technology sector promises to get louder with the
construction of the Florida Innovation Hub at the University of Florida.
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The growing number of
high-tech businesses many of which have spun out of university
research - also has drawn a number of companies that provide services to
tech firms such as venture capitalists, lawyers and other tech
inventors.
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New York Times
03 Apr. 2010
Good-paying jobs don’t come from bailouts. They come from start-ups. And
where do start-ups come from? They come from smart, creative, inspired
risk-takers.
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Wall Street Journal
01 Mar. 2010
"If you don't invest in the future, there isn't going to be one. A lot
of the stuff we spend on may not deliver a product for two or three
years. There may be no return. But the alternative—not doing—is worse."
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Wall Street Journal
20 Feb. 2010
"Youth and creativity have long been interwoven; as Samuel Johnson once
said, 'Youth is the time of enterprise and hope.' Unburdened by old
habits and prejudices, a mind in fresh bloom is poised to see the world
anew and come up with fresh innovations—solutions to problems that have
sometimes eluded others for ages. Such innovation could be at risk in modern science, as the number of successful young scientists dramatically shrinks."
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New York Times
23 Jan. 2010
We need to get millions of American kids, not just the geniuses,
excited about innovation and entrepreneurship again. We need to make
2010 what Obama should have made 2009: the year of innovation, the year
of making our pie bigger, the year of “Start-Up America.”
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Real Clear Markets
21 Jan. 2010
Entrepreneurs, determined individuals with new ideas, are most
responsible for creating innovations. Not all new ideas are economic
successes. Some lead to greater wealth and economic growth, and others
fail. The beauty of our economic system is that it separates productive
from unproductive ideas, allowing the former to flourish.
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The Wall Street Journal
02 Jan. 2010
Why is the brain divided? If it is about making connections, why has evolution so carefully preserved the segregation of its hemispheres? Almost every function once thought to be the province of one or other hemisphere—language, imagery, reason, emotion—is served by both hemispheres, not one.
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The Wall Street Journal
31 Dec. 2009
In a brutal year, technology companies responded by hunkering down and developing new products at a faster rate as they tried to wrest sales from one another. While 2010 isn't expected to be a blockbuster, consumers have shown they are still willing to spend on gadgets, at least for hot products like Apple Inc.'s iPhone and Amazon.com Inc.'s Kindle.
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The Wall Street Journal
30 Dec. 2009
Why pretend? We have arrived at a point where nearly everyone's conversation of more than five minutes about what is going on in the nation or the world ends up in the ditch. The opinion polls are deep into the no-holiday spirit, competing to deliver low blows to the American psyche. Pew Research Center began dim December with a survey titled "Current Decade Rated Worst in 50 Years." Washington Post/ABC staggered in with the bad word that 61% of the American people think their country is in long-term decline.
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The Wall Street Journal
24 Nov. 2009
Israel is the world's techno-nation. Civilian research-and-development expenditures run 4.5% of the gross domestic product—half-again the level of the U.S., Germany or South Korea—and venture-capital investment per capita is 2½ times that of the U.S. and six times that of the United Kingdom. Even in absolute terms, Israel has only the U.S.—with more than 40 times the population—as a challenger.
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New York Times
16 Nov. 2009
It would be nice if some leader could induce the country to salivate for the future again. That would mean connecting discrete policies — education, technological innovation, funding for basic research — into a single long-term narrative. It would mean creating regional strategies, because innovation happens in geographic clusters, not at the national level. It would mean finding ways to tamp down consumption and reward production.
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The Gainesville Sun
07 Aug. 2009
The report ranks cities based on the priorities of 20- to 40-year-old workers in knowledge-based jobs, looking at criteria such as the cost of living; job opportunities; health and environment; culture and recreation; educational opportunities; “walkability” and transportation; and diversity and safety.
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The Wall Street Journal
19 Jun. 2009
By probing the anatomy of 'aha,' researchers hope for clues to how brain tissue can manufacture a new idea.
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The Wall Street Journal
20 Apr. 2009
Every genuinely revolutionary technology implants some kind of "aha" moment in your memory -- the moment where you flip a switch and something magical happens, something that tells you in an instant that the rules have changed forever.
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The Wall Street Journal
06 Apr. 2009
Major U.S. companies are cutting jobs and wages. But many are still spending on innovation.
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