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Pharmaceutical Innovation Hits the Wall: How Open Innovation Can Help

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A recent article in the New York Times announced the frightening reality facing the pharmaceutical industry: within the next year, drugs with sales of more than $50 billion are coming off patent.

Over 1 Million People Wrote an eBook Last Year. What Are They Trying to Tell Us?

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EBooks are a growth sector, that much we know. Writers like Amanda Hocking are capable of earning six figure monthly salaries from $1.99 titles on Amazon. Kindle, Nook and the iBook are creating a revolution in expression, just as blogging did.

Why Weapons, Profits & Teaching Are Less Important Than Terrorists, Innovation & Learning

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As I inched my forward in the huge security queue at San Francisco airport on Friday and watched large numbers of people being treated like

Online project modernizing Jewish texts with today?s lingo

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Urban Sefer is an online project aimed at producing crowd-sourced, slang-filled translations of traditional Jewish liturgy. SAN FRANCISCO — Morgan Friedman loves the way people talk. He wants others to love it, too.

Mobile technology is turning us all into feudal serfs

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A Ugandan farmer transfers cash while standing in his field. An American teen “checks in” at a smoothie cafe, alerting his social network.

New York to curb dirty heat, use landfills for solar

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New York City plans to restrict the use of dirty heating fuels, use its capped landfills for solar farms, and issue loans for green and energy efficiency upgrades to home owners.

Life Technologies Announces Open Registration for Life Grand Challenges $3 million up for grabs through crowd-sourcing competition that invites science community’s innovative ideas to double the capabilities of the Ion PGM(TM)

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/PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — Life Technologies Corporation (NASDAQ: LIFE) today opens registration to the Life Grand Challenges, a first-of-its-kind

More Concerns About Cancer and Energy Saving Light Bulbs: Justified?

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In Europe, normal light bulbs are on the way out. That?s because governments agreed a couple of years back, via the EU, to phase out all incandescent bulbs in favour of eco lighting.

Could America really build an Imperial Walker?

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Patriotic geeks who hoped to build a fully functional imperial walker out of the “Star Wars” universe have run up against Lucasfilm’s intellectual property rights.

Wal-Mart Buys Social Media Firm Kosmix

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?We are expanding our capabilities in today?s rapidly growing social commerce environment,? Eduardo Castro-Wright, vice chairman at Wal-Mart, said in the statement. ?

What Wipro learned from Toyota

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When Sambuddha Deb, 53, now the chief global delivery officer at India’s third biggest software exporter Wipro, was looking for answers to deal with

Wal-Mart Buys Social Media Site Kosmix

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?We are expanding our capabilities in today?s rapidly growing social commerce environment,? Eduardo Castro-Wright, vice chairman at Wal-Mart, said in the statement. ?

Can iPad Help Schools?

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Fifty years ago, no one could have conceived of an invention as revolutionary as the Internet, let alone the iPad. But neither would anyone then have guessed that educational progress would remain stagnant for the next half century.

If You Can Tell Boys From Girls, the Air Force May Give You 20 Grand

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The Air Force has problems distinguishing men from women and adults from children. Which means pilots sometimes target ? and kill ? the wrong people. The air service?s solution: a nationwide contest, to help the military pick out kid from grown-up.

New Book by InnoCentive Executives Unveils the Challenge Driven Enterprise Provides Blueprint for Improving Business Performance and Competitiveness by Harnessing a World of Innovators to Develop Breakthrough Products Faster with Lower Cost and Risk

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(BUSINESS WIRE) — InnoCentive, the global leader in Challenge Driven Innovation, today announced the availability of The Open Innovation Marketplace: