ARTICLE: India will be big technology innovator in next decade

Found this on Jorge Barba's Twitter feed. In the article, Jason Pontin, the publisher of MIT's Technology Review is discussed in relation to India as a technology innovator. He projects that India will be an innovator in healthcare, education, biomaterials, and nanotechnology. The article has a number of links to supporting articles and sites.

You can find the original article here.

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Innovation Trickles in a New Direction

Business Week online has an interesting article in subtle changes to innovation in large corporation. In an article published March 11, 2009, title, "Innovation Trickles in a New Direction," author Reena Jana describes how the path to innovative products has changed from being developed in advanced countries and being deployed in emerging countries. In a reversal of that trend, she uses products from GE, Phillips Electronics, Nokia, Xerox, Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft, and Nestle to show how large companies are now finding innovative products developed for third-world and developing countries that have a market in developed countries such as the US and the countries of the European Union. It demonstrates how innovation can occur anywhere and how innovative products developed for one market may find a larger market elsewhere.

The original article can be found at Business Week Online along with a video supporting the article.

Innovation in the work place

The Tech Manager's Blog has an interesting post entitled, "Innovation in the work place." The article describes the need for innovation, how innovation can be achieved cheaply, the use of innovation tools such as rapid prototyping, and how innovation deals with processes and services, and not just products.

The full article can be found at The Tech Manager's Blog.

Intuit Study: Small Businesses Will Innovate Today to Succeed Tomorrow

Business Wire has published an article describing findings from an Intuit study on innovation. The report, "Intuit Study: Small Businesses Will Innovate Today to Succeed Tomorrow," was written by Steve King and Carolyn Ockels at Emergent Research. The article describes six major innovation enablers. They are:

• Personal passion
• Customer connection
• Agility and adaptation
• Experimentation and improvisation
• Resource limitations
• Information sharing and collaboration.

The authors describe outcomes as either "market-sustaining," or "market changing."

Read the original article at Business Wire. Download the full report at the Intuit Future of Small Business Web.