The Innovation Movement

During this President’s Day week, we should take our hats off to the innovator-in-chief. The founding fathers were Enlightenment types, and by ensconcing innovation into the nation’s charter, yet, few inventors have held the nation’s highest office. Ben Franklin was...

Now’s the time for all good innovators to come to the aid of their country as the White House this week issued a “request for information” asking the public to recommend specific goals for President Obama’s Strategy for Innovation. And...

If we think of the federal budget as a way to gauge an administration’s priorities, then it looks like President Obama is pushing innovation up the field. It’s hard to get past all the red ink, but sometimes you have...

If we are going to solve our energy problem and at the same time get a handle on global warming, it’s going to take some serious innovation. We’re starting to see a move in that direction. Wind power capacity grew...