How do we spur innovation in a notoriously complicated industry like health care? It's hard to do, especially when you consider the spectrum of needs and diverse players: from big medical device, insurance and pharma companies to non-profit and academic providers, researchers, governments and, oh, yes, where it all starts:...

Innovation can originate from anywhere, at anytime. To compete in the global marketplace, companies like GE need an approach to innovation that supports open collaboration and partnership - especially when dealing with big issues like the environment or healthcare that are too complicated for any one entity to solve alone.

Ideas spring from the gaps between the technology of today and the needs of tomorrow. In the global energy economy, we face a chasm between nascent ideas with great promise and those that are commercially available to impact change today. Who can narrow this gap to deliver more accessible energy...

In the past year, the health care debate has been all about treating illness and how to pay for it. Missing from the conversation is a simply powerful idea: living healthy everyday.

Certainly there's room in the conversation to explore how we can make living healthy as routine as...