Innovators

It's Time for Technology to Disrupt Education

Larry Magid | Posted 05.10.2012

Read More: Grockit, Educational Technology, Education, Learning, Edtech, LearningJar, Socrative, Innovators, Disruptive Innovation, Edx, Taptolearn, Innovation, Khan Academy, Technology News

Thanks to technology, the world can be our teacher and the Internet our classroom. What should matter is not so much your degree or grade point average but how well equipped you are for the next stage in life.

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Stop Blabbing About Innovation and Start Actually Doing It

Aaron Shapiro | Posted 04.18.2012

Read More: Innovation, Skunkworks, Business, Technology, Management, Startups, Innovators, Business News

Instead of innovating on your weekends, overcome the structural impediments and time constraints to real change by approaching innovation from two directions: outside-in and inside-out.

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Seldom Acknowledged Innovation Was Edison's 'Greatest?'

Posted 04.08.2012

Read More: Inventors, History, Video, Innovators, Electricity, Thomas Edison, Inventions, Innovation, Historical Figures, Famous People, Edison, Lightbulbs, Tesla, Science News

By: Jeremy Hsu, InnovationNewsDaily Senior Writer Published: 04/07/2012 09:45 AM EDT on InnovationNewsDaily Thomas Edison's record as an America...

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Education and Infrastructure: Rebuilding America

Kathy Kemper | Posted 05.27.2012

Read More: U.S. Economy, Investing, Third Industrial Revolution, Debt Crisis, Innovators, Investment, Economy, Financial Crisis, Innovation, Great Recession, Yale CEO Caucus, Business News

People are America's most valuable resource and if we want to get ahead in a competitive global economy, we need to invest in our human capital.

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Student Innovators "Get Their Genius On"

Nancy Conrad | Posted 05.13.2012

Read More: Steve Jobs, Food Allergies, Isle of Man, Asteroids, Innovators, Aerospace, Haiti, Sustainability, High School, Astronauts, Entrepreneurship, STEM Education, Impact News

Innovators like Steve Jobs don't just happen -- they are grown. The question is how? The simple answer is: young minds must be challenged and engaged.

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ARPA-E on the Practical Side of (Energy) Innovation

Joan Michelson | Posted 05.07.2012

Read More: Clean Energy Alliance, Energy, Arpa-E, Tech Startups, Innovators, Alternative Energy, Steve Blank, Start-Ups, Innovation, Cea, Green Economy, ARPA-E Summit, Small Business News

Here are six tips distilled for aspiring entrepreneurs from Steve Blank and others at the summit.

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A Young Entrepreneur's Innovative Approach to Success

Michael B. Fishbein | Posted 05.02.2012

Read More: Peter Thiel, Startups, Entrepreneurs, Young Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, Starting a Business, Innovators, Innovation, Higher Education, Young Innovators, Oren Bennett, Business News

"How to Start a Venture Capital Firm." A Skillshare class... taught by a 21-year-old college dropout! Not even a Harvard-dropout, a small-liberal-arts-college-with-a-mediocre-reputation-in-upstate-New-York-dropout. I was skeptical but intrigued.

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Profile in Courage: On Frontlines of Arizona Crisis, Mexican American Studies Director Sean Arce Teaches Nation an Enduring Lesson

Jeff Biggers | Posted 10.15.2011

Read More: Ethnic Studies, Latinos, Education, Chicanos, Innovators, Tucson Unified School District, Mexican American Studies, Tucson, Tom Horne, Sean Arce, Mexican Americans, Arizona, John Huppenthal, School, Russell Pearce, Chicano, Education News

As Tucson Unified School District students returned to the classroom yesterday, the towering role of one education innovator is being championed by a broad spectrum of local students, parents, teachers, community members and national scholars.

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Innovation Crisis in Black America, Pt. 1

Mike Green | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Inventors, Small Business, Black Innovation, Innovators, Black Venture Capitalists, Black America, Social Entrepreneurship, Creative Financing, Venture Capital, Small-Business Entrepeneurs, Entrepreneurship, Black Angels, Bank Loans, College Sports, Bv-Money, Business News

There is a crisis occurring in 12.3% of the American population, otherwise known as Black America. The crumbling economic infrastructure of the natio...

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HuffPost Innovators Series: Audimated, Rural America Onshore Outsourcing, Groundlink (PHOTOS)

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Innovation, HuffPost Innovators, Rural America Onshore Outsourcing, Slidepollajax, Innovators, Audimated, Fatwallet, Groundlink, Business News

In our latest edition of the HuffPost Innovators Series, we've highlighted a company that's bringing sustainability to the denim market, a startup tha...

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HuffPost Innovators: InnoCentive, Waste Farmers And More (PHOTOS)

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Schedulicity, Waste Farmers, InVenture Fund, Innovators, Innocentive, Zoomatlas, Slidepollajax, Open Innovation, HuffPost Innovators Series, Business News

In the latest version of our HuffPost Innovators Series, we've compiled some of the most interesting and promising startups from the HuffPost communit...

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HuffPost Innovators Series - Catchafire, LookTel And More (PHOTOS)

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: HuffPost Innovators, Innovators, Catchafire, Looktel, Microgreen, Safeplug, Innovation, People Capital, Human Capital, Slidepollajax, Business News

If the economic recovery is going to happen any time soon, these are the kind of companies that will be leading the way. As the economy continues ...

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HuffPost Business Is Looking For The 'Innovator Of The Week'

Huffington Post | Ryan McCarthy | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Innovation, Innovator of the Week, Twitter, Innovators, Start-Ups, Slidepollajax, Business News

We're looking for a few good innovators. As the U.S. economy digs out from underneath the rubble of the greatest financial crisis since the Great De...

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