How can Washington ensure that U.S. businesses are poised to be global clean energy leaders? The critical step is to make long-term investment in energy innovation.
WASHINGTON -- When politicians talk about the need to maintain America as the destination for the best and the brightest in science, they probably hav...
WASHINGTON -- At Temple University in Philadelphia, a group of 22 graduate students and researchers have been exploring ways to help repair the heart ...
The current budget discussion regarding defense spending (as manifest in sequestration) does not differentiate R&D and innovation as a priority item.
Many of the nation's leading scientists and engineers are working to create deadlier missiles, submarines and more lethal drones. How could those talents and budgets be used to serve the betterment of the people?
Bad drugs, bad strategies, and back to the drawing board on a vaccine. What are we doing wrong?
There are few aspects of life more thoroughly dominated by government than education. This is particularly true of educational innovation. Innovative programs and materials do often come from the private sector, but they are adopted only if government supports them.
In America, the term "innovation" is often exclusively attributed to the profitable successes of private businesses -- specifically big corporations like Apple, Google and Microsoft. But history has shown quite the opposite to be true.
There are now only 12 days left for Congress to reach an agreement to avert the so-called "fiscal cliff," yet Republicans are still insisting on a plan that will harm our economy and risks our ability to compete in the 21st century.
R&D folks need the freedom to play, to innovate, to grow the next big product. This cannot and will never happen if an R&D engineer is spending eight hours a day, five days a week, filling out forms and reports instead of developing products.
By David Malakoff A vague plague on both their houses. That's one message from a new comparison of the innovation and technology policies backe...
Is India ready to play a leading role in health R&D? Are Indian companies interested in new products for the poor, or are they focused on more lucrative opportunities serving patients who can pay more for medicines?
The landing of the Rover Curiosity on Mars is a triumphant historic achievement, but the current state of curiosity-driven research may endanger America's capacity for future innovations.
Leadership and corporate social responsibility are two separate issues that are increasingly talked about, though rarely in the same sentence. But you can't have one without the other.
If the world acts with strategy and speed to implement the proven and emerging options, the epidemic should be on a measurable downward trajectory over the next five to ten years. Why, then, do we still need an AIDS vaccine? Because we want to end the epidemic.
The Republican-controlled New Hampshire House of Representatives Tuesday adopted a measure placing a 24-hour waiting period on abortions as part of a ...
We need an order of magnitude increase in education R&D. The recent increase in venture capital is overdue.
CEOs of the biggest military contracting corporations published a report today that has absolutely no use in predicting the actual economic effects of cuts to the military budget.
We might not be able to match the incentives offered by our trading partners dollar-for-dollar, but we can make the choice competitive enough that we can leverage the inherent advantages that our country still offers.
Despite our strong national commitment to medical research, the advances achieved in basic science are not being translated into new therapies, better prevention strategies and cures fast enough.
The NSF has announced the Innovation Corps -- a program to take the most promising research projects in American university laboratories and turn them into startups.
Recently, China purchased unexpected quantities of corn, boosting corn prices in the United States. This is not only good for American farmers. Those ...
World fairs are the cutting edge of where ideas that have become material are showcased. These exhibitions present to the world the future innovations that are going to affect and shape the lives of the participants.
Science is not a special interest; it's a national interest. And it's time for organized labor -- as well as the business community -- to rally behind it.
President Obama and his administration are doing what they need to do: shining the brightest spotlight possible on entrepreneurship as a solution to our nation's job crisis.
