I was speaking earlier this week with someone from InnoCentive, a Massachusetts-based company dedicated to something called challenge-driven innovation. Increasingly, businesses and governments recognize that the answers to critical problems may not always come from within their own organizations. So they use companies like InnoCentive to post their...

I've recently begun to work closely with an organization that is doing great work in the development of progressive approaches to K12 science and technology education in New Mexico. In a recent conversation with them, I mentioned that at Nature Education we are launching a mobile version of our online...

Since President Obama's announcement of the Educate to Innovate program in November 2009, an encouraging number of technology and media companies, non-profit organizations and government agencies have been working in concert to strengthen the nation's approach to science education. But the reality is that the lion's share of transformation must...