Crowdfunding Many attendees at the first annual Next Generation Entrepreneurship and Global Crowdfunding Forum at Santa Monica on Nov. 16 saw crowdfunding as the clearest path to an economic comeback. One of the distinguished speakers, Howard J. Leonhardt, founder of the California Stock Xchange, predicted: “Crowdfunding will bring the grandest expression of human creativity and …

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Viral Videos That Matter Leading thinkers from around the globe will gather in London this March for the inaugural Global Grand Challenges Summit. They will brainstorm worldwide collaborations for addressing some of our planet’s most pressing issues…and you could earn the opportunity to be a part of it. The US National Academy of Engineering, with …

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GSN Weekly Update: 4 December 2012 Services & Trade News/Events  China overtaking USA as global trader. Brazil GDP grows at half forecast pace as investment, services dives. EU challenges require fundamental solutions with fiscal, energy unity: Mature economies need more trade in services; ‘China threat’ may reflect their own problems. Exponential growth in Asia-Pacific trade flows …

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ENGINEERING ACADEMIES IN US, UK, AND CHINA ANNOUNCE GLOBAL GRAND CHALLENGES SUMMIT Washington, DC, November 14, 2012 – The US National Academy of Engineering (NAE) today announced a major international summit to explore new approaches for solving some of the world’s most pressing challenges. The summit, to be held in London on March 12-13, 2013, …

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The International Society for Service Innovation Professionals (ISSIP), a global non-profit consortium of industry, academia and governments has launched a research project to co-develop curricula guidelines for all forms of education in service with educators, government agencies and industry representatives around the world. As a first step in this project we have produced a brief …

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University Venture Fund USA has 23 million unemployed and 3.7 million unfilled jobs. According to a survey earlier this year of over 38,000 employers in 41 countries, 34% of companies worldwide reported finding it hard to fill open positions. If you ask, employers are more than happy to provide a laundry list of capabilities that …

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Machines are getting faster and algorithms better, so how might this help unlock more opportunities for the creative teams in society? If you haven’t read “Race Against the Machine” read this first, then read the eBook… http://sloanreview.mit.edu/the-magazine/2012-winter/53208/winning-the-race-with-ever-smarter-machines/ Augmented teams of people are able to solve complex problems more rapidly… http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/24/science/scientists-see-advances-in-deep-learning-a-part-of-artificial-intelligence.html “This is a really breathtaking …

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CALL FOR CHAPTER PROPOSALS Proposal Submission Deadline: Jan 15, 2013 Smart Manufacturing Innovation and Transformation: Interconnection and Intelligence A book edited by Dr. Zongwei Luo (University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China) To be published by IGI Global: http://www.igi-global.com/requests/details.asp?ID=870 Introduction Fast advances in information technology (RFID, sensor, Internet of things, and the Cloud) have led …

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Stephen Perelgut sent these really insightful links: A pro/con discussion of the value of patents – quite instructive in its own right and it lays out the fundamental issues around ownership of IP: http://www.rsc.org/chemistryworld/Issues/2006/October/HeadToHead.asp Head to Head: Patents Pro/Con Arguments FOR Barry Treves, President of the Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys, UK Patents protect inventions …

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Many university faculty especially engineering and business schools are seeking corporate sponsors for their existing or soon to be launched student innovation competitions. Student innovation competitions are a great idea – the world needs more innovations, and it is a great experience for the students to win an innovation competition.  However, corporate sponsorships as a …

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