Caught this video via @jerrymichalski and Jane McGonigal (@avantgame) on Twitter, and felt the need to share it here. These "wingsuits" are astonishing. These "birdmen" are pushing materials and design...
Chanel recently announced the cancellation of its Mobile Art tour, which featured a spaceship-like gallery designed by "starchitect" Zaha Hadid. The fashion-meets-art project probably seemed like a chic intellectual and...
For a while now, we've been running the rather lovely "Voices of Innovation" series, featuring the likes of the inventor of the Captcha, Luis von Ahn, sustainable design activist Majora...
The line up of speakers for next year's TED conference has just been announced. I was thrilled to be asked back to cover the conference for BusinessWeek again... Even more...
Used to be that the maids and janitors at the Hyatt Regency Chicago cleaned the giant hotel with industrial-strength chemicals like maids and janitors do almost everywhere. Now they scrub...
Tim Brown from IDEO came into see us here at BusinessWeek in New York earlier this week, and graciously answered five reader questions. Thanks to all for some really smart...
Dell just announced that it’s launching a new initiative to get really green by reducing packaging materials for its desktops and laptops by 10 percent in the next four years....
If you're gearing up for holiday -- or business -- air travel, you must be dreading the airport chaos of going through security screening lines. There are a couple of...
Around the world today, most patents provide a monopoly for 20 years, with the clock starting on the date the application was filed. There are only a few exceptions. Because...
Like nations elsewhere, South Korea has a problem with fake goods. It's trying an innovative method to stop counterfeiting, according to Jongan Kim, chief presiding trademark judge of the Korean...
Reena Jana and I have been reporting on the design work behind Ford's upcoming Fusion Hybrid. The new vehicle, which will debut next year as a 2010 model, features an...
Last night I was typing using Google Docs at home, and when I used the Word Count tool, I discovered some metrics that I didn't know about: scores to show...
IBM came up during a discussion at the Salzburg Global Seminar, a five-day conference in Austria on new models in intellectual property. IBM is known, of course, for innovation. That...
I'm participating as a fellow in a five-day program on innovation sponsored by the Salzburg Global Seminar in Austria. The title: New Models of Intellectual Property: Predictability and Openness as...
Currently Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research, Bill Buxton writes a regular-ish column for the Innovation channel here at BusinessWeek. In the process of working on a new piece, we...
I recently had a chance to talk with Rajesh Chandy, a marketing professor at the University of Minnesota's Carlson School of Management and co-author of a new study on corporate...
Tim Brown is one of the best known proponents of design thinking around, while IDEO, the company he now leads, is probably one of the most-cited examples of a design...
In the December 8 issue of BusinessWeek's print edition, on newsstands now, I've got a story on Wal-Mart's push toward digital personal health records (PHRs) for its eligible employees, in...
IBM has just released its third annual "Next Five in Five" list of innovations to watch. These are based on research done in Big Blue's own labs, as well as...
Have you checked out the customization feature for the recently released Flip Mino video camcorder, available on the Flip's Web site? Basically, Pure Digital, the camera's maker, allows Flip buyers...
Bruce Claxton, Senior Director of Design Integration at Motorola came in to see us recently to answer some reader questions. Here's the video we shot of him tackling questions on...
Today in Washington D.C., Fred Block, a University of California, Davis, sociology professor presented a white paper calling for President-Elect Obama to appoint a cabinet-level Department of Innovation within the...
I'm somehow in charge of corraling BusinessWeek writers, editors and contributors to make their suggestions of the best and worst of 2008. That's everything from ideas, products, events, launches, PR...
What comes next? The Bloomberg Businessweek Innovation and Design blog chronicles new tools for creativity and collaboration, innovation case studies in both the corporate and social sectors, and the new ideas that have the power to change the way things have always been done.
