Time for shameless self-promotion! The StarTribune is running an article on the future of the Minnesota State Fair, which contains input from Arthur Harkins and myself. From the article: “The State Fair has traditionally been a showcase, but in the future, we see it becoming much more of a collaborative, idea- and product-generating place,” said [...]

This year’s April/May issue of Innovate includes an interview by James Morrison with Joel Barker and Scott Erickson, who: propose an ecological model that classifies technology according to different clusters or regions, each of which entails its own perspective of technology and how such technology should be utilized. Their five regions model thus shifts the [...]

Roger Martin writes that “Chinese and Indian companies aren’t leaving design to the North Americans”: “There is a romantic notion in North American business that its future lies in design and innovation, while India and China will be the home of less skilled, lower-paying operations churning out the products and services the U.S. comes up [...]

New Scientist’s Robert Adler writes: “…we are fast approaching a new dark age. That, at least, is the conclusion of Jonathan Huebner, a physicist working at the Pentagon’s Naval Air Warfare Center in China Lake, California. He says the rate of technological innovation reached a peak a century ago and has been declining ever since. [...]

Article link: How U.S. should commit to technological innovation Jim Puzzanghera at the San Jose Mercury News writes, “a high-powered panel of business, academic and government leaders Wednesday [in a report] warned that without a major commitment to technological innovation, the United States risks abdicating its position as the world’s leading economic power.” Furthermore, “some [...]