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"Without rigorous measurement practice, innovation is just massive experimentation on someone else's dime," argues reader Gong Szeto. Bruce Nussbaum sets out innovation policy for the U.S. government to not just restart but reset its economy

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The Best Buildings of 2009

A look at the year's best architecture

11/11/2009

Five Questions For P&G's Len Sauers

P&G's Green Guru Answers Readers

11/09/2009

Five Questions for Dr. Ornish

How preventive medicine can help

10/27/2009

Five Questions for Craig Newmark

Craigslist's founder answers readers

10/19/2009

Five Questions for Mozilla's CEO

Lilly on Google, crowdsourcing, and more

10/07/2009

Five Questions for Paco Underhill

The retail guru talks tough times

10/05/2009

Design Thinking Can Be Learned

David Kelley on how to teach creativity

09/29/2009

Sustainability: Key to Innovation?

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09/23/2009

Five Questions for Danny Meyer

The restaurant czar shares his insights

09/21/2009

BusinessWeek: What Went Wrong?

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09/15/2009

Five Questions for Timex Group's CEO

Hans-Kristian Hoejsgaard answers readers

09/08/2009

How to Innovate the Civil Service?

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09/08/2009

How Can Science Stoke the Economy?

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09/01/2009

How Can I Innovate?

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08/25/2009

Accenture's Open Source Hardware Bet

New technology can seed markets

08/24/2009

Five Questions for Harris Diamond

Weber Shandwick CEO answers readers

08/19/2009

Architect Jeanne Gang's High Rise

The designer soars with her Aqua Tower

08/19/2009

Can Going Global Really Reduce Risk?

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08/18/2009

What Will a Gen-Y Economy Look Like?

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08/11/2009

Design Changes Under Way

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08/04/2009

Five Questions For John Demsey

Estee Lauder's Group President Responds

08/03/2009

Inside the IDEA Design Awards

How the judges made their choices

07/29/2009

Innovation Award Winners

BusinessWeek/IDEA contest

07/29/2009

Does Innovation Consulting Matter?

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07/28/2009

Why Is Design Thinking Relevant?

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07/21/2009

Staples Reinvents the Stapler

A new line in office products

07/21/2009

What Should BusinessWeek Do Next?

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07/15/2009

Five Questions For Antonio Perez

Kodak's CEO answers readers' queries

07/15/2009

Five Questions For Nancy McKinstry

A publisher answers readers' questions

07/13/2009

The Value of an MBA Will Go to Zero

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07/07/2009

Why Does Twitter Matter?

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06/30/2009

Five Questions for Richard Branson

Richard Branson answers reader questions

06/24/2009

Have You Plugged into Social Media?

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06/23/2009

Tata's Innovation Engine

How Tata spurs creative thinking

06/17/2009

Five Questions for John Schnatter

Papa John's Schnatter answers readers

06/17/2009

Five Questions for Shai Agassi

Better Place's CEO answers readers

06/16/2009

What Should A.G. Lafley Do Next?

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06/16/2009

Entrepreneurialism amid Recession

EY's Jim Turley on fostering innovation

06/15/2009

Five Questions for Max Levchin

Slide's CEO answers reader questions

06/12/2009

EBay's Tech Makeover

A new CTO aims to bring back innovation

06/10/2009

Five Questions For Stephanie Burns

Top Newsmakers Answer Reader Questions

06/10/2009

The World Is Not Flat

Some cities have much denser networks

06/09/2009

Automated Innovation Returns

HP reinvents an invention put on hold

06/09/2009

Five Questions for Anand Mahindra

India's Historic Opportunity

06/08/2009

Barcelona's Futuristic Vision

An Industrial District Morphs

06/08/2009

Five Questions for Brad Smith

Intuit's CEO on optimism and growth

06/04/2009

Rehabbing Research Triangle Park

The granddaddy of science parks

06/02/2009

Is the U.S. Model Sustainable?

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06/02/2009

Singapore's $7 Billion Bet on R&D

One North will be a global research hub

06/01/2009

Pop-Up Labs and Portable Incubators

Small, flexible new innovation spaces

05/28/2009

Five Questions for Sol Trujillo

Telstra's upbeat former chief exec

05/27/2009

What Caused the Financial Crisis?

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05/26/2009

What Is the Future of Innovation?

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05/19/2009

The Shape of the Design Industry

ICFF shows the state of design

05/18/2009

Where's the Opportunity?

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05/12/2009

So...What Comes Next?

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05/05/2009

Can 'Local' Win Again?

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04/28/2009

Five Questions For Shantanu Narayen

Adobe's CEO answers reader questions

04/22/2009

Where's the Innovation?

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04/21/2009

Libeskind: Creativity Meets Commerce

How architect Daniel Libeskind innovates

04/20/2009

Will We Ever Be Rid Of Buzzwords?

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04/14/2009

China's E-Commerce Champion

Alibaba's Jack Ma on B2B innovation

04/08/2009

Can Algae Help Develop Biofuels?

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04/07/2009

Lessons from Tata's Nano?

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03/31/2009

Riding Schwinn's New Tailwind eBike

An electric bicycle gives riders a push

03/30/2009

Matters of Identity in a Digital Age

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03/25/2009

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Do we need more talk about innovation?

03/17/2009

Five Questions for Kevin Rose

The Web entrepreneur takes questions

03/16/2009

Shouldn't brands be fragmented?

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03/10/2009

Trickle-Up Innovation

Big gains coming from emerging markets

03/10/2009

Saul Griffith: Rethinking Wind Power

MacArthur Fellow thinks big about energy

03/03/2009

Five Questions for Alberto Alessi

The head of Alessi on invention

03/03/2009

Does 'Blue Ocean Strategy' Work?

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03/03/2009

Thinking Inside the Box

Lynda Resnick of POM Wonderful

02/25/2009

What will be the innovation of 2009?

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02/24/2009

A New Way to Swing

Involving employees in the “how”

02/23/2009

Five Questions for Aetna's CEO

The health insurer's chief Ron Williams

02/23/2009

Are baby boomers out of touch?

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02/17/2009

Privacy and social networks

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02/10/2009

Social Media Innovators

Voices of Innovation

02/09/2009

The keys to disruptive innovation

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02/02/2009

Five Questions for Brian Dunn

Best Buy’s Incoming CEO Takes Questions

02/02/2009

3D Entertainment

Broadcasts in 3D

01/27/2009

Five Questions for Mike Morris

CEO of AEP answers reader questions

01/26/2009

The Transformation of Business

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01/21/2009

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How should government handle innovation?

01/13/2009

Earn Money, End Poverty

Paul Polak on helping 17 million people

01/12/2009

How do you innovate in a recession?

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01/07/2009

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How academia can embrace design thinking

12/30/2008

Best Innovation Books of 2008

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12/23/2008

A New Era for Cancer Care

Dr. Brian Druker on cancer therapy

12/22/2008

Five Questions for Tim Brown

IDEO's chief executive answers readers

12/18/2008

Is IDEO still king of innovation?

Ask the Innovation Guru

12/16/2008

Building a Creative Economy

The Impact of Global Innovation

12/11/2008

Smarter Emergency Radios

Designing better safety gear

12/10/2008

Ask the Innovation Guru

Why is Kindle winning the E-Reader war?

12/09/2008

How do you innovate in a recession?

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12/02/2008

Corning Heads to Silicon Valley

The century-old Corning rethinks R&D

12/02/2008

P&G's External Partnerships

Drawing on outsiders to spark innovation

12/02/2008

Innovating in Tough Times

Western Union's Barnes is optimistic

12/01/2008

Voice of Innovation: Arthur Chait

Complex 3D printing made easy

12/01/2008

Leaders in Innovation: Nokia

Alastair Curtis on handset design

11/25/2008

Is Hank Paulson right for Treasury?

Ask the Innovation Guru

11/25/2008

Revolutionizing Financial Services

Rethinking financial services in India

11/24/2008

What Makes Design Thinking Special?

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11/18/2008

Curing the Health-Care Industry

What hospitals can learn from P&G

11/14/2008

Rockwell's Dramatic Brand Strategies

David Rockwell on investing in design

11/14/2008

The Rise and Rise of Indian Design

Anuj Prasad of Desmania on Indian design

11/14/2008

Software Innovation Above All Else?

Ask the Innovation Guru

11/11/2008

IBM Redesigns Its Client Briefings

Lee Green and a new landscape of design

10/24/2008

Using Games for Business Research

How play can shape the future

11/07/2008

The Lessons of Nike+

They Just Did It: Nike's Social Strategy

11/05/2008

Can Sustainability Ease the Crisis?

Ask the Innovation Guru

11/04/2008

Computing for Humanity

Luis von Ahn on human computation

10/31/2008

A Closer Look at the Chevrolet Volt

GM’s electric hybrid: ready to inspect

10/29/2008

The Changing Face of Marketing

Bob Greenberg on interactive design

10/28/2008

Government Innovation Policy

Ask the Innovation Guru

10/28/2008

Growing green with Majora Carter

How eco-thinking can help spark growth

10/23/2008

Does Apple Face a Backlash?

Has Apple Expanded Too Far Too Soon?

10/21/2008

Voices of Innovation: Chad Mirkin

Mirkin on frontiers in nanotechnology

10/20/2008

T-Mobile's Innovation Strategy

CEO Hamid Akhavan on "killer experience"

10/16/2008

Research for Greener Buildings

The quest to cut carbon

10/16/2008

How Can Innovation Help Now?

Innovation's role in a crisis

10/14/2008

The Future of the Skyscraper

New meaning for tall buildings

10/14/2008

Muhammad Yunus: Finance Big & Small

Grameen Bank Founder's Economic Solution

10/13/2008

Closing America's Innovation Gap

How to keep the U.S. competitive

10/08/2008

Abbott Laboratories

Breakthrough: Xience V Drug Coated Stent

10/08/2008

First Alert

Breakthrough: Tundra fire extinguisher

10/08/2008

Flashpoint Academy

Breakthrough: Flashpoint Academy

10/08/2008

Zorch

Breakthrough: Zorch Promotional Products

10/08/2008

Cleversafe

Breakthrough: Dispersed Storage Network

10/08/2008

Fieldglass

Breakthrough: Fieldglass InSite software

10/08/2008

PrepMe's Online Learning

Breakthrough: individualized test prep

10/08/2008

Molex

Breakthrough: Solder Charge Technology

10/08/2008

Gas Technology Institute

Breakthrough: Enhanced Heat Recovery

10/08/2008

National Pasteurized Eggs

Breakthrough: Egg Pasteurization

10/08/2008

Does Success Stifle Innovation?

How to maintain an innovative culture

10/07/2008

Innovating in a Mature Industry

Can you reimagine the moving van?

09/30/2008

Innovation During a Recession

Why inaction is not an option

09/24/2008

Intel on Innovation

Intel's chairman talks innovation

09/24/2008

Bad Economy, Great Ads

Check out classic recession ads

09/17/2008

Ask the Innovation Guru

Is innovation to blame?

09/16/2008

Ask The Innovation Guru

Why did GM, for one, fail to innovate?

08/28/2008

Retail 2.0

Turning bricks and mortar into digital

08/28/2008

Ask the Innovation Guru

How does one become an innovation guru?

08/28/2008

Jetting Ahead

A tour of JetBlue's new terminal

08/11/2008

Bringing Bicycles Back

Bikes for the masses

07/16/2008

The New Direction of Design

IDSA’s executive director talks design

06/12/2008

C. K. Prahalad on Innovation, Part 1

The new landscape of business

05/19/2008

C. K. Prahalad on Innovation, Part 2

The new landscape of business

05/19/2008

HP Doesn't Waste Time with E-Waste

The Evolution of HP's Green Policies

03/13/2008

Minimizing Hummer

A smaller, friendlier (macho) SUV

04/17/2008

P&G's AG Lafley on Innovation

How innovation is at the heart of P&G

04/17/2008