Innovation Stories - December 2016

Here's a hand-picked collection of articles concerning innovation for the month of December.

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Anderson Social Innovation Week Launches with a Range of Inspiring Stories from the Social Impact Trenches
Anderson Social Innovation Week Launches with a Range of Inspiring Stories from the Social Impact Trenches

World’s Most Needed Cleantech Innovation Could Use More Liquid Smoke - CleanTechnica
World’s Most Needed Cleantech Innovation Could Use More Liquid Smoke - CleanTechnica

Boston Travel: Teeming with Innovation - Smart Meetings
Boston Travel: Teeming with Innovation - Smart Meetings

Inaugural Federal Education Innovation and Research Grants
Inaugural Federal Education Innovation and Research Grants

Innovations Which Vatican II Did Not Call For, but Which We Got Anyway, and Many More Great Links!
Innovations Which Vatican II Did Not Call For, but Which We Got Anyway, and Many More Great Links!

These 9 Nike Innovations From 2016 Helped Further Human Potential
These 9 Nike Innovations From 2016 Helped Further Human Potential

Exploring innovation with IBM Blockchain and Legos – Peter B. Nichol – Medium
Exploring innovation with IBM Blockchain and Legos – Peter B. Nichol – Medium

FirstNet opens $30M grant for broadband apps and innovations - Fedscoop
FirstNet opens $30M grant for broadband apps and innovations - Fedscoop

Interesting Finalists of 2016 SPE Auto Innovation Awards
Interesting Finalists of 2016 SPE Auto Innovation Awards

U.S.A.F. Innovation Shows Promise in Fighting Veteran Suicide and Cancer Mortality While Reducing Sepsis - Sepsis Alliance
U.S.A.F. Innovation Shows Promise in Fighting Veteran Suicide and Cancer Mortality While Reducing Sepsis - Sepsis Alliance

Regional Highlights: Exploring the UK's Innovation Ecosystem
Regional Highlights: Exploring the UK's Innovation Ecosystem

What is frugal innovation? Three defining criteria
What is frugal innovation? Three defining criteria

Major evolutionary transitions and innovations: the tympanic middle ear
Major evolutionary transitions and innovations: the tympanic middle ear

How China Can Leverage Israel’s Innovation Engine
How China Can Leverage Israel’s Innovation Engine

Spam Filters and Why They Are Important - Sharp Innovations Blog
Spam Filters and Why They Are Important - Sharp Innovations Blog

The Art of Intelligent Failure: How to Turn Failures Into Corporate Innovation Assets
The Art of Intelligent Failure: How to Turn Failures Into Corporate Innovation Assets

Pain shared, pain halved? Cooperation as a coping strategy for innovation barriers
Pain shared, pain halved? Cooperation as a coping strategy for innovation barriers

Why Developing Corporate Changemakers is Essential for Innovation
Why Developing Corporate Changemakers is Essential for Innovation

Winners of the National Contest on Social Innovation - MyGov Blogs
Winners of the National Contest on Social Innovation - MyGov Blogs

How Ottawa Can Provide A Powerful Spark For Innovation
How Ottawa Can Provide A Powerful Spark For Innovation

Disruptions for 2017 - Cloud Computing - Innovation
Disruptions for 2017 - Cloud Computing - Innovation

Top 16 of 2016: Software Innovation and Customer Success
Top 16 of 2016: Software Innovation and Customer Success

Driving Change and Managing Innovation in a Cloud-First Business Reinvention
Driving Change and Managing Innovation in a Cloud-First Business Reinvention

5 Hot Clorox Innovations From 2016 - Good Growth Blog - The Clorox Company
5 Hot Clorox Innovations From 2016 - Good Growth Blog - The Clorox Company

Redefining the Value of Business Events — Meetings Innovation Report
Redefining the Value of Business Events — Meetings Innovation Report

How To Update Your Business Listing Holiday Hours - Sharp Innovations Blog
How To Update Your Business Listing Holiday Hours - Sharp Innovations Blog

Innovation is Saying No
Innovation is Saying No

Innovation for all the people - IBM Consumer Products Industry Blog
Innovation for all the people - IBM Consumer Products Industry Blog

Is Cisco Falling Behind in Innovation (or Just in PR)?
Is Cisco Falling Behind in Innovation (or Just in PR)?

Understanding New Plant Breeding Innovations
Understanding New Plant Breeding Innovations

EMBED: The Company Force-Field that Impedes Innovation - Edison Awards News
EMBED: The Company Force-Field that Impedes Innovation - Edison Awards News

037 - Reviving the Swiss Watch Industry: The Remarkable Story of Swatch with Elmar Mock Innovation Ecosystem
037 - Reviving the Swiss Watch Industry: The Remarkable Story of Swatch with Elmar Mock Innovation Ecosystem

Most Important Cleantech Innovation For Next 10 Years? (And Win A Trip To Abu Dhabi!) - CleanTechnica
Most Important Cleantech Innovation For Next 10 Years? (And Win A Trip To Abu Dhabi!) - CleanTechnica

Policy uncertainty discourages innovation and hurts the environment
Policy uncertainty discourages innovation and hurts the environment

How Sacrificing Cyber Security Affects Big Data Innovations
How Sacrificing Cyber Security Affects Big Data Innovations

The 4 KPIs To Track In Innovation Accounting
The 4 KPIs To Track In Innovation Accounting

How 35 Innovation & Strategy Practitioners View Innovation Culture
How 35 Innovation & Strategy Practitioners View Innovation Culture

Making Agile Innovation Work For Both Marketing And IT
Making Agile Innovation Work For Both Marketing And IT

Technicolor Leverages AWS and Alexa to Drive Innovation for Network Service Providers
Technicolor Leverages AWS and Alexa to Drive Innovation for Network Service Providers

Market orientation, innovation, and firm performance—an analysis of Albanian firms
Market orientation, innovation, and firm performance—an analysis of Albanian firms

Avid Delivers Innovations for its State-of-the-art Graphics Authoring Software
Avid Delivers Innovations for its State-of-the-art Graphics Authoring Software

IEEE Computer Society Celebrates 70th Anniversary While President Roger Fujii Shares How Tech Research and Standards Shape Innovation - HostingAdvice.com
IEEE Computer Society Celebrates 70th Anniversary While President Roger Fujii Shares How Tech Research and Standards Shape Innovation - HostingAdvice.com

Behind the Scenes of Adobe Kickbox: Building Processes for Innovation
Behind the Scenes of Adobe Kickbox: Building Processes for Innovation

New Azure Logic Apps innovation – general availability of cloud-based Enterprise Integration Pack - Blog - Microsoft Azure
New Azure Logic Apps innovation – general availability of cloud-based Enterprise Integration Pack - Blog - Microsoft Azure

Sports innovation & IoT, reshaping the fan experience
Sports innovation & IoT, reshaping the fan experience

Applications for New Awards; Education Innovation and Research Program-Mid-Phase Grants
Applications for New Awards; Education Innovation and Research Program-Mid-Phase Grants

Applications for New Awards; Education Innovation and Research Program-Expansion Grants
Applications for New Awards; Education Innovation and Research Program-Expansion Grants

The Newest Window Trends and Innovations for 2017 - Homes.com
The Newest Window Trends and Innovations for 2017 - Homes.com

Applications for New Awards; Education Innovation and Research Program-Early-Phase Grants
Applications for New Awards; Education Innovation and Research Program-Early-Phase Grants

Retrovation – the Concept of a Historical Innovation (3–4/2016) • WiderScreen
Retrovation – the Concept of a Historical Innovation (3–4/2016) • WiderScreen

Top inventions and technical innovations of World War 2
Top inventions and technical innovations of World War 2

BLOG: Canadian innovation targets health-care access crisis
BLOG: Canadian innovation targets health-care access crisis

12 days of innovation – reflecting on Innovate UK’s 2016
12 days of innovation – reflecting on Innovate UK’s 2016

Innovation is a social process - which means collaboration is key
Innovation is a social process - which means collaboration is key

Innovation: 10 Photos That Will Inspire You To Create Something New
Innovation: 10 Photos That Will Inspire You To Create Something New

Bots rising: Skype to continue conversational innovation in 2017 - Skype Blogs
Bots rising: Skype to continue conversational innovation in 2017 - Skype Blogs

Beyond Marrakech: The resource nexus and eco-innovation
Beyond Marrakech: The resource nexus and eco-innovation

Modularity – The Next Major Milestone in Creating an Infrastructure for Innovation - Tasktop Blog
Modularity – The Next Major Milestone in Creating an Infrastructure for Innovation - Tasktop Blog

Powering Innovation. How Does Enedis Serve Up Electricity To 95% Of France?
Powering Innovation. How Does Enedis Serve Up Electricity To 95% Of France?

Interview: SOM Partner Kenneth Lewis on the Altering the Texture of New York City Through Innovation
Interview: SOM Partner Kenneth Lewis on the Altering the Texture of New York City Through Innovation

A New Model for Investing in Energy Innovation
A New Model for Investing in Energy Innovation

Peek Behind the Sneaks: Controversy and Opportunity in Innovation - Adobe Blog
Peek Behind the Sneaks: Controversy and Opportunity in Innovation - Adobe Blog

88 International Startup Accelerators, Incubators & Innovation Labs Nurturing Innovators in Financial Services
88 International Startup Accelerators, Incubators & Innovation Labs Nurturing Innovators in Financial Services

Chinese imports seem to hurt American innovation - Journalist's Resource
Chinese imports seem to hurt American innovation - Journalist's Resource

Design Thinking – A 21st century journey to Innovation - HCL Blogs
Design Thinking – A 21st century journey to Innovation - HCL Blogs

Innovation Deluxe - Unique World Maps - MMORPG.com
Innovation Deluxe - Unique World Maps - MMORPG.com

Five Minnesota charter schools recognized for innovations
Five Minnesota charter schools recognized for innovations

Germany, a world leader in technology, engineering and innovation
Germany, a world leader in technology, engineering and innovation

The Card Game to Help You Innovate Like Tesla - Innovation Management
The Card Game to Help You Innovate Like Tesla - Innovation Management

Australian Innovation Shines at BigInsights Data Innovation Awards
Australian Innovation Shines at BigInsights Data Innovation Awards

WinHEC Shenzhen 2016: Microsoft announces new innovation opportunities in mixed reality, gaming and cellular PCs - The Fire Hose
WinHEC Shenzhen 2016: Microsoft announces new innovation opportunities in mixed reality, gaming and cellular PCs - The Fire Hose

Device innovation opportunities in mixed reality, gaming, and cellular PCs - Windows Experience Blog
Device innovation opportunities in mixed reality, gaming, and cellular PCs - Windows Experience Blog

Innovation in Accountability - Center for American Progress
Innovation in Accountability - Center for American Progress

Riding the “Rails”: Unlocking Innovation with Open APIs
Riding the “Rails”: Unlocking Innovation with Open APIs

The Role of Convention Bureaus in Industry Research Development — Meetings Innovation Report
The Role of Convention Bureaus in Industry Research Development — Meetings Innovation Report

3 ways to keep education innovation alive at your school
3 ways to keep education innovation alive at your school

Is Precision Agriculture the Way to Peak Cropland? -- The Unsung Hero of Agricultural Innovation
Is Precision Agriculture the Way to Peak Cropland? -- The Unsung Hero of Agricultural Innovation

Growing Innovation Through an Open Network
Growing Innovation Through an Open Network

Genome of the Asian longhorned beetle ( Anoplophora glabripennis ), a globally significant invasive species, reveals key functional and evolutionary innovations at the beetle–plant interface
Genome of the Asian longhorned beetle ( Anoplophora glabripennis ), a globally significant invasive species, reveals key functional and evolutionary innovations at the beetle–plant interface

Keys to unlock corporate innovation and creativity - Forbes India Blog
Keys to unlock corporate innovation and creativity - Forbes India Blog

3 Benefits of Technological Inventions & Innovations
3 Benefits of Technological Inventions & Innovations

Service Desk Innovation Takes a Lesson from Consumers
Service Desk Innovation Takes a Lesson from Consumers

5 Ecommerce Innovations to Boost Your Sales - GetResponse Blog
5 Ecommerce Innovations to Boost Your Sales - GetResponse Blog

The product roadmap that boosts innovation - InVision Blog
The product roadmap that boosts innovation - InVision Blog

Insurance Tech Is What’s Next in Israeli Innovation
Insurance Tech Is What’s Next in Israeli Innovation

Assessment in Project-Based Learning - Innovation: Education
Assessment in Project-Based Learning - Innovation: Education

Is the Tech Talent War Hurting Innovation? Hiring Managers and Tech Recruiters Respond - Indeed Blog
Is the Tech Talent War Hurting Innovation? Hiring Managers and Tech Recruiters Respond - Indeed Blog

Driving Innovation at Every Level with IoT - Schneider Electric Blog
Driving Innovation at Every Level with IoT - Schneider Electric Blog

Eliminating barriers to innovation at scale: Fostering community through a common language - Blackboard Blog
Eliminating barriers to innovation at scale: Fostering community through a common language - Blackboard Blog

Tao Te Ching translated from Finnish to English - ICT and business innovation, services and consultation ByJuho.fi
Tao Te Ching translated from Finnish to English - ICT and business innovation, services and consultation ByJuho.fi

Baker, at odds with Warren, comes out in support of medical innovation bill - The Boston Globe
Baker, at odds with Warren, comes out in support of medical innovation bill - The Boston Globe

Using the cloud as a platform for innovation - ZDNet
Using the cloud as a platform for innovation - ZDNet

Harnessing the Power of the MIT Startup Exchange (STEX) to Help Solve a Fortune 500’s Innovation Challenge - IBM Government Industry Blog
Harnessing the Power of the MIT Startup Exchange (STEX) to Help Solve a Fortune 500’s Innovation Challenge - IBM Government Industry Blog

To Create the Best Environment for Innovation—Focus on Your People - Software License Optimization
To Create the Best Environment for Innovation—Focus on Your People - Software License Optimization

‘The stars seem aligned’: a qualitative study to understand the effects of context on scale-up of maternal and newborn health innovations in Ethiopia, India and Nigeria
‘The stars seem aligned’: a qualitative study to understand the effects of context on scale-up of maternal and newborn health innovations in Ethiopia, India and Nigeria

Why do action research? - Innovation: Education
Why do action research? - Innovation: Education

Corporate Innovation Ecosystems Course - MIT Sloan Executive Education
Corporate Innovation Ecosystems Course - MIT Sloan Executive Education

Global health innovation summit offers new approach through behavioural science - Imperial News - Imperial College London
Global health innovation summit offers new approach through behavioural science - Imperial News - Imperial College London

TaxProf Blog: TEDx Talk:Tax Policy, Climate Change, And Innovation
TaxProf Blog: TEDx Talk:Tax Policy, Climate Change, And Innovation

VoIP Innovations Receives 2016 Customer Experience Innovation Award fr
VoIP Innovations Receives 2016 Customer Experience Innovation Award fr

VoIP Innovations to Exhibit at ITEXPO Ft. Lauderdale 2017
VoIP Innovations to Exhibit at ITEXPO Ft. Lauderdale 2017

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