innovation + creativity

TechMonday: The Open-Source Consultancy

Mon Aug 20, 2007 at 2:22 PM

In the September issue of Fast Company, we look at five consumer electronics products whose design was inspired, or could be modified, by a larger community. Now, a young entrepreneur is hoping to harness that power to go beyond ...READ»

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Innovation Wednesday: Henry Selick and the Artistry of Stop-Motion Animation

BY Chuck SalterWed Aug 15, 2007 at 11:19 AM

Unfortunately, I wasn't able to make it to San Diego last month for Comic-Con, the world's largest comic book and sci-fi fan-fest and THE place to generate buzz about TV shows and movies aimed at these influencers. I would have ...READ»

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InnoWed Deux: Al Gore On Innovation - Build It And They Will Come

BY Ellen McGirtWed Aug 8, 2007 at 5:01 PM

A bit more on Current TV. One of the most intriguing elements of the Current TV trajectory thus far, is how clear Gore and Hyatt were from the start that they wanted to do something completely different. In part, it was to address ...READ»

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Innovation Wednesday: Al Gore Transforms Television With A Little Help From His Friends

BY Ellen McGirtWed Aug 8, 2007 at 12:40 PM

Now that the Al Gore story is in print, I can no longer pretend that the hours I spend watching Current TV, the network he started with partner Joel Hyatt, is for reporting purposes. I’ve morphed into a bona fide fan, and I’m ...READ»

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Innovation: Kalamazoo (cont'd)

BY Chuck SalterWed Aug 1, 2007 at 3:45 PM

In the original Fast 50 list, we didn't mention how Ron Kitchens got into economic development in the first place. But at the lunch event in Chicago he shared how personal this work is for him. "I grew up poor," he said. "I was in ...READ»

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Innovation: What You Can Learn from Kalamazoo

BY Chuck SalterWed Aug 1, 2007 at 1:54 PM

Welcome again to Innovation Wednesday here at FC, the day we focus on the inventive, the original, the daring, the super creative - even more than usual. Sure, we'd all like to be innovative 24-7 (yes, even in our dreams), but ...READ»

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Innovation Wednesday: Advertising In User Generated Nation-Must We Do Everything?

BY Ellen McGirtWed Jul 25, 2007 at 12:47 PM

As if programming debates and blogging endlessly about the minutiae of our collective lives wasn’t enough, we the people are now taking matters into our own cams to show the Madison Avenue ad geniuses how it’s done. The latest ...READ»

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Innovation: Phil Knight's "Not Exactly Textbook" Moves

BY Chuck SalterWed Jul 18, 2007 at 1:20 PM

How Laika Entertainment came to be is an intensely personal story. I was fascinated by how Nike founder Phil Knight and his son Travis, who didn't share his father's passion for sports growing up, wound up working together - in ...READ»

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For Nonprofits, Google Marks the Spot

Thu Jun 28, 2007 at 5:34 PM

Google rolled out a new program Tuesday to help nonprofits use its Google Earth tool to tell their stories through interactive maps. Along with some technical expertise, Google is offering up free versions of its $400 software to ...READ»

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Is Your Company a Cezanne or a Picasso?

Thu Jun 7, 2007 at 4:32 PM

As the final speaker at the HSM World Innovation Forum yesterday, Malcolm Gladwell, the New Yorker writer, author, and Fast Company profilee, gave an interesting talk on two types of creativity, inspired by a book by David Galenson ...READ»

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