The Technology & Innovation Management Alumni Association

Judy Estrin - Silicon Valley executive and author of
Closing the Innovation Gap: Reigniting the Spark of Creativity in
Global Economy.

Click the link below.

http://www.mckinseyquarterly.com/Strategy/Innovation/How_to_fix_the_innovation_gap_2285

Innovation is critical to this country. 

Great story on how people paralized can use the brain electronic impulses to manipulate computers to communicate.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/10/31/60minutes/main4560940.shtml

 Snap shot of the article.  To watch story go to link above.

By JANET RAE-DUPREE

Published: November 1, 2008

BY its very nature, innovation is inefficient. While blockbusters do emerge, few of the new products or processes that evolve from innovative thinking ultimately survive the test of time. During periods of economic growth, such inefficiencies are chalked up as part of the price of forging into the future.

Innovation economy is the subject of meeting and workshop at UW-Madison

WTN News

September 29, 2008

Below is an interesting article on Skype support for SIP by integrating with Asterisk.  Does this mean that companies can create and host their own Telephone system?  The ecosystem will change but how?
  
Skype - SIP integration, officially, at last

Lead Microsoft and Xerox technologists tout the benefits of research in the quest to deliver the next big thing in IT and computing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Emerging Technologies event. Signifying its commitment to invest in finding next-generation technology, Microsoft has opened a research lab near MIT called Microsoft Research New England.