Curated articles from various sources.
Sony is pushing out engineers like some kind of bargain sale – engineers behind hit products who’ve left due to a decade of cost cuts that soured a once-celebrated culture of risk-taking. The “brain drain”, as it’s called, threatens the mission to resuscitate the iconic brand that once gave us compact discs, Trinitron color TVs and the Walkman….
ByTED
Principal computer engineer at Intel, Maria Bezaitis, focuses on how constellations of personal data can form new business models. In this TED talk, she means that without even realizing it, we’re barricading ourselves against strangeness in the digital word. Strangeness, meaning people and ideas that don’t fit the patterns of who we already know, what we already…
The Economist reports on a new book that points out the big role governments play in creating innovative businesses. Economists have long recognised that the state has a role in promoting innovation, in any case. At its best, the newly coined entrepreneurial state is nothing less than the ultimate Schumpeterian innovator – generating the gales of…
The mood among Japan’s would-be business moguls is at its most buoyant since the “dotcom bubble” burst a decade ago. According to one man called Takafumi Horie who’s involved in no fewer than 30 new companies, it begin from now. And by “it”, he means that the fallen Japanese entrepreneur can make a comeback. Moreover, the prime…
The Economist reports on the hype around 3D printing and its rapid integration with mainstream manufacturing. 3D printers make things by building them up, a layer at a time, from a particular material, rather than removing it by cutting, drilling or machining – which is why the process is also called additive manufacturing. Even so, additive manufacturing…
Texas Representative Ted Poe was looking for reassurance that backing an overhaul of U.S. immigration laws won’t be political suicide for conservatives like him – and he may have found it. Several business executives told the Republican that they can’t find enough Americans willing to cook fajitas, repair sidewalks and perform other types of unglamorous…
