BusinessWeek: the innovation economy

• 75 YEARS IN COVERS – THE PROMISE OF INNOVATION
• Building on the past
• Global Brainpower
• The best of what’s new – A raft of ideas that could well change your life
• Idea Factories
• Lessons From Sci Fi

VOICES OF INNOVATION

• Steve Jobs – Chairman and CEO of Apple Computer and Pixar Animation Studios
• Cherry Murray – Senior vice-president of physical sciences research and a veteran at Lucent Technologies’ Bell Labs
• Shirley Ann Jackson – President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute since 1999
• Wallace Broecker – A professor at Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory and a leading researcher on the issue of global climate change
• Craig Venter – A pioneer in decoding the genomes of everything from microbes to humans, and president of The Center for the Advancement of Genomics
• Roger McNamee – An innovator in venture-capital investing and co-founder of the Silver Lake Partners and Elevation Partners funds
• Faqir Chand Kohli – Former chairman of Tata Consultancy Services, India’s software outsourcing pioneer, and a champion of cracking the country’s adult literacy problem
• Yuan Longping – Director general of China’s National Hybrid Rice Research & Development Center and a pioneer in hybrid rice technology
• Tim Berners-Lee – The London-born inventor of the World Wide Web is now at Massachusetts Institute of Technology working to create the new “Semantic Web,” a radical leap that would greatly improve how people and machines locate and use data on the Web
• Jeff Hawkins – Creator of the first PalmPilot PDA and Handspring smart phone and author of the book On Intelligence, about the human brain and intelligent machines
• Amory Lovins – CEO of the Rocky Mountain Institute, a nonprofit energy and environment policy think tank

OTHER ARTICLES

• This way to the future – from energy to biotech, we may be on the cusp of a new age of innovation
• Scouring the planet for brainiacs – worlwide innovation networks are the new keys to R&D vitality — and competitiveness
• Flying high? – Long the innovation leader, the U.S. now has serious competition from abroad. Is America’s research lead in danger?
• Nanotech: universe in a grain of sand – Scientists are finding that ultratiny materials behave in unexpected ways.
• Where our energy will come from – From seabed gas to pebble-bed nukes, a scouting report on tomorrow’s sources.
• Aging is becoming so yesterday – Tantalizing new discoveries suggest the possibility of reengineering the body.
• Reinventing the wheels: fuel cells, crash-proof cars — auto makers are forging the future now.
• In a tight spot: And Loving It – How Will TV Survive Its Own Reality Show? To thrive in the Internet Age, the industry must remake itself.
• An Old Hotbed With New Crops – This time around, the Valley is nurturing startups that combine info tech with emerging technologies.
• Getting The Best To The Masses – A wave of innovation is yielding high-quality goods that India’s poor can afford.
• Huawei: More Than A Local Hero – The telecom gear maker aims to be a player in global innovation.
• The Old World Becomes A Little Newer – The trend toward collaborative innovation will help the Continent revive its R&D.
• Building An Idea Factory – Inspiration is fine, but above all, innovation is really a management process.
• Reaping The Wind – GE’s energy initiative is a case study in innovation without borders
• Novel Inspiration – Otherworldly fantasies can evoke solutions to real problems. Science fiction has been honorably doing just that for decades

COMMENTARY

• Can uncle sam’s cash still unlock the the future?
• Are The Copyright Wars Chilling Innovation?
• The Search For Tomorrow
• How To Sharpen The Innovation Edge

ONLINE EXTRAS

• Counting the femtoseconds – The Energy Dept.’s 20-year R&D plan aims to push the frontiers of fusion power, supercomputing, and nanotechnology
• Nanotech: Big concept on campus – Academia is fast becoming the center of this promising technology’s universe, with states helping to pay the way a longevity company’s first steps – Elixir Pharmaceuticals is still young, but its all-star team is aiming squarely at one of humanity’s oldest dreams
• At P&G, It’s “360-Degree Innovation” Chief Tech Officer Gilbert Cloyd on how the consumer-goods giant moves technology and ideas both internally and externally
• 15 Great Science Fiction Novels – Eric Rabkin’s personal favorites
• Industry And Academia Weigh In (extended)IBM’s Sam Palmisano and Georgia Tech’s Wayne Clough talk about their National Innovation Initiative, due out in December