Scientists team with business innovators to tackle research hurdles In a study that represents a potential cultural shift in how basic science research can be conducted, researchers from Har... Read more
HOW do you take particles in a test tube, or components in a tiny chip, and turn them into a $100 million company? Dr. Robert Langer, 64, knows how. Since the 1980s, his Langer Lab at the Ma... Read more
Manufacturing in the United States is in trouble. That’s bad news not just for the country’s economy but for the future of innovation. In a hangarlike building where General Elec... Read more
Kimball Thomas and Davis Smith, co-founders of the e-commerce site Baby.com.br, had just six hours in Brazil to pitch to prospective investors and recruit a promising executive for the chief... Read more
There were high hopes that the Supreme Court would clear things up in the mushy, litigation-filled realm of patents on methods of doing business. The court issued its much-anticipated ruling... Read more
IMAGINE a planetarium-style presentation about the future of technology, followed by a tour of dozens of hands-on exhibits — whether of sandlike microparticles that flow like liquid in a bea... Read more