Imagine K12 is a new Palo Alto incubator birthing only education startups. Can they change the way we teach our kids? Yes, there are ping-pong tables. Yes, there are ping-pong tables. And su... Read more
Our policy makers are right to worry, but they are worried about the wrong things. American policy makers worry about the dramatic increases in the number of academic papers being published... Read more
LET the rest of the country worry about a double-dip recession. Tech land, stretching from San Jose to San Francisco, is in a time warp, and times here are still flush. Even now, technology... Read more
The Matternet is a proposed internet-like network, that would allow goods such as medicine to be transported to remote communities via unmanned aerial vehicles Across Africa, along with othe... Read more
Blackbox launched the Startup Genome Compass Today, Blackbox launched the Startup Genome Compass, a benchmarking tool designed to help entrepreneurs keep track of their startups’ progr... Read more
How can we make businesses more innovative? That’s easy isn’t it? We just group them together into clusters (preferably in science park developments) and it will happen… won’t it? The troubl... Read more
For Naval Ravikant, the problem with investing in start-ups boils down to coffee. “I got really tired of coffee meetings,” said Mr. Ravikant, 37, a technology entrepreneur turned investor. S... Read more
Hewlett-Packard researchers have proposed a fundamental rethinking of the modern computer for the coming era of nanoelectronics — a marriage of memory and computing power that could drastica... Read more
Researchers in university labs find vast numbers of breakthroughs which can better the world In my last post, I explained the motherlode of innovation hidden in the huge stacks of patents an... Read more
My research team documented that one quarter of all technology and engineering startups nationwide from 1995 to 2005 were started by immigrants. Read more
We’re already seeing the reverse brain drain as smart immigrants take their US educations and experience building companies and creating technology back to their home countries. Read more
Image via CrunchBase A big concern for the U.S., Canada and others . . . by Vivek Wadhwa I spent Columbus Day in Sunnyvale, fittingly, meeting with a roomful of new arrivals. Well, relativel... Read more
Regions all over the world have spent millions—sometimes billions—of dollars trying to create their own Silicon Valley. They drank the same Kool-Aid and used the same recipe: start with a re... Read more
Image by Goodimages via Flickr Silicon Valley is a mirror of what is happening in many locales . . . Shocker: We Still Suck When It Comes to High-Tech Education Ever since I’ve been in Silic... Read more
Image via CrunchBase Prepare for Windows 8: Minority Report Edition Microsoft said on Friday that it was buying Canesta, a small Silicon Valley company that specializes in gesture-recognitio... Read more