Posts Tagged ‘innovation’
TEDxTriangle: Old techniques and new technology to harness ideas
Monday, March 8, 2010, 8:38 pmFeeling dull and uninspired? Try to practice selflessness like a Trappist monk. Play a video game that does more than entertain. Doodle.
The three tips could have come from self-help books, a consultant or a mentor. Instead, they came from the first TED talk in the Research Triangle Park area. The all-day, free event Saturday at RTP headquarters attracted more than 150 people, who on a sunny and balmy winter day sat inside, listened, did the wave and talked to people they had never met before.
Amy Calhoun
Durham couple Amy and Eric Calhoun organized TEDxTriangle, an offshoot of the TED conference, over the past 10 months using word of mouth, Twitter and Facebook to recruit speakers. In the spirit of TED, whose motto is “ideas worth spreading,” TEDxTriangle brought together local speakers willing to share their ideas and insights.
“We’ve been TED fans for a long time,” said Amy Calhoun, who runs a management consulting business. The goal of the conference, she said, was to get attendees excited, plant seeds of passion and help people connect to solve problems. Read more…
RTP Wrapup 2/12
Thursday, February 11, 2010, 11:53 pmBayer CropScience is on the hook for $1.5 million after a jury verdict, former Gov. Jim Hunt tries to stoke the Research Triangle area’s creative juices at this year’s Emerging Issues Forum and RTI International scientists dipped into their nanotech tool box to come up with a better lightbulb. Read more…
Ideas dislike organizational charts
Wednesday, February 10, 2010, 10:46 pmCall it ingenuity, right-brain thinking or out-of-the-box problem solving – what sparks ideas goes by many names. The Chinese, the Egyptians, the Incas, the Italians, they all had it and the results fill museums, theaters and libraries.
Americans had it, too, but two years after we triggered a global recession we’re worried that we lost it.
No wonder a forum Monday and Tuesday on how we can get our juice back in the 21st century sold out, drawing hundreds of people to the Raleigh Convention Center. An interesting question that popped up again and again at the Emerging Issues Forum was whether proprietorship stifles innovation. Read more…
A rising star
Friday, June 19, 2009, 6:54 amVipin Garg, the chief executive of Tranzyme Pharma, a small Durham drug development company, has the credentials to get invited to official events in the Research Triangle area, such as the opening of Quintiles Transnational’s new headquarters last month. But until now, he has shown no appetite for stepping out into the limelight himself.
The Entrepreneur of the Year awards program, run by Ernst & Young, one of the four big business auditing companies, is changing that.
Planting seeds and making them grow
Monday, June 1, 2009, 7:41 amIt’s an encouraging historical fact that creativity rises when the economy tanks.
That means, the time to plant seeds for tomorrow’s innovation is now, when the global economy is shrinking, unemployment is rising and one of the world’s largest carmakers, General Moters, is about to restructure in the biggest industrial bankruptcy in U.S. history.
Offshoring R&D
Monday, May 18, 2009, 5:48 pmAnybody who believes jobs in research and development are safe from going to countries with low labor costs, should read Robert Atkinson’s testimony before a congressional subcommittee on technology and innovation.
Science jobs: Where are they going?
Wednesday, May 13, 2009, 10:15 amAre science jobs about to go the way manufacturing jobs have gone for years, which is to countries with lower labor costs?
It’s a question that more than 700 economic developers, economists, scientists, investors and business executives from around the world will explore at the three-day International Association of Science Parks conference that starts June 1 at the Raleigh Convention Center.
