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Sunday, March 30, 2008

Companies scouting for technology

Source: NY Times

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Thinking Outside the Company’s Box
By G. PASCAL ZACHARY
Published: March 30, 2008
More businesses are learning how to buy the great ideas of others.

Wednesday, March 05, 2008

People and processes

Your company is only as good as its people and processes. You can have the best people with crappy processes and they'll be frustrated, or great processes with inept people and you will be frustrated.

Sunday, February 24, 2008

Self-assembling and chip making innovation

Source: NY Times

Prototype
Trying to Put New Zip Into Moore’s Law
By MICHAEL FITZGERALD
Published: February 24, 2008
If innovation has a heart, it’s probably a semiconductor, beating to the pace of Moore’s Law.

Sunday, February 17, 2008

Solar power redux

Source: NY Times

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Silicon Valley Starts to Turn Its Face to the Sun
By G. PASCAL ZACHARY
Published: February 17, 2008
Some of the region’s best minds are captivated by the challenge of solar power and hope to put the development of solar technologies on a faster track.

Wednesday, January 09, 2008

Grass makes better ethanol

Source: Scientific American

Grass Makes Better Ethanol than Corn Does
Midwestern farms prove switchgrass could be the right crop for producing ethanol to replace gasoline

By David Biello