To discover which companies innovate best — and why — BusinessWeek joined with The Boston Consulting Group to produce their second annual ranking of the 25 most innovative companies. More than 1,000 senior managers responded to the global survey, making it their deepest management survey to date on this critical issue.
Watch: Intelligent Cities – Smart Cities – Innovation Ecosystems
William J. Mitchell, Director of the Design Laboratory at MIT, writes about the emerging technologies that are poised to reshape our urban environments. Cities are fast transforming into artificial ecosystems of interconnected, interdependent intelligent digital organisms. This is the fundamentally new technological condition confronting architects and product designers in the twenty-first century.
A European Union report released Thursday showed big differences in the level of Internet use among EU nations, with Benelux and Nordic countries leading the way and eastern and southeastern Europe generally lagging behind. In the Netherlands, 78 percent of households are connected to the Net, compared to just 16 percent in Lithuania.
IBM’s Digital Communities Business Area Leader provides and overview of the evolution of Digital Communities by exploring infrastructure, government and public usage models, and the sustainability of the investment.
A useful article on Sunday’s edition of the International Herald Tribune explores the ways which corporations use the new idea-sharing networks in order to spur innovation and create successful new products and services. Two types of idea networks are presented:
Each year, Technology Review magazine identifies 10 technologies that are worth keeping an eye on. This year’s list spans a broad range of disciplines, from life sciences to nanotechnology to the Internet, but the technologies have one thing in common: they will soon have a significant impact on business, medicine, or culture.