High hopes for high-rise horticulture
Vertical farmers offer their vision of the future in a video
The Innovation Investment Journal Archive
How relevant are ‘parenting issues’ to today’s innovation investment?
Checking out these news stories may help you decide
A tale of two planes
Different dreams, startlingly brought to reality, but still mostly futuristic dreams for most of us
Getting old, dying and other endangered ideas
A long-awaited documentary examines human mortality. The controversy is more about separating science from pseudo-science than about longevity
iij secrets on display?
Ok, we confess: we wish we could say that TED videos were made by us
Can a budget airline out-innovate the full price squadron?
Will spoilt holidays and disrupted travel become a thing of the past? easyJet hopes its new technology will allow travellers to keep on flying, despite eruptions like the one earlier this year
What on earth is an Anthropreneur?
Need to attack poverty, environmental and language issues simultaneously? Then maybe you need one of these: as far as inspiring videos go, I haven’t seen anything much better than this
Underwhelmed by interfaces? Want to see what’s coming next?
Spielberg’s ‘Minority Report Interface’ guru tells us all what he’s been working on
Cameron on innovation and power
Watch the new UK premier explaining his ideas about innovation, before he got the job
How green are the valleys?
Is Wales about to become a hotspot for sustainable tech?
New health data ideas suddenly go viral in government
Have political types trying to look cool unleashed a medical monster?
Carbon negative products – what are they?
Are they as positive as they sound?
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Mirror, mirror, on the wall
What do you get when you cross augmented reality with cosmetics?
Martyn Poliakoff: green chemist, big hair, YouTube god?
Even his much more famous brother is probably not as famous online
What’s stopping start-ups in the EU?
Are we making European start-ups abscond to the US?
Eye tracking technology that doesn’t attract the eye
Replacing bulky ‘face furniture’ could help researchers get more accurate results
Rescuing crash victims just got a whole lot easier
New tools for tearing wreckage apart to get trapped occupants out of mangled vehicles
A wealth of innovation opportunities among the poorest on the planet
And you thought shopping was exhausting: necessity forces these ‘dollar or two a day’ people into an unimaginably intricate daily web of cash and credit
Sustainability and innovation: an oil company’s view
They tell us how they see the future in this video
Left Microsoft for Google: What’s startup catalyst Don Dodge doing now?
Here he is chairing a panel of top VCs on the ‘freemium’ business model [Video]
Is healthcare data just a game?
US government initiative spawns ‘Community Clash’
Dancing lessons from an elephant?
A giant corporation gives us a crash course on their novel approach to innovation [Video]
What can innovators learn about creativity from a fiction author?
Amy Tan writes about mother /daughter relationships and talks about the creative process in this video
Shapeshifting is no longer science fiction
Making things change to the shape you want : a video briefing on Shape Memory Materials
So you thought Venter’s ‘Creating life’ was the biggest Biotech story ever?
I’m not so sure he thinks so. In this video, you might just learn why
TSB £4.5m competition deadline June 30
OLPC plans $75 kids’ tablet PC
One Laptop Per Child plans to have an open source $75 tablet PC with a semi-flexible plastic touch screen available in 2012.
Did the recent “We’ve Just Created Life” coverage leave you feeling a bit ‘engineered’?
Sounds like you need to watch a Video of the Synthetic Biology Debate at the Edinburgh Science Festival
Why not update yourself on seven major robotics projects at once?
Here’s a video with a commentary by the man at the centre of the research
The eCar guys that don’t build cars
Who are those guys? If they don’t build cars, what do they do? This short video tells you exactly what the eCar guys do.
Balanced assessment of China’s Green Transport efforts?
It starts off pretty positive, even supportive, but it doesn’t back away from asking some hardball questions [Video]
Easy being green? Not if you make mobile handsets
It’s all the consumer’s fault (green mobile phone consciousness is only just warming up)
Working with the Y (Why?) Generation
A battle to reinvent the way you see your workforce [Video]
How to protect your ideas
A simple outline of how to develop a trademark.
Bluffer’s guide to gene therapy
A 10-minute video guide to gene therapy
So how does a leading VC defend optimism in a crisis?
Innovators may need all the help they can get fighting off the bears and DFJ boss Steve Jurvetson delivers some interesting ammunition [Video]
How to present to the board
American coaching company Bates Communications gives pointers on presenting to the board
Slimy but not Sleazy!
Biofuels extracted from algae. Is this the way forward in solving the fuel problem?
Giant Steps in Nanotech
Want to find out more about nanotech? This video gives a good explanation in a way that’s easy to understand.
Investment stages: a rough guide
IIJ’s short and simple definition of investment stages in business development
Round-up: nanotech provides battery power
Round-up: big bucks for Sybase
SAP sees advantages of mobile access and new options in the world of social networking.
Funding for new innovation centres
Herman Hauser persuades the government to create innovation centres
Who’s who: London Business Angels
Outline of the London Business Angels
US dominates BBC list of net entrepreneurs who made it
Who’s rich and which companies dominate the internet.
Why we should stop selling cars
UK hydrogen car developer Riversimple plans to turn the standard motor industry business model on its head. Founder Hugo Spowers explains.
UK Innovation fund launches to help start-ups
The British government has begun the process of distributing £325 million to small and medium-sized businesses.
UCL hopes nano-level magneto-optics holds the key to quantum data storage
Novel magnetic materials could hold key to quantum computing
Nanotech funding holds steady
European nanotech firms turned over €44 billion in 2009, according to industry body IVAM. Orders and sales volumes were down but funding held steady.