On AlterNet: innovation

Stories, blog posts, and videos tagged as "innovation"

Calling All Innovators

Tony Wagner, AlterNet. April 12, 2012.

The five essential practices schools must adopt to build the innovators our future demands.

The Biggest Engine of Economic Growth? 8 Ways Taxpayers and the Government Are Necessary to Capitalism

Colin Greer, AlterNet. March 13, 2012.

Almost everything the American capitalist system needs is provided by taxpayer dollars and government action.

The Plow and the iPhone: The Conservative Delusion About Government's Role in Innovation

Robert Jensen, TruthOut.org. February 15, 2012.

Conservatives deny that government has any role at all in sparking technology innovation. Here's why they're wrong.

Audacious Innovators Take On Broken Immigration System -- Without Asking

Wendy Sefsaf, Immigration Impact. December 9, 2011.

While Freedom University offers undocumented students an education, a new company plans to purchase a boat where high-skilled workers may live and work off-shore.

Immigration and the Future of American Innovation: Does America Need to Pump Up the Volume?

Seth Hoy, Immigration Impact. April 1, 2010.

The Internet, investing in the green economy and revamping our broken immigration policies could be key ingredients to rejuvenating innovation and pumping up the American economy.

Excuse me, are those nanoparticles in your pants?

Heather Gehlert, December 6, 2006.

Heather Gehlert: We're living in a synthetic world...