February 13th, 2023 —The world is never finished catching up with Vaclav Smil. In his latest and perhaps most readable book, Invention and Innovation: A Brief History of Hype and Failure, the prolific ...

UNC Charlotte’s second annual Invention of the Year Awards Gala celebrated outstanding faculty and student inventors on April ...

Texas A&M Architecture For Health is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on iPhone, Apple TV, Android TV, Android smartphones, Amazon Fire TV, Amazon Fire Tablet, Roku, ...

Lungpacer Medical, a Canadian innovation success story, began as a labour of love for both its inventor and its first major business partner. In December 2006, his mother developed pneumonia and was ...

Most technology companies will list “innovation” as a core value. Leadership teams promote idea generation, schedule brainstorming sessions and encourage employees to think creatively. Yet, why is it ...

Having worked at the Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation for seven years, I see invention and innovation all around me. Before, my ears might not have perked up when a local ...

1. Invention and innovation : a long history and modern infatuation -- 2. Inventions that turned from welcome to undesirable. Leaded gasoline ; DDT ; Chlorofluorocarbons -- 3. Inventions that were to ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is here. It's in the driver-assisted features of our cars, it's in the virtual scheduling assistants we use, and it's even embedded in all of our digital shopping ...

Invention harvesting—sometimes also referred to as invention mining, brainstorming, and ideation, among other terms—is a proactive process that involves (1) prompting innovators to conceive of new ...

Students got the chance to play with science this week at the Willoughby-Eastlake School of Innovation through Camp Invention. Camp Invention is a nationally recognized, nonprofit summer enrichment ...