Industrial Revolution

The 40 Greatest Innovations of All Time

July 27, 2015

Here is a portion of a list compiled by Ryan Allis for The Startup Guide, a cultural resource that combines the essence of the social enterprise movement with the hacker spirit of high-growth technology startups and gives advice for future…

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Labor Day: A Briefing

August 31, 2013

Before I began some research on the subject, I did not know that, until Labor Day became a federal holiday in 1894, laborers who chose to participate in parades to celebrate anything had to forfeit a day’s wages. I am grateful…

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Inside Real Innovation: A book review by Bob Morris

July 28, 2011

Inside Real Innovation: How the Right Approach Can Move Ideas from R&D to Market – And Get the Economy Going Eugene Fitzgerald, Andreas Wankerl, and Carl Schramm World Scientific Publishing Co. (2011) How and why emerging innovation paradigms can generate…

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William Rosen, Part Two: An interview by Bob Morris

December 11, 2010

  William Rosen is an historian and writer as well as the author of the award-winning history Justinian’s Flea: Plague, Empire, and the Birth of Europe and the recently published The Most Powerful Idea in the World: A Story of…

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