Being part of such premier idea engines as MIT, Bell Labs, and Tiax has given me a rich perspective on the innovation landscape. What I see concerns me ...

The lack of a strong connection between universities, research hospitals, and large corporate labs is partly responsible for today's innovation backlog.

The IP policies of universities have become so complex and money-oriented that companies find it increasingly difficult to structure deals.

The 70,000 grocery workers on strike in Southern California are the front line in a battle to prevent middle-class service jobs from turning into poverty-level ones.

The supermarkets say they are forced to lower their labor costs to compete with Wal-Mart, a nonunion, low-wage employer aggressively moving into the grocery business.

In the worldwide best seller The Innovator's Dilemma, Clayton M. Christensen exposed a crushing paradox behind the failure of many industry leaders. Now, Christensen cuts the Gordian knot of the innovator's dilemma with The Innovator's Solution.

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In the 1970's, she set out to become a brew master just as her father had been. She left India to train in Australia, then returned home to find that daughters were not welcome in India's breweries.

That door closing for her opened another one for India. Unemployed, she followed a love of biology and a chance referral to an Irish biotechnology company. At 25, she started their Indian operation from her garage, successfully extracting from papaya an enzyme used to tenderize meat, among other things, and from the swim bladders of tropical fish a collagen that helps clear beer.

Cloaking himself in nine aliases and Armani jackets, he was a smooth, multilingual master of the con.

[Previously,] small-time crooks had made crude forays ... but in its size and technical sophistication, investigators say, [this] is a con of an entirely different order.

No one can say precisely how much is lost ... In fact, no government agency knows how many, ... where, ... or who ...

A former president said: "You write your story and [the industry] will hate it because it will say, `Be careful where you stick your card.'"

"When I found out what he was doing I thought, `Ah, the perfect scheme.'"

"They would go in, hit one, get on a subway, then go to the next one."

"Our hard and fast policy is we just don't discuss these sorts of things," a spokeswoman said.

On Monday morning, about six in ten college graduates will be without a long-term plan.

... the Peace Corps has become more selective.

"I think it's definitely temporary. ... two or three years, and everything will be back to normal."

"I finally have an interview, kind of. It's an exploratory interview. I don't know what that means."

"There were about 20 people in the room, and each one of us had to introduce ourselves and talk about our most recent position.

There was a cashier from McDonald's, a woman who had worked at Baby Gap, a ticket collector from Loews, a gift wrapper from Barnes & Noble.