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The fascinating story of the discovery of nuclear fission began with an error that earned Enrico Fermi (see picture) a Nobel Prize for the apparent but incorrect discovery of the transuranic elements. Careful repetition and extension of the experiments finally led to the correct interpretation by Hahn, Meitner, Strassmann, Frisch, and Bohr as an effect from nuclear fission of the “small impurity” of (0.7 %) contained in natural uranium.
The success rate of discoveries would be improved if we could find out how to innovate.
Scientists can be stubborn. They can use their gravitas to steamroll new ideas. Which means those new ideas often only prevail when older scientists die.
An analysis of the essential tension identifies institutional forces that sustain tradition and suggestions of policy interventions to foster innovation.
Unique companies invest early and often to develop technology from the ivory tower.
Turning research grants into loans risks stymieing successful industry
Essay triggers lively arguments over how basic science should be funded.
Would we be possibly be better off without any patents at all?
Please, European universities, stop playing in the second league when it comes to fundraising. Go out and ask your alumni for resources to help you build the next Stanford.
We collected some of Switzerland's most exciting technology startups and ranked them by the amount raised, headcount, and how cool and original they are.
Poor countries often complain that their best minds are draining away—and for the most part they are right. The poorer the country, the larger the proportion of inventors who push off.
Today’s patent regime operates in the name of progress. Instead, it sets innovation back. Time to fix it.
Innovation almost always requires long periods of quite traditional training.
US funding agencies are turning to a Silicon Valley entrepreneur to focus fledgling biomedical companies on success — even when that means making a scientific course correction.
This article investigates the Innovation Union Scoreboard (IUS) as a tool to carry out case studies about national innovation capacities in the case of given countries..
A startup accelerator called "Scholas.Labs" was announced during an education event hosted by Pope Francis.
A patent system that is so broken that almost no patented discoveries ever get used.
The next generation of DIYBio tools are coming, and this time they mean business.
Christoph Keese, Manager at Axel Springer publishing house, published his experiences of living in Silicon Valley in a book.
U.S. science lobbyists coined the phrase "innovation deficit" last year
After years of shying away from science, engineering and clean-technology start-ups, investors are beginning to take an interest in them again.
Reply to a recent opinion stating that creativity was being suppressed in science.
If so, the current funding system shares much of the blame.
Nobelpreisträger Edmund Phelps spricht Europa Innovationskraft ab. Die Menschen seien zu behütet. Der Kontinent lebe von der Substanz.
Dan Huttenlocher, dean of the Cornell Tech Campus, shares what it's like building an innovation center.
Switzerland is the world’s most innovative economy, followed by Sweden, Singapore, Hong Kong and Finland, according to the GII 2014.
If everyone likes your research, you can be certain that you have not done anything important. That is the first thing to grasp. Conflict goes with the territory. Innovation comes when universities encourage risk-taking, says Andrew Oswald.
