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ScienceDaily: "A new study describes a method through which a selected set of memories can be rapidly and specifically erased from the mouse brain in a controlled and inducible manner."
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"The Power of Place: A National Strategy for Building America’s Communities of Innovation" (PDF), by the Association of University Research Parks (AURP).
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NYTimes blogs: "what we humans really need is a group of friendly, intelligent aliens to study us, and give us a report on what they find."
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The The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation has presented a new report on innovation in the US. This is part of the series of ideas that the ITIF is suggesting for the next president's agenda. Previously in this blog.
I find interesting three of the eight measures suggested in the report:
1. expand tax credit for R&D
2. create a National Innovation Foundation
3. reform the patent system
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Nanodot is another blog about nanotechnology.
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Developing nanotechnology in Latin America
For those interested in nanotechnology in Latin America, here is the link to "Developing nanotechnology in Latin America", an article just published by me and Phil Shapira (Georgia Institute of Technology) in the Journal of Nanoparticle Research:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11051-008-9503-z
This article investigates the development of nanotechnology in Latin America with a particular focus on Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Uruguay. Based on data for nanotechnology research publications and patents and suggesting a framework for analyzing the development of R&D networks, we identify three potential strategies of nanotechnology research collaboration. Then, we seek to identify the balance of emphasis upon each of the three strategies by mapping the current research profile of those four countries. In general, we find that they are implementing policies and programs to develop nanotechnologies but differ in their collaboration strategies, institutional involvement, and level of development. On the other hand, we find that they coincide in having a modest industry participation in research and a low level of commercialization of nanotechnologies.
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New York Times: "Supreme Court’s Global Influence Is Waning"
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A preliminary report (PDF) on the U.S. S&T competitiveness
from The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation claims that the earlier RAND research contains numerous analytical flaws and America’s economic competitiveness scenarios are not so optimistic.
According to RAND's researchers, the U.S. continues to lead the world in most key science and technology measures.
The comprehensive report from ITIF will be available in November 2008.
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Could terrorists use Second Life? In Wired blogs, Pentagon Researcher Unveils Warcraft Terror Plot
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Everybody is talking about Google Chrome. I tried it. I see that it is probably a bit faster than Firefox 3.0 and its minimalist look is nice. But, overall, nothing impressive.
Actually, it is interesting the comments of some people about it. Few days ago I heard some guys talking about how cool it is and, between the "cool" features, they emphasized the crash control thing. That sounds pretty incredible: the customer values above all how the product responds to malfunctions!?
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'Major discovery' from MIT primed to unleash solar revolution
http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/oxygen-0731.html
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Urban Development Project of Shibam
http://www.shibam-udp.org/
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Both Yahoo! and Google have a sort of "Build Your Own" Search Engine tool:
Yahoo BOSS:
http://developer.yahoo.com/search/boss/
Google Custom Search Engine:
http://www.google.com/coop/cse/
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The Corporate Cup: Cutting-edge companies are offering some major prize money to people who can come up with the next big thing.
http://images.businessweek.com/ss/08/06/0602_innovation_priz...
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WebStormTM by BrightIdea, Inc. is an Idea Collection and Ranking Portal that facilitates the innovation process.
http://www.brightidea.com
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YourEconomy is a free resource that enables visitors to take a closer look at business activity in their local communities and across the US.
http://www.youreconomy.org/
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Research and Policy for Entrepreneurial Economies
http://www.growthology.org/
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Meeting urges scientists into politics: Advice on how to ditch the lab for elected office.
http://www.nature.com/news/2008/080521/full/453434a.html
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"Google Earth's new mapping programme takes you on a virtual reality tour with the UN refugee agency of some of the world's major displacement crises and the humanitarian efforts aimed at helping the victims."
http://www.unhcr.org/events/47f48dc92.html
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"InnoCentive connects companies, academic institutions, and non-profit organizations, all hungry for breakthrough innovation, with a global network of more than 125,000 of the world's brightest minds on the world's first Open Innovation Marketplace"
http://www.innocentive.com/about-us-open-innovation.php
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Bank of Scotland Corporate £35 Million Entrepreneur Challenge.
https://entrepreneurs.bankofscotland.co.uk/challenge/
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Much Ado about Invention: "We have no shortage of good inventions. What we need are better ways to bring them to customers."
By Michael Schrage
May 2004
http://www.technologyreview.com/printer_friendly_article.asp...
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Economics of Innovation (Suzanne Scotchmer's course at Berkeley)
http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~scotch/innovation/index.htm
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Post your idea and have a chance of winning a prize:
http://www.ideablob.com/
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House OKs prizes for high-tech hydrogen: Bill would create multimillion-dollar energy incentives; now goes to Senate
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12722581/
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Foresight Nanotech Institute Prize Descriptions and Applications
http://www.foresight.org/prize/
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Google Gadget Ventures: Google as a VC
http://www.google.com/gadgetventures/
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I didn't hear anymore about this story: Chinese Government Studies Ithaca HOURS
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GovTrack.us, tracking the 110th United States Congress
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Dot Earth, a new blog of NYTimes about climate change.
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This is a nice site to start looking for books online: GetTextbooks.com. It allows you to compare new and used book prices from different online sellers.
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Entertainment production is a great business in New York city:
- Location shoots: 40,000 annually (including commercials, feature films, television shows and series, music videos, documentaries, etc.)
- Daily productions: 100
- Feature films: over 250 a year
- Television shows: 100+
- Shooting days, 2006: 34,718
- Direct expenditures: $5 billion
- Entertainment production employment: 100,000
http://www.nycvisit.com/content/index.cfm?pagePkey=57
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The Conscience of a Liberal: Paul Krugman's blog in NYTimes.
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This appeared in a recent issue of The Economist. World urban population increase causes more natural disasters?
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Gapminder is a non-profit venture for development and provision of free software that visualise human development. You may find interesting maps there.
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They Rule allows you to create maps of the interlocking directories of the top companies in the US in 2004.
See how the power is shared between different organizations.
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NYTimes: The Squirrel Wars
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