Innovation / Business
Bioplastics Man
Power Player / by / November 10, 2009
Biochemist Oliver Peoples explains how his polymer-producing microbes could transform the plastics industry and why both oceans and landfills will benefit.
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Bridging the Gulf
Science and technology parks could replace Arab oil with Arab IP as the region's economic driver.
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Ecology of Finance
A growing cadre of biologists argues that ecosystem analysis of the world economy might stave off a repeat of 2008's financial catastrophe.
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Report From Dubai
Last November, the World Economic Forum convened thought leaders and heads of industry to discuss the state of the world. Seed followed up to ask where we go from here.
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Robert Tjian on Funding Innovation
The recently appointed president of HHMI on the importance of creativity and innovation for the future of funding science.
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The Market Force of Nature
Putting the "invisible hand" to work for nature could reshape the values of capitalism.
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China’s Environmental Blacklist
Shining the light on international companies that haven’t heard China’s gone green.
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A Rocket for the 21st Century
Former astronaut Franklin Chang-Diaz explains how his plasma rocket engine could revolutionize space travel and why we need nuclear power in space.
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The Enchanter of Objects
David Rose on how his new company will get people to take their medicine and what Frodo Baggins’s sword can teach us about ubiquitous computing.
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Serious Fun
Kodu doesn’t have realistic graphics, huge explosions, or even a way to win. But it just might change the way we think about the world.
Viewing economies as complex systems constantly in flux rather than stable, predictable systems.
Adapting to a New Economy
By Rob Mitchum
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Innovation
Let There Be Light
Astronomers will soon find scores of Earth-sized exoplanets, but imaging them may be decades away. That is, unless NASA decides to build a starshade.
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Ideas
Into the Uncanny Valley
New findings shed light on a century’s worth of bizarre explanations for the eerie feeling we get around lifelike robots.
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World
Signs from Above
The release of an apocalyptic movie prompts NASA to debunk planetary rumors, fowl play shuts down the LHC, and the Catholic Church discusses alien life.
