Entrepreneur Expert Carl Schramm to Attend Obama Jobs Summit (PR Newswire via Yahoo! News)
KANSAS CITY, Mo., Dec. 2 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Carl Schramm, president and CEO of the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, has been invited by President Barack Obama to participate in the White House forum on jobs and economic growth on Thursday, D

Turning Research into Inventions and Jobs (BusinessWeek)
To create jobs and spur innovation we need to make it easier for scientists to build businesses that market their breakthroughs in the lab

Amazons First Response to iPad Hype: A Better Browser for Kindle (Fast Company Magazine)
Amazon is slowly stirring itself into action by improving its Kindle e-reader, just as I suggested it ought to if its going to compete with the iPad and other tablet PCs . The first move: Improving the shoddy Web-browsing experience on the device. We

40 new jobs at Norfolk energy firm (EDP24 - Eastern Daily Press)
Up to 40 jobs are set to be created by an East Anglian engineering firm to cope with growing demand from the green energy industry. 3Sun, based in Gorleston, will look to treble its workforce in the next six months as it takes on new work in the cons

Cockroaches offer inspiration for running robots (Science Daily)
The sight of a cockroach scurrying for cover may be nauseating, but the insect is also a biological and engineering marvel, and is providing researchers with what they call "bioinspiration" in a quest to build the worlds first legged robot