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What is the best age for innovation?
Jeremy Hobson Apr 8, 2013
Are you more innovative in your 20s or your 50s? Tom Agan, managing partner at innovation and brand consultancy Rivia, has come up with answer that might surprise you.
As the cellphone turns 40, the story behind the famous first call
David Brancaccio Apr 4, 2013
40 years ago the cellphone was invented by Martin Cooper at Motorola, much to the dismay of a competing team at AT&T's Bell Labs.
Patent race: Patent rules switch from first-to-invent to first-to-file
Krissy Clark Mar 18, 2013
Monday is the first day on which patents will be awarded to the first filer of the patent not the first person to come up with an idea. Many worry this will favor applicants with big money behind them.
Netflix offers $100,000 prize in cloud competition
David Brancaccio Mar 15, 2013
Netflix is waving around $100,000 dollars in prize money for people with the best ideas to tune up and improve Netflix's data cloud. Netflix cloud systems director of architecture Alex Cockcroft joins Marketplace Tech host David Brancaccio to talk through the challenges of managing the company's remote data.
Is fear a financial motivator?
Jeff Horwich Dec 12, 2012
Seems like every time you turn on the news, there's some new danger to our health or our financial well-being.
Chronicling the new American family
Tess Vigeland Jun 15, 2012
Author Jeremy Adam Smith discusses stay-at-home dads, bread-winning moms, and the evolving American workforce.
Innovation funding gets the ax
John Dimsdale May 18, 2012
The Technology Innovation Program helped fund a lot of innovations, but now the program has been eliminated.
Japan: Over the hill?
Scott Tong Apr 30, 2012
Amid cries of a "lost decade" and economic stagnation, the real Japan looks and feels much different.
China is not about to eat America's lunch
Vijay Vaitheeswaran Apr 16, 2012
Commentator Vijay Vaitheeswaran says America's culture of creativity and innovation beats out China's state-run capitalism.
Closing the gender gap in patent filing
Stephen Dubner Mar 22, 2012
Freakonomics' Stephen Dubner on one scientifically-proven way that helps women embrace risk.
