It's Friday, and nothing says Friday with the sun a-shinin' like patents. Good ol' Arkansas patents. We do produce them, you know. Along with rice and shank-wielding FOBs (that's Friends of Bill for you kids -- think Clintonophiles), Arkansas generates patents. No doubt to the eternal amazement and...
Jeff Stinson is executive director of the Fund for Arkansas' Future, an angel investor firm formed for the purpose of capitalizing early-stage, Arkansas-based companies with the goal of generating strong returns for its investors. Jeff has made himself available to answer your questions about VCs,...
Good read on incubators. Interesting perspective.
There must be something in the water out west. Innovation seems to be dripping out of Colorado these days. The big square cranked out 1,848 patents last year. That's good for 11th nationally, and even a little more impressive when you consider Colorado's population stands at about 4.9 million, goo...
Green trumps green. That is, dollar-bill green apparently is more important to Americans than eco-green, especially in a sour economy. From the Las Vegas Review-Journal: Recent surveys show Americans cooling to global warming, and they're even less keen on environmental policies they believe migh...
The folks at IA client Capsearch have created a new product called Capvoice that enables businesses and organizations to "control your message and then translate that message to the people that matter." Capsearch is a web-based research utility founded last year that provides lobbyists, legislators...
Ideas follow the crowd, right? A look at this map from numbersusa.com reveals population growth and shifts in the U.S. by county since 1980. Note the growth and how it seems to reflect hotbeds of innovation and research -- Silicon Valley, Calif., central North Carolina (Raleigh-Durham), south centr...
In a way, the Arkansas Research and Technology Park in Fayetteville resembles a movie set. I'm in town visiting today, and I half expect to see George Clooney or Johnny Depp race out of the hybrid retro/modern Innovation Center in a long, white lab coat carrying a vial of neon green ooze that holds...
Sam Walton chose not to participate in the recession of 1991. Innovation was the key, a Wal-Mart executive told the Northwest Arkansas Business Conference and Expo today in Rogers. Davis kicked off the luncheon address quoting Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and Sam's Club founder Sam Walton from a 1991 comme...
Coming soon to IA: a jobs/marketplace section and discussion board. Just added to the database: Listings of all U.S. patents issued from Arkansas. Other revisions include more prominently featured videos of IA clients and upgrades to the INV8 blog. And don't forget to follow IA on Twitter, Faceboo...
