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If your growth has stalled, encouraging innovation on the front line will make all the difference. This past week, our team was working with members of a family-owned manufacturing business who had watched their product sales shrink over the past 10 years. Highly motivated to keep sales up as their core profitable products started to lose traction, they took whatever work they could find.

A Griffith University PhD candidate has been highly awarded for his innovative image of the shadow of a single atom.

Hey Chicagoans! On Tuesday, October 11, Fast Company will host a Creativity Summit at Chicago Ideas Week .

Gene Gray, president of Innovative IDM talks about the challenging decision he made to survive the recession and the need for balance between work and home.

Using an engine design that was largely abandoned after World War II, new engines find fuel savings where big auto companies--weighed down by the inertia of their designs--can't. Decades of refining today's automobile engine technology has come to this: We're investing more and more, but getting less and less in terms of efficiency, performance, and durability

Gene Gray, president of Innovative IDM talks about the challenging decision he made to survive the recession and the need for balance between work and home.

Your employees may never say no to a bonus, but that doesn't mean it's the ideal way to credit their work. Examples from Foursquare and other innovative companies show how to make your rewards as creative as the ideas they're rewarding. Projet Cr

The small Canadian firm i4i has its patent infringement charge upheld in a unanimous verdict. What does this mean for the future of innovation? The Supreme Court issued a ruling against Microsoft Thursday, upholding a decision from a lower court

Halfway into a recent performance at New York City's Bohemian National Hall violinist Mari Kimura had already performed "Preludio" from Bach's Partita No. 3 in E Major followed by several pieces in which she deftly demonstrated her innovative "subharmonics" techniques for extending the octave range of her instrument. Then things got really interesting.

Author Carol Sanford says start-up founders need to stop following organizational rules and start thinking for themselves. Having studied large corporations for years, Carol Sanford, author of the recent book The Responsible Business, has been surprised by how many outmoded corporate ideas she sees start-ups adopting in the name of structure. She spoke with Inc.com's Christine Lagorio.

You've probably never had a burning sensation to tell your friends you just checked in to an STD clinic.

Many of our Most Innovative Companies appear to want to weaken an element of patent law. But don't patents protect innovation?

Twitter's director of media partnerships, Chloe Sladden, discusses expert hashtag tips for TV shows At the 2011 NAB Show this week,

LinkedIn 's just launched its new platform to everyone online interested in hooking up to the business networking site's APIs. Useful stuff, for some, but what it's really about is trying to usurp Facebook in the enterprise social networking space. Back in October, LinkedIn revealed some of its plans when it gave "over a thousand developers" early access to a new Javascript-based platform that would let third parties integrate more closely with LinkedIn's extensive business-based social graph.

SeeClickFix is a sort of FarmVille for community problems. Call it the FarmVille effect