Why is it Hard to Innovate?

Why is it hard to innovate? What are the obstacles for innovation? Why is innovation success rate is so little? This paper is aimed at discussing these questions on an academic level.

Googles Guana Believe, Begin, Become

Google's philanthropic arm, the Google Foundation, and TechnoServe, a nonprofit organization that supports entrepreneurs in developing countries, kicked off their "Believe Begin Become" business plan competition in the impoverished West African nation of Guana. Applications for acceptance opened Tuesday.

Personal Blogging Clarified

Visiting the blog of Amazon.com's Chief Technology Officer, Werner Vogels, to read his account of a presentation at Amazon by Naked Conversations authors Shel Israel and Robert Scoble (some very interesting commentaries about that - link at Memeorandum), I spotted the clearest employee blog disclaimer I've yet seen.