The State of European Innovation

Only 10 European outfits made a recent BusinessWeek ranking of innovative companies from around the globe. Still, Europe is going strong in several segments

Matsushita: Defying the Skeptics

The company is relying on developing markets, and especially BRIC, to meet its ambitious targets for sales of plasma and LCD TVs

Bureaucracy Hampers an E. coli Weapon

French biotech GeneSystems developed a system to detect the deadly bacterium before it reaches supermarket shelves, but it faces red tape and resistance

How Google Fuels Its Idea Factory

CEO Eric Schmidt describes the simple principles driving the company's steady stream of innovations

Cox's Creative Ad Buy

With its purchase of Adify, the media conglomerate hopes to fend off giants of online advertising Google, Yahoo!, Microsoft, and AOL

Medical Advances—Through Your iPhone?

Researchers are beginning to understand how mobile phones can cut costs, help solve rural health-care problems, and even reduce medical errors

The State of European Innovation

Only 10 European outfits made a recent BusinessWeek ranking of innovative companies from around the globe. Still, Europe is going strong in several segments