Electric sports cars. Solar power. Space travel. Finally, an entrepreneur who's not afraid to think really, really big.

Watching Elon Musk at work is an exercise in controlling your urge to buy a man a drink. Make that several drinks. Musk is 36 years old, [ … ]

Why the most important innovations are often those that appear to be fatally flawed.

Threadless churns out dozens of new items a month -- with no advertising, no professional designers, no sales force and no retail distribution. And it's never produced a flop.

Jake Nickell stepped to the front of a small classroom on the MIT campus in Cambri [ … ]

Partnering with your customers on R&D.

Nanoparticle Powder | Kovio

By Inc. Staff |  Jan 1, 2009 Todd Tankersley

The Road to Ubiquity Currently, RFID tags cost roughly 10 cents each—so it’s worth it to put one on a pair of jeans but not on a bottle of water. Kovio says it could eventually sell the t [ … ]

A Bay Area start-up is creating a technology straight out of science fiction

By David H. Freedman and Michael Shick |  Dec 18, 2008

Moving objects and controlling computers with nothing more than a thought has [ … ]

Forget for a moment about carbon emissions. The world is facing a more immediate crisis -- it is running out of clean water. The prospect of widespread shortages is creating a new kind of new economy. Meet 11 entrepreneurs who are ahead of the curve, finding opportunity in the largest emerging marke [ … ]

30 tales of following where the spirit leads

1. Seattle, 1967 The Lakeside Mother's Club uses the proceeds of a rummage sale to install an ASR-33 Teletype machine for kids to experiment with. Seventh grader Bill Gates finds his calling.

2. Portland, Oregon, [ … ]