Last week the Wall Street Journal ranked America’s most innovative business schools. The survey is based on the opinions and behaviors of 4,430 M.B.A. recruiters who hire full-time business-school graduates. Here are the top ten: (1) Stanford (2) MIT Sloan (3) Kellogg (4) Carnegie Mellon (5) Dartmouth Tuck (6) Cal-Berkeley Haas (7) UCLA Anderson (8) [...]
At the 19th European Union Contest for Young Scientists Austrians won the second and the third prize: Credit: European Communities 2nd prize: Martina Hafner (19) Project title: Energy from maize straw Field: Environmental science Credit: European Communities 3rd prize: Julian Glechner (17), Werner Pollhammer (17), David Stockinger (17) Project title: Latent heat storage system (Salt [...]
A smart idea from the Halfbakery: In addition to the regular PIN number (*), each bank card would have a second PIN number that would indicate the user was in some sort of distress (such as being forced to withdraw money at gunpoint). Use of this alternate PIN would summon the police and perhaps put [...]
Probably the majority of all innovation ideas is nonsense. The “Nonseum” (site in german) offers a funny abstract of things the world does not need. Credit: Nonseum I don’t want to withhold the following short excerpt from the mentioned website (translated from the german original): Basically we distinguish three kinds of inventions: 1. Inventions from [...]
Once more the “ASV roboat” of the Austrian Association for Innovative Computer Science managed to win the world championship in robot sailing. The Microtransat, took place from Sept. 3th to 6th, 2007 in Aberystwyth (Wales). The competitors of the Austrian team came from France, Canada and the UK. Credit: InnoC.at Here some facts about the [...]
