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How The Right Employees Have An Innovation Advantage

Startup Professionals Musings

In fact, a Wharton Business School study in this decade of the “Top 30 Innovations of the Last 30 Years,” concluded that only eight were first conceived by entrepreneurs, and twenty-two were conceived by employees. Later renamed Java, it now runs a world of devices. Understand and able to negotiate internal politics.

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How to Teach Computational Thinking

Xconomy

I myself have been involved with computational thinking for nearly 40 years now—building technology for it, applying it in lots of places, studying its basic science—and trying to understand its principles. Editor’s note: this article is excerpted from a longer blog post , which continues with examples and further context. ].