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It’s all about innovation and execution

By Scott Meacham Copyright © 2013, The Oklahoma Publishing Company In Oklahoma this time of year, we are all about football. I’ve never seen any stats on this, but I imagine that football players might...

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Feed the innovation machine

By Scott Meacham Copyright © 2013, The Oklahoma Publishing Company Innovation — introducing new methods, ideas, or products — is the lifeblood of every growing economy. From the world’s largest, most...

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Oklahoma near bottom in innovation survey

By Scott Meacham Copyright © 2015, The Oklahoma Publishing Company In the world of entrepreneurship, there is no one word that carries more weight than innovation. Innovation can be hard to pin down....

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Oklahoma can take the lead on innovation

By Scott Meacham Copyright © 2015, The Oklahoma Publishing Company With the dysfunction that now exists in our federal government, we no longer can look to Washington to see the kind of breakthrough...

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Tulsa the next Silicon Valley?

Vision proposal aims at Tulsa being the next Silicon Valley By Jarrel Wade Copyright © 2015 BH Media Group Holdings, Inc. The next industrial revolution is called the “maker movement,” and Scott...

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Finding a new name for innovation in Oklahoma City

Finding a new name for innovation in Oklahoma City By i2E Vice Chair Stephen Prescott Copyright © 2015 The Oklahoma Publishing Co. What’s in a name? That’s what I thought as I sat with more than 200...

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Innovation has a long history in Oklahoma business

Innovation has a long history in Oklahoma business By Scott Meacham Copyright © 2015, The Oklahoma Publishing Company As a kid growing up in rural Oklahoma, one of the highlights of my young life was...

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Low oil, natural gas prices threaten technology investment across Oklahoma

Low oil, natural gas prices threaten investment in technology for investors across Oklahoma By Scott Meacham Copyright © 2016, The Oklahoma Publishing Company Here we go again. As a lifelong Oklahoman,...

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Oklahoma startup borrows energy industry concept to protect patients

Oklahoma startup borrows energy industry concept to protect patients By Scott Meacham Copyright © 2016, The Oklahoma Publishing Company Sometime back, a doctor who was also an inventor, mentioned that...

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OKC inventor of shopping cart a symbol of local innovation

By Scott Meacham Copyright © 2018, The Oklahoma Publishing Co. Innovation drives everything. Without innovation, we wouldn’t have entrepreneurs, startup companies, or job and wealth creation. And we...

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Oklahomans are innovating, especially in an economic recession

By Scott Meacham It’s official. The country is in a recession. Of course, we didn’t need the recent announcement by the National Bureau of Economic Research to tell us that. Given its unusualness, our...

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Having right team aboard critical for startups to weather uncertainty

By Scott Meacham I am approaching the end of this year with a sense of relief and hope for a better year next year. Like many of us, I can say sincerely that I have never been through anything like...

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Putting the disruption of 2020 to work

By Scott Meacham Happy New Year! I don’t know if I have ever been so happy to end one year and begin the next. Times remain challenging, but in just the last few weeks, we finally have cause to...

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Charles Machine Works a case study in entrepreneurship

By Scott Meacham Charles Machine Works is a case study in entrepreneurship and innovation. To succeed in entrepreneurship, solve a problem that lots of businesses have. You can be even more successful,...

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i2E created an exponential impact on the state’s startup economy

By Scott Meacham Since its creation in the late 1990s, i2E has had an exponential impact upon the state’s startup economy. Which came first, the chicken or the egg? This philosophical trope has been...

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Let’s raise our eyes and our goals as center for biotech development

By Scott Meacham Let’s raise our eyes and raise our goals Oklahoma. Christian Kanady is a fourth-generation Oklahoman. “My roots don’t touch any state besides this one,” he said. “Like most Oklahomans,...

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Paycom and the art of corporate innovation

By Scott Meacham Paycom has mastered the art of corporate innovation Corporate innovation is easy to talk about and difficult to achieve — especially as innovative young companies succeed and grow. If...

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Rising tide of innovation raises all of our boats

The rising tide of innovation raises all our boats By Scott Meacham Our state is proactively seeking new ways to boost scalable entrepreneurship. One sure path is to increase innovation. Innovation is...

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