Inspiration from an Inventive Oklahoman
Here’s an opportunity watch one of our favorite inventors, Oklahoma City’s Jay Martin, inspire a TEDxOKC audience this spring with his thoughts on the inventive mind and encouraging others to pursue...
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Shuttle Launch Stirs Emotions
To me, there is nothing quite like a Cape Canaveral countdown, so last Friday as Atlantis lifted off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center for the final mission of NASA’s 30-year space shuttle program, I...
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NASA: Spinoffs, Commercialization
Dreams. Inspiration. Aspiration. National pride. Excitement. Awe. Humanity’s first reusable spacecraft. Biodegradable lubricants. Polyamide resin. Memory Foam. Cordless Tools. Heat-activated...
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An Icon of Innovation
People have all kinds of ideas about how to stimulate creativity — from writing with the hand you don’t normally use to visiting a place you’ve never been. I’ve always found that enjoying the...
View ArticleFrom 1912 to 2012
Yesterday’s Wall Street Journal featured a four-column, above-the-fold editorial titled “The Coming Tech-led Boom.” As you would guess, I grabbed it up. A headline like that is like manna from heaven...
View ArticleIt’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...
View ArticleFeed 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...
View ArticleOklahoma 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....
View ArticleOklahoma 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...
View ArticleTulsa 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...
View ArticleFinding 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...
View ArticleInnovation 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...
View ArticleLow 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,...
View ArticleOklahoma 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...
View ArticleOklahomans 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...
View ArticleHaving 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...
View ArticlePutting 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...
View ArticleCharles 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,...
View Articlei2E 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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