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• Technology Review's EmTech08 Conference Gathers the World's Top Innovators and Business Leaders at MIT

  - 2008-09-23

  CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Technology Review, Inc., the authority on the future of technology, is hosting its eighth annual Emerging Technologies Conference, EmTech(08), September 23-25th at MIT in Cambridge, Mass. EmTech08is the premier event for exploring next-generation technologies and their impact on business and society. The EmTech(08) agenda was carefully...

  Tags: Cambridge, conference, Entrepreneurship, Government, leader, Leadership, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Nanotechnology, Technology Review, Transportation

• Technology Review's EmTech Conference to Gather Leading Technology Innovators and Entrepreneurs at MIT

  - 2008-07-30

  EmTech(08) to Explore Cutting-Edge Innovations, Feature Insights from Top Technologists and Business Leaders Worldwide CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Technology Review, Inc., the authority on the future of technology, today announced agenda highlights of its EmTech(08) Conference, to be held September 23-25, 2008, on the MIT campus in Cambridge, Mass. Now...

  Tags: conference, Entrepreneurship, Government, leader, Leadership, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Strategy, Technology Review, Transportation

• Technology review: iPhones and open-access cell networks

  - 2007-10-01

  In June 2007, Apple's iPhone had its "official" release. To the surprise of some media pundits, lots of people were willing to plunk down $600-plus and spend $60 a month to use the iPhone on AT&T's backwards looking cellular network. Despite these limitations, and a host of missing and garbled...

  Tags: FCC, Government, network, Technology Review

• We have a new editor

  - 2004-10-01

  THIS YEAR, Technology Review celebrates its 105th anniversary. And this year, also, we hire a new editor in chief. For more than a century, the magazine has been led by gifted editors. For much of our history, the magazine was content to serve a small but influential audience...

  Tags: Government, HEALTHCARE, INTERNET, Leadership, Strategy, Technology Review

• Lord Sainsbury announces outcome of Council for Science and Technology Review.

  - 2003-07-22

  M2 PRESSWIRE-22 July 2003-UK Government: Lord Sainsbury announces outcome of Council for Science and Technology ReviewC1994-2003 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:07222003 Lord Sainsbury today announced the outcome of the Government review of the advisory Council on Science and Technology CST. ...

  Tags: Council, Government, Lord, Technology Review, U.K.

• One size does not fit all: Canadian government laboratories as diverse and complex institutions

  - 2002-10-01

  The federal government's research laboratories are facing numerous pressures. They must support important regulatory, policy and risk-management objectives, which are critical to ensuring public confidence in the government's ability to protect the health and safety of Canadians and the environment. Government laboratories are also cast as catalytic agents in national...

  Tags: Canada, Council, Government, Innovation, R&D, SOFTWARE, Technology, Technology Review

• S&T review of 1994 provides valuable benchmark for innovation strategy

  - 2002-08-30

  The highly anticipated federal Science & Technology Review of 1994 descended into a public relations exercise for delivering election promises and minimizing the S&T cutbacks associated with Program Review, according to a new content analysis of more than 500 original documents. The study comes as the government is once again...

  Tags: consulting, Government, innovation, SOFTWARE, strategy, Technology Review

• Building a better economy: an interview with Lester Thurow.(Interview)(Cover Story)

  - 1997-09-01

  With downsizing the subject of major media inquiries, economic security is on everyone's lips. Jobs everywhere seem to be in jeopardy. As economist Lester Thurow points out, reports of continual layoffs only underscore the antiquated nature of our present system. Capitalism, he says,...

  Tags: Benefits, FINANCE, Government, HEALTHCARE, ideology, SOFTWARE, Technology Review, U.S., welfare

• Moving towards an American industrial technology policy. (Symposium on Technology Transfer and Public Policy: Preparing for the Twenty-First Century)

  - 1994-06-22

  The US is moving fast towards a more active industrial technology policy in contrast to too much government involvement in private markets. American technology policy is very much different from Japan and Western Europe. However, the recent focus on civilian technology, targeted manufacturing sectors and the continuing efforts of state-level...

  Tags: Barron, Government, Manufacturing, NIST, R&D, technology, Technology Review, U.S., U.S. Congress