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BusinessWeek December 8, 2003 Michael J. Mandel	Commentary: Meeting the Asian Challenge As India and China ascend the economic ladder, here are steps that America can take to boost the four key components of innovation: R&D spending, education, finance for invention, and the national willingness to take risks.
HBS Working Knowledge March 20, 2006 Huston & Sakkab	P&G's New Innovation Model Procter & Gamble's assessment of its aging innovation process and the development of connect and develop.
InternetNews June 15, 2006 Michael Hickins	Open Source Is a Model For Innovation IBM offers consulting help for R&D organizations hoping to have a greater impact on innovation.
IndustryWeek June 1, 2004 John Teresko	Open Innovation? Rewards And Challenges Open Innovation is a strategy of finding and bringing in new ideas that are complementary to existing research & development projects. But open innovation does not just happen. It requires changes in corporate culture and must be driven from the top.
Global Services November 29, 2007	The Future of Innovation The challenges are there, but so are the opportunities to open up vast new global markets through innovation.
IndustryWeek June 23, 2010	Consider This -- Five Key Concepts for Sustainable Innovation Mastering these fundamentals can stimulate your innovation efforts and the global economy.
The Motley Fool December 20, 2004 Brian Gorman	Cemex's Buildup Last week, the cement and concrete giant reported that cement volumes in its main market, Mexico, are projected to grow 3% in the fourth quarter versus the same period last year, thanks to an increase in public works and housing developments.
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BusinessWeek April 15, 2010 James P. Andrew	What Executives Make of Innovation The head of the global innovation practice at Boston Consulting Group dives more deeply into the findings from this year's survey taken to compile the ranking of the most innovative companies.
IndustryWeek November 3, 2009	Benchmarking R&D Top innovators increased their research-and-development spending even as the economy sank, according to the Booz & Co. fifth annual analysis of global innovation spending.
BusinessWeek November 17, 2003 Samuel J. Palmisano	How The U.S. Can Keep Its Innovation Edge Where, how, and why innovation happens is changing. If we're not careful, the U.S. will fall out of step with these new realities, and innovators and risk-takers will go elsewhere -- because they can.
The Motley Fool July 16, 2004 Bill Mann	Cemex Is Rock Steady Don't let the drop in net earnings fool you. This was another dynamic quarter for the Mexican cement giant.
The Motley Fool June 3, 2004 Bill Mann	No Cement? Call Mexico Cement prices are skyrocketing, supplies are dwindling. Good thing we've got those tariffs on Mexico.
IndustryWeek January 31, 2012 Josh Cable	GE Barometer: Executives Believe Innovation and Growth Go Hand-in-Hand However, uncertainty in the global economy is curbing their companies' appetites for risk and making it harder for them to find capital.
IEEE Spectrum November 2008 Hira & Ross	R&D Goes Global Hidden in corporate research budgets is a shift of R&D work to low-cost countries, particularly China and India.
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Inc. June 2008 Jane Berentson	Editor's Letter Innovation often begins with a clever entrepreneur who manages not only to conceive a great idea but also to finance it, employ people to improve it, build a company around it - and, eventually, see it to glorious and profitable fruition.
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IEEE Spectrum December 2007 Hira & Ross	The R&D 100 A company's research budget tells you very little about its prospects.
IndustryWeek November 1, 2006 Thomas J. Duesterberg	The Competitive Edge: Investing In The Future Manufacturers are urged to invest in the "intangibles."
The Motley Fool February 4, 2008 Anand Chokkavelu	Best International Stock: Cemex A quick summary of Mexican cement maker Cemex, a downturn-resistant, globally diversified proven grower.
IEEE Spectrum April 2011 G. Pascal Zachary	Jobless Innovation? As the United States tries to ride high tech out of recession, does it risk innovating its workforce out of jobs?
IndustryWeek February 17, 2010 Josh Cable	Building an Innovation Culture For innovation to flourish, executives must be committed, patient and ready to lead by example.
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The Motley Fool March 10, 2009 David Lee Smith	Cemex: Cracked, But Still Sturdy Bond and debt woes aside, this beaten-down cement player may be a good value.
The Motley Fool September 28, 2004 Rich Smith	Cemex Throws a Brick The Mexican cement tycoon overpays in a quest for growth. The market was less than impressed by the buy, slashing 6% from Cemex's share price.
Chemistry World October 21, 2008 Hepeng Jia	OECD urges China to innovate Despite China's impressive investment in research and development, the country lags behind others when it comes to innovation.
IndustryWeek April 1, 2005 Patricia Panchak	Editor's Page -- Playing The R&D Blame Game The Bush Administration's 2006 budget short-changes industrial research and development. Industry executives and shareholders have also contributed to a slowing of spending on basic research.
The Motley Fool July 25, 2006 Will Frankenhoff	A Rock-Solid Investing Idea Unwarranted fears have made Mexico's Cemex a bargain. Patient, long-term investors have the opportunity to pick up shares of a blue-chip company at a rock-bottom valuation because of misplaced fears in the marketplace. Why not build a position?
InternetNews June 14, 2007 Stuart J. Johnston	Is Economics Driving PC 'Innovation' Offshore? As the business of designing, building, and distributing PCs becomes increasingly globalized, U.S. PC vendors have exported less valuable work offshore, while keeping more valuable and innovative product development, project management and marketing and branding functions here.
IndustryWeek June 23, 2010	By The Numbers -- The Expense of R&D Among U.S.-owned businesses and U.S. affiliates of foreign companies, much of the R&D remained in the United States.
CRM October 2007 Colin Beasty	The Chain Gang Your CRM is only as good as your ability to deliver to your customers. So why not merge supply chain management data with CRM to gain a holistic view? It's not that simple.
HBS Working Knowledge November 10, 2003 Pankaj Ghemawat	Globalization: The Strategy of Differences Should your global strategy optimize scale or exploit differences? Harvard professor Pankaj Ghemawat suggests a mix-and-match strategy.
The Motley Fool October 19, 2009 David Lee Smith	Does Cemex Still Have Room to Run? Cemex has been a three bagger since March, but there could be a lot left.
BusinessWeek October 22, 2007 Bruce Nussbaum	America's Fleeting Edge in Innovation "Innovation Nation: How America Is Losing Its Innovation Edge, Why It Matters, and What We Can Do to Get It Back" is an insightful, and scary, account of the innovation challenges faced by the U.S.
HBS Working Knowledge August 9, 2010 Julia Hanna	How to Speed Up Energy Innovation In her book, Accelerating Innovation in Energy: Insights from Multiple Sectors, Rebecca Henderson explores the histories of innovation in four sectors of the U.S. economy
BusinessWeek April 10, 2006 Jena McGregor	Dawn Of The Idea Czar A thirst for internal growth across Corporate America has made innovation a critical management mandate. As a result, the initials "CIO" have increasingly begun to refer not to chief information officers but to yet another C-suite label, the chief innovation officer.
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Bank Technology News June 2010 John Pyrovolakis	Innovators: A Call to Action The Innovation Accelerator wishes to leverage great and innovative technologies developed in our nation's research universities and federal research labs on the strength of federal funding to empower our nation's banking industry.
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