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Many articles these days talk about reasons why companies should consider innovation as a core discipline.    A quick Google search on “why innovate” produces 23,600,000 results.  There is a plethora of opinions regarding innovation and why it is important.  Competition is usually one of the reasons but not the only one, especially when looking how the world will be in the near future.  Innovation becomes a critical survival skill when looking at predictions for how we will live, work, and communicate as early as 2020.

At the end of every year, Edge reaches out to the smartest people on the planet and asks them a single question in an attempt to find the ideas and concepts that are changing the world of science. This year’s two-part question was: “What do you consider the most interesting recent [scientific] news? What makes it important?”

Baltimore, by a curious mixture of geographic positioning, educated talent, proximity to pork, and determined capital, is poised to become a crucial part of the East Coast technology cluster.

“BioIT Solutions of Silver Spring, Maryland has been selected as one of the 50 Most Valuable Tech Companies by Insights Success magazine in their December issue. We are the only company in the list focused on the biotechnology industry.”

Do you work in Greater Washington and love your employer? Then you probably work at a federal agency. We asked Glassdoor, a job-recruiting site that allows employees to anonymously grade their company and their CEO, to crunch the numbers to find out who the most-liked employers are in Greater Washington. We recently compiled a list of most-liked CEOs, too.

The crisis in soaring drug prices has produced not merely a new class of public enemies to skewer — step forward, Martin Shkreli! — but the best evidence yet that the nation’s healthcare regulatory priorities are out of whack.

AT&T next month will open a center focused on digital health innovations within the Texas Medical Center’s state-of-the-art Innovation Institute, the communications giant announced on Tuesday.

Tuesday, January 12, 2016 2:00 pm

When developing a new drug or technology, innovators are generally focused on achieving regulatory approval. But often they don’t spend enough time considering how the product will be paid for once it is approved. This NHLBI Small Biz Hangout will focus on basic components of reimbursement that every innovator needs to understand—coverage, coding, and payment. Attendees will hear guidance on how to implement an effective reimbursement strategy while their product is still in development.

What is technology transfer / business development and what are the career opportunities in the field? What are the skills required and how does one acquire them? How can an scientist start a non-traditional career such as this? These are the questions to be answered in this presentation from two former bench scientists from the National Cancer Institute.

Barbara Crews, assistant executive director for community relations at the Johns Hopkins University Montgomery County Campus, has been appointed to an executive committee position with the Gaithersburg-Germantown Chamber of Commerce board of directors.

Crews will serve a yearlong term as vice chair for member recruitment and retention. In this role, she will help the chamber recruit new members and retain existing ones. She will help existing members get the most out of their memberships by engaging them in chamber activities.