Best of 2017

Welcome to one of the most essential reads for you this New Year, The Best of Innovation from 2017.

Every years, since 2008, I have been compiling and sharing the most insightful developments in the space of invention, innovation, creativity, and strategy. 

I believe that you would find this useful.

Also, you may want to check out the archives here- 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011...

Do read at leisure and share with your friends and colleagues. 

January 2017

Google's Long, Strange Life-span Trip (MIT Tech Review)

The paradoxical life of the shy artist (The Economist)

Africa's new generation of innovators (Harvard Business Review)

Most creative people in business (FastCompany)

Building a brain in the lab (Scientific American)

Bringing outside innovation inside (BCG)

The origins of creativity (Nature)

Competing through joint innovation (MIT Sloan Management Review)

February 2017

The Pentagon's Innovation Experiment (MIT Tech Review)

How to keep cool without costing the earth (The Economist)

An interview with Jerry Seinfeld (Harvard Business Review) 

How Internet is fueling the growth of creative economies (Strategy&)

2017's most innovative companies (FastCompany)

Why is it so hard to build the next Silicon Valley (BusinessWeek)

Different brain structures associated with artistic and scientific creativity (Nature)

March 2017

10 Breakthrough Technologies 2017 (MIT Tech Review)

A brief history of personality tests (Harvard Business Review)

Facing up to the digital disruption (McKinsey & Co.)

World changing ideas (FastCompany)

Apple's next big thing: Augmented Reality (BusinessWeek)

What inequality does to brain (Scientific American)

Drawing a blueprint of innovation (Live Mint)

Building a more intelligent enterprise (MIT Sloan Management Review) 

April 2017

Shenzhen is the hothouse of innovation (The Economist)

BMW is trying to scare staff into loving electric cars (BusinessWeek)

We are getting closer to the mass production of bones, organs, and implants (BusinessWeek)

Three ways to unleash your creativity (World Economic Forum)

Mastering the digital innovation challenge (MIT Sloan Management Review)

May 2017

The Dark Secret at the Heart of AI (MIT Tech Review)

World's most valuable resource is no longer oil, but data (The Economist)

How VCs really assess a pitch (Harvard Business Review)

The secret of creative product design (FastCompany)

Samsung looks beyond smartphones to next-gen biologics (BusinessWeek)

Want to be creative on purpose? Schedule it. (NY Times)

June 2017

Government may be the big backers of Blockchain (The Economist)

What sets successful CEOs apart (Harvard Business Review)

Creativity's bottom line (McKinsey & Co.)

Apple is making old iPhones new again to win India (BusinessWeek)

Global Wealth Report 2017 (BCG)

Eureka? Yes, Eureka! (NY Times)

Y-Combinator has gone supernova (Wired)

How Googlers avoid burnout, and secretly boost creativity (Wired)

Building a winning business model portfolio (MIT Sloan Management Review)

July 2017

General Electric Builds an AI Workforce (MIT Tech Review)

The science of pep talks (Harvard Business Review)

Should American tech giants be broken up? (BusinessWeek)

How animals can predict the future (BusinessWeek)

Just dancing just feels good, or did it help humans survive (Scientific American)

Automation can lead to unprecedented job cuts in India (Business Today)

Beyond Fintech (World Economic Forum)

August 2017

50 Smartest Companies of 2017 (MIT Tech Review)

The death of internal combustion engine (The Economist)

How I remade GE: Jeff Immelt (Harvard Business Review)

How creative industries benefit from blockchain (McKinsey & Co.)

World's most innovative companies (Forbes)

Ten inventions that shaped the workplace (FastCompany)

What self-talk reveals about brain (Scientific American)

Glimpse of the future: Innovation and Entrepreneurship (World Economic Forum)

September 2017

35 Innovators Under 35 (MIT Tech Review)

One kind of education does not fit all (The Economist)

Game-changing inventions (Harvard Business Review)

Creating an innovation culture (McKinsey & Co.)

Is there a 'female brain'? (Scientific American)

Inside Lego's new tricker-out Denmark playscape (Wired)

India's fastest growing emerging companies (Business Today)

Global Human Capital Report 2017 (World Economic Forum)

October 2017

Entrepreneurs Building an Arab Tech Economy (MIT Tech Review)

Learning innovation in the digital age (McKinsey & Co.)

The 2017 Global Innovation 1000 (Strategy&)

Gartner's top 10 strategic trends for 2018 (Gartner)

China's huge investments in science are starting the payoff (Scientific American)

The creative mind: cognition, society, and culture (Nature)

Workforce of the future (Live Mint)

12 essential innovation insights (MIT Sloan Management Review)

November 2017

The hidden pitfall of innovation prizes (Harvard Business Review)

The best performing CEOs in the world- 2017 (Harvard Business Review)

GoogleX and the science of radical creativity (Forbes)

The future according to Elon Musk (BusinessWeek)

The upside of being ruled by five tech giants (NY Times)

How companies are creating business models around AI (Business Today)

Data driven cities: 20 stories of innovation (World Economic Forum)

The world's most impressive companies (Inc.)

December 2017

The eight types of company culture (Harvard Business Review) 

Ten design practices to deliver a business value (McKinsey & Co)

Four novelties from 2017 that will drive innovation (Forbes)

Satya Nadella on AI, sexual harassment, and Microsoft's soul (BusinessWeek)

Cracking the brain's enigma code (Scientific American)

How IBM is training its workforce to think like designers (Fortune)

Behind the fall and rise of China's Xiaomi (Wired)

What can machine learning do? Workforce implications (Science Magazine)