Quantify: Innovation
Half of firm founders in Silicon Valley are foreign-born. 3
3 The Economist — September 17th 2010
Nearly half of the world's population is under the age of 25. 4
In a recent six-month period, half of Google’s core initiatives started as projects during employee’s 20 percent innovation time. 5
5 Marissa Mayer at DLD — January 24th 2011
There are three times as many smartphones being activated every minute than there are babies being born.6
6 Hans Vestberg, CEO of Ericsson — March 23rd 2011
In the October 1909 issue of Popular Mechanics, Nikola Tesla predicted the wireless internet phenomenon. 7
7 Popular Mechanics via Google Books — October 1989
Researchers in California have created a way to place a call on a cell phone using just your thoughts.8
8 MIT Technology Review — April 12th 2011
Eighty percent of consumer transactions occur at the top 200 merchants.9
9 New York Times — March 24th 2011
A computer that fits on a pen tip can monitor eye pressure for glaucoma patients and send data to a computer: it consumes 5.3 nanowatts of energy and stores up to a week’s worth of information. 11
11 University of Michigan — February 2011
