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Fast Company – The 2012 Innovation by Design Awards

The article announces the winners of the publication’s 2012 Innovation by Design Awards for accomplishments in product and industrial design including the automobile company Ford for its Ford Fusion automobile, aerospace industries firm Boeing Co. for the Boeing 787 jet transport and an athletic shoe created by sporting goods industry firm Nike Inc.

Forbes.com – The 15 Best Cities For Female Entrepreneurs

The article presents the best U.S. cities for women to launch their own business. New York City topped the list in terms of the number of and dollar amount of U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA)-backed loans granted to women in 2011. The second best city for female entrepreneurs is Houston, Texas, followed by Dallas. Texas has been ranked as the fastest-growing state for female-led firms according to a report from the American Express.

InformationWeek – InformationWeek Top 500 Innovators List

View ranked list of the 250 most innovative users of business technology

Booz & Company – The 2012 Global Innovation 1000 Study

Year after year, our Global Innovation 1000 study has demonstrated that it is not how much companies spend on research and development that determines success — what really matters is how those R&D funds are invested in talent, process, and tools. In addition to our recurring analysis of R&D spending trends, our eighth annual study of the world’s 1000 largest corporate R&D spenders focuses on the “fuzzy front-end” of the innovation process — the tools, mechanisms and networks companies use to generate ideas and effectively convert them into commercialization projects.

MIT Technology Review – 35 Innovators under 35

Some members of our latest list of young innovators from around the world have developed consumer Web services you might have used, such as Spotify or Dropbox. Others are making more fundamental breakthroughs that have yet to be commercialized, such as more efficient engines or improvements in optical communications. And a few are blazing trails in fields that didn’t exist before, like pop-up fabrication of tiny machines, or cameras that can see around corners. But all 35 of them have something significant in common: their work is likely to be influential for a very long time. We hope that these stories about them surprise and inspire you. —The Editors

The Banker – The Banker Investment Banking Awards 2012

Executives are talking hopefully about 2013. But there has been a marked change of tone over the past year, given the sheer depth of the challenges facing the industry. There is a growing sense that headwinds will remain gale-force for the foreseeable future. The eurozone crisis has undermined the business models of many European banks, while a deluge of regulation on both sides of the Atlantic is transforming all aspects of investment banking, from capital usage to trading operations. The top performers have moved fast to identify those markets and segments that still offer growth opportunities. They have also pioneered more efficient balance sheet usage that will enhance their prospects when markets eventually stage a sustained recovery. However, the dislocation of the industry also presents an opportunity for alternative models and independent investment banks, some of which have performed particularly well in our awards this year.

Marketing – Is the reality that the best creative marketing talent is based in London?

The article presents opinions on marketing talent in London, England from marketing directors Christian Woolfenden and Dominic Grounsell and chief executives Steve Booth and Mike Phillipson. Topics include regional differences between the capital city and the rest of Great Britain, global economic influences on marketing in London, and the distribution of creative industries in Great Britain.

Wall Street Journal – The Wall Street Journal’s Technology Innovation Awards: This year’s winners tackled big problems

A team of Journal editors and reporters reviewed the entries and forwarded 172 to an independent panel of judges from venture-capital firms, universities and companies.

Stevie Awards – 2012 Stevie® Award Winners

The following nominations have been selected as Stevie Award winners in the 2012 Stevie Awards for Women in Business. The final results were announced at the 9th annual awards dinner on Friday, November 9 in New York.

The Daily Beast – Newsweek Green Rankings 2012

Newsweek’s annual rankings reveal the planet’s biggest protectors – and polluters.