Bring Public Innovator Labs to more communities in the coming months.
Last week, wearable tech innovators at Doppler Labs partnered with Brooklyn arts venue National Sawdust to debut technology that may change the way we listen to live music.
The men and women who make things in America, from skilled workers on the factory floor to innovators in the company lab, have fueled these achievements.
But it's not enough just to come up with good ideas - m:lab encourages innovators to focus on "demand driven" applications so they can be turned into viable businesses.
We often assume that the technologies we use daily come solely from ingenious innovators working in research labs with a mission to solve problems and invent new products.
Another big innovator, Xerox, has a lab in India.
Beyond the Labs, the Innovators have the opportunity to develop their projects through the network of the PLACE collective – actors in the private, public and civil society that see the value of diversity in migrant-led innovation and who want to be a part of it.
Given the headstart that they have, innovators in HTC's "magic lab" are ready for the show.
That's what HP's founders Bill Hewlett and David Packard did by wandering around HP's labs and challenging innovators.
Innovators like to innovate.
Lots more contributed to the internet we have today – bulletin boards, Usenet, dial-up modems, innovators and hobbyists outside the research labs – but Arpanet was the foundation stone and is worth remembering.
