Top 25 Innovative Companies

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Last week Business Week published their list of the 25 most innovative companies. It is an interesting list. The results were determined from interviewing business leaders at large companies, so the list definitely has a large company slant. I wish the article had spent more time talking about what the companies did to be innovative.

The list is as follows:

What do you think about the list?

Click here for the Business Week special report. A slideshow of the top 50 companies is located here.

There was a side article on the Government’s attempt to create an official measurement of innovation.

How best to measure innovation has bedeviled the business community for years. But with the discipline garnering increased attention—and investments—creating an accepted system of metrics to evaluate its impact has become top priority. Now the U.S. Commerce Dept. wants in. On Apr. 13, it issued a Federal Register notice asking for public comment on a series of innovation measurements it might use to drive public economic and innovation policy.

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1 Nathan Monday, May 14, 2007 at 11:38 am: how can a top 50 list of innovative companies be measured without benchmarks or metrics to substantiate claims of innovation? but at the same time, to be innovative means you are trying things previously untried, so there shouldn’t be benchmarks or metrics developed yet. catch 22?