Tag: November 2015
Cultivating Creativity
How do you create an environment conducive to innovation? Drawing on a lifetime of learning and experience, James Blackmon, a research...
Engineering for Smart Health
When Emil Jovanov moved to the warm Alabama climate, he learned “the hard way” that some health issues, such as fatigue or...
The Upside of Shrimp May Be the Shells
What George Washington Carver did for the lowly peanut, a quartet of scientists at the University of Alabama hopes to do for smelly...
Often a Great Notion
If “necessity is the mother of invention, ” Alabama is a good mom. Here are some of her sons, 10 remarkable men you...
Metallurgical Reimagining
Some 12 years ago Frank Ledbetter’s life was in tatters. An ill-fated expansion had plunged the metal fabrication shop he’d founded in 1976 more...
The Creativity of Worker Ownership
Perhaps more so than any company in Alabama, innovation goes way back at American Cast Iron Pipe Co. To be sure, ...
Cast Iron Creativity
Call it apropos that Birmingham-based American Cast Iron Pipe Co. unveiled its latest product innovation — the American Earthquake Joint System — at a...
Alabama Business Hall of Fame’s 2015 Inductees
A brain trust of the state’s innovative business minds will receive their laurels Nov. 12 at a banquet inducting seven Alabama natives into the...
Hubs of Commerce New and Expanding
Across Alabama, 120 chambers of commerce are serving as the voice of their local business communities. Nearly all manage traditional duties such as...
Inventing Faster and Faster
Kevin Schneider is the chief technology officer at Huntsville-based Adtran Inc., a publicly traded information technology company (NASDAQ: ADTN), with sales of...