I recently read a fascinating article about garment making– not my usual reading, but a girl has to branch out on occasion. This article compared the 2 major hubs of garment manufacturing Cholet, France and New York City, NY to find how they had sustained the industry in face of difficulty. It seems that the two locations have two very different models.

NYC has employed what the authors term a “Sweatshop Model” that is a model in which they stay alive in the face of globalization by becoming hyper-efficient. Cholet, however, is surviving not through hyper efficiency but rather through entrepreneurial endeavors. (more…)

I recently stumbled across this article by Matt Bandyk of US News and World Report. It was too good not to re-post in its entirety.

Entrepreneurs and Social Responsibility
May 30, 2008 03:27 PM ET | Matthew Bandyk (more…)

A big part of Global Entrepreneurship Week is celebrating innovation. The whole concept of innovation is great. Its about re-imagining, birthing anew and changing the face of things around you. So its really cool to see innovation the size of a billboard, or wait, on a billboard, no there it is below the billboard.

Apparently, billboards are now collecting data about the people who passby. “ (more…)