The TEN Project

InnovationConnect (ICon) is an Australian (Canberra Territory) Government program designed to provide creative innovators and entrepreneurs with support that will accelerate the progress of viable, creative ideas along the development and commercialisation pathway.

ICon provides matching funds up to $50,000 to businesses who are in the early stages of developing innovative business ideas and assists them in taking the next step to commercialisation.

While I was in Samoa, Therese and I worked on our pitch documentation, and lodged our application.  We were selected as finalists, and Therese went to ICON to pitch, armed with our game prototype development & business plan, and the video I made in São Paulo, Rio and NYC (shot by Fabio Cascão – big thank you as well).  They loved it all, we won, and the rest (will be) history.  Big thank you to ICON, they have been incredibly supportive all the way through, and a joy to be involved with.

http://www.business.act.gov.au/doing_business_in_canberra/business_grants_and_assistance/innovationconnect

Hi all. We’ve been a bit slow with posting news but anyway we’re here now. So we held the first demo of our game concept for a packed room of groovers and shakers in the fabulous surrounds of 92Y ( http://www.92y.org/ ) last month. It was a blast.

Continue reading ‘Nothing like a New York Penhouse on 92nd Y to get you Hyper about Mega-City Hero’

By Michele and Robert Root-Bernstein on February 11, 2009 – 9:28am in Imagine That! From the psychology today blog : http://blogs.psychologytoday.com/blog/imagine-that/200902/a-missing-piece-in-the-economic-stimulus-hobbling-arts-hobbles-innovation

As the economy stumbles, the first things to get cut at the national, state, and local levels are the arts. The first thing that goes in our school curricula are the arts. Arts, common wisdom tells us, are luxuries we can do without in times of crisis. Or can we?

Let’s see what happens when we start throwing out all the science and technology that the arts have made possible. Continue reading ‘A Missing Piece in the Economic Stimulus: Hobbling Arts Hobbles Innovation’