Boston Globe -- Scott Kirsner columns

Sparks fly over Silicon Valley vs. Bay State

Scott Kirsner, Globe Correspondent — 2009-11-23T03:08:59Z

Highlights from Scott Kirsner’s Innovation Economy blog. For the full blog, visit www.boston.com/innovation .

Websites’ rivalry provides lesson about sharing strategy

Scott Kirsner, Globe Columnist — 2009-11-21T21:41:30Z

On July 20, 2006, Sheila Marcelo and Nick Beim flew from Boston to Chicago to visit a company called Sittercity. The business, which charged parents to access an online database of sitters and nannies, had been launched in Boston five years earlier.

If you let them, big companies make you small

Scott Kirsner, Globe Correspondent — 2009-11-16T03:19:20Z

Highlights from Scott Kirsner’s Innovation Economy blog. For the full blog, visit www.boston.com/innovation. The bad side of working for a big company. On the Boston innovation landscape, there are two kinds of people: those who draw a paycheck from small start-up ventures, and those who toil in the salt mines at big companies. The latter often fall prey to Big ...

This new house

Scott Kirsner, Globe Columnist — 2009-11-15T00:11:11Z

Inside a cavernous factory in Littleton, where the MBTA’s new fleet of Green Line trains was assembled, a crew of construction workers is now building houses. It’s the sort of vast space where the ceilings seem high enough to spawn their own weather systems.

Clean energy is hot topic in Hub

Scott Kirsner, Globe Correspondent — 2009-11-09T03:27:22Z

Highlights from Scott Kirsner’s Innovation Economy blog. For the full blog, visit www.boston.com/innovation. The clean tech hub. Copenhagen will be the place to be next month for the world’s policy makers, when the United Nations convenes its Climate Change Conference.

To build up real business selling virtual goods, firms change tactics

Scott Kirsner, Globe Columnist — 2009-11-08T02:41:49Z

Just after Labor Day last year, Pano Anthos flew out to San Francisco to unveil his new start-up, Hangout Industries Inc., at a major technology conclave, the TechCrunch50.

‘Shark Tank’ star led Learning Co. of Cambridge

Scott Kirsner, Globe Correspondent — 2009-11-02T02:43:58Z

Highlights from Scott Kirsner’s Innovation Economy blog. For the full blog, visit www.boston.com/innovation . A shark in the Back Bay. Did you recognize one of those skeptical, skin-flinty investors from ABC’s reality show “Shark Tank’’ as a denizen of the Back Bay?

Dreaming up a new way to build dream cars

Scott Kirsner, Globe Columnist — 2009-10-31T10:36:36Z

On Tuesday, when the doors of the Las Vegas Convention Center open, the auto industry will get its first in-person look at a car designed by a college student in California, built in Massachusetts, and closely followed online by a cluster of car enthusiasts.