Dean Kamen founded the Advanced Regenerative Manufacturing Institute ( ARMI ) to mass produce human organs. The goal is to jumpstart a new industry of biofabrication in the U.S. Nearly 120,000 Americans are waiting for a donated organ, and 20 of them die each day waiting for a transplant. Dean Kamen has raised about $300 million, $80 million from...

The Digital Manufacturing Design and Innovation Institute (DMDII) announced on March 12 that it has launched a Cyber Hub for Manufacturing. It is part of DMDII’s public-private partnership as one of the Manufacturing USA institutes which are sponsored by the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) to advance the state-of-the-art in digital manufacturing...

The SXSW 2018 program says ARMI/BioFabUSA Executive Director Dean Kamen holds more than 450 patents, and that is technically true. But that number is almost 10 years old; Kamen's name now appears on well over 1,000 patents.

And these patents are for real things that impact the lives of real people: the world's first drug infusion pump; the...

It's become conventional wisdom that the last 30 years have been a hotbed of innovation, but evidence suggests otherwise. As Robert Gordon explains in The Rise and Fall of American Growth , productivity growth peaked between 1920 and 1970 and has declined ever since. Economist Tyler Cowen calls this the Great Stagnation .

Part of the reason for...

Two floors of a former Kodak building on Lake Avenue have been renovated to house the nearly-completed AIM Photonics headquarters.

Approximately $30 million in taxpayer money has been used to prepare it; another $30 million is in the works.

The nerve center of AIM Photonics is in the clean room, whether designs will be developed into prototypes...