Robert Buderi

Bob is Xconomy's founder, CEO, and editor in chief. He is one of the country's foremost journalists covering business and technology. As a noted author and magazine editor,he is a sought-after commentator on innovation and global competitiveness. Before taking his most recent position as a research fellow in MIT's Center for International Studies, Bob served as Editor in Chief of MIT's Technology Review, then a 10-times-a-year publication with a circulation of 315,000. Bob led the magazine to numerous editorial and design awards and oversaw its expansion into three foreign editions, electronic newsletters, and highly successful conferences. As BusinessWeek's technology editor, he shared in the 1992 National Magazine Award for The Quality Imperative.

Bob is the author of three books about technology and innovation. Guanxi (2006) focuses on Microsoft's Beijing research lab as a metaphor for global competitiveness. Engines of Tomorrow (2000) describes the evolution of corporate research. The Invention That Changed the World (1996) covered a secret lab at MIT during WWII. Bob served on the Council on Competitiveness-sponsored National Innovation Initiative and is an advisor to the Draper Prize Nominating Committee. He has been a regular guest of CNBC's Strategy Session and has spoken about innovation at many venues, including the Business Council, Amazon, eBay, Google, IBM, and Microsoft.

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1stdibs CEO Seeks Queries For VCs Wilson, Dagres at Xconomy Forum

Day in and day out, venture capitalists ask questions of entrepreneurs—some might say grill them. But on February 1, at Xconomy’s New York Venture Emergence forum, former DoubleClick CEO David... Read more »
Xconomy’s 6X6 Big Tech Ideas Forum This Afternoon: 5 Tickets Left

A mini-invasion of tech companies hits Boston today. The clock is counting down for 6×6: Six Cities, Six Big Tech Ideas, Xconomy’s forum this afternoon that features one cool tech... Read more »
Global Hawk Spy Plane Offers Glimpse of Future Robotics at Xconomy 6X6 Event on December 1

Think of it as a flying beluga whale. At least, that’s the way Xconomy’s San Diego editor Bruce Bigelow, once described the Global Hawk robot spy plane. And I have to... Read more »
Lee Davenport, A Technological Hero, Dies at 95: Here are His 7 Rules for Fostering Innovation

Over the weekend, I learned that one of my heroes, Lee Davenport, had just passed away. Lee died of cancer at the age of 95 in his longtime home of Greenwich,... Read more »
Apperian CEO Patrick Will Turn the Tables on VCs as Moderator of Xconomy Venture Chat on Sep. 26

The worlds of founding and investing in startups seem to have turned almost upside down in recent years—at least in the Internet space. Suddenly, in this age of the cloud and... Read more »
Apperian CEO David Patrick to Moderate Xconomy “Consumers, the Cloud & Beyond” Chat with 3 Leading VCs

Venture capitalists are always interviewing entrepreneurs and CEOs—whether hearing pitches, sitting on boards, or looking for a chief executive to spark growth in a startup they have backed.

It isn’t too... Read more »
Vlingo Lawsuit Charges Nuance With Unfair Competition and Commercial Bribery

A new front has been opened in the longstanding legal war between two Massachusetts speech technology powerhouses.

On Thursday, Cambridge, MA-based Vlingo filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court of Massachusetts... Read more »
Labor Day Friday Bad News Poll Results: Government Jobs Report the Worst Biz News of the Weekend

Well, it turned out that perhaps I was too cynical. On Friday morning, I posted the Labor Day Bad News Poll, pointing out that companies often buried bad news after... Read more »
The Labor Day Friday Bad News Poll

Any savvy news hound knows that companies love to bury bad news by disclosing it after the close of markets on a Friday. The Friday before a long weekend like Labor... Read more »
Xconomy’s “Consumers, the Cloud, and Beyond” Features 3 Top VCs on the Future of Venture and Entrepreneurship

A double dip recession may be looming. But you wouldn’t know it from the valuations of venture-backed companies like Facebook, Zynga, LinkedIn, Foursquare, Groupon, Gilt Groupe—as well as a host of... Read more »
Spark Capital’s Todd Dagres on NY vs. Boston, What’s Beyond Social Media, and Why Tech Investing Is Better Than Making Movies

“The time to invest in social media was two years ago.” That was a quote—or the gist of it, anyway—from Todd Dagres, co-founder and general partner of Spark Capital, during the... Read more »
Entrepreneurial Walk of Fame Looking Real-September 16 Launch Targeted

It’s an idea people love the instant they hear it: movies stars have their Walk of Fame out in Hollywood, so entrepreneurs should have one, too—and what better place than right... Read more »
A Big Thank You to Our Great XSITE 2011 Speakers, Sponsors, Partners—and Attendees

The sun finally came out and heated up the day a bit yesterday—and at our XSITE 2011 conference at Babson College, things were smoking. We had a great crowd of close... Read more »
Next 3 to Buy XSITE 2011 Tickets Get These 3 Great Prizes—Think High Speed and High Fashion

We try to avoid the obvious pun around here,* but we are excited about XSITE 2011, our big full-day conference, which takes place tomorrow at Babson College in Wellesley, MA.... Read more »
Innovation at Large Scale: A Glimpse of this Thursday’s XSITE Keynote by Intellectual Ventures’ Edward Jung

Every day in the world’s great science and technology clusters, brilliant people go to work thinking about innovation—how to innovate in research, how to build and grow startups, how to keep... Read more »
With California Deals Heating Up, Polaris Venture Partners to Open Palo Alto Office

Polaris Venture Partners is significantly increasing its presence in California, where roughly one-third of its active portfolio companies are now based, and plans to soon open an office in Palo Alto,... Read more »
Xconomy Not Going Public, But We Had a Great Time at NYSE Euronext—Thanks to Our New York Supporters

Xconomy held a great party last Thursday on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. The only caveats from our fantastic host NYSE Euronext was that if I rang the... Read more »
Agenda Announced for Most Exciting XSITE Yet: We Got 20-Plus Startups, Founders’ Stories, Incubator Debaters, & Provocative Keynoters

We are getting more and more excited about XSITE 2011—the Xconomy Summit on Innovation, Technology, and Entrepreneurship, our annual full-day innovation conference set to take place on June 16 at... Read more »
Desh Deshpande’s XSITE Keynote: Making an Impact Through Entrepreneurship Driven by Technological and Social Innovation

It is less than a month until XSITE 2011—the Xconomy Summit on Innovation, Technology, and Entrepreneurship, our annual full-day innovation extravaganza that will take place this year on June 16 at... Read more »
GM Ventures Growing Up—A Quick Look at How it Operates and How Deals Work

General Motors launched its first venture capital fund—GM Ventures—last summer. We covered the news, and in December, still early in the $100 million fund’s life, I did a Q&A... Read more »

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