Innovate to Survive and Thrive

摘要

In this month's cover story on nanoscale developments (p. 8), Alain Kaloyeros, senior vice president, CEO and professor at the University at Albany's College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering, brings the semiconductor industry's current situation into perspective with one simple statement: "Innovate or die." It's a theme that we are seeing in so many aspects of our business lives in particular, and certainly the semiconductor - and publishing - industries are far from exceptions.rnThe past year has seen the world suffering from one of the worst economic downturns ever. Businesses are closing left and right, and few people have been left untouched in one way or another. The semiconductor and publishing industries have been hit even harder for their own reasons - semiconductor because of its usual calamitous cycles of ups and downs, and publishing because of its long-term decline in print ad pages. But as Kaloyeros notes, it is those that are most adaptable to change that will survive.