The Milken Institute has just updated its State Technology and Science Index, and neither Missouri or Illinois has seen much movement since the last ranking four years ago. Missouri ranks 30th among the states, up from 31st in 2004. Illinois’ ranking…

Well into the Internet age, the U.S. Census Bureau insists that pencil and paper remains the best way to collect data on American households. According to a new paper by the Information Technology & Innovation Foundation, a planned 2010 e-census form was…

Former St. Louisan Timothy M. Roberts   has resigned from the board of Phantom Entertainment,  a  video-game-equipment company that he co-founded.

Phantom, formerly known as Infinium Labs, was originally supposed to be inventing a whole new game system, but it later focused…

Sunday’s column about Ionatron wasn’t intended to highlight a hot stock. Quite the opposite. In writing about Dana Marshall’s decision to establish an Ionatron laser division in St. Louis, I took care to include several paragraphs about the company’s checkered past.…

One of the more intriguing companies seeking money at today’s Invest Midwest venture capital forum is based in Omaha, Neb., which most folks wouldn’t think of as a technology hotbed. But a collaboration between mechanical engineering folks and medical-school folks at…

Kansas City’s Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation  has just sponsored a report on how states are doing in today’s knowledge economy, and the news isn’t good for the foundation’s home state. Missouri ranks 35th in the study’s New Economy Index, down from 28th…