Recently, Gary Shapiro, president and CEO of CEA, spoke with GenConnect about CEA's new book Ninja Innovation, as well as his perspective on how successful organizations embrace change to grow their businesses. How are you embracing change?

For the first time since 1999, music revenues have seen an upward tick, reversing a dozen-year trend of losses, according to the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI). While it’s true that the growth is pretty modest (up 0.3 percent), it is nonetheless growth.   Frances Moore, chief executive of the IFPI, praises this industry that has learned to be creative and change with the times. “These are hard-won successes for an industry that has...

March Madness is about to descend on basketball fans everywhere as we finalize our brackets and schedule our lives around the NCAA college basketball tournament. In CEA’s Sports and Technology Study V, CEA analyzed how the tournament and other sporting events drive the adoption of technology and found that nearly two-thirds of sports “Super Fans” are self-proclaimed early technology adopters. In fact, 37 percent of sports fans said they intend to watch NCAA tournament on TV...

Now on i3: Today is the first day of spring, and as spring break approaches, many Americans are setting off on vacations and new adventures, and more often than not, their consumer electronics (CE) devices go with them to entertain, assist and solve problems.

A free and open Internet has been the lifeblood of America’s innovation economy, not just in Silicon Valley, but in cities and towns all over America. Last year, after watching the U.S. government threaten the Internet with bills like SOPA and PIPA, Internet entrepreneurs from Reddit set out on a tour bus from Denver, Colo., to Danville, Ky., to “campaign for the Internet” during the 2012 presidential election season. Their journey was captured by filmmakers...