2026 Innovation Issue: Two executives going all-in on AI
A real estate leader and pharmaceutical executive explain the practical and surprising ways they’re using AI in their fields and what the future might look like for AI and their industries..
Innovation Issue 2026
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Battery-maker EnPower sees big opportunities ahead
The company has developed a type of high-performance battery for specialty uses, including drones.
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2026 Innovation Issue: Don Brown launches Bioscope.AI
The serial entrepreneur also launched the affiliated Longevity Today, a website that identifies, processes and summarizes life sciences research and offers information to the public through AI personas.
2026 Innovation Issue: Great Indiana innovations
In the first Innovation Issue in 2015, IBJ featured several Indiana innovations. We’re revisiting some of those and introducing a few more worth mentioning.
2026 Innovation Issue: Startups to watch — progress, pauses and partnerships
The 20 companies IBJ featured in last year’s Innovation Issue all appear to still be in business, and some have introduced new products, raised money or made other moves.
2026 Innovation Issue: Hype sank NFT market
When IBJ’s Innovation Issue surveyed the NFT landscape in 2022, NFT collectibles had accounted for $41 billion in spending a year earlier.
2026 Innovation Issue: EV slowdown forces Indiana battery plants to pivot
Mayor Tyler Moore said the project is progressing more slowly than initially expected, but Samsung’s involvement has allowed the first battery plant to pivot production to other applications and industries that rely on lithium-ion batteries.
2026 Innovation Issue: Indy police embrace new tools, implement privacy guardrails at real-time crime center
At IMPD’s real-time crime center, analysts have access to live feeds, updates and search options from more than 300 license plate readers, 160 IMPD-owned cameras, about 150 cameras outside of businesses.
2026 Innovation Issue: With coding academies gone, what comes next?
In Indiana, gone are Eleven Fifty Academy and Kenzie Academy. National coding bootcamps like Bloom Institute of Technology, Hack Reactor and Triology have significantly scaled back or totally restructured in recent years.
2026 Innovation Issue: IoT Lab in Fishers evolves as ‘smart’ devices change
Seventeen companies and organizations are members with room left for only a few more.
‘Smart’ device growth has been slower than once expected
Technology giant Intel once predicted that by 2020, the number of smart device would grow to 200 billion or about 26 smart devices for every person on Earth. But the number today is quite a bit lower.
2026 Innovation Issue: Checking in with 2015’s Champions of Innovation
Eleven years later, IBJ checks back in with some of those innovators to see what they’re up to — and where they are — now.
2026 Innovation Issue: Beck’s Hybrids AI platform educates farmers about their crops
In February, Beck’s publicly launched SeedIQ, a free online product management platform that uses artificial intelligence to provide data and management recommendations to help farmers unlock the potential of their corn and soybean hybrids.
2026 Innovation Issue: Inari’s gene-editing ambitions grow amid legal fight, layoffs
The company’s dispute with Corteva Agriscience highlights the tension between Inari’s model and an industry long dominated by a small number of global companies.
2026 Innovation Issue: By the numbers: AI in the workplace
More than half of employed American adults surveyed in February by Gallup said they use artificial intelligence in their jobs at least a few times a year.
2026 Innovation Issue: Indiana ethanol industry looks to aviation, marine industries to grow
Low commodity prices and high costs for fertilizer and diesel means that many Indiana corn farmers do not expect to break even this year. But demand in the ethanol market could help improve that situation.
Matt Whiteside: Want innovation? Focus on the soil where it can be planted.
Innovation is the byproduct of a free, capitalist society. Said differently, a free, capitalist society naturally incentivizes people to innovate because they receive the potential upside of their efforts.
2026 Innovation Issue: How an expert on AI uses the technology in the classroom
IBJ spoke with Indiana University professor Brian Williams about teaching in the age of artificial intelligence and how he encourages — and discourages — its use in his classroom.
2026 Innovation Issue: Radio broadcasts via smartphones met static
Emmis founder Jeff Smulyan founded Indianapolis-based NextRadio as an Emmis subsidiary in 2012.
2026 Innovation Issue: Entrepreneur Richard DiMarchi stays locked in as the market for blockbuster drugs evolves
Richard DiMarchi still works a full schedule, researching and teaching at Indiana University.
2026 Innovation Issue: Monument Circle shines bright, but therein lies opportunity again
What a difference a decade (and a pandemic and a complete rethink of the utility of office-based work) makes.