Nottingham Spirk Blog

By John Nottingham

In our five decades, Nottingham Spirk has worked with companies of every conceivable size, structure and culture. Ultimately there is one thing that separates those that innovate..

A version of this article first appeared in the September, 2019 issue of SmartBusiness Cleveland. Reprinted with permission.

NASA’s Human Health and Performance Directorate is tasked with mitigating the risks to humans in spaceflight. In 2005, the budget for the directorate’s human research and development program was cut..

Note: This commercialization article was originally published by the National Academy of Inventors in Technology & Innovation (20.4), and was one of their most popular downloads. Available in full on

Northeast Ohio has long been known as a center for medtech innovation. But there’s another sector in which Greater Cleveland is even more dominant, though this is less well known, even locally: ..