Challenge: Report weekly on Paris’s growing innovation and tech scene for CBS Interactive website “SmartPlanet” that became absorbed into ZDNet.
Skills: Networking with startup centers; attended industry events; interviewing business owners and innovators; learn French policies regarding innovation investment; news gathering; write to deadline; collaborate with editors and other journalists.
An innovative data center offers to heat up Paris homes
Turning Paris into an open-air laboratory for innovation
Fake Paris project revisited after decades of obscurity
Paris metro makes conversion to driverless trains
In Paris, a boutique for big ideas
Luxembourg cultivating young innovative minds
Young entrepreneurs bring responsible fashion to French market
French tackle coworking with online finder
Experience the future of Paris in 3D with Google
Installation in Paris revisits fabric of neighborhood
Redesigning a major Parisian public space
First American-style food truck rolls through Paris
Paris cultural center welcomes lawn-mowing sheep
Paris ranked top city for students, despite shortcomings
France heads EU showdown with Google
Paris tests 40 urban innovations directly on public
Paris welcomes robots to upcoming tech and travel conference
Push for greener, leafier spaces on Parisian roofs
In Paris, expat brings superfood back to the table
Renovations begin on Parisian zoo at Vincennes
With French designer spray, the sensation of inebriation
In Paris, defunct chimneys get a clean sweep
High tech hotel room pops up in Paris
In Paris, high-speed trains go low-cost
Electronic cigarettes light up in Paris
At Paris's Noglu, a bit of California and Brooklyn inspiration
Paris gives its regards to Broadway
The French protest an experimental nuclear fusion project
Getting it on in the boudoir, naturally
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