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Companies
50 Most Innovative ... 2012
The World's 50 Most Innovative Companies ... by Fast Company ... the 2012 list
Burgess COMMENTARY
Peter Burgess
The World's 50 Most Innovative Companies
Welcome to our annual guide to the businesses that matter most, the ones whose innovations are having an impact across their industries and our culture. Check out the full list below, or on the right where they are organized by industry.
In preparation for The World's Most Innovative Companies of 2013, Fast Company is analyzing its archive to highlight the All Stars from the past five years. READ MORE: Apple, Google, Foursquare, Twitter, Y Combinator, Square
Fast Company checks in with last year's Most Innovative Companies to see how their big ideas fared in 2012--and how they'll play out in 2013 and beyond.
1 Apple For walking the talk
2 Facebook For 800 million reasons to share
3 Google For expanding its hit lineup
4 Amazon For playing the long game
5 Square For making magic out of the mercantile
6 Twitter For amplifying the global dialogue
7 Occupy Movement For embodying all the traits that make a Fast Company
8 Tencent For fueling China’s Internet boom--and boldly moving West
9 Life Technologies For speeding up genetic sequencing
10 SolarCity For brightening up the sun-power business
11 HBO For being the only TV network to delight with digital
12 Southern New Hampshire University For relentlessly reinventing higher ed, online and off
13 Tesla Motors For boosting the art and technology of electric vehicles
14 Patagonia For selling more by encouraging customers to buy less
15 NFL For stoking insatiable, year-round demand for professional football
16 National Marrow Donor Program For matching technology with critical transplant needs
17 Greenbox For inventing the next-generation Chinese fashion brand
18 Jawbone For rocking the mobile lifestyle
19 Airbnb For turning spare rooms into the world’s hottest hotel chain
20 72andSunny For winning at the intersection of Hollywood and Madison Avenue
21 Siemens AG For its R&D ambitions in energy, transportation, and health care
22 Dropbox For transforming file storage into a very big business
23 Kiva Systems For turning squat robots into e-commerce giants
24 Starbucks For infusing a steady stream of new ideas to revive its business
25 Genentech For making targeted, genetics-based cancer therapies
26 LegalZoom For bringing tech and accessibility to the hidebound legal industry
27 Tapjoy For driving advertiser engagement in a million-app world
28 Polyvore For turning everyone into a fashion editor
29 Red Bull Media House For showing what it really means to transform yourself into a media brand
30 LinkedIn For making itself useful even when you're not job searching
31 Liquid Robotics For going deep in ocean monitoring
32 Gogo For delivering first-class entertainment to the coach-bound masses
33 Bug Agentes Biológicos For breeding a natural alternative to harmful agricultural pesticides
34 Chipotle For exploding all the rules of fast food
35 James Corner Field Operations For creating intimate green spaces out of industrial urban blight
36 Narayana Hrudayalaya Hospitals For bringing medical care to the masses
37 Recyclebank For making eco-friendly behavior a big game
38 UPS For solving its customers' number-one pet peeve
39 Networked Insights For using real-time social data to make better products and advertising
40 Chobani For becoming a dairy superstar
41 Kickstarter For connecting creatives with fans to raise funds
42 SoundCloud For giving the Internet a voice
43 PayPal For recharging the sale
44 Berg For wildly imagining the marriage of the digital and physical worlds
45 Boo-box For pioneering social-media advertising in Latin America
46 Amyris For driving biofuels into the mainstream
47 Knewton For teaching education a thing or two
48 RedBus For taking the wheel of the $2.5 billion Indian bus-travel industry
49 OpenSky For creating a social, celebrity-powered shopping experience
50 Y Combinator For building the next great Silicon Valley mafia ARCHIVE