Maezawa keeps up a we-are-family culture with a novel office design sporting huge pop art portraits of rockers such as Kurt Cobain and Radiohead's Thom Yorke.

FORBES: Magazine Article

Hamilton Airship, a South African company, is taking a similar approach, but has updated the classical rigid-airship design with a novel twist.

ECONOMIST: Pushing the envelope

The technology--along with UPS and FedEx--allows someone with a clever furniture design or a novel toy to reach, economically, a national audience.

FORBES: Robbing the Cradle

However, that has not stopped new entrants from continuing to join the fray, with novel twists on the basic scanning-probe design.

ECONOMIST: MONITOR

China is set to start work on a novel design for a nuclear reactor with the help of a firm founded by Bill Gates.

BBC: China and Bill Gates discuss nuclear reactor plan