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Tag Archives: Innovation Strategies
Watch Tim Brown’s “Innovation Through Design Thinking” talk at MIT Sloan School of Management
Not so long ago, Tim Brown recounts, designers belonged to a “priesthood.” Given an assignment, a designer would disappear into a back room, “bring the result out under a black sheet and present it to the client.” Brown and his colleagues at IDEO, the company that brought us the first Apple Macintosh mouse, couldn’t have traveled farther from this notion [...]
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Tom Wujec demos the 13th-century astrolabe at TED
Rather than demo another new technology, Tom Wujec reaches back to one of our earliest but most ingenious devices -- the astrolabe. With thousands of uses, from telling time to mapping the night sky, this old tech reminds us that the ancient can be as brilliant as the brand-new [...]
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China’s Design Crisis
BusinessWeek's Bruce Nussbaum has an interesting article on the Chinese Design Industry [...]
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Intellectual Property: “China to strengthen protection of intellectual property rights”, says Wen Jiabao
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said recently that the Chinese government would increase efforts to protect intellectual property rights (IPR). Wen was speaking in a meeting with Francis Gurry, director-general of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) [...]
Intellectual Property: Number of patent applications from Chinese enterprises increases ten-fold in 10 years
According to latest statistics, China received a total of 828,328 patent applications in 2008. Of which, 717,144 were domestic patent applications, accounting for 86.6 percent of the total number of applications. Of all received domestic patent applications, the number of invention patent applications reached 194,579, up 27.1 percent from the previous year. In 2008, China authorized a total of 411,982 patents. Of these, the number of China's domestic patents stood at 352,406, accounting for 85.5 percent of the total and an increase of 16.8 percent compared with the previous year. By the end of 2008, China had cumulatively received 4,853,506 patent applications, of which, it authorized 2,501,268.
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Measuring “Design Innovation”
People love trying to measure and quantify things, because then the incomprehensible seems like it makes sense. Psychologists try to measure anger; dating websites try to boil ethereal qualities into 'match' numbers; and now Roberto Verganti and Claudio Dell'Era, researchers at Italy's Politecnico di Milano, are trying to measure 'design innovation.' So what did they find?
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Intellectual Property: China Will Issue Intellectual Property Rights Strategy
Wang Ziqiang, director of the Copyright Management Division of National Copyright Administration of China (NCAC), announced that China would officially issue its national intellectual property rights strategy in 2008 to define the principles, development directions and achievements in intellectual property rights protection. Wang said that the year of 2008 would be a significant year for China, because China's intellectual property right protection would enter a new period of receiving supervision from all the WTO members under the principles of WTO now that the interim period for China's copyrights was going to conclude...
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