Crucible is an R&D company that purchases inventions from campus-based researchers and companies who do not have the means or desire to further to develop them. Campus recruits its own scientific or engineering teams to develop the inventions for commercial use, and then sells or licences them to other companies. It is currently in negotiations to buy a new invention that could significantly reduce the energy consumption of traffic lights. The invention seems to be more promising than existing technologies
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1. What were some of the challenges that RIM faced to protect its intellectual property, and how did RIM handle those challenges? The following are two challenges that RIM had to face and how they handled those challenges: a. Employees at RIM: If you are an RIM employee with a company Blackberry, everything you say and do with that phone is property of RIM. According to Tindal (2009), employees at RIM are aware that the purpose of having a business phone is to conduct business; therefore
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Explain what happened to the Gore-Tex brand after the patent expired. What activity can firms use to try to maintain any advantage developed during the patent protection phase? When the original patent expired, Gore-Tex lost all rights to their invention. This allowed other companies to make similar products at a lower price. They now have many competitors. To maintain the advantage, Gore-Tex needs to use their packaging to continue identifying themselves as the superior creator of this type of
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Wenjun Ma Susan S. Miller 5/28/13 Wall Street Journal #1 Author Susan Cramm claim a point in his article “Put IT Where It Belongs” that IT should not be the organization in the business that leads the mind of the management organization, and what is most important to do is to increasing innovation requires of the business leaders and their teams, and the IT should be the support of leaders not the guide of leaders. Businesses are depending on IT team to much, yeah, they gathers information for
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The role of the artist was especially important to Chesterton in 1908 because during that time Britain was booming with unemployed anarchist; Chesterton states in his own novel that “An artist disregards all governments, abolishes all conventions. The poet delights in disorder only." (Chesterton, Pg. 8) meaning that a true artist lives free of a government; they are free to create as they please without following rules. The rules simply restrict their creativity and abilities. The role of the artist
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On the 24th August 2012, Apple won more than US $1 billion in a massive US court victory over Samsung, one of the biggest patent cases in decades – a verdict that could have huge market repercussions. A jury in San Jose, California awarded US $1.049 billion to the US tech giant, according to court documents. But analysts said the damages could be tripled because jurors found Samsung “willfully” infringed on patents. The decision was appeared to be an overwhelming victory for Apple but it was not
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technology has led the world to many changes. There are four types of technology in particular which led to four social revolutions. These four technologies are: * Animal Domestication and Plant Cultivation * The invention of the “Plow” * The invention of the “Steam Engine” * The invention of the “Microchip” These technologies not only caused changes in society but they also caused several consequences within society. The first technology is Animal Domestication and Plant Cultivation and some of
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realized recently that we may be able to solve part of the patent problem without waiting for the government. I've never been 100% sure whether patents help or hinder technological progress. When I was a kid I thought they helped. I thought they protected inventors from having their ideas stolen by big companies. Maybe that was truer in the past, when more things were physical. But regardless of whether patents are in general a good thing, there do seem to be bad ways of using them. And since
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Sustainable Innovation as a Corporate Strategy M. Rashid Khan and Mohammed Al-Ansari Intellectual Assets Management, Saudi Aramco, Dhahran 31311, Saudi Arabia. 1. Introduction Something amazing happened in the corporate world. The idea to innovate has captured our imagination. As an example, in 1996, Lucent Technologies’ award winning “Creativity Center” was industries state-of-the art that provided leadership, passion, outstanding marketing, training and communication. Similarly, Enron was the
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HOW TO FOSTER CREATIVITY IN DECISION MAKING Abstract Creativity is the most critical and important factor for all organizations to take advantage of in order to survive during these challenging times (Kanter, 1983; Tushman and O'Reilly, 1997; Utterback, 1994). Ongoing uncertainties of both the economic and global financial markets, indirectly forces almost all successful companies to adopt a new corporate business model largely based on using individual creativity to facilitate and enhance
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