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Local Motors: Successful Crowdsourcing as a Design Tool for Innovation

During the CoDev 2011 conference in Scottsdale, Arizona, I was impressed with a speech given by a local CEO, John (“Jay”) Rogers of Local Motors in Chandler, Arizona. This small company designs...

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What Will It Take to Restore a Culture of Innovation? Answer to Win a Free...

In the United States and many other nations, a question is being asked by many who struggle with the brutal reality of innovation fatigue. In many sectors, it is taking bigger investments, longer...

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Innovation Through Crowdsourcing: Congratulations to “All Your Shreds Are...

Contests can be one of the most interesting innovation tools. With the right challenge and incentives, creative groups from across the world can help invent and innovate rapidly. The creativity of...

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The Quest for Profit: The Mother of Invention, or Its Kidnapper?

As we discuss in Conquering Innovation Fatigue, the profit motive can be important for inventors but is often not the real incentive behind the quest to invent. Steps that eliminate the opportunity to...

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Getting More Innovation from Chinese Teams

A Team Exercise Spotted in Nanjing So often I hear Westerners complain about innovation in China or about innovation from Chinese employees. There is a perception that Chinese people are great at...

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Crazy Over Innovation at Uber

At the Marcus Evans Innovate 2014 Conference in Shanghai today, I met Rosalie Wu, the head of marketing in China for the rapidly growing startup, Uber. Rosalie was Uber’s first hire in China and...

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A Need To Save the US Patent System: A Warning from Dana Rohrabacher

Many leading IP professionals working with the US patent system are growing increasingly concerned about the weakening of the IP system there. Some are so concerned that they are wondering what steps...

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More Cold Water on the Fire of Innovation: Unnecessary Patent Reform

Abraham Lincoln said that the patent system “added the fuel of interest to the fires of genius.” Today the fires of genius and the fire of innovation itself is getting doused with something less...

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CNN Finally Covers a Great American Inventor and His Patent

Pop stars seem to get all the publicity, so it’s cool that CNN finally did a major story about a real inventor and his useful, practical, real-world anti-gravity patent, US Patent #5255452, “Method and...

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The Pains and Joys of Innovation in China

The Moat Around the Forbidden City, Beijing After seven years of working with intellectual property and innovation in China, I’ve seen some of the ups and downs as well as the gross misunderstanding of...

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