Smartphones and Agriculture
One of the interesting trends in emerging nations is the rapid spread of mobile phones without first moving to landlines. Millions of people who don’t have landlines and may not have the infrastructure...
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Swinging at the Innovation Piñata: The Need for Outside Eyes
Swinging at the Innovation PinataFinding a hit in innovation is a lot like swinging at a piñata blindfolded. You know a treasure is there, but success is a matter of random luck because you don’t where...
View ArticleUpdate on Innovation in Brazil, with a Highlight on Education
My recent visit to three beautiful regions of Brazil included opportunities to learn more about the economic climate and the future of innovation. Entrepreneurial opportunities are tremendous for...
View ArticleTrust and Sound IP Systems: An Essential Component for a Nation’s Innovation...
For years, China has been making progress in creating laws and systems that enable protection of intellectual property. Respect for IP rights is essential in creating a culture where innovation and...
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A Carbonated Toast to Innovation in Packaging
Do you recognize how much innovation is behind the simple pleasures of life like a carbonated beverage? A great deal of clever physics and science has gone into the subtle innovations that allow us to...
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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...
View ArticleInnovation 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleA 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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