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HBS Working Knowledge
July 11, 2011
Carmen Nobel |
Non-competes Push Talent Away Research shows that inventors are leaving states that allow non-competes and moving to states that don't.   |
HBS Working Knowledge
February 26, 2007
Martha Lagace |
The Power of the Noncompete Clause Noncompete clauses may be ubiquitous or nearly so, particularly in venture-funded companies, but not everyone is affected identically by noncompetes. |
HBS Working Knowledge
November 5, 2007
Sarah Jane Gilbert |
The Changing Face of American Innovation Chinese and Indian scientists and engineers have made a large contribution to U.S. technology over the last 30 years, according to research by Harvard professor William R. Kerr. But that trend may be ebbing, with potentially harmful effects on American innovation. |
InternetNews
March 23, 2005
Susan Kuchinskas |
IP Pros Fight to Save Patent Library Patent professionals and entrepreneurs are fighting to save the Sunnyvale Center for Innovation, Invention & Ideas, a patent library they say is an invaluable tool. |
HBS Working Knowledge
September 6, 2006
Deborah Blagg |
Mixing Students and Scientists in the Classroom In his course on commercializing science and technology, Lee Fleming combines students from business, engineering, law, science, and medicine. The result: Ideas for products from scale-eating bacteria to quantum dot cancer treatments. |
BusinessWeek
December 17, 2009
Michael Arndt |
Innovation: Ben Franklin, Where Are You? Hurt by smaller R&D budgets and offshoring, Yankees are winning fewer U.S. patents than non-residents |
HBS Working Knowledge
August 1, 2011
Carmen Nobel |
Immigrant Innovators: Job Stealers or Job Creators? The H-1B visa program, which enables US employers to hire highly skilled foreign workers for three years, is "a lightning rod for a very heated debate," says Harvard Business School professor William Kerr. |
Popular Mechanics
December 9, 2009
Erik Sofge |
Inventors Slam Patent Reform Effort Some of America's most prolific inventors say the changes in patent law could seriously impair the culture of innovation that has long driven prosperity in this country. |
IEEE Spectrum
May 2007
Audia & Goncalo |
Does Success Spoil Inventors? The experience of success may stifle creativity by leading people to focus narrowly on existing solutions rather than by exploring new ones. |
CIO
January 1, 2003
Christopher Koch |
Patently Stupid? It's not clear at the start of 2003 whether the software patent frenzy will cause innovation to flower or be trampled. |
InternetNews
February 11, 2010 |
Danger Signs for the Silicon Valley Report warns that the Valley is in an economic downturn that could be very hard to recover from, though signs of hope include a transition to hot new areas like green tech. |
The Motley Fool
March 29, 2004
Mark Mahorney |
Outsourcing the Valley Hundreds of thousands of jobs have been lost in Silicon Valley. Is it as bad as it sounds? |
Fast Company
May 2004
Jena McGregor |
The World Is Their R&D Lab Innovation middlemen try to put inventors and businesses together. It's a way for companies to find great ideas outside their own R&D labs. |
Wired
June 2003
Duncan Watts |
Six Degrees of Interconnection Relationship space: meet your network neighbors |
InternetNews
November 24, 2004
Jim Wagner |
Nick Godici, Commissioner for Patents, USPTO The U.S. Patent & Trademark Office has been taking a lot of heat in recent years over software patents. Sitting at the center of the firestorm, and the patent process, is Nick Godici, the agency's Commissioner for Patents. |
HBS Working Knowledge
March 20, 2006
Huston & Sakkab |
P&G's New Innovation Model Procter & Gamble's assessment of its aging innovation process and the development of connect and develop. |
Chemistry World
October 2006 |
Head to Head For: Patents protect inventions by giving the owner of the patent the right to stop anyone from making or using the invention without the owner's permission... Against: Patents are a menace... |
Wired
July 20, 2009
Paul Boutin |
Laid Off? It's Good for You and Good for the Tech Industry Worker mobility gives the tech industry fluidity, velocity, and energy. |
IEEE Spectrum
March 2007
Steven Rubin |
Hooray for the Patent Troll! Patent owners who are often accused of being patent trolls are acting within the law. There is nothing wrong either with them or the law. Far from stifling innovation, trolls foster it. By creating market liquidity, "patent trolls" provide a valuable service to inventors. |
Information Today
April 2005
George H. Pike |
Patenting the Internet The role of Internet patents has come into question as a number of patents have been issued to cover routine Internet practice such as media streaming. |
Information Today
March 10, 2008 |
SparkIP Adds More User-Friendly Tools The new features include allowing users to directly post licensable technologies on the site and enhanced searching via the inclusion of U.S. patent applications that are fully integrated into the SparkCluster maps. |
InternetNews
January 11, 2008
Mike Elgan |
Where Annoying Tech Buzzwords Come From What do you do when you want to emphasize the cool newness of something that's not really new? Make a buzzword! |
Fast Company
January 9, 2012
Rachel Z. Arndt |
Patents By The Numbers: Average Wait Time Is Going Down, But Trolls Still Cost Us $80 Billion A Year Starting last fall and stretching through mid-2013, the U.S. has been overhauling the patent-approval process for the first time since 1952. |
Entrepreneur
March 2008
Nichole L. Torres |
Tool Time You may have a brilliant invention, but it doesn't mean anything if you can't get it off the ground. These companies can help. |
Bank Technology News
April 2006 |
In a Flat World, Everything Of Value is Connected Globalization is a fact of life; it shouldn't be a matter of when American companies get on board, but how and where they harness the power of the world's technological prowess, whether it originates in Silicon Valley or Bangalore. |
The Motley Fool
October 28, 2008
Tim Beyers |
Where the Multibaggers Are Silicon Valley, which Google, Oracle, and Sun Microsystems call home, is now ground zero for healthcare and energy-related innovative companies. |
HBS Working Knowledge
December 20, 2004
Ann Cullen |
The U.S. Patent Game: How to Change It Innovators and society are paying too high a price in the current patent system, says Adam B. Jaffe and Harvard Business School's Josh Lerner in their new book, 'Innovation and Its Discontents: How Our Broken Patent System is Endangering Innovation and Progress,' excerpted here. |
Pharmaceutical Executive
February 1, 2012
Schaeffer & Dahlberg |
Money for Nothing, Patents for Free? State tech transfer laws giving universities automatic ownership of employees' inventions represent a threat to pharma partnerships. |
