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Biofuels, Telecommunication and Nanotechnology are the hottest areas of R&D in the global intellectual property marketplace, according to an analysis of world patent activity published by the IP Solutions business of Thomson Reuters. Continue reading…
The European Commission has announced actions to make sure that Europe can play a leading role in shaping these new networks of interconnected objects from books to cars, from electrical appliances to food – in short the emerging ‘internet of things’. Continue reading…
Successful companies are partnering more aggressively than ever to satisfy the intensifying need for innovation, according to a recently published whitepaper, from Frost & Sullivan, entitled “From Concept to Commerce – New Innovation Models Spur Collaboration and Growth”. The paper ascertains that an openness and interdisciplinary spirit previously unseen, both within and among companies, is giving innovators the tools they need to capture the spoils obtainable through innovation leadership. Continue reading…
Creative and Innovative Regions is the theme of the 6th Progress Report on Economic and Social Cohesion adopted by the Commission (25 June 2009). The report analyses how creativity and innovation boost regional development and how core and LFRs perform. The more developed EU regions tend to score well on most creativity and innovation indicators, such as core creative class, R&D Continue reading…
Carlo Ratti, Director of the SENSEable City Laboratory, a multidisciplinary research initiative at the MIT, presents the concept of “Real Time City” through a series of relative projects, during the World-Information City 2009 conference in Paris. Continue reading…
Alexander Kandybin, Surbhee Grover, and Nami Soejima of Booz & Company write about an alternative product launch strategy that they call in-market innovation. This strategy recommends putting out new products in large volume and letting the marketplace — not focus groups — separate winners from losers. Continue reading…
IBM’s initiative for a Smarter Planet aims to bring a new level of intelligence to how the world works –how every person, business, organization, government, natural system, and man-made system interacts. Each interaction represents a chance to do something better, more efficiently, and more productively. But more than that, as the systems of the planet become smarter; we have a chance to open up meaningful new possibilities for progress. Continue reading…
A new wave of research parks / science parks integrates new research complexes and “living laboratories” for biotechnology, advanced materials, and medical services. Included are: Spain’s 22@Barcelona, Seoul’s Digital Media City, Singapore’s One North, Research & Innovation Continue reading…
As more nations try to gain an edge in the next generation of knowledge industries, stunning new high-tech meccas are going up from Asia to Europe to Latin America, a building spree that hardly has been slowed by the recession. A latest special report from BusinessWeek magazine tracks science park trends by presenting a number of Mega Research Parks that are under development around the world. Continue reading…
A recent paper of Regional Studies “Revisiting the Silicon Island? The Geographically Varied ‘Strategic Coupling’ in the Development of High-technology Parks in Taiwan” explores the dynamics of three technology parks in Taiwan and their role Continue reading…
