While more innovation is the main theoretical benefit of patent protection, some have argued an increasingly swamped U ….S. Patent Office has granted many patents with negligible innovation value. I test this argument and determine the … characteristics of patents that lack innovation value by analyzing 980 litigated patents that were subject to anticipation or …

This paper describes the evidence that several Statistics Canada studies have developed on the importance of innovation … to growth and the need for highly skilled workers in the innovation process. Rather than focusing on broad industry … frequently distinguishes faster from slower growing firms is innovation. Innovators in turn place greater emphasis on training …

The Australian patent system provides protection for both standard and innovation patents. The case of Dura-Post (Aust …) Pty Ltd v Delnorth Pty Ltd concerns three innovation patents owned by Delnorth for an invention for a ‘‘Roadside Post …

This paper explores 3 topical subjects – scenarios, innovation and converging technologies – and uses two case studies … to describe how scenario techniques were used to facilitate innovation in a white biotech company and to reveal the …

Innovation within a commercial environment is about adding value through new product development, or reducing cost via … innovations are incremental in nature. Contemporary innovation management requires the active participation of all employees with … innovative solutions and identifying opportunities for enhanced innovation via interactions with the customer. It is important …

collectivities of practice allow the control of innovation processes and activities …

The provider-client relationship is at once the main locus and the fundamental source of innovation through the … the influence of relationships with clients on providers’ own innovation processes. This paper aims at contributing to … innovation literature, (ii) relationship marketing, and, (iii) user involvement in new service development - we define a …

innovation. The existing literature either lays out a primacy to individuals in the maintaining of the flow of innovations or a … collective organisation as a factor of innovation. A third option focuses on a technology to extend innovative activity. Each one … connects one innovation to another, based on the different possible ways of reasoning (analogical, inductive and deductive …