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There are Knowns and Unknowns in Innovation: Let’s Manage Them Differently

Paul Hobcraft

Secretary of Defense Donald Henry Rumsfeld, who mentioned: “unknown unknowns” (Rumsfeld, 2002). It becomes our task in delivering alternatives, in new varieties, updates, technology enhancement, or simply recognizing the lifecycle of the existing needs refreshing, changing or altering. This quote is from the former U.S.

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Digital transformation examples

Board of Innovation

2 Reasons: to accelerate the market and to make their technology the standard. Sector: Manufacturing Company: Philips Learn more: Source Pay-per-use Leasing Energy savings The fast pace of projection disruptions resulted in cinemas to either work with outdated technology or spend more than they earn. in the GE online store.

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COVID-19: Business R&D Spending Will Fall by at Least 5-6%

Commodore Innovation

That might be in relatively small ways like sharing and disseminating knowledge about tools and behaviors that enhance virtual / remote collaboration. If your company cuts innovation spending, but a competitor doesn’t, will you lose your technology leadership position? a hackathon for an open source ventilator ).

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Patent Quality and Utility Essential to Patent Owners

Anaqua

We are seeing the emergence of new technologies, such as autonomous vehicles, and we had the USPTO release its 10 millionth patent. While technology continues to be the leading patent class, transportation has jumped to second. Ironically, this high-density patent covers a low-density parity checking technology. s applications.

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2018 Patent Analysis: Patent Quality and Utility Essential to Patent Owners

Anaqua

We are seeing the emergence of new technologies, such as autonomous vehicles, and we had the USPTO release its 10 millionth patent. While technology continues to be the leading patent class, transportation has jumped to second. Ironically, this high-density patent covers a low-density parity checking technology. s applications.

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Open Strategy: Mastering Disruption From Outside The C-Suite

Innov8rs

The NASA Pirates – a group officially disbanded in 2002 whose effects still reverberate – were a group of engineers who challenged the traditional practices at NASA. They introduced new, unconventional, and unusual ideas that improved NASA’s processes and technologies. This story holds important lessons for today’s organizations.

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Innovation Networks – Needed Now More Than Ever

The Inovo Group

New technologies, tools and systems make innovation networks more possible and more influential than ever. Use tools and systems that decrease the friction of interaction and collaboration. Cultivating Communities of Practice ; Harvard Business Review Press; January 8, 2002. Norton & Company; May 2002. Buchanen, M.