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Helping discover your innovation pathway

Paul Hobcraft

I always find the post-New Year to be a reflective part of the year of reviewing, deciding, and then setting new goals. Innovation application and practice seem to have stayed stuck, largely due to how it is organized. This is a post about the sources of my knowledge that feeds my innovation passion. Let me start.

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Why Software Won’t Eat The World

Innovation Excellence

In 2011, technology pioneer Marc Andreessen declared that software is eating the world. So taking a software centric view, while it has served Silicon Valley well in the past, may be its Achilles heel in the future. In other words, that software would eat the world. The Silicon Valley Myth.

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Telehealth and COVID-19: The Global Rise of Telehealth and Advances in Digital Health Technology in the Post COVID-19 World

Yet2

COVID-19 has catapulted global telehealth to the forefront of medical care, flourishing with new and existing technologies ready for healthcare workers to use in a serious effort to combat this deadly virus in a preventative manner. A study which reviewed insurance claims data from 2005-2017 from a large private U.S.

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How the current patent system actually hurts innovation (and how patent trolls are being fought)

Idea to Value

Originally, patents had a simple purpose: By filing a patent, an inventor or company showed how their new technology worked, in exchange for legal protection for the duration of the patent. billion , predominantly for the approximately $4 billion worth of patents it possessed around smartphone technology. Does this system still work?

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Coronavirus: could this global crisis be the end of the office as we know it?

mjvinnovation

Situations ranging from lockdowns , to panic buying , to massive flight cancellations are happening at an alarming rate due to the prospect of a pandemic. Not due to the virus itself, of course, but for the telecommuting push. em MJV Technology & Innovation. Have you ever struggled with isolation while working from home?

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The top 10 innovations of 2017

hackerearth

Nascent technology such as artificial intelligence has already found a place in our daily lives in the form of face-detecting security cameras and voice-recognition software on our phones. However, as technology improves, the field of medicine may undergo a radical transformation. Ibex Tactix. Source: Elan skis.

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Smart Service Canvas

ITONICS

The rapid growth of smart devices pushes the development of smart services in various industries, such as healthcare, education, information and communication technology (ICT), mechanical engineering, automotive, and logistics. 2005), “Four strategies for the age of smart services”, Harvard Business Review , Vol. and Sen, J.