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How to Keep Innovating in an Economic Downturn

Innov8rs

Innovators are forced to give up on initiatives, projects, and resources. In this context, innovators wonder how to get ideas across, how to continue projects, what back-up solutions to find and how to keep innovation afloat. Why is Innovation Essential During an Economic Downturn?

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14 LGBTQ+ Innovators, Inventors and Scientists who changed the world

Idea to Value

I wanted to write an article celebrating the works of the most influential gay, lesbian, transgender and bisexual innovators, inventors and scientists throughout history. All of the LGBTQ innovators, inventors and scientists currently working around the world. However, there was a problem. George Washington Carver. John Maynard Keynes.

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How to Boost Innovation by Recycling Existing Ideas

IdeaScale

When it comes to innovation, businesses can often find it seemingly impossible to generate completely new ideas. When you apply this train of thought to innovation, it becomes apparent that some of the most successful products and services in human history were developed by recycling existing ideas. Take the iPod for example.

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Great to Good Innovation

IdeaSpies

I’m going to talk about how, in the 21st Century, we need ‘Goodness’ more than ‘Greatness’ when it comes to innovation. If I asked you to name some innovations of the 20th Century, which ones would you think of? Obviously, all names listed are ‘innovators’ of their time. The innovations in the 21st Century are different.

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Great to Good Innovation

IdeaSpies

If I asked you to name some innovations of the 20th Century, which ones would you think of? So, I typed ‘Innovations of the 20th Century’ , and the results I got are 1) Nuclear Power 2) Personal Computer 3) Airplane 4) Automobile 5) Antibiotics 6) Television, etc. Obviously, all names listed are ‘innovators’ of their time.

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

Idea to Value

One of the most common questions I get asked when talking to companies about their issues with innovation is “how do we prevent someone stealing our ideas? And worse than that, in many cases it is being abused by companies in ways which actually discourage innovation completely. The least innovative place in the world.

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Surviving change: how law firms can innovate

Wazoku

Surprisingly, in the aftermath of the global financial crisis in December 2009, there were nearly 112,600 practising solicitors, a figure that climbed to nearly 135,000 as of April this year. Some say that in 10 years time one robot lawyer will deal with the tedious task of reviewing documents that is traditionally done by 10 associates.

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