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Here Are Eight Innovation Awards to Watch and Follow for Inspiration

IdeaScale

Last year’s winners included IBM’s autonomous ship, Origin Wireless’ remote patient monitoring system, and the fifth-generation Waymo Driver. Announced in May and run by Harvard Innovation Labs , this competition is open to both students and alumni who have made substantial progress in ventures that fit the yearly theme of the PIC.

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2019 USPTO Patent Statistics: Breaking the Trend

Anaqua

According to a 2019 USPTO patent statistics analysis using Anaqua’s AcclaimIP analytics software, last year there were 392,616 granted patents–a 15% increase from 2018. Other technologies, such as wireless communications were also high on that list. Further, there were 394,879 US applications published in 2019–a 5% increase from 2018.

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Five Technology Trends Driving Manufacturing (Are you on Board?)

Daniel Burrus

New manufacturing plants will utilize the latest technologies in an effort to increase productivity and competitive advantage. Increasing use of virtualization of hardware and software, including storage, applications and networking. How does this impact manufacturing companies and their processes?

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Digital transformation examples

Board of Innovation

Sector: Farming Company: BASF Learn more: Source Mobile Disease identification Resulted in more sales GE businesses can ‘shop’ for technological innovation, research, materials, software, processes, etc. The sensors will be able to feed the data over the Industrial Internet to software built on GE’s Predix platform for analysis.

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Digital transformation examples

Board of Innovation

Sector: Farming Company: BASF Learn more: Source Mobile Disease identification Resulted in more sales GE businesses can ‘shop’ for technological innovation, research, materials, software, processes, etc. The sensors will be able to feed the data over the Industrial Internet to software built on GE’s Predix platform for analysis.

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Pivotal Innovation Management: The Past, Present, and Future of 180° Business Changes

Qmarkets

Rising competition from Apple and Google caught Nokia out of position and led to near-bankruptcy in 2012. Steve helped them create wireless solutions for real time monitoring of seismic activity, sensor monitoring along Homeland Borders, and overall product and process improvement.

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Titans of Transformation: 5 Outstanding Examples of Innovation in Business

Qmarkets

By implementing Qmarkets innovation management software, PMI has engaged more than 65,000 employees worldwide. The software enables employees to submit their ideas for customer-centric products and services that align with the company’s new ‘self-disruptive’ ethos.