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Five Innovators You’ve Never Heard Of

IdeaScale

The rights were eventually sold to the Maryland Cut Corporation, which sells around 500 million straws each year. Knight sued Annan for copyright infringement and won due to her detailed sketches and plans. When the screw was removed, the straw bent naturally over the rim of the glass, solving his daughter’s problem. Margaret Knight.

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How a Creative Legal Leap Helped Create Vast Wealth

Innovation in Practice

They would both "be reduced to comparative impotence" without "the greatest single discovery of modern times" - the limited liability corporation. It seems odd to say the corporation was "discovered". In the law's eyes, a corporation is something different from the people who own it, or run it, or work for it.

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Corporate "AInnovation" - How Will ChatGPT and AI Change Corporate Innovation?

Innov8rs

The potential of AI in the corporate world is immense, from strategy mapping and competitive landscaping to opportunity seizing, brief generation, and startup identification. How Can AI Help Corporate Innovators? Manuel outlines six main ways AI is transforming and boosting corporate innovation.

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5 Ways to Ensure Your Business Assets are Protected

The Human Factor

Create a business entity such as a Limited Partnership or Corporation. Corporations help you to protect your personal assets. There is a term in business that separates your company from shareholders, known as the corporate veil. Copyright, patents, and trademarks are all examples of intellectual property protection.

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The Global StartUp Ecosystem

Paul Hobcraft

The report is copyright to the Startup Genome but I am sure they will not object to me quoting them in their goals for this. The report goes into some depth of the top 20 places and then deep dives into others in America, Europe, Africa and Asia-Pacific. The tech sector is growing at twice as fast as the global economy.

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Openness Verses Intellectual Property

100%Open

IP is also something I have first hand experience of with a few patents, trademarks and copyrighted material to my name accumulated over the years. And yet it had one of it’s most successful new product launches with Mindstorms as a result of their customers inadvertently infringing their copyright. innovation airlocks ).

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How to Protect the Assets in Your Business

The Human Factor

No matter if you are involved in a dispute, a copyright lawsuit, your employees suffer an accident at work, or you are subject to financial investigation, you can be sure that your competitors and your customers will be the first to find out. Corporate communication also plays an important role. Reputation.

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