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Intellectual Property is Key Economic Factor in Free Trade Deal

Dr Nam D Pham Ndp Analytics
April 23, 2014
President Obama’s trip to Asia this week to promote the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) has significant ramifications for the future of the U.S. and global economy. Yet, the TPP negotiations between the United States and Japan leading up to his trip have stalled with little progress in sight. This setback reveals the difficulty of negotiating a free trade treaty between two countries, let alone twelve.
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Better Water Through Science—Open Innovation’s Hunt for Freshwater

Dr Rashid Khan Aramco Entrepreneurship
April 18, 2014
New processes and technologies, developed through an open innovation platform, could springboard desalination from the margin to the mainstream of a global strategy to combat water scarcity.
Helping to accelerate the hunt for those breakthroughs is a new $200,000 incentive in the form of an open innovation challenge.
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We Don’t Know If Our Patent System is Working

Rebecca Strauss Council On Foreign Relations
April 14, 2014
“Innovation” is a hot buzzword in Washington. In a city gripped by partisanship, being pro-innovation is something everyone can agree on. One of the most direct ways the federal government participates in the innovation economy is through the legal protection of tangible innovations themselves, or patents. Yet incredibly, no one has a good grasp of whether the U.S. patent system is doing what it was intended to do—promote innovation.
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Forget Innovation, Who Is Your Chief Disruption Officer?

Patrick Hanlon Thinktopia
April 08, 2014
I am sitting in the back seat of a taxicab in New York City. The traffic is Midtown, stuck bumper to bumper.
“Everything is turned upside down!” the cabbie shouts, pumping his arm up and down in the air. “Five years ago it was not like this!” he cries.

The taxi driver is not talking about Midtown Manhattan traffic. He is from Alexandria. Not the Alexandria we know on the Washington Beltway, but the Alexandria in Egypt, named after Alexander the Great.
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UK Budget Bolsters Manufacturing Innovation Practices

Mark Elborne GE
March 31, 2014
A number of initiatives were announced in this year’s UK budget that will help maintain the momentum behind British manufacturing innovation, ensuring strong competition with rival markets such as Germany and the U.S., where similar policy support for manufacturing is in place.
Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne described his budget as being focused on the “makers and doers.”
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State of Innovation: The Global Brain Comes Online

Beth Comstock GE
March 28, 2014
We are witnessing the rise of the global brain, when a buzzing hive of knowledge, connectivity, technology and access unites the human and the machine, the physical and the digital, in previously unimaginable ways.
Scientific discovery, information sharing and sheer ingenuity are giving us the ability to hack our human brains to learn, do, be more. At the same time, we can model human intelligence into machines to help us gain insights, increase speed and know more.
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Technology Driving U.S. Manufacturing Renaissance

March 27, 2014
Technological innovation is leading a U.S. manufacturing renaissance that has the potential to bring work back to America for years to come, a new report says. The trend is sustainable if the nation continues to invest in developing advanced manufacturing technologies and a highly skilled workforce.
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State of Business: Simplify or Ossify

Jeffrey R Immelt GE
March 26, 2014
A few months ago, I visited one of our rail customers to discuss our locomotives. At their request, I spoke to a group of leaders and managers in the transportation industry. I have addressed thousands of customers in my career but something has changed.
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Is the U.S. Government About to Give Away the Internet?

Daniel Castroinformation Technology And Innovation Foundation
March 14, 2014
A coalition of nations is calling for the U.S. to give up the reins of the Internet. And if the Obama Administration doesn’t aggressively resist these calls, the world could be faced with a splintered Internet that would stifle innovation, commerce, and the free flow and diversity of ideas that are bedrock tenets of world’s biggest economic engine.
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Rail’s on a Roll With Big Data

Peter Thomas GE
March 13, 2014
Some may think trains are just steel wheels on steel rails, but freight rail is a rapidly evolving sector that is increasingly fitted with and connected to innovative 21st-century technology that keeps our economy moving.
As the industry takes its message to lawmakers today during “Railroad Day” on Capitol Hill, the industry is on a roll. Revenue is up 19 percent since 2009 to $80.6 billion, creating 10,000 new directly related jobs and countless other ancillary jobs. Some $21 billion in wages were paid last year alone, a $1 billion increase from the year before.
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