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Missing Out On The 10 Millionth U.S. Patent Wasn’t All Bad For This Serial Inventor

Fred Guterl
June 27, 2018
John Nelson received his 50th patent on June 19, but he didn’t feel much like celebrating. The biologist, who works at GE’s Global Research Center in Niskayuna, New York, had been hoping for a different kind of recognition: to have his name on the 10 millionth patent issued by the United States Patent and Trademark Office under its current numbering system.
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The Network Effect: This Innovative Partnership Helps New Ideas And Talented Engineers Take Flight

Yari Bovalino
June 21, 2018

Few places illustrate the rapid evolution of 3D printing better than Avio Aero’s gleaming box of a factory in Cameri, a small town near Milan in northern Italy. The plant is filled with 20 sleek, black 3D printers, each the size of an armoire.

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The Waiting Game: With US Patent No. 10 Million Coming Soon, This GE Researcher Is Using Science To Hit It Big

Fred Guterl
May 15, 2018
One way for an inventor to feature prominently in the history books is to be an Edison, a Pasteur or a Tesla. Another is to hope your patent lands on a big, round number. (Of course, you can also try to do both.)
Samuel Hopkins’ improvement on “the making of pot ash and pearl ash” was not nearly as important as, say, Thomas Edison’s incandescent light bulb or Wilbur and Orville Wright’s “flying machine.” Instead Hopkins’ claim to fame is that his was the first patent issued in the United States, by President George Washington in 1790.
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Friends In High Places: The First American Jet Engine Was Born Inside a Power Plant

April 05, 2018
Most people know Thomas Edison for inventing the first practical light bulb. But the GE founder also was a serial entrepreneur whose patents helped spawn new industries including medical imaging, power generation and aviation.
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New Zealand’s innovation ecosystem

Jane Nicholls
The magical special effects that come out of Wellington’s Weta Digital are fire-breathing, big-screen evidence that New Zealand is a digital-innovation hothouse. And it goes way beyond the movies. Digital Planet 2017, a study by the Fletcher School at Tufts University in Massachusetts, measured the digital evolution of 60 countries, evaluating supply and demand conditions, institutional environment and innovation and change. It ranked New Zealand among the Stand Out nations, classed as having high levels of development and innovation.
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Matrix Reimagined: Brand New GE Startup Is Developing Novel Ways To Draw Blood

Tomas Kellner
November 29, 2017
Every time Risa Stack has her routine blood work done, she brings a book to keep her mind occupied and a candy bar to boost her blood sugar. She also alerts the nurse that she might faint. “It’s a whole process,” she says. “I need to be prepared. I pass out on occasion.” She believed in a better way and found it in Drawbridge Health, a healthcare technology company that is developing new ways to draw blood. When she arrived for a site visit earlier this year, she barely had time to settle into her chair.
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Digital Magic: How Eric Ries Brought The Startup Way to GE

Ashley Kindergan
October 31, 2017
Silicon Valley is famous for developing products in sprints, failing fast and trying again — a cycle that, superficially at least, bears little resemblance to the painstaking, multiyear process of building big industrial machines.
Yet, when the entrepreneur and author Eric Ries first visited GE in 2012, he envisioned possibilities for how the company could apply the Silicon Valley playbook to the development of a new engine. The idea was to make the designers think more like they were working for a startup.
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The Problem Solver: This Train Engineer Can’t Stop Inventing A Better Locomotive

Maggie Sieger
October 23, 2017
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Rewriting The Stars: Women Scientists Shine Amid Grand Central’s Constellations

September 19, 2017
Starting on Tuesday evening, the three-day installation, called “Unseen Stars,” will project the faces of distinguished female scientists onto the ceiling. Notable lights will include Mildred Dresselhaus, the “queen of carbon,” and the first woman to receive the National Medal of Science in engineering. Dresselhaus died in February.
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Q&A With Jeff Immelt: Indonesia, Infrastructure and the Industrial Internet (Part 2)

August 26, 2017
Here’s part 2 of Jeff Immelt’s interview session with few of the journalists that talks about Indonesia, their infrastructure and the growth & opportunity in Industrial Internet.
1.       What are your expectations on GE growing their investment within Indonesia?  

Indonesia is an important area for us. It’s a country which clearly offers a market for the things we sell, from lighting to locomotives. Currently Indonesia generates about $1 billion in revenue for GE, one of only 20 markets that reach  that figure.
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