Nancy
Gallini and Suzanne Scotchmer review the literature that compares
patents to other mechanisms for promoting innovation, including prizes
and government contracts.
Read the summary
Monday, December 17, 2007
Technological Innovation and Intellectual Property
Technological Innovation and Intellectual Property
"TIIP (Technological Innovation and Intellectual Property) newsletter
discusses research on technological innovation and intellectual
property in an informal, “blog” style."
Topics covered include:
- Drug patents & innovation
- Free/Open Source
- Other innovation incentives
- Patent policy
- Patents & Innovation
- Patents as an indicator
- Software patents & innovation
- University patenting
for instance:
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Tuesday, December 11, 2007
Positioning in practice
Positium LBS - Portfolio
Look at the "personal positioning" section on the right.
You can click onto staff members, and see where their GPS or phone data tells you they have been in last hours, weeks, months, neatly plotted onto maps of various scales.
People in Estonia are working on very sophisticated mobile phone tracking for crowd analysis and management (e.g. where all the people with UK registered phones are in the airport...)
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Monday, December 10, 2007
Million Books online
Universal Digital Library: Million Book Collection , hosted by Carnegie Mellon University
The Million Book Project is a venture led by Carnegie Mellon
University in the United States, Zhejiang University in China, the Indian
Institute of Science in India and the Library at Alexandria in Egypt.
It has
now digitised and put online more than 1.5 million books!
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