The Importance of Patents
March 6, 2007
Patents have been in the news a lot lately. Microsoft, for example, just lost a big patent law case in San Diego. Patents are an important tool for protecting the intellectual property
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In this blog, we discuss cognitive computing and other cutting-edge technologies with a focus on supply chain management, autonomous decision-making, and innovation. Other topics of discussion include digital enterprise transformation, autonomous intelligent enterprises, emerging technologies, and global trade. Our goal is to advance the public discussion about how cognitive computing and other advanced technologies affect the world in which we live.
Bradd C. Hayes is the active editor of this blog.
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Natural or Manmade Environmentalism?
March 5, 2007
When Stewart Brand speaks, people listen. “Who is Stewart Brand?” you ask. He is a visionary, a futurist, a scientist, and an environmentalist. However, some environmentalists are now questioning Brand’s ideas according
Dating Game for Innovation
March 2, 2007
Great ideas don’t become innovations unless they make it to market. That normally entails finding a match between an idea and someone who knows how to exploit and sell it. It’s not
Carter’s War on Worms
March 1, 2007
New York Times op-ed columnist, Nicholas Kristof, spent time with former President Jimmy Carter in Ethiopia where the former president is working to eliminate river blindness [“Let’s Start a War, One We
Framework for Developing New Civilian Defense System
February 28, 2007
Yesterday Enterra Solutions® announced that it has established a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement with Oak Ridge National Laboratory. It took us a year to put this agreement in place and we
U.S. No Longer the Leader in Telecommunications?
February 27, 2007
Eli Noam, professor of finance and economics at Columbia University, and Financial Times forum-member Thomas W. Hazlett had an interesting exchange about America’s leadership in the telecommunications sector [“Telecommunications leadership changes guard,”
Some Thoughts on the Resilient Enterprise
February 26, 2007
IBM’s Vice President of Technical Strategy and Innovation, Irving Wladawsky-Berger, inspired by the meltdown of JetBlue following an ice storm in America’s northeast, posted a blog about resilient enterprises [The Resilient Enterprise].
Anderson Cooper on Rebuilding Critical Infrastructure
February 23, 2007
CNN’s Anderson Cooper recently discussed homeland security on his blog [Does Homeland Security Matter?] Since it is a relatively short post, I reproduce here in full: “I’ll ‘fess up. Before I read
More Prizes for Innovation
February 22, 2007
Last month I wrote a post about InnoCentive, a company that makes money by charging clients looking for solutions (“seekers”) to post problems on a Web site where problemsolvers are offered cash
More on the Upside of Sarbanes-Oxley for Investors
February 21, 2007
Last month I posted a blog about the fact that while public corporations dislike many provisions of the Sarbanes-Oxley legislation, investors seem to like it [Investors Like SARBOX]. I was commenting on
