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    According to a study of 935 CEOs.
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    • November 24, 2014
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    As technology like facial recognition becomes more pervasive, companies need to prioritize privacy and security.
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    • March 29, 2023
  • Who Owns Hackathon Inventions?

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    Don't let valuable IP slip through your fingers.
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    • June 11, 2013
  • Recession: The Mother of Invention?

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    With soaring oil and food prices, falling home values, and the credit crunch beginning to take their toll on the U.S. economy, it’s a terrible time to try to expand businesses or innovate, right? Not necessarily. By some accounts, the worst of economic times—the Great Depression—was actually a rich period of management invention. I discovered […]
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    • June 17, 2008
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    Bravo for companies that are starting to focus on innovation again! It’s about time. But even with this renewed attention to innovation, some managers keep projects resource-starved, in the belief that scarcity drives creative invention. Although ingenuity can sometimes spring up when means are scarce, managers beware: It is a dangerous miscalculation to think that […]
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    • March 25, 2011
  • Don't Let Them Steal Your Inventions

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  • Filing for a Patent Versus Keeping Your Invention a Trade Secret

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  • It’s Time for the U.S. to Tackle Patent Trolls

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    A single rule change would be a good start.
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    • September 16, 2022
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    • December 20, 2022
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  • Advertisers Must Be Inventors

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  • A Network of Invention

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