Tag: patent
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Israel’s innovation story is extraordinary, but just assuming it will continue would be a big mistake
Some statistics for you: Israel has a population of 8.5 million Israel spends 4.8% of its GDP on civilian R&D – the highest of any OECD country Israel is top ranked globally for employees working in R&D – 140 per 10,000 of the population (the US is second with 85 per 10,000) There is one…
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New Steps to Facilitate Beneficial Medical Device Innovation
In recent days, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has committed to several new policies that will modernize the agency’s approach to regulation in the medical device system. For instance, we announced our intention to propose an alternate approach to the traditional 510(k) clearance process, which will involve the use of modern, science-based, consensus standards…
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It’s sunnier on the Canadian innovation front
A bright spot has emerged amid the persistent gloom over Canada’s supposed decline in research and innovation performance. Traditional innovation indicators such as corporate research and development spending only provide information on inputs to innovation, not outputs. Against a backdrop of falling corporate investment in R&D, it seems Canadian inventiveness has taken a turn for…
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Open innovation in the public sector
Learning from others’ experience True citizen expansion implies enriching the elements that lead to a rational synthesis generated by both technical and non-technical knowledge. For instance, the Brazilian platform CidadeDemocrática is an example of collective participation that takes advantage of the network and turns citizen demands into primary sources of information and solution to problems. Another model…
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