September 01, 2014
OVERVIEW: As 3D printers become more widely available, additive manufacturing will challenge the traditional forms of intellectual property (IP) protection in a signiï¬ cant way. This paper presents...
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Emerging Technologies
November 01, 2015
Digital technologies are rapidly changing the basis of competitive advantage. In this interview, author and consultant Joe Weinman discusses the digital disciplines necessary for future success and...
November 01, 2015
This talk is an engineer’s view of the third industrial revolution. There are many views about what that revolution is, if it is a revolution at all. A lot of these views come from philosophy or from...
November 01, 2015
OVERVIEW: The forces of democratization and disintermediation, largely unleashed by the software revolution, have already remade several major industries, among them computing, publishing, and retail...
September 01, 2015
Neil Gershenfeld talks with Jim Euchner about the Internet of Things and the coming revolution in manufacturing. Neil Gershenfeld is a pioneer in understanding the boundary between the digital and...
July 01, 2015
OVERVIEW: A critical innovation competency is the ability to recognize technologies that can best be exploited by a particular company and to drive investment in them. We have developed a framework...
March 01, 2015
Twenty years ago, Shoshana Zuboff published In the Age of the Smart Machine , a seminal work on the nature of automation. Her focus was on the capability of machines that automated work to also...
January 05, 2015
News and Analysis of the Global Innovation Scene NIH Startup Challenge Offers Model for Commercializing Federal Technology; Fusing Europe’s Energy Research; Postdocs in Limbo; Li-Fi Lighting the Way...