Patents are supposed to be fuel for innovation — a temporary period of ownership for the holder as an incentive to invent and disclose the invention.
Today, companies are starting new entrepreneurship initiatives because they need fuel for innovation, desire top talent and need to sustain a competitive advantage.
The biological, chemical, behavioral and physical sciences provide the fuel for innovation, discovery and technology that continuously improves the quality of the human condition.
Lygos is now producing "metric ton quantities" of its bio-malonic acid products and says it plans to use the new funding to "enter this next phase of growth and continue building our team, our manufacturing, and QC infrastructure, all while providing more fuel for our innovation engine to develop the next new products using our microbial manufacturing technology".
The Energy Data Initiative, launched by U.S. Chief Technology Officer Todd Park, seeks to liberate data as a fuel for entrepreneurship and innovation while also protecting privacy.
In October 2009, Ford sat down with McKinsey's Sheila Bonini, a consultant in the firm's Silicon Valley office, and Hans-Werner Kaas, a director in Detroit, and discussed his views on sustainability, the new technologies for fuel economy, innovation, and overcoming resistance to change.
But does the current fiscal mess change any of the fundamental drivers of clean energy growth: carbon-reduction imperatives, reducing dependence on foreign oil, reducing dependence on volatile fossil-fuel prices, and the need for innovation and job creation?
And the same fans and analysts who clamor for innovation are actually fueling that fear".
The 2013 Eric and Sheila Samson Prime Minister's Prize for Innovation in Alternative Fuels for Transportation will be awarded to USC professors George A. Olah, a 1994 winner of the Nobel Prize in chemistry, and G.K. Surya Prakash for their work on methanol markets, an envisioned future economy in which methanol could replace fossil fuels for various purposes, including ground transportation.
One reason for the slow pace, Rutherford says, has been dropping fuel prices, which have reduced the incentives for innovation.
Outcomes of this review may fuel further innovations for optimizing the current recycling methods for the efficient synthesis of commercial-grade, high purity NMs at minimal cost.
