Intellectual Property @ IBM: ‘via Blog this’ This IBM Blog article talks about US Innovation: alive and well. IBM blasts it outta the park again in 2011 with the most patents issued by the USPTO. These are organized by the owner of the patents, the “assignee”. See the top 50 list at IFIClaims. IBM had 6,180 patents issued in the US, far more than the next inventor company. The electronics companies from Japan and Korea…
Jay Bradner: Open-source cancer research | Video on TED.com: ‘via Blog this’ This is an interesting approach to scientific research and invention… Related to cancer genes. They are applying Open-source concepts with crowd sourcing to get the research out quickly in a collaborative environment. Not that the original research was gov and/or foundation funded.
USF is ranked way up there with the BIG research universities. The only one from Florida in the top 14.http://news.usf.edu/article/templates/?a=3509&z=158Pretty cool.
