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  • Ikea starts generating solar power at Tampa store… If Idea can do it…?

    Ikea starts generating solar power at Tampa store | TBO.com:

    Well, if Ikea can do it, why can the rest of us.

    Solar on the roof-tops of buildings (stores and homes) seems like a great way to start cutting back on traditional electricity (~45% coal).

    It shouldn’t take a Swedish company to tell us (show us, really) what we should be doing to become more sustainable.

    Check out their 2011 Sustainability Report.  They are doing energy efficiency and renewable energy, of course. But they also use huge amounts of fabric and wood. See what they are doing with certified wood and sustainable cotton.!:-)

    Way to go Ikea!.

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  • DOW’s Solutionism. !:-)

    Dow Solutionism:
    This is a very cool concept from DOW.

    Solutionism… Kinda a cure for consumerism, where it’s all about how much you can consume in your lifetime.

    Maybe this should be one of the cures for consumerism, one of the great Social Irresponsibilities?

    Interesting idea. Work backwards from each problem — and the associated solutions to them — into helping address the root cause of the original problem.

    Generally we tend to symptom solutions, not real solutions.

    Pretty cool ads for greening up the Olympics as well.:-)

    Solutionism. I like it.
    www.DOW.com/Solutionism/
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  • Strategic Business Planning Co's Books and Publications Spotlight

    Strategic Business Planning Co’s Books and Publications Spotlight:

    Here’s the Patent Primer as well.
    Also check out the e-book versions of the book/booklet.

    Perpetual Innovation: A Patent Primer, an Overview of Patenting Issues and Costs Estimates for a Small Entity

    Paperback, 25 Pages 
    Price: $10.05
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    This booklet is a overview of intellectual property protection in the US and globally. This is what’s missing from the books on new product development and do-it-yourself patenting. It’s not covered in the business books on product development, marketing and strategic planning. With so much depending on the intellectual property protection of inventors they must have a good understanding of the information presented here to be successful. This booklet is what everyone needs before launching into new product development and invention commercialization. It gives a quick overview of the patenting process. It addresses the timing of various patent-protection maneuvers. There is an example of costs for a small entity/investor to bring an invention to market-readiness with patent protection. This booklet is based on Appendix B of Perpetual Innovation: A Guide to Strategic Planning, Patent Commercialization and Enduring Competitive Advantage (2007) by Hall and Hinkelman.

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  • Strategic Business Planning Co's Books and Publications Spotlight

    Strategic Business Planning Co’s Books and Publications Spotlight:

    The patent commercialization books by Hall and Hinkelman are available from LuLu Press: http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/SBPlan

    Perpetual Innovation: A Guide to Strategic Planning, Patent Commercialization and Enduring Competitive Advantage

    Paperback, 288 Pages 
    Price: $49.95
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    Perpetual Innovation describes the strategic planning process necessary for managers and inventors to bringing protected technologies to market. This book outlines the ways to organize for innovation and how best to commercialize intellectual property (patents) nationally and internationally. Valuation and decision-making methods are presented for assessing the value of technology at early stages and preparing for the best methods of value realization. Key to market success is being first to market, with a superior product and the best possible intellectual property protection. This book focuses on the business side of patent commercialization, those decisions that involve everyone in the organization, not just the patent attorneys and the scientists.

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  • AP: Yahoo, Facebook strike patent truce, ad alliance

    The Associated Press: Yahoo, Facebook strike patent truce, ad alliance:
    “Yahoo’s legal assault had exposed Facebook’s vulnerability to patent claims as it prepared to complete the biggest initial public offering of stock by an Internet company.”

    So Facebook had to go out and build its own war chest of patents: 750 here, 650 there. Now the law suit goes away and everybody’s making nice.

    “Facebook insulated itself by buying 750 patents from IBM Corp. for an undisclosed amount and spending $550 million to acquire another 650 patents that one of its biggest shareholders, Microsoft Corp., had purchased from AOL Inc. Armed with its own arsenal of intellectual property, Facebook signaled that it wasn’t backing down and filed its own patent infringement lawsuit against Yahoo in April.” That’s 1400 patents from IBM and AOL (via MSFT).

    For those people who used to think that anyone could duplicate Facebook; that’s going to now require some rethinking. Plus, if everyone you know (and a whole lot of “friends” who you don’t really know) are on Facebook, there’s really no easy way to switch. Unless, of course, you have become tired of your old friends and you wanna start over by looking for new ones:-)

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