Category Archives: Social Science
Fixin’ for Some Bayh-Dole Fixing
Here’s more in the wild on vesting interpretations of Stanford v. Roche. Written by a suit of attorneys at the firm of Bracewell & Guiliani, it gets a piece of the Supreme Court decision right, does a decent job summarizing … Continue reading
Innovation Fiction
“Bewilderment, in its ancient and literal sense of being cast away in a trackless wild, was the lot of the explorer….” Neal Stephenson, Quicksilver (p. 47 in the paperback edition). If you happen to be looking for a framework in … Continue reading
Learning to See
While Bayh-Dole and Stanford v. Roche have taken up a lot of space on these pages recently, they are not the only things going around here by any means. One area of our work has been to gain a better … Continue reading
What should a university focus on?
Benoît Godin on the statistics used to describe science, technology, and innovation (STI): – A focus on (research) activities rather than use and impacts. – An economic-oriented representation rather than social/cultural. – An interest in technology rather than science. – … Continue reading
The road to serfdom, patent reform version
Over at IP Watchdog, Eric Guttag is out with a piece on the effect of patent reform legislation on Bayh-Dole compliance. It’s an important topic, and Guttag raises some valuable points. But at the root of it, he is working … Continue reading
Cities of Innovation
Geoffrey West in Edge 343 (WHY CITIES KEEP GROWING, CORPORATIONS AND PEOPLE ALWAYS DIE, AND LIFE GETS FASTER): “Well, Google is a bit of an exception, because it still tolerates some of that. But most companies start out probably with … Continue reading
Complex IP Management: Real and Imaginary
I want to look at a transition point in the framing of IP management. This discussion is about how management has structure. I argue that IP management is complex, and just like complex numbers, it has a real component, in … Continue reading
Collectivist and individualist innovation
I have been reading Friedrich Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom. It’s a series of essays critiquing the economics of a planned society, arguing instead in favor of markets and individual choices. Hayek argues that the ideals that give rise to … Continue reading
A Linear Model in the Wild
I came across a well developed instance of the Linear Model of innovation in a new RFP from USAID. The diagram in the RFP wasn’t the best quality, so it’s not the crispest of images, but have a look anyway: … Continue reading
Partial Patterns
We are attracted to patterns. A pattern appeals to our sense of order and gives us the impressing that things are following a law, can be predicted, everything in a system. It’s all nice. Innovation, however, may suggestion a change … Continue reading