Tag: patents
Why some counties are powerhouses for innovation
Christopher Boone, Arizona State University
By the time the application window closed, Amazon had received 238 proposals from cities and regions throughout North America looking...
Hiring highly educated immigrants leads to more innovation and better products
Gaurav Khanna, University of California San Diego and Munseob Lee, University of California San Diego
Much of the current debate over immigration is about what...
How talented kids from low-income families become America’s ‘Lost Einsteins’
Alexander Bell, Harvard University; John Van Reenen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Raj Chetty, Stanford University, and Xavier Jaravel, London School of Economics and Political...
Pot with patents could plant the seeds of future lawsuits
Craig Nard, Case Western Reserve University
It’s hard to make sense of cannabis regulation.
The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) continues to categorize marijuana as a Schedule...
Supreme Court: Design patents are worth less, but we won’t tell...
Timothy Holbrook, Emory University
When the Supreme Court took up Apple’s case alleging Samsung had stolen its patented iPhone designs for Samsung’s own smartphones, product...
Academic entrepreneurs’ intellectual property strategies…
Academic entrepreneurs' intellectual property strategies should include more than only patents
M Cynthia Goh, University of Toronto
As the director of the Impact Centre at the...
EXPLORING NATURE
New study measures titanium in Apollo rock to uncover Moon’s early chemistry
Advik D. Vira, Georgia Institute of Technology and Emily First, Macalester College
The Earth and the Moon may look...
