The NY Times is Wrong: Patent Auctions Do Not Provide Indendent Inventors with “Protection”
Interview on Legal Issues Related to Open Innovation and Open Innovation Summit Discount
OPEN INNOVATION INTERVIEW WITH BRADEN KELLEY I recently was interviewed by Braden Kelley of Blogging Innovation about the interplay between Open Innovation and the law. For those interested in Open Innovation topics, Braden's blog is a great resource. The link to my interview is here: http://www.business-strategy-innovation.com/labels/Jackie%20Hutter.html Braden and I will both be participating in the Open Innovation Summit being held in Orlando on December 2-4, 2009 along with several other open innovation leaders, authors, and consultants. I will be leading a panel currently titled: "Patents as Tools to Accelerate Innovation - How To Get Your Organization On the Right Path" September 18, 2009 is the last day for the $400 early bird discount. You can get an extra $300 discount by using the code for Blogging Innovation readers can save an extra $300 by registering using the code - NXB458.
An IP Strategist’s Economic Forecast for 2010: An Outsider’s View and How One Can Outperform the “Experts”
In remembrance of the 1 year anniversary of the Financial Meltdown, Forbes.com has included me in a list of bloggers asked to provide an economic forecast for 2010 and also to provide some insights as to what economic markers I use in my work. This is an interesting assignment for me: few who know me would consider me to be an economist and, indeed, such training was wholly absent from my many years of college, graduate and law school. This might actually be a good thing, however, because, as discussed in this recent Robert Lezner StreetTalk post, none of the so-called "experts"--even those at the highest levels of power and prestige (except perhaps Dr. Nouriel Roubini)--predicted the financial instability that would result from Wall Street's increasing reliance on innovative, high yield financial instruments. Notwithstanding the vast reliance put on financial expertise, based on the results of the last couple of years, it now seems