Unilever CEO Paul Polman famously said, when confronted with the statistic that half the people in the world have lost trust with big business, “we have an issue”. Trust is at the heart of Polman’s message.
It’s quite disappointing when reading an article in the press that I see “Mr X has applied to patent his name” or “last year 3000 inventions were copyrighted in the UK”.
It is all his grandmother’s fault. There’s a Star Wars quality to the sight of half a dozen of his Tentsile tree tents floating mid-air in the woods.
Patent pending is a term that you will often hear on programmes like Dragons' Den or The Apprentice. It occurs when inventors and entrepreneurs are talking to potential investors or collaborators.
‘A is for armoured train’ is the first sentence in the first ever Ladybird book. It was published 100 years ago.
Creatives and inventives are sometimes characterised as dreamers. Their shared trait is their concern with the edges of experience, not the nitty gritty of reality.
Live video streaming app Periscope is the hot new social media platform, and is predicted to transform the way we communicate online. But the repercussions for users should make us all wary of jumping in feet first.
The internet has become a popular and easy channel for product distribution around the world. It has created a marketplace of more than half a billion users in China.
A number of famous scientists throughout the years have been linked with Intellectual Property. Mostly though, this is to do with Patents.
For those of us still struggling, like disorientated turtles across the starlit beach of economic recovery, a glance through British technology giant ARM Holding’s annual reports makes empowering reading.
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