Another week and another collection of interesting ideas from around the internet.
As always, thoughts and/or comments are greatly appreciated.
- Innovation and R&D [The Economist]
The Economist provides two interactive visualisations that show the future of innovation taking shape. We can see a strong link between the number of international patents that a country is granted and the amount that it spends on research and development. A 2007 snapshot shows this clearly, and also that America and Japan led the pack. - McLaren wins the innovation race [timkastelle.org]
McLaren shows us how to leverage lessons learnt in Formula 1 in other domains, such as air traffic control and health care, making them the masters of extending current competencies into new fields. - The creative process gone wrong [Bob Sutton]
It seems that the very tools we often use to manage the creative, innovation process can be the source of the process’s biggest problems. - What if the very theory that underlies why we need patents is wrong? [techdirt]
Our current patent system was designed for an earlier, gentler age. A number of pundits are – quite rightly – pointing out that the system is tremendously obsolete in terms of actually promoting the progress, and is set up in a way that favors a concept of innovation and invention that may not be how the world actually works today.