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14 LGBTQ+ Innovators, Inventors and Scientists who changed the world

Idea to Value

In 2001, she founded Sally Ride Science , a non-profit which continues to promote STEM literacy, with a particular focus on getting girls interested in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics. He is an advocate for using open source software and hardware available for any entrepreneur, no matter what their background is.

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How to Boost Innovation by Recycling Existing Ideas

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For the hardware: A thousand songs in your pocket ; for the software: so easy that your Mother could do it ; and for the project: and on the shelves in eight months ! This lightweight, technologically proficient reinvention of existing MP3 players was an global phenomenon that has since sold more than 400 million units since 2001.

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How the current patent system actually hurts innovation (and how patent trolls are being fought)

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Originally, patents had a simple purpose: By filing a patent, an inventor or company showed how their new technology worked, in exchange for legal protection for the duration of the patent. billion , predominantly for the approximately $4 billion worth of patents it possessed around smartphone technology. Does this system still work?

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How to Keep Innovating in an Economic Downturn

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As McKinsey points out , organizations that focused on innovation even during the 2009 crisis, outperformed the market average by 30% and their growth continued to accelerate the following years as well. So, you need to review and fine-tune the existing innovation strategy to match the new priorities.

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Augmented Reality: The time has come

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Thereby, the technology provides helpful context information or adds features to an existing application. AR, in general, requires a combination of hardware and software tools to connect the different levels. One reason is that one third of the world’s population already uses the technology behind it every day in smartphones.

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Great to Good

IdeaSpies

Jack Ma (2000), Jeff Bezos (2003), Mark Zuckerberg (2004), Reed Hastings (2007), Brian Chesky (2008), Travis Kalanick (2009), Anthony Tan (2012). Innovations of the 21st Century era do not rely on one to discover secret codes of the universe. They were inventors of the 20th Century; many of which gave rise to the said products.

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Great to Good Innovation

IdeaSpies

Jack Ma (2000), Jeff Bezos (2003), Mark Zuckerberg (2004), Reed Hastings (2007), Brian Chesky (2008), Travis Kalanick (2009), Anthony Tan (2012). Innovations of the 21st Century era do not rely on one to discover secret codes of the universe. They were inventors of the 20th Century; many of which gave rise to the said products.