First 3-D Printed Skull Successfully Implanted in Woman
A fascinating development straight from news headlines:
A fascinating development straight from news headlines:
Health care continues to be a hot topic for our society, and in 2016 no doubt we will see more discussion. Innovative ideas and actual breakthroughs are exciting, and I look forward to seeing new technologies transform the health care industry. One of the big advances is in the area of new vaccines to treat…
Without you ever knowing it, authorities could scan and read your fingerprints from 20 feet away! Thanks to biometric technology, you could soon gain entrance to your workplace, hotel room or the gym by simply waving your hand toward a nearby scanner at the front door. IDair, a Hunsville, Alabama-based company, will soon launch a…
In our ongoing work on analyzing the intellectual property landscape in biofuels, one interesting company we’ve encountered is Amyris, an integrated renewable products company. Amyris was founded in 2003 by Kinkead Reiling, Neil Renninger, and Jack D. Newman who met at Berkeley. The company is now located in Emeryville, California. With a grant from the…
Today I am over at San Diego State University where I’m teaching executive MBA classes. Along with cities like Madison, Austin, Raleigh Durham and Boston, San Diego is a key player in a field that may be more of a hotbed for innovation than any other: biotechnology. Genetic engineering, genomics, and molecular drug development are…
It seems every day I’m hearing more and more about the hopes for nanotechnology and the role it could potentially play in our economic future. We all know that these are white-knuckle times for many investors, but it appears that nanotechnology is an area that will boost our economy, especially in the areas of energy,…
The exploration of nature and its processes to yield innovative solutions to complex problems is an interesting and novel approach that companies are starting to use as another way to “think outside the box” to identify business opportunities. As those of you who follow my articles know, I’m very intrigued with the idea of using…