Remember “green stamps?” When I was young, my parents saved them in a booklet, carefully collecting them until they had enough to send away for some great housewares or knick-knacks. S&H Green Stamps were popular in the United States from the 1930s until about 30 years ago, and were distributed as part of a rewards…
A problem with many corporate IP management efforts is that they are reactive only. These IP systems typically focus on incoming invention disclosures and existing patent applications, leading to recommendations on which disclosures to file, which countries to file in, and which existing applications to abandon for cost control. These are vital components for intellectual…
Cheryl Perkins will present at the “Progress Report on Health Systems Transformation’ Conference on April 14, 2011 – a 1-day conference at Morehead State University, featuring Innovationedge and Dr.Marc Overhage, chief strategic officer and national policy adviser of the Indiana Health Information Exchange. The conference, scheduled from 9 a.m. until 4:30 p.m at the Morehead…
Innovationedge president, Cheryl Perkins, will moderate a panel session at the Conference on Social Product Development & Co-Creation, a 2-day conference on June 27-28, 2011 at Local Motors Micro-Factory in Phoenix, AZ. The Conference on Social Product Development and Co-Creation is a groundbreaking event developed by the PDMA in partnership with co-creation pioneer, Local Motors,…
This June I’ll be in Phoenix to moderate this year’s Conference on Social Product Development & Co-Creation. I’m partnering once again with PDMA, and this year co-creation pioneer, Local Motors, is helping us raise the bar for this exciting, ground-breaking event. Social Product Development is making a major impact on the way companies are innovating now…
At Innovationedge, one of our favorite activities is working with a team in what we call an “Edge Session” to create new intellectual assets. It’s not not brainstorming, where a flood of bad ideas are welcome, but an iterative process in which the goal is enabled, good concepts that are fleshed out enough to support…
Cheryl Perkins will present a “Innovation for the Enterprise” session at the TiE-VISTA Venture & Innovation Summit on Wednesday, April 13, 2011 in Atlanta, GA. TiE-VISTA is the the Largest Entrepreneurial Summit in the SouthEast. VISTA 2011 will focus on two key component tracks of Entrepreneurship – Innovation and Venture. The conference aims to bring…
I recently met Nick Davis, Regional Executive Chef for Whole Foods out of Colorado. He handles Whole Foods cuisine for a large portion of the West. For quite a while Nick has been pushing and approving new products and services based on street food. In my experience, the street is where some of the heartiest…
Cheryl Perkins’ blog on her recent biomimicry teachings/ learnings at the San Diego Zoo was featured on the San Diego Zoo’ Biomimicry homepage. Biomimicry is a new discipline that studies nature’s best ideas and then imitates these designs and processes to solve human problems, also known as “innovation inspired by nature”, according to the Biomimicry…
Protect Intellectual Property By: Cheryl Perkins and Jeff Lindsay Read Full Article With the expectations of sustainable products a growing concern for consumers, bioplastics are becoming an increasingly important part of the plastics industry. Just like auto companies are searching for alternative sources of energy for transportation vehicles, chemical companies are searching for alternatives in…
