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Amyris: A Partner in Open Innovation for Sustainable Consumer Products and Biofuels
ByPat Clusman June 25, 2010

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…

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Cool Inventions and gadgets | Disruptive Innovation | Technology

The innovative laser – a look forward and back
ByPat Clusman June 21, 2010

As I wrote this past weekend in my column, this year marks the 50th anniversary of the laser, a scientific innovation that has become commonplace in our everyday lives. Combining scientific theory and brilliant engineering, it is one of the most innovative, fascinating, and commercially successful devices ever built. Lasers provide precise, selective and controlled…

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Cool Inventions and gadgets | Green Innovation

Help Dad go green with these seven innovative gift ideas
ByPat Clusman June 17, 2010

With Father’s Day coming up this Sunday, I thought it would be nice to blog about all the unique “Green” gift ideas for Dad. Most of these gift ideas I found online: 1. How about a Grow Your Own Beer Garden Kit (pictured on the left), which includes the barley, hops and wheat seeds, plus…

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Event Info

ALMA Future Fare
ByPat Clusman June 8, 2010

Cheryl Perkins is featured as a special guest for the 2010 Alberta Livestock and Meat Agency Future Fare event on June 17, 2010. The event is being held from 7:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. at the Fantasyland Hotel Ballroom at the West Edmonton Mall. For more information on the event, go to the ALMA Future…

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Innovation | Innovation In The News | Innovators | Trends

Why trend-watchers may want to take note of Foursquare
ByPat Clusman June 4, 2010

I’ve been looking into the Foursquare application lately, noting that some of my staff seem to love checking in to venues they visit. At first you might think it is easy to dismiss the mobile social-gaming phenom that awards the most frequent patron the title of mayor. (Then you hear that some dirty politics may…

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Innovation In The News | Media Coverage

The Future of Innovation
ByPat Clusman June 3, 2010

Perkins contributed an excerpt titled, “Future of Innovation… Personal Passion and Strategic Collaboration” in The Future of Innovation, edited by Bettina von Stamm and Anna Trifilova. Read her contribution here.

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Innovation In The News | Technology | Trends

Audio waves will soon turn your cell into a hotel key
ByCheryl Perkins May 28, 2010

On this Memorial weekend, many people are traveling and spending time in hotels. Here is a Friday fun technology trend to kick off the holiday weekend: Some hotels are now allowing customers to use their cell phones as hotel room keys. The customers are test marketing the idea in two Holiday Inn locations in Chicago…

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Event Info | Events | Speaking Engagements

Future Media Fest 2010
ByPat Clusman May 24, 2010

Cheryl will be moderating a “Birds of a Feather” session, which will explore open innovation, at “FutureMediaFest 2010” in Atlanta, GA. The event is hosted by the Georgia Institute of Technology and provides an “interactive mash-up of talent, ideas, trends and technology.” Attendees will be able to speak with investors, interactive marketing experts, network and…

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Culture of Innovation

Changing culture takes time and patience
ByPat Clusman May 23, 2010

One of the innovation principles I’ve written about here (as well as in my regular Post-Crescent column this week) is about the idea of corporate culture. It’s not as easy to describe a good (or bad) corporate culture as it is to simply experience it–and let’s face it, we all have. We’ve all heard bosses…

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Innovation | Innovation In The News

Google partnership prepares to lauch “smart TV”
ByCheryl Perkins May 21, 2010

Can Web surfing unite with channel surfing on televisions? Google thinks so, and it is partnering with Sony, Intel and Logitech to explore what it calls a “smart” TV. Imagine speaking into a remote and seeing your page or show pop up onto your screen! The vision is to turn televisions into computer monitors for…

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