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InnovationEdge helps women and girls in developing nations

ByPat Clusman

Happy New Year!  2012 is going to be a great year for innovation, and I’m excited to help launch a new effort that will bring hygiene solutions and dignity to women in developing nations. Millions of girls and women in developing countries miss up to 50 days of school/work per year because they do not…

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Patents: Valuable Tools for Advancing the Public Good

ByPat Clusman

Many of our readers understand how a sound patent system can advance the public good. The US patent system, for example, is based on a social compact between inventors and the public in which inventors are asked to teach the world their secrets in exchange for a limited monopoly on the invention. For a few…