William & Mary supports startup ventures, i.e., companies formed around one or more core technologies developed at W&M. The Technology Transfer Office, in particular, is committed to entrepreneurial ...

Horace Dediu is trying to convince us all to accept a new word of his creation, innoveracy, to aid in explaining new products like Apple's iPhone. Truly ground breaking new products, ones that are ...

It’s no surprise that innovation in business is essential. As business leaders, we must constantly be on the cusp of new ideas, while always paying attention to evolving consumer needs and trends.

University of Delaware chemical engineer Catherine Fromen is developing ways to make drugs and therapies more effective for cancer patients. It’s work with real potential to improve human health. As a ...

It’s hard to imagine a time when these things didn’t exist…but it wasn’t all that long ago! Each and every day, there are brilliant minds working behind the scenes to develop inventions and technology ...

First Invention of the World: The story of human progress begins with invention—the creation of tools and technologies that transformed survival and daily life. The first known invention dates back to ...

THE externals of modern civilization are the products of invention, and a scientific analysis of invention, what it is, what causes it and whither it is leading us, is long overdue in England. In such ...

Technology companies large and small employ creative individuals to develop new inventions. Many utilize formal processes to document and protect, via the patent system, inventions that are conceived ...

Hundreds of thousands of years before the invention of the wheel, some unlucky hominin stepped on a loose rock or unstable log and—just before they cracked their skull—discovered that a round object ...

Ian Maxwell owns a shares in a number of technology start-up companies, a patent brokerage firm and also provides consulting advice related to business strategy, technology and patents. Australia’s ...

One of the biggest problems that inventors face when setting out to define their invention is with describing what the law refers to as “alternative embodiments of the invention.” Most inventors are ...

The invention system gives every player the ability to make Tech 2 items and as such has created a hyper-competitive player-driven market for them. In next week's third instalment of this guide, I'll ...