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Fast Company
December 2004
Carleen Hawn |
Microsoft Skills William H. Gates III, chairman and chief software architect of Microsoft Corp., speaks about patience, fast-following, and the innovation gap.   |
Fast Company
December 2004
Carleen Hawn |
Lessons on Innovation From Microsoft There are plenty of internal reasons why Microsoft's record of innovation is so lackluster. But the company's failure also points to three much bigger lessons about innovation. |
Fast Company
January 2004 |
If He's So Smart: Steve Jobs, Apple, and the Limits of Innovation The battle over digital music is just another verse in Apple's sad song: This astonishingly imaginative company keeps getting muscled out of markets it creates. So what does Apple have to tell us about innovation? |
BusinessWeek
April 19, 2004
Jay Greene |
Microsoft's Midlife Crisis Threats abound: Linux. European trustbusters. Key product delays. Can Gates & Co. restore growth? |
BusinessWeek
September 26, 2005
Jay Greene |
Troubling Exits At Microsoft Once the dream workplace of tech's highest achievers, Microsoft is suffering key staff defections to Google and elsewhere. What's behind the losses? |
InternetNews
November 5, 2004
Jim Wagner |
For Innovation's Sake Although today's raft of companies suing other companies over intellectual property rights may give the impression that creative thought is getting muzzled, many industry experts agree that software innovation is alive and well. |
Wired
October 2006
Fred Vogelstein |
Rebuilding Microsoft Bill Gates is on his way out. Now it's up to Ray Ozzie to revive the flagging giant - and get it ready for the post-desktop era. |
CIO
September 28, 2012
Kim S. Nash |
Companies Race to the Patent Office to Protect Their IT Breakthroughs There's a patent gold rush under way as savvy companies seek to lock in the competitive advantage from their IT innovations. CIOs ought to seek patents for unique business methods and other inventions made possible by new technology. |
Industrial Physicist
Aug/Sep 2003
John T. Preston |
Steps to high-tech success Factors like protection of intellectual property and getting the product to market quickly can prove more influential than the technology itself in determining a new technology company's ultimate success. |
| Knowledge@Wharton |
Why High-Tech Firms Can't Afford to Ignore Patents When it comes to patents, high technology firms are, out of necessity, interdependent... |
The Motley Fool
April 26, 2005
Dave Mock |
The Lowdown on Patent Shakedowns The business of extorting license fees for patents can be very lucrative -- and damaging. It is important for investors to understand how the companies they own utilize and protect their inventions -- and what approach management has taken to deal with intellectual property disputes. |
HBS Working Knowledge
March 20, 2006
Huston & Sakkab |
P&G's New Innovation Model Procter & Gamble's assessment of its aging innovation process and the development of connect and develop. |
The Motley Fool
April 19, 2004
Ben McClure |
Ruminations on R&D Spending on research and development is important. But can it help identify promising investments? It's pretty easy to spot companies that spend a lot of money on R&D. It's another thing to pick companies that translate R&D spending into higher stock prices. |
CIO
January 1, 2003
Christopher Koch |
Patently Stupid? It's not clear at the start of 2003 whether the software patent frenzy will cause innovation to flower or be trampled. |
The Motley Fool
July 28, 2010
Selena Maranjian |
IBM's Secret Weapon For Big Blue, invention is the mother of revenue. |
Inc.
July 15, 2002
Thea Singer |
Swipe These Strategies The best practices of America's 50 most innovative companies. |
Wall Street & Technology
September 19, 2006
Paul Allen |
Patent Processing For both the patent holders and potential transgressors, technology patents can be a high-stakes game in the financial world, in both monetary awards and ongoing business feasibility. |
The Motley Fool
February 9, 2010
Selena Maranjian |
Do Patents Lead to Profits? A pile of intellectual property helps -- but it's not enough. Companies that break rules and devise new ways of doing things can create entire new industries. |
Wired
November 2000
John Heilemann |
The Truth, The Whole Truth, and Nothing But The Truth The untold story of the Microsoft antitrust case and what it means for the future of Bill Gates and his company... |
Industrial Physicist
Aug/Sep 2004
Charles B. Duke |
Business: Creating economic value from research knowledge Nations that lead technological revolutions acquire the power and influence to create strong defense and economic prosperity for their peoples. Those that lose their nerve or make the wrong investments fall by the wayside. |
CIO
September 28, 2012 |
Are Patents the Secret to Competitive Advantage in IT? Our editor in chief Maryfran Johnson weighs in on the importance of seeking patents for IT innovation when it comes to maintaining a competitive edge and driving new business. |
CFO
June 1, 2009
Kate O'Sullivan |
Disciplinarians' Dilemma Derided as enemies of innovation, CFOs can, in fact, be its valuable friends. |
IndustryWeek
February 17, 2010
Jill Jusko |
U.S. Patents, International Flavor IBM grabs top spot in 2009 patent rankings, but foreign firms receive more than half. |
Bank Technology News
January 2004
Karen Krebsbach |
Bight Ideas Financial services firms are deluging the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office with applications, which soared 15-fold between 1995 and 2002. Patent attorney Dale Lazar urges banks to get in line: converting valuable ideas into assets can pay off big time. |
Salon.com
March 21, 2001
Damien Cave |
Patents are your friends Can open-source programmers use intellectual property laws to protect themselves from corporate software snatchers? Publishing work on IP.com ensures the patent office will see it and not issue patent for the idea to someone else. |
IndustryWeek
March 1, 2003
John Teresko |
IBM's Patent/Licensing Connection IBM Corp. is deservedly proud of decade-long leadership in patent awards, but licensing revenue is the real reward. IBM's secret: Treat licensing as a significant part of business strategy. |
BusinessWeek
April 19, 2004 |
Gates And Ballmer On "Making The Transition" In separate interviews, William H. Gates III, Microsoft's chairman, and CEO Steven A. Ballmer discuss innovation, competition, and the company's future. |
IEEE Spectrum
July 2005
Michael Riordan |
The End of AT&T In 1974 AT&T was the world's largest corporation and research arm Bell Labs provided a constant flow of technological break-throughs due to long-term stable funding. There is no comparable situation today. |
Inc.
August 1, 2002
Thea Singer |
The Innovation Factor: A Field Guide to Innovation From motivation to marketing, the best practices of the Innovation 50. |
InternetNews
July 20, 2004
Erin Joyce |
Microsoft's $75 Billion Surprise Microsoft moved to significantly boost the value of its stock Tuesday as part of a plan to share about $75 billion with investors over the next four years. |
InternetNews
June 14, 2007
Stuart J. Johnston |
Is Economics Driving PC 'Innovation' Offshore? As the business of designing, building, and distributing PCs becomes increasingly globalized, U.S. PC vendors have exported less valuable work offshore, while keeping more valuable and innovative product development, project management and marketing and branding functions here. |
IEEE Spectrum
April 2005
Stuck & Weingarten |
How Venture Capital Thwarts Innovation The tech bubble saw an explosion of VC-funded start-ups, but has more funding brought more innovation or less? You may be shocked, as they were, by what these researchers found. |
CFO
February 1, 2011 |
Any More Bright Ideas? Test your knowledge of IP ASAP. |
Inc.
May 1, 2000
Steven Berglas |
G Is for Guts It's also for Gates, the man who has shown his true entrepreneurial colors by turning Microsoft operations over to Steve Ballmer and heading back to the laboratory. |
InternetNews
November 8, 2004
Sean Michael Kerner |
OSRM Tracing Linux Patents in EU As the EU approaches a vote on software patent law, open source group starts tracing source of Linux patent infringements. |
Fast Company
December 2004
Michael A. Prospero |
Innovation Awards How do you quantify corporate imagination? Meet the top firms where new ideas are a competitive advantage: Juniper Networks... Nokia... Plantronics... etc. |
IndustryWeek
February 17, 2010
Josh Cable |
Building an Innovation Culture For innovation to flourish, executives must be committed, patient and ready to lead by example. |
The Motley Fool
September 28, 2006
Jack Uldrich |
IBM's Patently Good Idea Big Blue's decision to open patents to public scrutiny could spur innovation. |
Inc.
October 1, 2002
Donna Fenn |
Ordinary People, Extraordinary Creativity Innovation isn't beyond the ability of everyday companies. You just need to know how to go about it. |
Inc.
August 1, 2002
Leigh Buchanan |
The Innovation Factor: Inside the Idea Mill What's better than one blockbuster innovation? A company designed to crank out innovations one after another. |
Inc.
August 1, 2002
Leigh Buchanan |
The Innovation Factor: Built to Invent Part 1 of a three-installment series on hypercreative organizations and the strategies behind them. |
BusinessWeek
August 27, 2009
Adrian Slywotzky |
Where Have You Gone, Bell Labs? Here's how basic research and strong leadership can repair the broken U.S. business model. |
InternetNews
July 29, 2004
Erin Joyce |
Gates Touts 'Modeling' Era For Software New software modeling systems will simplify application customization... Business Solutions division not living up to expectations. |
IEEE Spectrum
November 2006
Harry Goldstein |
Patent Power The world's most valuable patent portfolios: Boeing... Ricoh... IBM... Hitachi... etc. |
IEEE Spectrum
October 2008
Wayne P. Sobon |
Opinion: The Federal Circuit Must Uphold Patent Protection for Business Methods The decision in the Bilski case will have major implications for business method patents |
InternetNews
January 28, 2008
Stuart J. Johnston |
Microsoft: King of The Patent Hill Microsoft emerges as top tech patent holder with more than 15,000 patents pending. |
InternetNews
September 24, 2005
Erin Joyce |
Google The Bully? Microsoft reorganization gives rise to more chatter about Google's ascent, and whether its culture is changing. |
The Motley Fool
September 17, 2011 |
What's Fueling the Tech Patent Bull Market? As companies amass patents to sue each other, is it time for the patent system to be reformed? |
BusinessWeek
November 15, 2004
Jay Greene |
Bill Gates: The Seer From Seattle His insights helped stimulate innovation in the fledgling PC industry. He was among the first to recognize companies and products would be created if a computer's operating system and other software programs were separated from the hardware. |
BusinessWeek
January 13, 2010
Steve LeVine |
IBM May Not Be the Patent King After All IBM wins more U.S. patents than any other company, but Microsoft's are worth much more money, says a new study. |
