Friday, November 24, 2023
The Mickey Mouse Protection Act
Tuesday, April 25, 2023
Samsung Takes over from IBM in the US Patents issued in 2022
Samsung Electronics received the most US patents in 2022 for the first time since 1993. IBM, which had held the top spot for 29 consecutive years, came in second place.
Rank | Company | Patents |
1 | Samsung Electronics | 6,248 |
2 | IBM | 4,398 |
3 | Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing | 3,024 |
4 | Huawei Technologies | 2,836 |
5 | Canon | 2,694 |
6 | LG Electronics | 2,641 |
7 | Qualcomm | 2,625 |
8 | Intel | 2,418 |
9 | Apple | 2,285 |
10 | Toyota | 2,214 |
In terms of the total "assigned" patents, IBM has also lost #1 position to Samsung.
See prior posts about the Patent King, IBM: https://www.intellzine.com/2021/03/the-patent-king-ibm-for-28-years.html
Wednesday, February 15, 2023
Oil & Gas Spills in North America Since 2010
This was posted over in SustainZine originally, but it does pertain to Innovation. The costs of the old systems of fossil fuels are far greater than the price we all pay at the pump. Plus they are crazy subsidized (one estimate is 1% of GDP directly and about 6% indirectly).
But here's the article. *** SustainZine ***
A question I sometimes ask of people who think that fossil fuels are here forever more and that electrification of everything will never happen...
Has there ever been an oil spill in Yellowstone National Park? If so, how many?
Thursday, January 19, 2023
Innovative Countries -- Global Innovation Index
This is a great summary of innovation by country from Visual Capitalist. See the Global Innovation Index (GII) map here:https://www.visualcapitalist.
We, at Strategic Business Planning Company, www.SBP.com, are always interesting in all aspects of innovation. Sometimes we hear from a layperson or an executive that the most innovative country in the work is ...
Israel and Ireland were
mentioned in recent years. One executive said that "all innovation
comes from Israel". All right, admittedly, Israel is a great source of
innovation and invention, but it is a very small country (population,
GDP). In absolute terms, Israel is not even close, but in relative terms
(adjusted for size of country), Israel is a very respectable #16 in the
world (GII score of 50.2).
Saturday, November 26, 2022
Giving Season is Here!
First, it is a busy week starting on Thanksgiving.
Friday, December 31, 2021
Misery Index (and Pain Index)
The Misery Index hasn’t been talked about much since the 1970s when unemployment was really high and inflation was double digit. The argument is that high unemployment is painful, and high inflation is painful, so when you add the two together you get a good measure of the misery throughout the economy. Both presidents Ford and Carter had average Misery indexes of 16, but Carter when out of office in 1980 leaving a Misery Index of almost 20 to Ronald Reagan.
Pain Index |
Wikipedia does a great job of organizing information and trends related to Misery Index by country over time. The article presents 2013 as an example year, just a couple years out of the worldwide Great Recession of 2007-2008. Several countries had Misery Indexes of 60 or more (Venezuela, 79.4 and Iran, 61.6). The US had a Misery Index of 11 in 2013, predominantly because of persistently higher unemployment, inflation was below 2%.) High inflation, or even hyperinflation, is usually associated with an unstable economy. In 2019, Venezuela had a Miser Index that was basically unmeasurable because of inflation that was 1000% or far higher.
Wednesday, September 8, 2021
OZ, by any other Name, could be a Profitable Opportunity!
There’s a spectacular investment tool that was associated with tax cuts of 2017 by the Trump administration. Along with the massive tax cuts, there was a non-partisan tax break to funnel private investments into underdeveloped communities around the nation.
Saturday, April 3, 2021
Is Trade Secret a Good Strategy? A Trade Secret Assessment
Monday, March 15, 2021
The Patent KING: IBM for 28 years
IBM is again the leader in patents issued. That's 28 years and running. IBM had 9,130 patents issued in 2020, compared to the next highest, Samsung with 6,416. There's about 15 electronic and manufacturing companies with 2,000 to 3,000 patents issued. Note that all the top 10 are electronics and/or chip makers. Forbes has a nice article by Roberts about the top 20 patent recipients of 2020.
Tuesday, February 9, 2021
Stop Gaming GameStop, Robinhood. Hold em, or Fold em?
What’s up with the Stock Market(s)? Feb 8, 2021 the various stock market indexes all hit all time highs. Wow. First off, Trump was very business friendly – some would argue too business friendly (at the expense of the environment and labor. But the market has chugged happily upward based on the likelihood of a Biden win and the certainty of it after the election. Markets don’t like uncertainty, and Trump has been a wildcard on many things like trade and certain industries. But historically the markets have gone up after a presidential election no matter which party wins. Of course, there are sector winners (renewables) and losers (oil, coal and gas).
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