Where and Who are producing the most Blockchain related patents? In this next in a series of industry-specific Inventiveness Index reports, we look at Blockchain innovation in the USA. By using patent production as the proxy for measuring quantity (not necessarily quality) of innovation, this report answers three main questions…

(13-Oct-2021) Insights & Rankings of Biotech Innovation Nationally Recently, one of the largest metro regions in the nation asked if Patent Index could tell them how their region ranked nationally relative to Biotech patents. That request spawned a series of questions which this report seeks to answer: What is the…

(Linkedin 7-Oct-2021) Toward a self-regulating techoconomy This is not a ‘social post,’ nor incendiary anti-big-corp vitriol, nor a plea for big-gov-regulatory-oversight. No, this could be a business idea, an open-source project, non-profit or all the above. My goal is to engage the technoconomy to find a way to ‘self regulate.’ The Problem: …

(Linkedin 28-Oct-2020) What kind of ‘coachable’ people are there? Why is it important to be coachable? Earlier this week I was on the phone with a colleague in Charlotte in the Merger and Acquisitions (M&A) industry talking about a number of business opportunities. We were also discussing the nature of…

(19-Aug-2020) If we are not coming together, we’re coming apart. Since my first presidential election about 40 years ago, I have never missed a vote. I don’t plan on missing this vote either. But I do wish that I had a third option. The two options I have force me…

7-July-2020 There are a lot of “What I Believe” type statements out there these days. Please allow me to make mine: “I love everyone, no exceptions. And I believe everyone is much more complex than any one label.” These statements are some of my “I believe” statements. I believe that…

(27-May-2020) in the time of Covid… Policy makers bandy about terms like data-driven and fact-based decision-making as if they were some magic elixir that guarantees sound decisions. They are not. This article draws some distinctions around data, information, insight, cognition and decision-making. …

(Jan 2020) Surveillance Capitalism vs Privacy What if you followed a link to read an article on a news website and just by going there, intimate data about you (and more) went to nearly 500 companies? And what if the news website you are visiting also received data that those…

(Apr 2019) There are worse, and better, cases. A few days ago a news article caught my eye titled “Artificial intelligence industry facing a ‘diversity crisis’ because it is overwhelmingly white and male, study finds”. …