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Monthly Archives: March 2012
The 7 Deadly Sins get an innovative makeover
As a bit of a sucker for an allegory, attaching thoughts about innovation to the seven deadly sins is a clever ploy and play. That said though I’d be hard-pressed to name them (pride, sloth, gluttony, lust, envy, wrath, greed). … Continue reading
Posted in Angel investment, Development, Entrepreneur, high tech, Innovation, SciBlogs, Science, technology
Tagged designindustry, Dorenda Britten, Scott Anthony
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Coarse wool’s new course weaving a different path
New Zealand’s forgotten fibre’s doing its best to get itself off the mat. Coarse wool’s course over the past five decades has been almost unremittingly down – both in price and perception. There’s been numerous, mostly ill-fated, attempts to reverse … Continue reading
Posted in Prototyping, Innovation, Science, high tech, technology, sustainability, SciBlogs
Tagged Wool Research Organisation, wool ingredient, Ian Cuthbertson
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Optimising autoimmune treatment patent invalid: a ‘Law of Nature’ is not a law passed by Congress
By guest blogger Doug Calhoun On 20 March the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) issued a decision unanimously allowing an appeal by the Mayo Clinic and declaring invalid two patents that a lower court had found Mayo to … Continue reading
Posted in Development, Early stage science, high tech, Innovation, Patent, proprietary, SciBlogs, Science, technology
Tagged Doug Calhoun, patents
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Farming’s unfashionable, but there’s a simple fix to make it sexy
There are huge gains to be made in pastoral farming productivity if the average performers started doing what the top 25% do according to MAF in its Briefing to Incoming Ministers. That would increase exports by $3 billion a year, … Continue reading
Healthy challenge in 100 words
Hat’s off to Grow Wellington for keeping it simple and sweet, and setting the initial bar low in its ‘Innovating for Health Challenge’. Anyone with an idea, good, bad or indifferent, only has to submit up to 100 words for … Continue reading
Science & tech docos find a natural home
documentary-log.com asked nicely, and it’s a free service with no registration – so here’s a plug for a website with over 700 docos to download and view. The Canadian-based venture’s heavy on the science and technology end of docos, which … Continue reading
Posted in Early stage science, education, Innovation, SciBlogs, Science, sustainability, technology
Tagged documentary log, Lydia Bloomfield
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The Patents Bill: Please leave it alone until the super ministry is sorted
Guest blog by Doug Calhoun The new Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment, which will combine Economic Development, Science and Innovation, Labour, and Building and Housing, attracted the usual headlines about job losses and efficiency dividends: (see here). But beyond … Continue reading
Posted in Development, Early stage science, high tech, Innovation, Patent, SciBlogs, Science policy, technology
Tagged Doug Calhoun, Steven Joyce, super ministry
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Mass customisation really does mean it is all about you
It’s difficult to predict where the confluence of trends like 3-D printing, mass customisation and the social web will end up. But, just as the publishing and music industries got democratised (or destroyed, depending on your point of view) by … Continue reading
Posted in Development, Entrepreneur, high tech, Innovation, IT, Prototyping, SciBlogs, start-up, technology, Uncategorized
Tagged 3D printing, Made on Jupiter, mass customisation, MoJ, Tom Kluyskens
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Give us something simple Steven, and also create an S&I council
As one who cut his business teeth in commercial radio, super-minister Steven Joyce will know better than most about the importance of appealing to peoples’ hearts and minds. Now, Mr Joyce may be formulating a super science and innovation plan … Continue reading
Posted in Entrepreneur, high tech, Innovation, SciBlogs, Science, Science policy, start-up, technology, university
Tagged MSI, Powering Innovation, Steven Joyce
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Kiwi conference to get to the core of computing opportunity
Lurking below the IT headline generating buzz of Apps and social media and smart phones is a core change racing in parallel with its sometimes perceived more glamorous cousins. The very way computers and computing itself, works, has changed. The … Continue reading
Posted in cloud computing, Development, Innovation, open source, SciBlogs, technology
Tagged multicore, Multicore World 2012, Nicolas Erdody, Parallelism
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