“Progress is made by lazy men looking for
easier ways to do things.” ― Robert A. Heinlein
Since 2007, the annual Global Innovation Index (GII) has provided a rich
statistical look at where in the world the most intense innovation activity has
been occurring. The 2022 edition is due on September 29.
Several organizations are in involved in the effort. The three most important
ones are INSEAD (Institut Européen
d'Administration des Affaires) (https://www.insead.edu/
), WIPO (World Intellectual Property
Organization)( https://www.wipo.int/portal/en/index.html
), and Cornell University Johnson Graduate
School of Management (https://www.johnson.cornell.edu/
)
In addition to the data tables, each report presents a theme. Here are the
themes for the last several years …
The Global Innovation Index 2013: The Local Dynamics of Innovation
The Global Innovation Index 2014: The Human Factor in Innovation
The Global Innovation Index 2015: Effective Innovation Policies for Development
The Global Innovation Index 2016: Winning with Global Innovation
The Global Innovation Index 2017: Innovation Feeding the World
Global Innovation Index 2018: Energizing the World with Innovation
Global Innovation Index 2019: Creating Healthy Lives — The Future of Medical
Innovation
Global Innovation Index 2020: Who Will Finance Innovation
So how can we use the GII?
The most obvious use, of course, is by policy makers who want to design
policies that promote innovation in their domain, be it national, regional, or
local.
But other users might include corporations that want to attract talent that
will help produce the results that will drive success in the market place.
And then there is the talent. If you are an ambitious young person driven by a
passion for research, you might want to know where you are most likely to find
support for your endeavors.
As one astute observer has observed …
Some of you might just be as inquisitive
as I am, and therefore decide to pursue a research degree like a PhD. For
curious minds like you, a look at the Research & Development section of the
Global Innovation Index could shed light on which countries appear to currently
have the strongest R&D abilities.
source: https://www.topuniversities.com/blog/global-innovation-index-guide-students
TIP:
Google® global
innovation index to find the freely downloadable PDFs of the annual
reports produced over the years. OR visit https://www.globalinnovationindex.org/Home
I also recommend reading the Wikipedia articles on INSEAD (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/INSEAD)
and the Global Innovation Index (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Innovation_Index)
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Google® Better!
Jean Steinhardt served as Librarian,
Aramco Services, Engineering Division, for 13 years. He now heads Jean
Steinhardt Consulting LLC, producing the same high quality research that he
performed for Aramco.
Follow Jean’s blog at: http://desulf.blogspot.com/
for continuing tips on effective online research
Email Jean at letters@jeansteinhardt.com
with questions on research, training, or anything else
Visit Jean’s Web site at http://www.jeansteinhardtconsulting.com/
to see examples of the services we can provide
Monday, August 22, 2022
Remember September: The Global Innovation Index
Sunday, December 13, 2020
What’s It All About, Google?
Everybody Googles. But does everybody know HOW to Google®? No, they don’t.
Which is the whole point of the Desulfurization Blog (www.desulf.blogspot.com)
So here is a very short tutorial on how to make the immense resources that Google®
offers work for you.
Let’s pretend that we care about recent developments in nonmetallic piping,
because it may provide a solution to the pervasive problem of corrosion.
For purposes of this exercise, we will start with the following search string …
Google® Patents: nonmetallic
AND (tubular OR pipe OR piping OR pipeline)
Here are the steps in this search …
- Search Google® Patents
- Refine your search string
- On the results page, click the download link
- Open the downloaded file in Excel
- Use Google® Translate (https://translate.google.com/) where necessary
- Sort the downloaded Excel file to purpose
Google® translate example:
Inventor
徐宝安
Google® Translate result: Xu Baoan
国立大学法人広島大学
Google® Translate result: Hiroshima University
This is all pretty simple stuff, and quite straight forward. It does require
some time, however. You may benefit from experienced research assistance by the
likes of me, Jean Steinhardt (www.jeansteinhardtconsulting.com).
It could save you boatloads of time … time you could use in pursuit of your own
skill set.
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Google® Better!
Jean Steinhardt served as Librarian,
Aramco Services, Engineering Division, for 13 years. He now heads Jean
Steinhardt Consulting LLC, producing the same high quality research that he
performed for Aramco.
Follow Jean’s blog at: http://desulf.blogspot.com/ for continuing tips on effective online
research
Email Jean at research@jeansteinhardtconsulting.com with questions on research, training, or
anything else
Visit Jean’s Web site at http://www.jeansteinhardtconsulting.com/ to see examples of the services we can
provide
Sunday, November 8, 2020
TIPS & TRICKS FOR PATENT SEARCHING – TABLE OF CONTENTS
TIPS & TRICKS FOR
PATENT SEARCHING – TABLE OF CONTENTS
As
easy as it is to search patents online these days, there are nuances to the
process. Over the past year or so, we at the Desulfurization Blog (http://desulf.blogspot.com) have posted
tips and tricks that can help you improve your effectiveness in a patent
search.
For your convenience, we have compiled a TOC-Table of Contents of these posts.
TIP:
Click http://desulf.blogspot.com/search/label/TIPPATENT
to visit ALL the patent searching tips that have appeared (and will continue to
appear) in the Desulfurization Blog.
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TIPS &
TRICKS FOR PATENT SEARCHING – TABLE OF CONTENTS
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What Price Patents?
Theoretically, anyone can
do a patent search. How hard can it be? I am here to tell you that, from
personal experience, it can be really, really hard. Plus, even if you are aware
of all the ins and outs of the patent searching process, it can be tedious and
time consuming. Enter the professional patent searcher. Because of their
experience in patent searching, they can be worth the price you pay them to do
it for you.
http://desulf.blogspot.com/2020/11/what-price-patents.html
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Patent
Information Users Group, Inc.
Patents … they are so useful … and they are so frustrating. PIUG –
Patent Information Users Group is a resource that may help sort through the
nuances of patent research. Three examples of stuff nonmembers have access to …
Vendor list, offering links to businesses specializing in various aspects of
patent research.
Discussion forum, where patent researchers offer questions and answers to
specific problems
Links to official patent Web sites like USPTO and its global equivalents
http://desulf.blogspot.com/2020/10/patent-information-users-group-inc.html
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Carbon Dioxide:
ExxonMobil, Chevron, and Occidental Petroleum
Energy Factor, an ExxonMobil promotional newsletter, describes a
partnership with Global Thermostat to remove CO2 emissions from the atmosphere.
http://desulf.blogspot.com/2020/09/carbon-dioxide-exxonmobil-chevron-and.html
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Patento
Mysterioso: QUESTION: Why can’t I find this Patent Application in the USPTO
database?
I discovered a recent ExxonMobil patent application on CATALYTIC
DEWAXING OF HYDROCARBON FEEDSTOCKS, thanks to one of the Google® Scholar alerts
I have set up to follow various topics [see the post on setting up Google
Alerts].
The Google® Scholar alert highlighted the patent application identified by a
service known as freepatentsonline (http://www.freepatentsonline.com/).
Although the service offers free access to the full patent application, I
wanted to find the application on the originating source, i.e., the U.S. Patent
& Trademark Office (USPTO) I could not find this particular patent
application on the USPTO site using the Application Number: 16/709205, which is
shown in the patent application shown below. What’s up with that?
TIP: When a Google® search results in a patent application of interest, the
quickest way to search for it on the USPTO database is to do an Application
Number search using the number listed as United States Patent Application, i.e.
the Document Number, (e.g., 20200199468) rather than the number listed as the
actual Application Number (e.g., 16/709205)
http://desulf.blogspot.com/2020/07/patento-mysterioso-question-why-cant-i.html
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Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes: Google® Scholar & Google® Patents
Change is the one constant we can count on. Google is no exception. It used to
be easy to find a link to Google® Scholar & Google® Patents. These days,
not so much. I use both Google® Scholar & Google® Patents in my work every
day, so I have links to both. Here they are …
http://desulf.blogspot.com/2020/04/ch-ch-ch-ch-changes-google-scholar.html
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Starting Down
the Startup Path (Part 6 of a series): Reviewing Patents
Searching for patents is iterative. You type in some keywords.
Results reveal more keywords. You type in those keywords. And repeat.
This can be really tedious, irksome even. Sometimes it is hard to figure out
whether a given patent is even relevant to your needs.
Fortunately, a number of experts have offered tips to make it easier to read a
patent quickly.
TIP: Google® how to read a patent for more tips on efficient ways to review a
patent
Read full post at:
https://desulf.blogspot.com/2020/03/starting-down-startup-path-part-6-of.html
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Starting Down
the Startup Path (Part 7 of a series): Patents and Run On Sentences
Per USPO rules, the Claims in a patent must be stated in a single
sentence. In many cases, the “single sentence” can be, thanks to colons,
commas, semicolons, et al., several hundred words long. But remember that, as
difficult as it may be to wrap your head around any given claim, it still is faster
than reading the whole patent.
Read full post at:
https://desulf.blogspot.com/2020/03/starting-down-startup-path-part-7-of.html
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Starting Down
the Startup Path (Part 8 of a series): Mining Patents for Keywords
Mining patents for useful information can be tedious. One thing you
can do is to look for keywords to use in Google® searches. For example, in a
previous post I listed a Breakthrough Technologies LLC patent with the
following claim …
Read full post at: https://desulf.blogspot.com/2020/03/starting-down-startup-path-part-8-of.html
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Starting Down
the Startup Path (Part 12 of a series): Patent Prior Art Search
Experienced patent searchers understand the nuances of prior art
searches. However, if you are new to the concept, here is an article that can
get you up to speed.
TIP: Google® how to search prior art for more useful information on this topic.
https://desulf.blogspot.com/2020/04/starting-down-startup-path-part-12-of.html
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Starting Down
the Startup Path (Part 13 of a series) Dibenzothiophene Patents 2020
What’s the quickest way to determine if a patent is of interest to
you? Depends on your purpose. This tip sheet may help you decide which section
of a patent to focus on.
http://desulf.blogspot.com/2020/05/starting-down-startup-path-part-13-of.html
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Starting Down
the Startup Path (Part 14 of a series)-Google Patents Find Prior Art Link
Patent research is important in any area of research you are engaged
in ... especially if you are a startup, or are considering investing in a
startup.
Prior art is an important concept in patent research.
In this regard, Google® Patents Prior Art Link is useful. When you find a
patent of interest, in the upper right of the screen you will find a link
labeled Prior Art.
Read full post at:
http://desulf.blogspot.com/2020/05/starting-down-startup-path-part-14-of.html
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Everybody Googles. But does
everybody know HOW to Google®? No, they don’t.
Which is the whole
point of the Desulfurization Blog (www.desulf.blogspot.com)
So here is a very short tutorial on how to make the immense resources that Google®
offers work for you.
Here are the steps in this search …
Search Google® Patents
Refine your search string
On the results page, click the download link
Open the downloaded file in Excel
Use Google® Translate (https://translate.google.com/)
where necessary
Sort the downloaded Excel file to purpose
http://desulf.blogspot.com/2020/12/whats-it-all-about-google.html
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Google® Better!
Jean Steinhardt served as Librarian,
Aramco Services, Engineering Division, for 13 years. He now heads Jean
Steinhardt Consulting LLC, producing the same high quality research that he
performed for Aramco.
Follow Jean’s blog at: http://desulf.blogspot.com/ for continuing tips on effective online
research
Email Jean at research@jeansteinhardtconsulting.com with questions on research, training, or
anything else
Visit Jean’s Web site at http://www.jeansteinhardtconsulting.com/ to see examples of the services we can
provide