“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
Friday, June 10, 2022
Thirteen Years of Useful Tips
“Triskaidekaphobia is the fear of the number 13. It is a word of Greek origin made up of the root words tris (“three”), deka (“ten”), and phobia (“fear”)” (https://shmaltzandmenudo.wordpress.com/2016/11/13/famous-sayings-36-lucky-number-13/)
Thirteen years into the Desulfurization Blog, I have developed several series of posts on a number of topics. You may find one or two of them useful. So here is a list, with a link to each series. Enjoy …
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TIPCATALYSIS http://www.desulf.blogspot.com/search/label/TIPCATALYSIS
Catalysis: The Series
The overarching goal of the Desulfurization Blog (www.desulf.blogspot.com) is to offer tips and tricks on how to save time in your never ending quest to stay on top of developments in your field of interest.
In that time saving vein, the following list provides easy access to each of the posts we produced on Catalysis. Not every post will interest you. But when you see one that does, you can just click the link and go right to it. That way you do not have to go through the tedious process of searching the blog to find it. Not that you would do that … who has that kind of time?
TIPREFINERYOFTHEFUTURE http://desulf.blogspot.com/search/label/TIPREFINERYOFTHEFUTURE
FuelsEurope
The EU has the ambitious objective to lead the world in addressing the global climate change challenge.
The EU refining industry is committed to contribute to this objective by continuing to reduce its CO2 emissions and providing the economy and citizens with low-carbon fuels and other products that society needs.
Development of a diversity of energies and energy carriers will give an economy flexibility, resilience and the possibility for the market to select the optimal solution for every sector and use. Liquid fuels, with their unique characteristics will continue to be employed in many transport fields. Therefore, the EU refining industry has an important and enduring role to play in the energy choices of the future, by providing low-carbon liquid fuels to complement low-carbon electrons, gas and hydrogen as energy carriers. Technology and collaboration across industries will facilitate the production of these low-carbon liquid fuels.
The contribution of the EU refining industry can be enhanced by the EU industrial strategy and a policy framework which will enable its transition, while allowing refineries to retain economic viability in the face of a declining domestic market demand and of an increasingly aggressive international competition.
source: https://www.fuelseurope.eu/vision-2050/
TIPVENTURECAPITAL http://desulf.blogspot.com/search/label/TIPVENTURECAPITAL
The Genius of Venture Capital (Part 1): Connecting Good Ideas with Money
The Genius of Venture Capital: connecting entrepreneurs with good ideas but no money to investors with money but no ideas.
So, how does that work? It is a mysterious process.
In this series of posts, we will penetrate that mystery. We begin with two excellent articles that explain how VC’s do that voodoo that they do so well.
The two articles are rich with insights into the VC world.
Here are three that jumped out at me.
TIPBREAKTHROUGH https://desulf.blogspot.com/search/label/TIPBREAKTHROUGH
BREAKTHROUGH: How to identify promising breakthrough companies (Part 1)
This is the first post in the BREAKTHROUGH series. The THEME of the series is … How to identify promising breakthrough companies
It is an adjunct to the STARTUP series [ https://desulf.blogspot.com/2020/05/starting-down-startup-path-recap.html ]. While there is some overlap, the focus of the BREAKTHROUGH series is on how to identify companies that may be worth the risk of investing them.
I use the term “investment” in a broad sense. Venture capitalists invest money directly in a chosen company, hoping for a big win.
However, there is another kind of investment … taking a chance on a company with breakthrough but unproven technology to solve a problem your company is trying to address. That is a risk that is similar to, but different than, the risk taken by venture capitalists.
Caveat … I am not an expert on risk assessment. However, I am an expert in online research. The purpose of this series is to help you make more efficient use of online resources to achieve your objectives.
So, how do you identify companies with breakthrough technology? Well, if you are not a venture capitalist, whose job it is to identify such companies, it might be useful to see how venture capitalists go about this critical task.
TIPSTARTALAB http://www.desulf.blogspot.com/search/label/TIPSTARTALAB
How to design a lab: Part 1 of a series of posts
“What happens if a big asteroid hits Earth? Judging from realistic simulations involving a sledge hammer and a common laboratory frog, we can assume it will be pretty bad.” -- Dave Barry (American Writer and Humorist best known for his weekly newspaper column. b.1947)
Designing a laboratory is a seriously complex task. If you have never designed one, how do you even start?
One place to begin is reading what experts in the field have written. And a possible first step on the path to discovering what experts have written could be an Amazon.com search.
TIP: On the Amazon.com Web, select the Book department. Then enter the following Amazon.com search string: laboratory design
TIPSTARTALIBRARY http://www.desulf.blogspot.com/search/label/TIPSTARTALIBRARY
Seriously? A Series of Tips on Setting Up a Research Library (Part 1)
“It is a curious fact that people are never so trivial as when they take themselves seriously.” -- Oscar Wilde (Irish Poet, Novelist, Dramatist and Critic, 1854-1900)
Individual researchers create their own personal libraries of technical literature. This can work well for small research organizations with just three or four researchers. Larger organizations need a more formal structure to support their research efforts.
This is the first in a series of posts designed to help you create a resource base which can help your researchers make more productive use of their valuable time.
We’ll begin by focusing on commercial databases. To be honest, the first step should involve strategic planning, but since most people like to cut to the chase, the chase is where we’ll begin. The tedious stuff will come later.
TIPCASESTUDY http://desulf.blogspot.com/search/label/TIPCASESTUDY
TIAX LLC
Searching for ExxonMobil patents, I ran across one with a co-assignee named TIAX LLC (see below). This caught my eye. When a giant like ExxonMobil teams with a small firm like TIAX, it makes me want to learn more.
This post is the first of a series. Besides exploring TIAX LLC, the series provide a case study on how to glean useful information about any small company of interest.
TIPLITERATURESEARCH http://desulf.blogspot.com/search/label/TIPLITERATURESEARCH
Whaddya Know? Literature Search Method Case Study
To paraphrase Donald Rumsfeld, We don’t know what we don’t know.
That’s true. Unfortunate, but true.
Here’s another paraphrase from a great sage known as Anonymous … Sometimes, we don’t know what we DO know.
And that is the theme of this post … i.e., how do we know what we DO know?
A recent study on the integration of Building Information Modelling (BIM) with Additive Manufacturing (AM) illustrates the point.
TIPPATENT http://www.desulf.blogspot.com/search/label/TIPPATENT
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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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