The question “how to improve the interest of students to study physics” has been discussed in the author’s previous papers too. Within the framework of the project, the author prepared various new interdisciplinary projects to demonstrate how inventions in physics are used in everyday life. Now, about one year later, the author found out that students were most addressed with the modules physic...

6 Managerial implications – knowledge management applied in innovation processes _______ 9 6.1 Creating promising ideas______________________________________________________ 9 6.2 Developing powerful inventions _______________________________________________ 10 6.3 Launching successful innovations______________________________________________ 10 6.4 Generating innovative impulses ______________...

The significance of patents has risen in wireless industry standardization. In the global scene, European and U.S. patent regulations have clear differences. The objective of this study is to identify the state of the art of the key issues surrounding wireless technology standards and patents. Some focus is also given to the recent changes in European patent regulation in contrast to U.S. regul...

In a recent issue of Science Translational Medicine (1), Yock and colleagues of Stanford University discuss the merits and challenges of developing a discipline of medical technology innovation. Innovation is defined as “inventiveness put to use”; a discovery that results in a commercial product or service. In this provocative article, the authors discuss two main streams of educational theory ...

Germany is one of few countries in which the monetary compensation for inventors is not only determined by negotiations between employer and employee-inventor, but also by relatively precise legal provisions. In this paper, we describe the characteristics of the German Employees’ Inventions Act (GEIA) and discuss which incentives it creates. We rely on responses from a recent survey of 3,350 Ge...

Ion emission angular distribution mechanisms in plasma focus devices (PFD) have not yet been well developed and understood being due to the lack of an efficient wide-angle ion distribution image detection system to characterize a PFD space in detail. Present belief is that the acceleration of ions points from "anode top" upwards in forward direction within a small solid angle. A breakthrough is...