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Serendipity, Science, and Systems – A Path to Business Growth and Social Impact
How might serendipity drive progress on some of the globe’s most intractable problems? Can chance, informed by sagacity, combine with deep innovation and cross-sector systems approaches to create as yet unknown opportunities for large corporations? Learn more here.
Can Capitalism Thrive While It Saves Humanity? Finding the Economic Prize in the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals
In an emerging future world with competing interests and at times conflicting choices, choosing a path forward is challenging at best. Learn more here.
Nerac Expands Innovation Practice Group
Nerac is pleased to announce that Robert M. Beinstein, P.E., ENV SP, has joined our Innovation Insights and Consulting Practice as Director, Sustainability Innovation. Access the full announcement here.
Innovation Insights & Consulting Practice
Nerac’s Innovation Insights & Consulting Practice Lead, Tim Maurer, talks about Nerac’s history as a JV with NASA to commercialize the Apollo Program IP and IT for business innovation and growth. We’ve continued to support global innovators with insights to help rapidly realize innovations, revenue growth and sustainable development. Have a question for Tim? Let […]
NERAC TALKS INNOVATION IN CONNECTICUT
MetroHartford Alliance talks with Nerac about their role as an innovator in Connecticut and how the state can monetize its innovative talents. Read more here.
Industry 4.0 Panel Discussion: Is Connecticut Prepared?
Watch this informative video of a recent panel discussion on Industry 4.0 and its many implications here.
The Clinical Evaluation Plan: Creating a Storyboard for a Medical Device
By Minh Han, MD, FAAFP, Nerac Analyst
Originally published June 24, 2019
Avengers: Endgame is the highest grossing movie in an opening weekend and it all started with a plan and a storyboard. Marvel Cinematic Universes’ strategy can also be powerful for the Medical Device Universe as well. Read the article here.
Data and DNA: The Future of Social Media Mining
By Rosemarie Szostak, Ph.D., Nerac Analyst
Originally published June 24, 2019
Social media mining of consumer trends is not just for your marketing department anymore. It should be part of your overall corporate R&D/innovation toolkit. Read the article here.
Nerac Announces New Innovation Practice Group
Originally published March 5, 2019
Nerac Announces New Innovation Practice Group, Taps globally recognized innovation leader, Tim Maurer as Practice Lead. Read the press release here.
Identifying Potentially Disruptive Inventions: Using metrics to identify key inventions in a large set of patents
By Nerac IP Analysts
Originally published November 13, 2018
It is important for companies working in areas of high technology to constantly be aware of new advances which may be disruptive to their operations. A number of metrics have been developed which can be used to evaluate individual patent families to identify those which represent potentially disruptive inventions. This paper will review some of those metrics and give a real world example of their use. Read the article here.