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9 February 2013
UK lags behind at 18th place in 50 Most Innovative Countries
UK lags behind at 18th in 50 Most Innovative Countries are we losing our position due to low risk investment culture or lack of support for innovators? http://bloom.bg/XYjWzg via @BloombergNews...View Full story
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16 January 2013
HMV : The demise of yet another British brand, retail based or otherwise, is not a great advert for UK PLC economic performance.
Likewise the debacle over Starbucks not paying corporation tax and other USA brands such as Amazon paying not a cent in tax on its £2.9 billion profits, adds to UK PLC economic decline....MJH
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22 November 2012
By 2017 over 50% of UK jobs will be created by the Creative Industries
A BBC article by Andrew Marr asks why Government still disconnects design from science, engineering and manufacturing - what is it that they fail to understand about the importance of design to the...Andrew Marr
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16 October 2012
Creators spend all day creating Intellectual Property (IP), so why take no responsibility for it?
As an innovator and proposition designer myself who has worked with 1000's of designers over the past 20 years, I am still curious to understand why the majority of Creators who spend every working...MJH
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4 September 2012
Top 10 tips for bringing a new idea /innovation/business to market
Here's my top 10 1. Prepare a decent proposal about the idea - download the Proposition Pitch template to help you - free to download from here http://www.creativebarcode.co.uk/useful. Use...Maxine Horn, Creative Barcode
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29 August 2012
Apple awarded £665 million in its case against Samsung found guilty over intellectual property infringement. The infringements included the appearance of individual phones; icon display, text & interaction design. Is this a good outcome
.... and a victory for unique design? The UK design registration system is currently under review. In part it holds a premise that innovation would be restricted if others work cannot be built upon...Maxine J Horn
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11 June 2012
Sir James Dyson Student Award - slammed for lax IP terms
In an article on Innovation Bank by CEO of A Better Mouse Trap the James Dyson Foundation Award for students comes under scrutiny for its altogether lax intellectual property terms and more so it's...Creative Barcode / A Better Mouse Trap
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8 June 2012
Fashion students' photo purloined by Tesco's
A fashion stsudents was shocked to see her own face on sweatshirts being sold in Tesco's. Used without permission and apparently lifted from her social media site - http://www.fashioncapital.co.uk/News/25277-Tesco-uses-fashion-students-image-on-girls-sweater-without- Don't...Fashion Capital News
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7 June 2012
Facebook CEO gets taste of own medicine when his image used, without permission, on University Admissions poster
An old story but not the less funny and poignant given the more recent back lash from Facebook users regards Facebooks' terms and conditions of site use which assign anything uploaded for FB's own...Reface.me
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14 May 2012
Girl goes to IKEA, sees photo of her family in on-sale photo-frame. Intellectual Property - pah!
The Layton familly were very surprised to see themselves on display in a photo frame being sold by IKEA. http://www.bullhornreach.com/article/view/12852?referer=None&shortlink=505791 It was...Social media piece
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