Author Archives: Melba Kurman
By now, you’ve probably heard about 3D printing. 3D printing technology isn’t new — it’s actually been around for a few decades. What’s new is the fact that in the past few years, a “perfect storm” of converging technologies are rapidly opening up a lot of potential new applications. Continue reading
Contributor Melba Kurman is doing research on Big Data. Here is her vantage point overview, and some interesting facts. Continue reading
Universities should help cover health insurance costs for startups based on university research that sign a contract for use of a university-owned patent. Now is the perfect time to do this. The U.S. Congress has passed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) and health care reforms are underway. Continue reading
Two pieces of legislation proposed earlier this summer — the America Innovates Act (bill proposed April, 2012) and the Startup 2.0 Act (revised in May, 22, 2012) share a common goal: to improve the flow of university research to society and thereby, increase industry innovation and create startups that create jobs. After that, their similarity ends. These two bills reflect the Great Debate: are university commercialization efforts just underfunded, or are they underperforming? Continue reading
Incumbent tech companies, after they achieve market dominance, have a peculiar tendency to asphyxiate their once innovation-oriented culture. I speak of Microsoft and RIM and their ongoing struggles to master the tablet market. Continue reading
Canada’s approach, characterized by with several innovative strategies with no single one dominating, could be viewed as one that’s poised to leapfrog forward… Continue reading
What if the unthinkable happened and the U.S. government imposed a mandatory and public ranking of research universities and individual faculty according to their “research excellence?” Just to be clear, I’m not advocating … Continue reading
