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destination featuring industry insights and trends
Businesses Embrace “Open Innovation”: Across
Traditional Industry Lines Blur: Driven largely
“We are standing at a fascinating inlection
he Intellectual Property (IP) & Science virtually every industry studied, the trend toward by the rise of the Internet of hings, the traditional point in the history of technological innovation,”
business of homson Reuters, the world’s
“open innovation,” whereby companies partner boundaries between industries and companies’ added Motah. “he organizations in this study
leading provider of intelligent information for with academic institutions, individual researchers areas of specialization have continued to blur. clearly recognize the challenges inherent in
businesses and professionals, announced the and other companies (in some cases, even Dozens of companies featured in the study, such continuing to break new ground at the pace
launch of its State of Innovation website: http:// competitors) has been on visible display. Samsung, as Apple, DuPont, General Electric, IBM, and they’ve maintained for the last several years.
stateoinnovation.com. his is a global destination for example, has moved to aggressively partner Samsung, appear among the top patent assignees hey’re taking clear strides, with strategies such
for authoritative innovation trend data and with academic institutions in the development of in multiple industries outside of their core areas
as open innovation and aggressive expansion into
industry-speciic insights focusing on the Lifecycle semiconductor technologies, iling 129.1 of every of focus. Samsung is the most extreme example, new industries, to try to achieve even faster, better
of Innovation and showcasing the iterative process of discovering, protecting and commercializing 10,000 patent ilings in this space jointly with an
ranking among the top 25 patent assignees in nine
results.” ■
ideas.
“Innovation is at the heart of the global
economy. It is the lifeblood of business, but it’s
diicult to measure,” said Basil Motah, president,
homson Reuters IP & Science. “By dissecting
innovation to its core components – the scientiic
research that informs initial discovery and the
patents that protect and commercialize new ideas WebRTC Client
– we can begin to identify important trends that
inluence the future of the global economy.”
Stateoinnovation.com is the new, central A browser-based, unified communications
destination for authoritative insights into the
world of innovation, including the annual Top 100 desktop experience that is part of the
Global Innovators and Citation Laureates. he Voice4Net WebRTC Framework Suite.
launch of this website features indings from the
business’s latest research: he Future Is Open: 2015
State of Innovation, an analysis of global scientiic
literature and patent data across 12 technology The Voice4Net WebRTC Client is easy to
areas. It shows that although overall patent activity has reached an all-time high, year-over-year deploy and use, and represents the most
growth in new inventions has slowed considerably
and scientiic literature production has declined in effective unified communication client
almost every industry.
available today. It supports many
“he State of Innovation ofers a unique view platformsincluding Mitel, Avaya,
into the business of innovation building upon
our leading position as a provider of intelligent ShoreTel, along with numerous
information,” said Elise Finn, chief marketing other SIP-based PBX
oicer, homson Reuters IP & Science. “We have environments.
created this new go-to destination and credible
source of comment and insight for anyone with an
interest in the world of innovation.”
Contact us today to
he Future Is Open: 2015 State of
find out how this new technology can
Innovation examines fundamental research and enhance the way your staff does business.
patent activity worldwide across: Aerospace &
Defense; Automotive; Biotechnology; Cosmetics
& Well-Being; Food, Beverages & Tobacco; Learn how you can convert this opportunity into revenue
Home Appliances; Information Technology; for your organization, by offering end-customer contact
Medical Devices; Oil & Gas; Pharmaceuticals; Semiconductors; and Telecommunications.
homson Reuters analysts scrutinized ive years center experiences that are more customized, effective and
of global patent and scientiic literature data, engaging thanks to the WebRTC-enabled solutions
outlining the top companies, research institutions
and technology areas producing the highest produced by Voice4Net.
volume of innovation.
Download the Frost & Sullivan
Key indings from the 2015 State of Innovation white paper on WebRTC Best
include:
Year-Over-Year Innovation Growth Slows: Total, Practices Research and
worldwide patent volume increased just 3 percent Voice4Net WebRTC Client
over the last year, the slowest rate of patent volume at www.voice4net.com/frost
growth since the end of the global recession in
2009. he total volume of new scientiic research
decreased 34 percent over the same period. he
largest declines in patent and scientiic research
volume were in the Semiconductor industry.
Overall Patent Volume Reaches New High:
Despite the slowdown in year-over-year growth
rate, total, worldwide patent volume has reached
a record high, with over 2.1 million unique
inventions published over the last year. he
industries showing the largest growth in patent
volume were Food, Beverages & Tobacco (21
percent); Pharmaceuticals (12 percent); Cosmetics (214) 237-7600
www.voice4net.com
& Well-Being (8 percent); and Biotechnology (7

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