News tagged with radical innovation


Study finds that corporate culture is most important factor in driving innovation

Other Sciences / Other

created Nov 18, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (13) | comments 1

Innovation is integral to the growth, success and wealth of firms and nations. What predicts the increase of radical innovation, and the profits that often ensue, is a mystery most firms are trying to solve. The answer that ...





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Finding good ideas: How to improve product development

Other Sciences / Economics

created Aug 13, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The development of new products and services is key to business success, but a new study from North Carolina State University shows that businesses could do a much better job of evaluating new ideas in order to identify products ...


Economists say copyright and patent laws are killing innovation; hurting economy

Other Sciences / Economics

created Mar 05, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (16) | comments 15

(PhysOrg.com) -- Abolishing patent and copyright laws sounds radical, but two economists at Washington University in St. Louis say it's an idea whose time has come. Michele Boldrin and David K. Levine see innovation as a ...


Prostate Cancer Surgery Performed by Many Surgeons with Little Experience

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Nov 19, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study from researchers at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center has found that the majority of surgeons treating prostate cancer in the United States have extremely low annual caseloads, potentially ...


The Long and the Short of Acrylate Polymerization

The Long and the Short of Acrylate Polymerization

Chemistry / Polymers

created Sep 22, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Used in such diverse applications as adhesives, detergents, and super-absorbent disposable diapers, polyacrylates are key polymers, but the mechanisms of their formation are complex and have ...


Minimally invasive radical prostatectomy shows advantages, but also certain complications

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Oct 13, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

New research indicates that the use of minimally invasive procedures (including the use of robotic assistance) for radical prostatectomy, which have increased significantly in recent years, may shorten hospital stays and ...


Failure to tackle climate change spells a global health catastrophe

Space & Earth / Environment

created Sep 16, 2009 | popularity 2.4 / 5 (5) | comments 1

An editorial and letter, published simultaneously by the BMJ and Lancet today, warn that failure to agree radical cuts in carbon dioxide emissions at the UN climate change conference in Copenhagen this December spells a glob ...


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CO2 emission reduction assumptions overly optimistic, says study

Space & Earth / Environment

created Apr 02, 2008 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (15) | comments 0

Reducing global emissions of carbon dioxide this century is going to be more challenging than society has been led to believe, according to a new research commentary article appearing April 3 in Nature.


Researchers find few side effects from radiation treatment given after prostate cancer surgery

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Sep 28, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The largest single-institution study of its kind has found few complications in prostate cancer patients treated with radiotherapy after surgery to remove the prostate. Men in this study received radiotherapy after a prostate-specific ...


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Tick saliva could hold cancer cure: Brazilian scientists

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Aug 28, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (18) | comments 7

It may be one of nature's repulsive little blood-sucking parasites, but the humble tick could yield a future cure for cancers of the skin, liver and pancreas, Brazilian researchers have discovered.


Stereotactic radiotherapy stops lung cancer from growing in frail patients

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Nov 02, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) stopped the growth of cancer at its original site in the lung for three years among nearly 98 percent of patients with early non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) who are unable to ...



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