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Peter Day examines trends and developments in industry and the world of work.
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We try to make ear-grabbing programmes about the whole world of work, public and private, from vast corporations to modest volunteers.
In Business is all about change. New ways of work and new technologies are challenging most of the assumptions by which organisations have been run for the last 100 years. We try to report on ideas coming over the horizon, just before they start being talked about. We hope it is an exhilarating ride.
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Patents Make Perfect
In a world where new ideas may be the only things that keep a company in business, the twenty years of protection offered by a patent guard and defend corporate research and development which itself costs billions. But it’s bigger than just companies. Innovation is a vital engine of progress: and patents may be at the very heart of the innovation process itself. But the way patents work has evolved over hundreds of years, and now there are real worries that the system may be breaking down. In Business asks, does the system still work in the digital age?
Contributors
Joe Kraus Founder of the search engine Excite and current owner of internet start-up
Professor Lawrence Lessig Expert on the law of Copyright and Patents at Stanford University and author of
Bruce Lehman
Head of the
John Dudas Head of the US Patent and Trademark Office,
Dominique Guellec Chief Economist of the
Kenneth Cukier Science policy writer at the
Professor Josh Lerner of and Professor Adam Jaffe of , authors of "Innovation and its Discontents."
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