RE:innovation = patents = IP value of a company
by Krishna Reddy on Mar 14, 2008 12:38 AM Permalink
.. Contd from my prev reply] There are 2 kinds of successful business models:
1) Proprietary model: E.g. Microsoft. This is basically making money by unfairly suppressing/crushing end customers (Microsoft charges about $70 per PC for a stupid Operating system, while Linux gives a much superior OS at free of cost) and stealing other companys' (E.g. Apple) products and patenting them. Microsoft will no longer prosper unless it changes its strategy drastically within next 3 years)
2) Empowering model (Valid esp for media businesses) : E.g. Google. Google makes money by empowering people (End customers/employees/corporate clients/vendors) thru Innovative products like unbiased information(i.e. Search. Google doesn't manually control search results nor does it place its own sponsor sites on top in normal search results), making money by letting people make money(Adsense), allowing sponsors to make money(Adwords), allowing people to creatively express themselves (innovative products like Orkut/Blogger/Picassa/hudreds of free API's/Feeds/iGoogle/Google Gadgets/Google maps etc etc)
So I conclude that
Innovation = Not necessarily num of patents, but also (unpatented) empowering products!
So Google is one of the best innovators of today; Because it is knocking down all the competitors through fairest and most transperant business practices!
Further, I forecast that your "equation" will be totally outdated within next five years!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! especially in this I
RE:RE:innovation = patents = IP value of a company
by shaheed sant on Mar 14, 2008 06:11 PM Permalink
people like you dreaming like that from the last 15 years. but most of the list is 3/4th same. yes google is a good company but that doesn't justify as of now as a top innovator with other companies who are far ahead today. wait and see puttar
RE:innovation = patents = IP value of a company
by Janak Porwal on Mar 13, 2008 12:00 PM Permalink
1) Most of these companies have been there for many for decades, Google is relatively very new (infact I think Googles age is less than 1/2 of any otehr in the list) 2) Googles domain is very specific/restricted as compared to what you have listed. Getting a patent is not very easy in algorithms/software (may not be hard either). Infact, globally, in the area of data-mining (web search etc), I think we wouldn't have patents more than rate of 20/30 per year. I may be wrong but that my guess according to my knowledge of the field.
RE:innovation = patents = IP value of a company
by Sanjay Chawala on Mar 12, 2008 07:07 AM Permalink
why I don't see Qualcomm here??? Qualcomm has much more patents than Broadcomm. This list is either incorrect or it has only considered the companies that participated into their survey.
RE:RE:innovation = patents = IP value of a company
by shaheed sant on Mar 14, 2008 06:14 PM Permalink
puttar see that mentioned list has 35 companies and it's list rolled out by US patents office. so your survey point is incorrect
RE:innovation = patents = IP value of a company
by infi neter on Mar 12, 2008 02:35 AM Permalink
im not interested in google, why no single indian company here? this is not good... i want to see many indian companies here...
RE:innovation = patents = IP value of a company
by vaibhav desai on Mar 12, 2008 09:54 PM Permalink
dude u seem to be from pak... you will have to wait till eternity yet wont find a pak co in the list. poor country...
RE:innovation = patents = IP value of a company
by shaheed sant on Mar 14, 2008 06:00 PM Permalink
do you know anything other than labeling people as pak? talk with some sense puttar
