Din nou despre Barack Obama sau cum o stare de spirit este confirmată politic respectiv tehnic. Diferenţa dintre demagog şi vizionar este foarte mică iar uneori dificil de realizat. De multe ori m-am înşelat atunci când a trebuit să cântăresc anumiţi oameni, întrucât nu am găsit totdeauna cheia analizei. Nimic nu este mai necuantificabil şi mai greu de măsurat decât relaţiile interumane.
Poate doar inovaţia, definită de Soumitra Dutta[1] astfel
“New ideas lie at the heart of innovation, but ideas alone are not enough. Innovation requires translating ideas into value-adding products and services. . . . Bridging the gap between an idea and its beneficial result is the crucial step in innovation. . . . Success will demand a greater ability to quickly close the gap.”
În aceeaşi notă l-am analizat şi pe Barack Obama: unde începe şi unde se termină demagogia politică?
Am adnotat discursul privind starea naţiunii. Dincolo de modalitatea în care aşază cuvintele în frază am fost uimit de felul în care se raportează la inovaţie atunci când urmăreşte un scop politic. Raportul Thomas Reuters privind inovaţia m-a ajutat să delimitez demagogul de vizionar.
Uitaţi de ce.
În State of the Union Speech 2011 Obama spunea
“the first step in winning the future is encouraging American innovation. None of us can predict certainty what the next big industry will be or where the new jobs will come from. Thirty years ago, we couldn’t know that something called the Internet would lead to an economic revolution. What we can do – what America does better than anyone else – is spark the creativity and imagination of our people. We are the nation that put cars in driveways and computers in offices; the nation of Edison and the Wright brothers; of Google and Facebook. In America, innovation does not just change our lives. It is how we make our living. Our free enterprise system is what drives innovation.”
Steve Jobs spunea
“Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.”
Thomas Reuters în TOP 100 GLOBAL INNOVATORS spune
“innovation is the cornerstone of economic growth and success, for both the companies that innovate and the countries that embrace them. For the past several years, talk about innovation has permeated news stories, corporate board rooms and government forums. No wonder the term “innovation” has become a buzz word of the 21st century, especially as companies and nations grapple with a shifting global economy, financial crises of unprecedented proportions and a desire to create the next era of opportunity for future generations. These factors, in conjunction with the awareness at Thomson Reuters of the powerful insights that can be gleaned from studying patent information, prompted us to seize the moment and develop a program that measures innovation from an unbiased and scientific perspective. Patent activity has always been an indicator of innovation. However, innovation comprises much more than mere patent filing volume. As such, we developed a range of metrics based on various facets of innovation that relate to patenting and science. The Thomson Reuters 2011 Top 100 Global InnovatorsSM are companies that invent on
a significant scale; are working on developments which are acknowledged as innovative by patent offices across the world, and by their peers; and, whose inventions are so important that they seek global protection for them. This award acknowledges innovation in its purest form. Being recognized as a Top 100 Global Innovator is a prestigious distinction. It confirms an organization’s commitment to progressing innovation globally, to the protection of ideas and to the commercialization of inventions. Thomson Reuters Top 100 Global Innovators are the world leaders in innovation.”
Criteriile folosite de Thomas Reuters au fost:
1: SUCCESS:
Patenting an invention through one or more patent offices is expensive. Not all patent applications pass through the examination process and are granted. The success metric measures the ratio of published applications (those patents which are filed and publicly published by the patent office but not yet granted) to granted patents over the most recent three years.
2: GLOBAL:
Protecting an invention in major world markets is an indication of the significant value a company places on its intellectual property. The number of “innovative” patents that have quadrilateral patents in their patent families, according to the Thomson Reuters Quadrilateral Patent Index, was calculated to create a ratio that shows which companies place a high value on their portfolios in major world markets. The quadrilateral patent authorities is comprised of the Chinese Patent Office, the European Patent Office, the Japanese Patent Office and the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
3: INFLUENCE:
The impact of an invention “down the line” can be determined by looking at how often it is subsequently cited by other companies in their inventions. Through the Thomson Reuters Derwent Patents Citation Index database, we counted citations to each organizations’ patents over the most recent five years, excluding self-citations, and put a weighted value on this measurement of 50%.
4: VOLUME:
This award focuses on companies that are responsible for generating a sizeable amount of innovation. All organizations with 100 or more “innovative” patents from the most recent three years were included in our analysis. An “innovative” patent is defined as the first publication in a patent document of a new technology, drug, business process, etc. In DWPI, these are called “basic” patents. DWPI provides a record of patents published by nearly 50 patent issuing authorities worldwide to enable a comprehensive picture of the innovation landscape. Subsequent filings for the same invention are recorded as “equivalents” in DWPI and collated in “patent families” and, for this analysis, were not included.
Concluziile acestui raport sunt următoarele:
1. 40% din Companiile cuprinse în acest top sunt nord-americane, 31% sunt din Asia (Japonia are 27%, Coreea de Sud 4%, China nu are nimic chiar dacă are un număr superior de brevete dar fără calitate şi influenţă) şi 29% din Europa (Franţa are 11 companii şi foarte interesant, Lichtenstein).
2. 14 din cele 100 de Companii sunt din sectorul Semiconductor and Electronic Component Manufacturing , unde 50% din Companii sunt din USA şi restul de 43% din Asia.
3. Pentru Europa industriile din top sunt Machinery Industry şi Chemical Manufacturing.
Multe concluzii sunt interesante, însă sub aspectul în discuţie prezintă interes confirmarea unei stări de spirit şi a unei tendinţe: profesionalizarea şi inovaţia fac parte din realitatea care ne înconjoară. Faptul că unii conştientizează mai repede acest aspect este o problemă doar de educaţie şi de nivel al informaţiei. Pentru mine acest raport constituie criteriul care mă ajută să disting demagogul de inovator.
Şi să nu uit: noi avocaţii, de prea multe ori avem impresia ca suntem inovatori, creativi, etc. Acest raport nu cuprinde nicio categorie de servicii, ceea ce înseamnă că inovaţiile noastre nu au ajuns încă la un nivel planetar atât de relevant situaţie în care orgoliul nostru ar trebui să fie mai temperat.
Vedeţi aici ce spune Raportul Thomas Reuters.
