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A model for device development | Researchers at the Stanford University Program in Biod... - 2 views

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medical device development

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clinical need.
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estimated market size and clinical impact associated with each.
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prior art related
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barriers to further development exist from an intellectual property perspective
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Inventors must also determine if they are in a position to efficiently seize the market opportunity.
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regulatory considerations, reimbursement strategies, intellectual property, and business development objectives. This leads to Phase I of the development model.
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R&D in Phase II is responsible for generating early concepts. Brainstorming sessions are often held during this stage of development with members of R&D, marketing, and physician consultants. Computational analyses, such as stress and flow studies, are conducted to further understand the behavior of a proposed device. The team often develops a 3D CAD model of a proposed device
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medical device development steps

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Using Nondominion to Evolve from Local to Global Commons - P2P Foundation - 0 views

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nondominium p2pfoundation *chriscook *markfrazier *elenorostrom *valnoraleister

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5 “As” (Architecture, Adaptiveness, Accountability, Allocation and Access) in the governance of the global commons for the benefit of humanity."
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the new framework focuses on veto rights – rather than recognized ownership claims
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mutual benefit.
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an association of beneficiaries.
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A trustee (custodian) for the CHM would be elected by the representatives
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to oversee the legal operation of a collective entity
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The representatives would also appoint a Manager, for a parallel partnership venture, to identify opportunities to develop the common pool resource in accord with a transparent revenue-sharing formula
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Each representative would have power to exercise a veto with regard to the resource development proposal(s) circulated by the manager.
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Once an agreed formula (non-vetoed by the countries) emerged for recognizing needed inputs, and for overall revenue-sharing, the manager of the nondominium partnership would arrange open tenders to seek economic partners to maximize the value of the common pool resources.
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Revenues from ensuing activities would be distributed to the association members on the originally-agreed basis
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Oversight of compliance would rest with the nondominium’s trustee
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Ostrom’s key principles of successful collective choice agreements and monitoring by independent auditors.
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Moreover, it does not confer the active power of control held under common law by a Trustee on behalf of beneficiaries,
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the proposed negative or passive veto right of stewardship differs fundamentally from conventional property rights of absolute ownership and temporary use under Condominium
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The Caspian Partnership agreement would comprise a master framework agreement within which a myriad of associative agreements between the Caspian littoral nations individually or severally would be registered.”
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encourage Ostrom’s user association-based systems of economic governance
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"Areas recognized as being the heritage of mankind are defined by treaties as falling outside of nation-state jurisdiction and ownership, and are to be instead developed on a basis that benefits all human beings
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the combination of Elinor Ostrom’s economic governance strategies with nondominium legal structures can lead to a new basis for common pool resources to be developed on a basis benefiting all of humanity.
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Goodbye, Dilbert: 'The Rise of the Naked Economy' » Knowledge@Wharton - 2 views

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sensorica the rise of the naked economy book review

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“teaming”: bringing together a team of professionals for a specific task
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The old cubicle-based, static company is increasingly being replaced by a more fluid and mobile model: “the constant assembly, disassembly, and reassembly of people, talent, and ideas around a range of challenges and opportunities.”
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Therefore, the new economy and its “seminomadic workforce” will require “new places to gather, work, live, and interact.”
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The consumer electronics company Plantronics, for example, knowing that on any given day 40% of its workforce will be working elsewhere, designed its corporate campus to only 60% capacity
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Their joint enterprise, NextSpace, became their first venture into what they call “coworking,” or the creation of “shared collaborative workspaces.”
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also nurtures what the authors call “managed serendipity” — ad hoc collaboration between people with diverging but complementary skills
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the number of coworking spaces worldwide has shot up from 30 in 2006 to 1,130 in 2011
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someone needs to keep an eye on the big picture, to “connect the dots.”
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workspaces are designed on a flexible, on-demand and as-needed basis
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Coonerty and Neuner found that the most productive collaborations tended to pair highly specialized experts with big-picture thinkers
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they were struck by the number of entrepreneurs and freelancers working at coffee shops in the area
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Business Talent Group
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Clients get the specialized help they need at a cost below that of a full-time employee or traditional consulting firm, and specialists are well compensated and rewarded with flexible schedules and a greater degree of choice about which projects to take.
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This has produced a new market dynamic in which the headhunter of yesteryear has been replaced by “talent brokers” who connect highly specialized talent with companies on a project-by-project basis
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Matthew Mullenweg, doesn’t have much faith in traditional office buildings or corporate campuses: “I would argue that most offices are full of people not working.”
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On the other hand, Mullenweg is a big believer in face-to-face collaboration and brainstorming, and flies his teams all over the globe to do so.
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He also set up an informal workspace in San Francisco called the Lounge
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Additionally, a 2010 Kauffman-Rand study worried that employer-based health insurance, by discouraging risk-taking, will be an ongoing drag on entrepreneurship
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the problem of payroll taxes for freelancers
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up to 44% of independent workers encounter difficulty getting paid fully for their work
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Innovation Canada: A Call to Action - Review of Federal Support to Research and Develop... - 1 views

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Industry Canada

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Canada has a solid foundation on which to build success as a leader in the knowledge economy of tomorrow
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innovation in Canada lags behind other highly developed countries
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innovation is the ultimate source of the long-term competitiveness of businesses and the quality of life of Canadians
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We heard that the government should be more focussed on helping innovative firms to grow and, particularly, on serving the needs of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs)
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greater cooperation with provincial programs
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innovation support is too narrowly focussed on R&D – more support is needed for other activities along the continuum from ideas to commercially useful innovation
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more productive and internationally competitive economy
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whole-of-government program delivery vehicle – the Industrial Research and Innovation Council (IRIC)
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SR&ED program should be simplified
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includes non-labour costs, such as materials and capital equipment, the calculation of which can be highly complex
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the base for the tax credit should be labour-related costs, and the tax credit rate should be adjusted upward
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fund direct support measures for SMEs
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promoting the growth of firms
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facilitating access by such firms to an increased supply of risk capital at both the start-up and later stages of their growth.
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building public–private research collaborations
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National Research Council (NRC) should become independent collaborative research organizations
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become affiliates of universities
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create opportunity and demand for leading-edge goods
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encouragement of innovation in the Canadian economy should become a stated objective of procurement policies and programs.
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the government needs to establish business innovation as a whole-of-government priority
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put innovation at the centre of the government's economic strategy
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Innovation Advisory Committee (IAC) – a body with a whole-of-government focus that would oversee the realization of our proposed action plan, as well as serve as a permanent mechanism to promote the refinement and improvement of the government's business innovation programs going forward.
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focus resources where market forces are unlikely to operate effectively or efficiently and, in that context, address the full range of business innovation activities, including research, development, commercialization and collaboration with other key actors in the innovation ecosystem
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the closer the activity being supported is to market, and therefore the more likely it is that the recipient firm will capture most of the benefit for itself.
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specific sectors
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of strategic importance
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concentrated in particular regions
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succeed in the arena of global competition
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- Tiberius Brastaviceanu on 05 Feb 14
  
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- Tiberius Brastaviceanu on 05 Feb 14
  
  they are still stuck in the competitive paradigm
  
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- Tiberius Brastaviceanu on 05 Feb 14
  
  Still stack with the old paradigm of the "knowledge economy" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_economy My opinion is that we're moving into a know-how economy.
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Still stack with the old paradigm of the "knowledge economy" <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_economy " rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_economy </a> My opinion is that we're moving into a know-how economy. </div>
  
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Trends in the Living Networks | Ross Dawson on opportunities for business and society i... - 0 views

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trends web2.0 technology community

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Action (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) - 0 views

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action theoretical theory paper

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intentionally
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questions about the nature, variety, and identity of action
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Should we think of the consequences, conventional or causal, of physical behavior as constituents of an action distinct from but ‘generated by’ the movement? Or should we think that there is a single action describable in a host of ways?
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Donald Davidson
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an action
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is something an agent does that was ‘intentional under some description,’
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there have been many attempts to map the relations between intentions for the future, acting intentionally, and acting with a certain intention.
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There has been a notable or notorious debate about whether the agent's reasons in acting are causes of the action
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rendered the action intelligible in his eyes
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things that merely happen
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things they genuinely do
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distinction between
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the doings, are the acts or actions of the agent
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what distinguishes an action from a mere happening or occurrence?
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An agent performs activity that is directed at a goal
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adopted on the basis of an overall practical assessment of his options and opportunities
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awareness
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that he is performing the activity
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and that the activity is aimed by him at such-and-such a chosen end
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It is frequently noted that the agent has some sort of immediate awareness of his physical activity and of the goals that the activity is aimed at realizing.
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‘knowledge without observation.’
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It is also important to the concept of ‘goal directed action’ that agents normally implement a kind of direct control or guidance over their own behavior.
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For many years, the most intensely debated topic in the philosophy of action concerned the explanation of intentional actions in terms of the agent's reasons for acting
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Davidson and other action theorists defended the position that reason explanations are causal explanations
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In the foregoing, reference has been made to explanations of actions in terms of reasons, but recent work on agency has questioned whether contemporary frameworks for the philosophy of action have really articulated the way in which an agent's desires and other pro-attitudes have the distinctive force of reasons in the setting of these ordinary explanations
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