Geography 3422A/B Study Guide - Ibm Mainframe, Patent Office, Materials Science
11 Mar 2013
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How innovative is china valuing patents and the. China"s patent office received more applications than any other country"s in 2011. Patents in china are probably less valuable than those in the us or. Europe: hardly any chinese inventors seek to patent their ideas abroad. Mark mills and julio ottino the coming tech-led boom. In january 1912, the united states emerged from a two-year recession: nineteen more followed, along with a century of phenomenal economic growth, americans in real terms are 700% wealthier today. In january 2012, we sit again on the cusp of three grand technological transformations with the potential to rival that of the past century and all find their epicenters in america: big data. Processing power and data storage are virtually free. A hand-held device has computing power that shames the 1970s-era ibm mainframe. The internet is evolving into the cloud a network of thousands of data centers: smart manufacturing.
