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Future Now: Next-Generation Sports Doping

This is Michael Rasmusne's save. Coming from a Dane...

Next-Generation Sports Doping: "New drugs in clinical trials for muscle-wasting diseases could become the next big thing for athletes."

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FUTURE NOW: Starpharma and Durex Sign Co-Development Agreement for VivaGel-Coated Condoms

JUST ANOTHER PROOF OF FUTURE NOW. NANO IS HOMING IN ON DAILY LIFE....

Starpharma and Durex Sign Co-Development Agreement for VivaGel-Coated Condoms: "Starpharma Holdings Ltd today announced the signing of an agreement with SSL International plc, owner of Durex, the world’s leading condom brand."

(Via Nanotechnology News from Nanowerk.)

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Finland is the world's most innovative economy. So here's the secret! To patent or not to patent? An innovation-level investigation of the propensity to patent This study seeks to shed new light on the complex relationship between patents and innovations that has remained extremely elusive thus far. This study seeks to shed new light on the complex relationship between patents and innovations that has remained extremely elusive thus far. The objective of the present study is to contribute to our understanding of which innovations are patented - and which are not - by analyzing the patenting decision for circa 800 Finnish innovations. The data sample of 791 Finnish innovations used in the study is drawn from the Sfinno database compiled at VTT Innovation Studies (formerly VTT Group for Technology Studies). In an effort to compile the Sfinno database, a systematic review of 18 carefully selected trade and technical journals from the period 1985-1998 has been complemented with a review of annual reports of large firms from the same period as well as with expert opinion-based identification of innovations. Since the Sfinno approach heavily relies on public sources in the identification of innovations, it is clearly more conducive to studying product than process innovations. Hence innovations only developed for the firm's internal use are not included in the Sfinno database. The results show....first,...that larger, i.e. more novel and significant, innovations are patented more frequently than smaller ones. Second, technologically very complex innovations appear to be patented less often than others, while the fragmentation of intellectual property rights to cumulatively developing technology seems to entail high propensities to patent (Very iNTERESTING) . Third, the results indicate that the propensity to patent varies across technology classes and declines with product market competition. Fourth, collaboration with scientific institutions appears to have a positive impact on the propensity to patent, while the estimations fail to produce evidence that public R&D support or collaboration with other types of partners would affect the propensity to patent. Finally, there appears to be a U-shaped relationship between firm size and the propensity to patent, which can be attributed to a relatively large extent to economies of scale in the patenting activity as well as to the relatively important role of patenting in start-up ventures. The "

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AlphaGalileo.Org - the Internet-based news centre for European science, engineering and technology.: "About Us Site Help Contact Us Log-on      The world's leading resource for European research news    View All    Science    Arts    Technology    Health    Society    Humanities       You are in: View all » Books » Announcement  Register as a journalist for full access Register as a contributor to post your news AlphaGalileo Home About Us Register Press Releases Calendar Books Library Links Broadcast media Expert service Address book Search Advanced search   Books Printable version For further information, please contact: Please register to view contact details Posted on behalf of: Technical Research Centre of Finland (VTT) 12 October 2007 Nordic ICT Foresight. Futures of the ICT environment and applications on the Nordic level Title Author: Publication type Other Number of pages 0 Price 0.00 The Nordic ICT Foresight project was launched in May 2005 with research partners VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, FOI (Sweden), SINTEF ("

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Several years ago I worked on a project where we implemented the solution, BUT we did not know the science behind it. Maybe they do in Spain?? 16 October 2007 New Wastewater Treatment System For Removing Heavy Metals. The presence in the environment of large quantities of toxic metals such as mercury, lead, cadmium, zinc or others, poses serious health risks to humans, and this threat puts the scientific community under pressure to develop new methods to detect and eliminate toxic contaminants from wastewaters in e"

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A Genetic Test for Diabetes Risk

Another FUTURE NOW phenomenon

A Genetic Test for Diabetes Risk: "New tests that detect genes for common diseases are reaching the consumer market. But will they help make people healthier?"

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