How organisations produce genuinely new things.
9 topics · 5 curated works
No prior grounding assumed.
What Researchers Think About the Culture They Work In
Wellcome Trust · 2020
A large survey of working scientists finding that competitive pressure has produced bullying, poor mental health and short-termism, arguing research…
Assumes you know the vocabulary.
WIPO Intellectual Property Handbook: Policy, Law and Use
World Intellectual Property Organization · 2004
The organisation's own reference guide to patents, trademarks, copyright and trade secrets, arguing firms and states get more value from IP by…
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5 works
Wellcome Trust
A large survey of working scientists finding that competitive pressure has produced bullying, poor mental health and short-termism, arguing research culture, not just funding, determines what science gets done.
World Intellectual Property Organization
The organisation's own reference guide to patents, trademarks, copyright and trade secrets, arguing firms and states get more value from IP by treating protection, licensing and enforcement as one coordinated strategy.
Clayton Christensen (Said Business School, University of Oxford)
Argues that incumbents lose to cheaper, initially worse entrants because listening to their most profitable customers is rational at every step; the theory's predictive record has been contested since.
link checked 17 Sept 2026OECD
The methodological standard defining what counts as R&D and how to measure it, arguing that consistent measurement, not just funding, is what lets organisations and governments manage research investment.
link checked 17 Sept 2026OECD
The joint OECD/Eurostat standard defining what counts as innovation and how to measure it across product, process, organisational and marketing activity, arguing consistent definitions are what let firms and states compare innovative effort.
link checked 17 Sept 2026