Licensing deals can fail, not because of bad technology, but simply because the licensee is cutting costs!

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Why Mark Zuckerberg should sell Facebook now!

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The revolution continues and the pace of change increases.
3D Systems, one of the larger machine companies last night (21 Feb 2011) announced a move down the value chain by acquiring Quickparts, the premier provider of 3D prototypes and parts in America.
Interestingly, the CEO of Quickparts commented,
“With Quickparts, under the capable leadership of Ron Hollis, we take [...]

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Way, way back in the pre GFC world (2008) we blogged about the impending revolution that 3D printers will unleash on commerce.
3D printers provide a revolutionary way of bringing products to market and promise to totally revolutionise working capital requirements. If included in a product development process, it has the potential to remove a wide range of both capex [...]

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There has been much debate over the last 30 years about the fate of the global auto industry. The headlines often scream of the imminent death of an industry that transports hundreds of millions of people daily.
However, unlike a Movie, where plot points drive you to a conclusion that satisfies our expectations; Life, markets and indeed evolution, simply never delivers an ending as [...]

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When I am really sick, I see a Doctor. Why? Because they are trained to assess the symptoms/data/evidence I present with. In essence I trust that they know what they are doing.
This trust is based on my understanding that through a unique and powerful combination of training, education and experience they are able to assess the data and from [...]

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Web3.0 has arrived

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The following piece appeared in September 28th edition of Bioshares #330, Australia’s leading analysis and commentary on the Biotech sector. It summarises our out take on the 2009 Bioshares conference held at Thredbo in September.

Don’t worry about your Technology, show me the Strategy

The 2009 Thredbo summit graphically illustrated why strategy is becoming increasingly more valuable [...]

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We presented recently (June 15th &16th) at the Australian Medical Technology conference held in Sydney. The conference brought together some of the regions leading firms and discussed a wide range of issues.
I was fortunate to present, in conjunction with David James from Invetech and Travis Hardy from ARRK on Design for Manufacturing and how many [...]

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It would seem that the Australian Federal Government is still under intense pressure to follow the tired and hopeless old formula to solving the hospital bed crisis. The Australian Medical Association is pressuring the Government to “immediately spend at least $3 billion on 3,750 new public hospital beds and the staff and infrastructure to service [...]

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