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How patents help us invent the future

I remember my first IBM patent.  Granted to my colleagues and myself in 2005, it was for a topcoat waterproof material for a photoresist—a light-sensitive substance used to make circuit patterns for semiconductor chips. It was a proud moment for me—especially because I knew that this patent contained novel capabilities that were critical for a […]

What Seventh Heaven co-founder Jeffrey Hollander wants to see under stakeholder capitalism

The American Sustainable Business Council chief is thinking about carbon pricing, the minimum wage and tax havens. Read More

The 5 Largest Chinese IPOs of All 2020–and the Thing {} See in 2021 

In annually battered with pandemic-induced economic slowdowns, the worldwide IPO market will finish 2020 using a bangup more than 23 percent in value, in contrast to 2019, based to bookkeeping company KPMG. Five of those 10 largest IPOs of all 2020 (and a few of the best five) happened on exchanges in Hong Kong, Shanghai, […]