Key insights Industry 4.0 related patents have grown by a factor of 12x in 5 years 3D printing as the up and coming technology showing rapid growth Cloud computing currently with largest patent activity Cyber physical systems with unexpectedly low patent innovation Introduction to Industry… read more →
Learning from past industrial revolutions When the steam engine was invented in 1781, some people believed that the world would soon see the end of manual labor. But the opposite happened. The steam engine created… read more →
In the 1980s IBM had a rock-solid market position in personal computers. Along came a small startup called Microsoft and disrupted the operating system space with DOS and Windows. By the 1990s Microsoft had a… read more →