Innovation Challenges

Presented by András VedresIFIA President

2011

The pyramid character

Prosperity

I n n o v a t i o n

Invention

Inventor

Invention

Invention

InventorInventor

InventorInventor

Invention

Innovation Calleges

Content:

1.More food

2.More energy

3.More sponsoring of innovation

The world's population is expected to grow

from 6 billion today to about 9 billion by 2050.

There is shortage of food

The eliminating hunger will require significant technological innovations

in food production.

This is the most important challenge in the innovation.

•Plant breeding•Fertilization•Plant protection•Animal breeding•New foods•New Food industrial technologies

Main agro innovation directions

New answer: Genetic Modification

1.Increased quality and yield of the crop 2.Increased tolerance of environmental pressures3.Resistance to viruses, fungi and bacteria 4.Increased tolerance to insect pests 5.Increased tolerance of herbicides

Plant breeding

By hybridization

Plant breeding

By genetic modification

Plant breeding

Pests killer plants

Plant protection

High resistance and productivity

GM animals

Real danger?

GM food

Technological development

Interaction of science and invention

The oil age ends soon end we must produce more and more energy.

How?

This is an important challenge in the innovation.

Renewable energy sources

Renewable energy sources

New energy carriers

New answers: Bio-diesel, Bio-ethanol, Hydrogen, Methanol

An energy carrier is a substance or phenomenon that can be used to produce heat, mechanical work.

Note that coal, oil and natural gas are energy sources which were extracted from the earth (fossil fuels).

Bio-diesel and bio-ethanol

Hydrogen economy

2H2 + O2 2H2O + Energy

Free hydrogen does not occur naturally in quantity, and thus it must be generated from some other energy source by steam reformation of natural gas or water decomposition by heat or electricity.

The term hydrogen economy was coined by John Bockris (1970).

Hydrogen economy

Hydrogen car

Methanol economy

Methanol is a fuel for heat engines and fuel cells. Methanol is a liquid under normal conditions, allowing it to be stored, transported and dispensed easily. It can also be readily transformed into diesel fuel. Methanol is directly prepared from CO2.

CO2 + 3H2 → CH3OH + H2O

CH3OH + 2O2 → 2CO2 + H2O + Energy

The term methanol economy was coined by Gerorge Oláh (2006).

Dr. George Oláh was born and educated in Hungary.

He won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1994.

Methanol economy

Methanol fuel cell

There is the world economic crisis. How can we overcome the crisis?

By assistance of innovation

which is important challenge.

Promote of innovation

•Equal innovation chance for independent inventors, universities and SMEs by simple and cheap patenting and governmental financial support

New answer: EU Patent

International level

National level

Equal chances in patenting

Independent inventor Global company

Country 1 Country 2 Country 3 Country 4 Country 5 Country 6

International level

National level

Equal chances in patenting

Independent inventor Global company

Reduction of international IP protection expenses by EU Patent

Promote of innovation

•Protection against the innovation scams

New answer: to copy U.S. „Inventor Protection Act”

Main complication of innovation

InventorInventionInnovation SCAM

What is the meaning of SCAM?

Origin: 1963, U.S. slang, a carnival term, of unknown origin. Perhaps related to 19c. British slang scamp "cheater, swindler".

-noun:a confidence game or other fraudulent scheme, esp. for making a quick profit; swindle.

-verb:to cheat or defraud with a scam.

The most notorious scamming

The so-called "419 scam” is a type of fraud named after an article of the Nigerian penal code under which it is prosecuted. The scam principle is to get the victim to send cash upfront by promising them a large amount of money.

Inventor Scam

Scams: Persons, innovation promotion companies, and organizations which commercialize inventions

Promises:

Cheap protection of inventionPrototype makingPresenting the idea to industryAdvertising (TV, radio etc.)Investor findingInnovation managing Governmental support

The real scamming purpose

Contract

The result of inventor scamming

No invention commercialization, no innovation but high expenses.

U.S. Inventor Scam Statistics

•About 20 000 victims per year.

•Typical amount (10,000 to $20,000) inventors lose on scam services that don’t pan out.

•Every year, as much as $200 million flows from the wallets of American inventors into the hands of scurrilous promoters and hardly a penny flows back to the unsuspecting inventor.

American Inventors Protection Act

Invention scams are a BIG PROBLEM, US Congress stepped in to help the inventor (1999).

The AIPA legislation was passed to protect the American Inventor from fraudulent invention promotion companies.

Influence of the AIPA

Monitoring of innovation promotion companies, and publish the list of inventor scams.

Fines and Settlement Costs for Invention Scam Cases

Invention promotion firms to pay $60 million in connection with a scheme that defrauded 17 000 inventors (2007). 

Prison Sentences for Invention Scams

8 years:  R. Boulerice, age 62. 6 years: J. Samson, age 61.

The IFIA work concerning against inventor

scamming

•Monitoring the inventor scams out USA•Make proposals for the legislation

Thanks for your attention!

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