HP Labs has been Hewlett - Packard's engine of innovation for decades, but the division won a lot of attention this year when it began talking about the Machine, an ambitious project to create an entirely new computing architecture capable of handling the ever - increasing demands of big data and the Internet of things. (fortune.com)
When universities sell patents to trolls, it directly undermines the role that they play as engines of innovation: the more patents trolls hold in a certain area of technology, the more dangerous that field is for innovators. (eff.org)
This saps intellectual capital from the real engine of innovation and ingenuity, the private sector. (usfunds.com)