Such non-practicing entities function as invention houses that conduct brainstorming sessions or continue to invest in developing specific technical innovations, with the patents based on those innovations becoming the source of revenue for the entity.

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Their mission is to facilitate collaborative tasks such as problem solving, exception handling, consensus building, and innovative brainstorming, tasks that cannot be pre-programmed into structured processes or workflows.

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Foreign-policy types from many potential players in a democratic ensemble (including Japan, Brazil, Canada, India, Australia and Britain) will hold a brainstorming session with some of the American thinkers, such as Ivo Daalder and Tony Lake, who are promoting the new concert idea.

ECONOMIST: Concert of Democracies