They invent all the new terrors and all the new social anxieties.
Sometimes the better mousetraps they invent need a temporary leg up to penetrate existing markets, before they can stand on their own.
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They invent archetypes of different sorts of customers to fine-tune their services.
The same principle could apply to young dreaming birds - they invent bad habits because they cannot hear themselves straying from the proper tune.
They are the 17th largest inventor in the world, 5th largest in the U.S. They invent their own patents, but also invest in patents created others.
Drug firms get a 20-year monopoly on new chemicals they invent, but at least half that time is usually eaten by tests to prove safety and effectiveness.
The unavoidable first response to Myhrvold and his crew is to think of them as a kind of dream team, but, of course, the fact that they invent as prodigiously and effortlessly as they do is evidence that they are not a dream team at all.
Rather, with all their resources, they need to invest in new IPs that they themselves invent.
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They have to be they must invent and reinvent their careers multiple times in just their first few years out of college, and all while managing to repay educational debts.
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"Young theorists especially would love to see supersymmetry go down the drain, because it means that the real thing is something they could invent - not something that was invented by the older generation, " he said.
If, however, they can Think Big, Start Small and Learn Fast, they can invent and own an extraordinary future in which culture, commerce and society reshape around driverless cars, much as those aspects of our current lives were shaped around human-driven cars.
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We're all for technology being used to free wage-slaves from the tedium of their jobs, but until they can invent a robotic bartender that flips bottles and woos patrons a la Tom Cruise in Cocktail, we'll stick with regular old human suds slingers who regale us with their false tales of bravado and sports heroics.
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Japanese drugmakers aren't small because they don't invent many drugs--they're small because they sell them in Japan.
Once our ancestors felt reasonably secure, their ambitions grew and they began to invent technologies of social organization.
While online upstarts such as HotWired struggled to make money--they had to invent the banner ad--print titles flourished.
For everyone else they had to invent plausible reasons to explain their absence from home and work for a period of two months.
Now, if they could just invent an app to replicate the sofa sleeping experience in such a way as to get my dogs outside and exercising on their own.
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Instead, it seems, they prefer to invent imaginary scandals.
No, they didn't invent the idea of trading power and power-generating assets around like hog bellies, but they certainly increased the visibility of this kind of trading.
We asked each person to name the one device they wish somebody would invent.
Each component is unique: When Bentley Mulliner acceded to Ralph Lauren 's request to have "black chrome" instead of the usual bright chrome, they actually had to invent the process to do it.
"Because the American people were the most educated in the world, they were in the best position to invent, be entrepreneurial, and produce goods and services using advanced technologies, " they write (nodding, of course, to other preconditions such as secure property rights and a form of government sympathetic to free markets).
It wants to finance inventors to do what they do best invent and obtain patents on those technologies.
However much Chief Frazier and his colleagues loathed John Polio, the notion that they would fabricate evidence and invent misgivings simply to defame him seems dubious.
The team admit they're not trying to revolutionize the motor industry, or re-invent the wheel (sorry), although they did hint that road applications are being considered, but not without a lot more research and development.
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