Innovation Challenges
Presented by András Vedres
IFIA President
2011
The pyramid character
Prosperity
Innovation
Invention
Inventor
Invention
Inventor
Invention
Invention
Inventor
Inventor
Inventor
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.
Main agro innovation directions
•Plant breeding
•Fertilization
•Plant protection
•Animal breeding
•New foods
•New Food industrial technologies
New answer: Genetic Modification
Plant breeding
1.Increased quality and yield of the crop
2.Increased tolerance of environmental pressures
3.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 protection
Pests killer plants
GM animals
High resistance and productivity
GM food
Real danger?
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
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).
New answers: Bio-diesel, Bio-ethanol, Hydrogen, Methanol
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
CH3OH + 2O2 → 2CO2 + H2O + Energy
CO2 + 3H2 → CH3OH + H2O
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.
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
Equal chances in patenting
Country 1
Country 2
Country 3 Country 4
Country 5 Country 6
International
level
National
level
Independent inventor
Global company
Equal chances in patenting
Reduction of international IP protection expenses by EU Patent
International
level
National
level
Independent inventor
Global company
Promote of innovation
•Protection against the innovation scams
New answer: to copy U.S. „Inventor Protection Act”
Main complication of innovation
Inventor
Invention
Innovation
SCAM
What is the meaning of SCAM?
-noun:
a confidence game or other fraudulent scheme, esp.
for making a quick profit; swindle.
-verb:
to cheat or defraud with a scam.
Origin:
1963, U.S. slang, a carnival term, of unknown origin.
Perhaps related to 19c. British slang scamp "cheater,
swindler".
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
Promises:
Cheap protection of invention
Prototype making
Presenting the idea to industry
Advertising (TV, radio etc.)
Investor finding
Innovation managing
Governmental support
Scams: Persons, innovation promotion companies, and
organizations which commercialize inventions
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!
IFIA