In time for St. Patrick’s day, GoIreland (an Irish booking engine) has created an Infographic listing 10 weird things invented by the Irish. These include:
(via broadsheet)
GOOD and Common Five have collaborated to produce an informative infographic on the “dwindling pool of future U.S. innovators” and the reasons that keeps students from fields typically associated with innovation. It provides a good understanding of why many young people aren’t looking at the fields of Science Technology Engineering and Maths as a possible future career paths.
30% of young people surveyed said that they find Science Technology Engineering Maths (STEM) topics “too challenging”. Along with this 45% of students reported that “invention is not given enough attention in school.” and only 22% of the 16-25 year-olds said that they would be motivated by “jobs that would give them a chance to change the world.”
The full detailed infographic is available at good.is.
(via publicyte.com)
Part 4 of Kirby Ferguson’s Everything is a Remix series investigating social evolution and the meaning of copyright. To watch the entire series, check out Everything is a Remix.
Everything is a Remix Part 4 from Kirby Ferguson on Vimeo.
For more on Patent trolls, check out This American Life’s excellent podcast on the companies that ‘amass huge troves of patents and make money by threatening lawsuits’.
Inspired by last year’s This American Life episode When Patents Attack!, Jason (Frugal Dad) created a superb infographic highlighting “some of the facts behind the patent industry and how it’s changed as software, technology, and the internet have developed at an incredible pace”.
Source: http://frugaldad.com
Good and Column Five have put together an infographic based on the most innovative countries and industries.
The methodology used was based on four primary criteria:
The U.S. comes first as the most innovative country, with France and Sweden the most innovative in Europe.
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(via bitrebels.com)
Socialcast have created a fascinating infographic looking at how social business tools are entering the workplace and facilitating greater collaboration among a diverse range of groups. The graphic is based on data from a Forbes Insight survey of 321 executives from large, global enterprises and a paper on Diversity Management for Innovation from a team of UK researchers.
(via Socialcast)
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