{"id":572,"date":"2007-02-03T00:13:26","date_gmt":"2007-02-02T23:13:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/index.php\/archive\/why-competing-successfully-is-about-a-lot-more-than-just-copying-the-technology\/"},"modified":"2007-02-02T21:01:00","modified_gmt":"2007-02-02T20:01:00","slug":"why-competing-successfully-is-about-a-lot-more-than-just-copying-the-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/2007\/02\/why-competing-successfully-is-about-a-lot-more-than-just-copying-the-technology\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Competing Successfully Is About A Lot More Than Just Copying The Technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Starting off with Apple&#8217;s iPhone patents <a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20070115\/131014.shtml\">Techdirt<\/a> notes this on business model innovation:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There are plenty of things that go into being able to innovate and build a successful product &#8212; and simply copying someone else&#8217;s technology is often a small part of that (and usually not a particularly good strategy). Patent protection only protects that aspect of copying (business model patents are another issue completely), but if they&#8217;re supposed to encourage innovation, and the technology is only a small part of innovation, then the incentives are mis-aligned. The market can reward innovation without needing government monopolies and protectionist policies. <strong>The trick is to continually innovate, not just in the technology, but in the quality, the service and the brand as well.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Follow up the interesting discussions, that expands into the pharma industry, IP and a diversity of innovation issues &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Starting off with Apple&#8217;s iPhone patents Techdirt notes this on business model innovation: There are plenty of things that go into being able to innovate and build a successful product &#8212; and simply copying someone else&#8217;s technology is often a small part of that (and usually not a particularly good strategy). Patent protection only protects [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,11,4],"tags":[44,26,335,450],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}