Innovation Challenges

1. Innovation Challenges Presented by András Vedres IFIA President 2011

2. Prosperity I n n o v a t i o n Invention Invention Invention Invention Inventor Inventor Inventor Inventor Inventor The pyramid character

3. Content: • More food • More energy • More sponsoring of innovation Innovation Calleges

4. The world's population is expected to grow from 6 billion today to about 9 billion by 2050.

5. There is shortage of food

8. The eliminating hunger will require significant technological innovations in food production. This is the most important challenge in the innovation.

9. Main agro innovation directions Plant breeding Fertilization Plant protection Animal breeding New foods New Food industrial technologies New answer: Genetic Modification

10. Plant breeding Increased quality and yield of the crop Increased tolerance of environmental pressures Resistance to viruses, fungi and bacteria Increased tolerance to insect pests Increased tolerance of herbicides

11. Plant breeding By hybridization

12. Plant breeding By genetic modification

13. Plant protection Pests killer plants

14. GM animals High resistance and productivity

15. GM food Real danger?

16. Technological development Interaction of science and invention

17. The oil age ends soon end we must produce more and more energy. How? This is an important challenge in the innovation.

19. Renewable energy sources

20. Renewable energy sources

21. 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 energy carriers New answers: Bio-diesel, Bio-ethanol,Hydrogen,Methanol

22. Bio-diesel and bio-ethanol

23. 2H2O + Energy 2H2 + O2 Hydrogen economy 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).

24. Hydrogen economy

25. Hydrogen car

26. CH3OH + 2O2 → 2CO2 + H2O + Energy Methanol economy 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 directlyprepared from CO2. The term methanol economy was coined by Gerorge Oláh(2006).

27. Dr. George Oláh was born and educated in Hungary. He won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1994.

28. Methanol economy

29. Methanol fuel cell

30. There is the world economic crisis. How can we overcome the crisis? By assistance of innovationwhichis important challenge.

31. Equal innovation chance for independent inventors, universities and SMEs by simple and cheap patenting and governmental financial support Promote of innovation New answer: EU Patent

32. Country 1 Country 2 Country 3 Country 4 Country 5 Country 6 International level National level Independent inventor Global company Equal chances in patenting

33. International level National level Independent inventor Global company Reduction of international IP protection expenses by EU Patent Equal chances in patenting

34. Protection against the innovation scams Promote of innovation New answer: to copy U.S. „Inventor Protection Act”

35. Main complication of innovation SCAM InventorInventionInnovation

36. 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".

37. 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. The most notorious scamming

38. Promises: Cheap protection of inventionPrototype makingPresenting the idea to industryAdvertising (TV, radio etc.)Investor findingInnovation managing Governmental support Inventor Scam Scams:Persons, innovation promotion companies, and organizations which commercialize inventions

39. The real scamming purpose Contract

40. The result of inventor scamming No invention commercialization, no innovationbut high expenses.

41. 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.

42. Invention scams are a BIG PROBLEM, US Congress stepped in to help the inventor (1999). American Inventors Protection Act The AIPA legislation was passed to protect the American Inventor from fraudulent invention promotion companies.

43. 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 inconnection with a scheme that defrauded 17000 inventors (2007).  Prison Sentences for Invention Scams 8 years:R. Boulerice, age 62. 6 years: J. Samson, age 61.

44. The IFIA work concerning against inventor scamming Monitoring the inventor scams out USA Make proposals for the legislation

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