Google and Apple have different innovation signatures
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Google and Apple have different innovation signatures
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Re: Google and Apple have different innovation signatures
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Re: Google and Apple have different innovation signatures
#3> "Over the past 10 years Apple has produced 10,975 patents with a team of 5,232 inventors, and Google has produced 12,386 with a team of 8,888," writes Wes Bernegger, data explorer at Periscopic. Those numbers are, frankly, pretty similar in terms of proportion.
Ummm, Apple's 2.0977 patents per inventor and Google's 1.3936 patents per inventor are pretty _dissimilar_, I'd think, unless many companies have yet more or far fewer.
Re: Google and Apple have different innovation signatures
#4I'm not sure I buy the argument that Apple's inventors per patent means they're a more open or egalitarian companY. The hotspots seems to suggest that Apple just has a culture of giving management credit on the patents.
Re: Google and Apple have different innovation signatures
#5> "Over the past 10 years Apple has produced 10,975 patents with a team of 5,232 inventors, and Google has produced 12,386 with a team of 8,888," writes Wes Bernegger, data explorer at Periscopic. Those numbers are, frankly, pretty similar in terms of proportion. Ummm, Apple's 2.0977 patents per inventor and Google's 1.3936 patents per inventor are pretty _dissimilar_, I'd think, unless many companies have yet more o…
Close enough, no?
Or: if we've got data let's go with the data. If all we've got is opinions let's go with mine.
Re: Google and Apple have different innovation signatures
#6Wonder if part of it has to do with incentive structures for patents? My understanding is that at Google, if you have If Apple has a different structure, this may account for the differences.
Re: Google and Apple have different innovation signatures
#7This seems to say more about the incentives around patents at Apple and Google than it says about innovation or anything else at those companies. In particular, it seems to say that patents are more highly encouraged at Apple and that there's more incentive to put them in your own name at Google.
Re: Google and Apple have different innovation signatures
#8Wonder if part of it has to do with incentive structures for patents? My understanding is that at Google, if you have If Apple has a different structure, this may account for the differences.
How interesting, that the company gives out bonuses for patents. I would not be surprised if Apple doesn't do this, much like how their retail staff don't get paid in commission.
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#9This entirely ignores the politics that lead to people listed on a patent that contributed nothing. It happens a lot, if not almost always, on patents filed by employees at a large company.
Re: Google and Apple have different innovation signatures
#10Wonder if part of it has to do with incentive structures for patents? My understanding is that at Google, if you have If Apple has a different structure, this may account for the differences.
This is exactly right, and the X was 4 in 2014. Not sure if it's changed since I left.