>>From Innovation:
[This excerpt doesn't name the companies in this niche. One is Utopia, run
by a couple of ex-Apollonites (and ex-Wildfirians), Kee Hinckley and Brian
Holt-Hawthorne, here in Lexington.]
>>From Edupage:
[One man's Utopia is another's disaster.]
TECHNICAL TRAINING ON THE RISE
With the number of high school graduates estimated to increase by 20% over
the next five years, and military recruiting down, technical schools stand
to gain significantly from the "unsatiated demand for technically trained
people," says an analyst with Smith Barney. "There will be chronic
unemployment well into the year 2000 due to the shift from manufacturing
to a knowledge-based, technically oriented society." (Investor's Business
Daily 1995-04-07 A6)
ONLINE SOUND BITES FROM ACADEMIA
University public relations officers will start spending more time as
"information brokers," says the developer of Profnet -- an Internet-based
service (profnet@sunysb.edu) that lets journalists get professorial sound
bites on breaking news stories via e-mail inquiries to the PR offices of
academic institutions. Colleges and universities currently pay Profnet
$150 to $600 to get added to the list. (Lingua Franca, Mar./Apr.'95, p.4)
PATENT COURT REDUCES ROLE OF JURIES
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has issued a ruling that
makes judges, rather than juries, responsible for determining what a patent
covers (based on the patent itself and the accompanying documentation) when
there is a dispute about the nature of the particular technological
innovation described by the patent. Because judges tend to be less
sympathetic to inventors than juries are, the ruling is likely to reduce
the number of plaintiff victories in patent infringement cases. (New York
Times 1995-04-08 p.21)
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