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Increasing Diversity in Innovation with The Diversity Pledge
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We’ve made great strides increasing diversity in innovation. This is essential to a company’s success. Yet, some groups as still underrepresented in the intellectual property process. That’s where the Diversity Pledge comes in. The Diversity Pledge helps companies better understand their strengths and weaknesses as they try to improve their statistics through best practices. The companies also share their progress, which helps refine the best practices. For example, experience shows changing terminology from “inventor” to “innovator” will net more participation from groups that may not consider themselves as inventors or that don’t usually participate in the process. In another example, making invention disclosure submission more accessible (preferably with feedback) has a strong impact to the number of invention disclosures that are submitted.
Nathaniel and Elizabeth were joined by Suzanne Harrison, Chair of the Patent Public Advisory Committee at the USPTO, and Frances Winkler, Manager of IP Operations & Innovation Programs at Pure Storage, to explore some of the findings and learn how the Diversity Pledge was implemented at Pure Storage.
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Increasing Diversity in Innovation with The Diversity Pledge
The Semi Interesting Podcast with Nathaniel Lucek and Elizabeth Morris
Manage episode 448940977 series 3434356
We’ve made great strides increasing diversity in innovation. This is essential to a company’s success. Yet, some groups as still underrepresented in the intellectual property process. That’s where the Diversity Pledge comes in. The Diversity Pledge helps companies better understand their strengths and weaknesses as they try to improve their statistics through best practices. The companies also share their progress, which helps refine the best practices. For example, experience shows changing terminology from “inventor” to “innovator” will net more participation from groups that may not consider themselves as inventors or that don’t usually participate in the process. In another example, making invention disclosure submission more accessible (preferably with feedback) has a strong impact to the number of invention disclosures that are submitted.
Nathaniel and Elizabeth were joined by Suzanne Harrison, Chair of the Patent Public Advisory Committee at the USPTO, and Frances Winkler, Manager of IP Operations & Innovation Programs at Pure Storage, to explore some of the findings and learn how the Diversity Pledge was implemented at Pure Storage.
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