Intellectual management

A critical requirement for a large laboratory is software to control laboratory workflow while managing the data produced in the laboratory. This software covers manual as well as automated laboratory activities, including experiment scheduling and setup, robot control, raw-data capture and archiving, multiple stages of preliminary analysis and quality control, and release of final results. Additionally, it should allow the coordination of these activities both intellectually manageable and operationally efficient. 

H. L. Hanson, Creativity, Innovation and Intellectual yisset Management, Honeywell, Inc., 1984. 

Technology managers should include the following elements in the plan itself the critical business issues the nature of markets and customers the thmsts of traditional and potential competitors the human resource issues, ie, the skills and abiUties needed to carry out the plan alternatives and contingencies to support the plan a patent and intellectual property strategy and the supporting faciUties and resource plan. The most frequentiy overlooked elements are human resource issues and patent strategies (50). 

Metaphase Metaphase offers a Web-centric information infrastructure that harnesses its customers intellectual capital to drive product innovation and manage the complete product life cycle. 

The requirements for regulatory approval and intellectual property management, and in particular the ability to file USPTO patent submissions, do place constraints on what systems can be applied for record keeping, but the good news is that there are no insurmountable barriers to these records being captured and managed electronically. 

Bodini S. EU software patent law is dead managing intellectual property. Weekly News, 11 July 2005. Accessible at http //www.managingip.com/ Page= 9 PUBID=198 ISS=17456 SID=524170 SM=ALL SearchStr=computer-... 

See, for example. National Institute for Health Care Management Foundation, August, Prescription drugs and intellectual property protection, NICHM Foundation, Issue Brie/(Washington, DC). 

In firms such as Infosys, intellectual capital lies distributed among employees who can determine the extent and quality of their intellectual contributions. As Infosys s chairman pointed out, the firm s intellectual assets walk out of the door every evening and it is the management s responsibility to ensure that they return the next morning. 

Medications to manage behavioral problems may be needed at any or all stages of dementia. The key issue is the same at all three stages. The behavioral problem should be eliminated (or at least minimized) without worsening the patient s intellectual difficulties further. This is sometimes no small task because dementia patients may be quite sensitive to the sedative or anticholinergic effects of many psychiatric medications. 

National Institute for Health Care Management, Prescription Drugs and Intellectual Property Protection (Aug. 2000) at 3. 

In 1998 a Californian (MMWR, 2001) mother requested a blood lead level determination for her 18-month-old child. The result was a blood lead level (BLL) of 26 LLg/dl, which was well above the Center for Disease Control s (CDC) recommended criterion for clinical case management. It was subsequently found that the father had a BLL of 46 ( lg/dl, which was above the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) requirement that workers with BLLs greater than 40 lg/dl receive additional medical examinations. Further testing found that his 4-month-old daughter had a BLL of 24 Rg/dl. This worker was employed in a company that refinished antique furniture, some of which was covered with lead-based paint. Subsequent testing of co-workers found that two refinishers had BLLs of 29 and 54 Rg/dl and four carpenters had BLLs of 46, 46, 47, and 56 ( lg/dl. A child in another family had a BLL of 16 ( lg/dl. What will be the long-term effects on the intellectual abilities of these children ... 

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