The Leah-Smith America Invents Act—or AIA for short—was enacted just over one year ago. In this brief article, I discuss some of the provisions that may affect your start-up’s decisions as to how best protect its inventions and look out for your competition.

With rapidly rising interest in the topic of "Data Science," we’ve seen a lot of excitement but also a lot of confusion. As the topic heats up, organizations everywhere are grappling with what it means to them and how it's changing their landscapes. In this time of mixed excitement and anxiety, it pays to demystify data science so that organizations can better come to grips with the underlying story and navigate the opportunities ahead.

To explore this a bit further, we spoke with Thomas Thurston, CEO of Growth Science, and the organizer of Innovator’s Anonymous, a unique workshop where innovators from the world's top, most sophisticated businesses come together to dip their toes into the pool of data science in an unconventional way.