McKenna's International Review Magazine: Fall-Winter 2019

Innovation seems to everywhere these days.  We see innovation labs popping up, new innovation roles and job titles, innovation committees and other innovation initiatives.  On one level, we should all praise these efforts to actually do something, as opposed to just talking about it.  However, most of these efforts and programs seem to fall into the classic “solution in search of a problem” bucket.  Truth be told, some of these projects do solve a problem, but the point here is that we may be flirting with the lure of a magic button, that just seems to pull lawyers away from the work that really needs to be done.  In the first article in this issue, How As A Firm Leader You Can Harness Innovation, I attempt to present 10 decisive actions that you as firm leader need to consider to help navigate this challenging subject.

Similar in nature to a couple of articles in my Spring issue, I’m including here Exploring Four Lucrative Micro-Niches where I offer more examples of what I believe are potentially lucrative micro-niche areas of specialized focus – Additive Manufacturing or 3D Printing; Climate Change; Synthetic Biology; and the subject of Deep Learning where I have benefited from my collaboration with Nick Brestoff, a long-time litigator, inventor and the holder of 8 patents in this area, who has a new book, AI Concepts for Business Applications that has just been released and worthy of your attention.

Please also have a look at pages 22 and 23 to see examples of what I have been personally working on within just the last 12 months – 4 new books, two of which are over 240 pages in length.  And you can download any or all of these at no cost.