Yet Bell Labs also presents a more encompassing and ambitious approach to innovation than what prevails today.

Why study Bell Labs? It offers a number of lessons about how our country’s technology companies - and our country’s longstanding innovative edge - actually came about. I find myself arriving at these doubts after spending five years looking at the innovative process at Bell Labs, the onetime research and development organization of the country’s formerly monopolistic telephone company, AT&T. In fact, our trailblazing digital firms may not be the hothouse environments for creativity we might think. And even in the face of a recession, Silicon Valley’s relentless entrepreneurs have continued to churn out start-up companies with outsize, world-changing ambitions.īut we idealize America’s present culture of innovation too much. It’s hard to disagree, isn’t it? We live in a world dominated by innovative American companies like Apple, Microsoft, Google and Facebook. Kitman last year announced plans to double headcount in the Republic to nearly 90 people with many of the new roles based at its innovation centre in Dublin.“INNOVATION is what America has always been about,” President Obama remarked in his recent State of the Union address.

Among the other backers are ex -Arthur Cox managing partner Pádraig Ó Ríordáin and former rugby international Jamie Heaslip. Other investors include Blue Run Ventures, Sony, along with a number of well-known Irish angels such as former Paddy Power senior executives Patrick Kennedy, Stewart Kenny and Andrew Algeo. Kitman, which has raised over $30 million to date with backers including QVIDTVM, a New York-based investment firm whose managing partner previously led early investments in Airbnb, Dropbox and Peter Thiel’s Palantir while at Morgan Stanley. “We are excited to partner with Presagia Sports clients to create the future of their sports medicine programmes by further developing their electronic medical record capabilities and creating a united approach across all departments,” said Mr Smith, Kitman’s chief executive.

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