Companies need to look beyond their own walls for great new product ideas, writes Stewart Davies.
In 1954, a group of scientists at Columbia University were working on a device they hoped would magnify electromagnetic waves. They spent $30,000 (£18,000), a large sum in those days, on unsucces...
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