Email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. CLICK HERE TO VISIT OUR SITE January 2014 UPDATE There were no better places to see the resilience of advanced manufacturing and the convergence of new technologies than during the Consumer Electronics Show and North American International Auto Show this month. The automotive industry has drawn center spotlight as new, connected, eco-friendly, safer vehicles are produced globally. Everyone has a role to play from Silicon Valley to the automotive R&D centers around the planet. The AutoHarvest ecosystem brings you One-Click-Closer™ to new relationships and partnerships that drive the adoption of innovation. Through our work with the United States Army Tank Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Center, we are now featuring in our searchable database over 70 high tech Army labs potentially available to innovators to save time and cost in prototyping and testing new technologies. The Innovation Hub continues to expand its membership. For example, learn more about Austin, Texas based idealAsset, which is offering a free trial to AutoHarvest members for its powerful business development tool that pairs innovators and commercializers. We are delighted to be participating with SME in the Detroit Technology Interchange which features NASA technologies relating to advanced manufacturing and mobility. We have published our roster of scheduled expos for 2014, and we hope to see you at one of these outstanding industry events. The AutoHarvest Team COLLABORATE, INNOVATE AND WIN Join - BETA Featured Members Log-in to our Beta System and use the Smart SearchTM tool to view a Featured Member and their content. TARDEC The U.S. Army Tank Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Center (TARDEC) scientists, engineers and researchers are the heart of a global ground systems science, technology and engineering integration network that keeps our military the best-equipped and most advanced fighting force in the world. We are proud to present over 70 Research Capabilities that include their entire set of their publicly available capabilities in our searchable database so you can now directly connect with TARDEC to learn more about their network of laboratories, facilities, and simulators. Learn more by logging in Inmatech Inmatech is an emerging company dedicated to next generation supercapacitors that incorporate low-cost, high-performing materials to optimize energy storage for a number of key industries. Learn more by logging in UBIFRANCE- French Embassy Trade Office UBIFRANCE North America, the French Trade Commission promotes French technologies and assists French companies as they expand to the region. As a member of the global French diplomatic network, UBIFRANCE professionals provide a comprehensive range of services including, consulting, market outlook, benchmarking, management organization, commercial sessions, new contact selection and prospection, tradeshows, seminars/conferences, as well as press and communication materials design. Learn more by logging in Challenges Innovation 2030 - Worldwide Innovation Challenge This Challenge will encourage the talents of today in order to create the collective wealth of tomorrow, whether these talents are in France or abroad. The French government thus hopes to attract the world's best talents, so they can complete their projects in France. More information Innovation Hub idealAsset idealAsset is offering a 45 day free trial and 25% off the retail price for AutoHarvest Members. We use a powerful matching algorithm to pair IP sellers with IP buyers automatically. We also pair IP Buyers and their specific needs with available IP - think push AND pull. We use a double opt-in model so only when both parties agree to connect is a match completed. Our platform reduces the time to find, value, prioritize and close a deal. Learn more Innovation Hub: Recommended Reading Innovation Management Read about how to systematically integrate B2B customers in the firm’s Open Innovation system Read: 'Customer Integration in B2B Open Innovation' Intellectual Asset Management Magazine Read about why it's important to talk about patents in terms of real estate Read: 'Why it’s all about location' Upcoming Events SME Technology Interchange featuring NASA February 19, 2014 | College for Creative Studies -- Detroit, Michigan Join technology and innovation leaders for this one-day event. Featuring NASA technologies, this interchange will bring together a broad community of stakeholders from industry, academia, and the U.S. government to engage in strategy development, partnership building, and implementation of ways to foster technology collaboration and innovation. Produced by SME in cooperation with New Economy Initiative for Southeast Michigan. ICLE Intellectual Property Spring Seminar March 24, 2014 | Michigan State University -- East Lansing, Michigan Join the AutoHarvest Workshop entitled "Automotive Technology in the Age of Open Innovation and Collaboration." This interactive panel will discuss increasing innovation in the global marketplace through collaboration across disparate sectors. See how open innovation systems work in the context of the IP program at Ford Global Technologies. Witness live demonstrations of powerful business intelligence and collaboration software emerging from AutoHarvest and ktMINE. Get your questions answered about how this technology can enhance your practice and increase your clients' competitive edge and success. Witness the power of automotive technology to make open innovation and collaboration work for your clients. Get expert insight on recent caselaw, hot topics, and developments at the USPTO. Network with your IP colleagues, seasoned practitioners, and USPTO officials. SAE 2014 World Congress April 8-10, 2014 | Cobo Center -- Detroit, Michigan The SAE 2014 World Congress assembles the best talent in the automotive industry; experts, management teams, engineers, and executives alike gather to collaborate and address current challenges, celebrate evolution and achievement over the last 100+ years, and promote the multitude of opportunities fundamental for a successful future. Energy Mobility Conference and Exhibition 2014 April 28-30, 1014 | San Diego, California This multi-track event will guide you from technology innovation and materials discovery through device packaging and integration to manufacturing and application in a mobile power marketplace by exploring the emerging issues underlining this pivotal time in the energy conversion and storage industry. The Big M Manufacturing Convergence June 9-12, 2014 | Cobo Center -- Detroit, Michigan AutoHarvest will be exhibiting at the Big M Manufacturing Convergence. THE BIG M is an unprecedented event to celebrate manufacturing. Together, leveraging the collective power of an industry, we can find solutions to manufacturing's most complex issues and technical challenges. Biodetection Technologies 2014 June 10-11, 2014 | Baltimore, Maryland The 22nd conference in our Detection Technologies conference series - is an internationally recognized meeting for experts in detection & identification of biological threats and point-of-care analytical methods. This conference will review feedback from the end-users on biodefense and biomedical technologies and explore the cutting-edge in R&D and commercialization efforts in the field. Food Safety 2014 June 12, 2014 | Baltimore, Maryland This symposium features presentations on emerging optical, nanotechnological, spectroscopic and electrochemical technologies for pathogen detection, including label-free and high-throughput methods. Novel ligands for pathogen capture will also be examined. Benefits and challenges of these new methods and their comparison with existing techniques will be discussed. Label-free approaches and the advantages of novel bioaffinity ligands will be highlighted. IP Business Congress - Amsterdam June 22-24, 2014 | Okura Hotel -- Amsterdam, Netherlands AutoHarvest will be participating at the Amsterdam IP Business Congress. The IP Business Congress Global (IPBC Global) returns to Europe at a time when far-reaching reforms of the patent system could herald major changes in the continent's IP marketplace. The introduction of the unitary EU patent and the Unified Patent Court will see the emergence of a single European patent jurisdiction with a population of over 500 million, including three G8 countries. ITS World Congress September 7-11, 2014 | Cobo Center, Detroit, MI Join us next September at Detroit's newly refurbished Cobo Hall, more than 10,000 of the world's leading transportation policymakers, researchers, high-tech innovators, and business professionals from the United States, Europe and Asia will gather to share the latest intelligent transportation systems (ITS) applications from around the globe. The Intelligent Transportation Society of America (ITS America) is proud to host the 2014 World Congress on Intelligent Transport Systems, September 7-11, 2014 in Detroit, Michigan in partnership with ERTICO and ITS Asia-Pacific.