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Fujifilm Succeeded Where Kodak Failed

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Eastman Kodak was head and shoulders above all the others in the manufacture of photographic film when Fujifilm wasn't in 1963. just as worldwide film sales almost immediately began to fall. At the turn of the century, photographic film products made up 60% of Fujifilm's sales and up to 70% of its profit. What happened?

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Patents, Copyrights and Innovation, Oh My!

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For example, Jack Valenti, the late former head of the Motion Picture Association of America, said "The VCR is to the American film producer, as the Boston Strangler is to the woman home alone." Source: Roger Parloff , senior editor, FORTUNE, July 23, 2012.

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Remembering a Leader in Green Energy

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Stanford Ovshinsky 1922-2012. Mr. Ovshinsky used the same basic insight decades later to produce flexible photovoltaic materials, printing them on film on a machine the length of a football field. Source: The Wall Street Journal, October 19, 2012. Nobody in the past 50-60 years has created such a revolution in science.".

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