The Meaning of Innovation—And What’s Coming Next
It’s a term that’s been thrown around a lot over the past couple of years, at times being more popular than at others. Now seems to be one of those [...]
IDC study confirms importance of national policies for innovation
Back in 2007, ACT worked with the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF) to write a groundbreaking paper entitled National Policies as Platforms for Innovation: Reconciling a Flat World with [...]
ICANN Goes Independent With New Accountability Mechanisms
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) today took a critical step toward achieving real accountability and institutional confidence by agreeing to a new “affirmation of commitments” with [...]
A Strange Thing Happened on the Way to the Class Action Settlement…
The Google book search settlement seemed all but wrapped up in a bow, that is, until hundreds of objections were filed with the Court, the House Judiciary Committee held a hearing [...]
A discussion about Apple’s choice of licenses used in open-sourcing Grand Central Dispatch
Caution: because I am talking about code libraries, this discussion will be technical - a combination of the worst of geek and lawyer-speak. Sorry.I had a discussion with a colleague [...]
Time for a Restart?
Entrepreneurial guru Guy Kawasaki pointed last week to Bill Meade's list of the ten things companies can to do re-start their IP program if it hasn't been paid much attention [...]