Time for EU citizens to take the European parliamentary elections seriously
European parliamentary elections are now a mere 5 days away, but a lot of EU citizens seem to be completely uninterested in voting. According to an FT.com article, “[t]urnout in [...]
Re-Setting the Record Straight: ICT SME’s Are Not a Monolith
There seems to be some kind of misunderstanding. We have worked productively with PIN-SME on issues regarding ICT SMEs in the past, so we were very surprised to see [...]
Health Care and Entrepreneurialism
Over at the Kauffman Foundation’s entrepreneurship blog, Jonathan Ortmans has a post about “unlocking entrepreneurship through health care reform” wherein he writes about how the employer-provided healthcare system constrains entrepreneurialism, [...]
How can we use IT to improve financial companies’ risk management?
How can we make sure we have the right information technology to avoid, in the future, the delayed reaction by firms to problems with their balance sheets that was partly [...]
ACT Submits Response in EC Browser Case: Why Independent Software Developers Care
Yesterday, the Association for Competitive Technology submitted its official response to the European Commission’s Statement of Objections regarding Microsoft’s integration of Internet Explorer into the Windows operating system. While the [...]
What Jimmy Stewart can teach us about the US tech industry
Last week, I presented at the inaugural Ignite DC. The event, which took place in the Artomatic building in Washington DC’s Capitol Riverfront neighborhood, featured 17 speakers who each had [...]