We've done a lot of writing recently about the importance of giving small firms a level playing field to compete for government contracts, but according to the Wall Street Journal today, the US government has missed its target for giving contracts to small firms again, and by a larger margin [...]
Maybe because technology moves so quickly now—what some are calling the “ten year century”—we’ve come to anticipate the type of technology and innovations that once you have it, you can’t imagine how you lived life without it. But sometimes the game-changers aren’t wild, new, complicated, ground-breaking technologies like smart phones [...]
As they say... And now for something a little different.We talk a lot in these parts about innovation. We even talk a little bit about healthcare IT. And sometimes we just talk about technological things that we think are awesome.This story sort of fits all of those categories for me. [...]
The New York Times had a great article in last week's small business section, called "A Small Business Guide to Intellectual Property." The article explores five common fallacies about intellectual property: 1. For small-business owners, it’s not worth the time or effort to secure intellectual property rights. Wrong. 2. Once [...]
Yesterday, Tom Bell posted a piece on the Technology Liberation Front blog entitled, "Unconstitutional Copyrights?". Mr. Bell provided a passage from his upcoming book, Intellectual Privilege: A Libertarian View of Copyright, in which he argues that copyright protection for songs, novels, movies, paintings and sculptures, is unconstitutional because these are [...]