I (Izabela Kowalczuk, a Warsaw University law student and ACT's Polish intern) just came back to Washington, DC from the Economic Forum in Krynica, Poland the largest economic conference in Central and Eastern Europe. The Association for Competitive Technology, represented by Mike Sax, Braden Cox and me, created an entire [...]
What is the best way to promote the creation and adoption of new software and communications technologies? That was the weighty second panel of ACT's day-long innovation session at the Economic Forum 2007 in Krynica, Poland. All panelists agreed that the future of software innovation is a mixed one - [...]
There are two related articles in today's papers that - one on technology and the other on yesterday's Microsoft antitrust hearing. A New York Times article discusses thin client computing, a technological development that will provide new competition to traditional PCs and desktop software. And a Washington Post article describes [...]
Sometimes it takes traveling abroad to remind me of the many good qualities of the U.S, including a wide variety of restaurants, fixed shower heads, and ESPN. But seriously, there is one feature of the U.S. that is the envy of the world – innovativeness. I'm here at the Economic [...]
I'm heading to Poland this weekend to speak at the Krynica Economic Forum, the most prominent public policy conference for Central and Eastern Europe. ACT is sponsoring a daylong session on public policy and innovation, on which I've organized four panels: Localizing the Lisbon Strategy – How to Cultivate Innovation [...]
