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 [...]
Late last year the European Commission released a report calling for a new industrial policy to ignite report advocated government programs (a la Airbus) based on Free/Libre/Open Source Software (FLOSS). ACT analyzed the report with a series of blog posts reviewing each section. We found that the report’s analysis is [...]