In light of Europe's lackluster innovation performance, it is commendable that Germany plans to make research and innovation policy the focus of its EU presidency in the first half of 2007. Six years ago, European leaders formulated the Lisbon Strategy for turning the EU into an innovation leader. However, thanks [...]
I’ve spent the past few years asking the software development community, ”Why can’t we all get along?” I became increasingly optimistic after Microsoft’s General Counsel, Brad Smith, announced Microsoft’s intention to start improving relations. At ACT’s Intellectual Property & Technology Summit in 2005, he said that, "We’re going to have [...]
Microsoft and Novell announced a collaborative effort. Whoa, this is big news! Windows and SuSE Linux, proprietary and open source, Microsoft and Novell -- working together? Well, yes, according to a recent announcement. And for this collaborative effort to have even been formalized, a required element was some intellectual property [...]
In what will hopefully be a sign of things to come, Microsoft and Novell took an important step toward bridging the divide between the open source and proprietary software communities today. The companies agreed to a wide ranging partnership that includes an extremely important patent licensing deal that will give [...]
A dynamic economy is not an end in itself. Rather, it is the consequences of dynamism that make the American brand of capitalism a better choice than our own “stakeholder capitalism”. The main benefit of an innovative economy is a higher level of productivity, resulting in higher hourly wages and [...]