Thomas Friedman tells us the world is flat, but national policies still matter for companies of all sizes looking to innovate and compete in the global marketplace. Yesterday we released a paper today entitled "National Policies as Platforms for Innovation: Reconciling a Flat World with Creative Cities." We announced it [...]
Last week, we announced our intention to be one of the first to give the European Commission’s FLOSS report the attention it deserves and actually read and analyze the entire 287 page report. Our goal is to go beyond the executive summary and provide a sober analysis of the report [...]
John Markoff has an interesting piece in the New York TImes today about the Digital, Life, Design conference in Munich. The theme of the piece is that the whole "World is Flat" phenomenon has removed the intitutional advantage of Silicon Valley companies. It's an interesting theory, but also a bit [...]
Recently, the tech press and blogging community have been buzzing over a new European Commission report on the economic impact of Free/Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS) on the European information and communication technologies (ICT) sector. One thing, however, is notably missing from the online debate over the nearly 300 page [...]
Over on the Tech Liberation Front, the Show Me Institute’s Tim Lee is questioning my post on the role patents played in the development of Apple’s new iPhone. Unfortunately, it seems that Mr. Lee has been brainwashed by the mythology of the anti-software patent crowd. While I don’t have time [...]