Matusow’s blog points out that “Microsoft [today] launched its new open source web site.” InsideHigherEd reports that “Sen. Harry Reid of Nevada [this week] announced his plan to prevent campus based digital theft through a series of requirements that he is expected to try to attach to the reauthorization of [...]

The Register reports that “[t]he European Commission wants to create a form of company across Europe to make cross-border business easier to conduct for small firms.” Internal Market Commissioner Charlie McCreevy “has proposed the creation of the European Private Company Statute which would provide a form for companies to take [...]

Inc.com writes that “[t]he Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation has awarded a research grant to Nobel Prize winner Edmund S. Phelps to fund a three-year study comparing entrepreneurship in the United States and Europe.  ‘Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Capitalist Systems,’ Phelps's project examining how different economic systems impact entrepreneurs, will study [...]

A new report by the National Science Foundation (NSF) finds that “the number of U.S. science and engineering (S&E) articles in major peer-reviewed journals flattened in the 1990s, after more than two decades of growth, but U.S. influence in world science and technology remains strong.  […]  Despite the leveling of [...]

In the Wall Street Journal, Secretary of the Treasury Henry M. Paulson Jr. writes that “a new, broad examination of [the American] business tax system and its impact on economic growth and job creation in the U.S.” is needed.  As Mr. Paulson points out, “[a] study by Treasury economists estimated [...]