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 [...]
According to InfoWorld, “[n]ew research has confirmed that India's mobile phone market is set for a period of fast growth, with revenue from cellular services expected to jump by more than 18 percent each year for the next five years.” In a different article, InfoWorld reports that “[t]he anonymous researcher [...]
According the International Herald Tribune, “the European Commission seeks to make DVB-H the single standard for the transmission of video to cell phones. According to a person close to the deliberations, the commission will vote to publish the DVB-H standard in the European Commission's official register. That move would have [...]