Japan is the most innovative country on the planet, according to a report from the Economist Intelligence Unit, a sister company of The Economist. “[Japan] gets the top score in an index, ranging from 1 to 10, which is based on patents per person. The report casts light on the [...]
The Wall Street Journal reports that a survey of corporate financial executives found that “[c]ompliance costs for [Section 404 of] the Sarbanes-Oxley corporate-governance law fell in 2006 for the third year, with most of the reduction coming from managers who spent less time and money on reviews.” However, "[d]espite the [...]
Reuters reports that, according to Sun Microsystems founder Bill Joy, “[a] global response to climate change will spur a business revolution bigger than the internet. “‘This is a much larger opportunity,’ he told Reuters, pointing to the scale of the problem and the profits to be made from simple steps [...]
ON THE FFII EUROPEAN PATENT CONFERENCE BY JONATHAN ZUCK, PRESIDENT OF THE ASSOCIATION FOR COMPETITIVE TECHNOLOGY Today at a Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure (FFII) conference, participants discussed the European patent system. The Association for Competitive Technology (ACT) believes it is important to have high standard patents to allow [...]
According to Yahoo!News, “[c]onsumers spent more money online for clothes than computers last year, the first time that's happened. A report by the National Retail Federation's Shop.org, out today, found apparel, accessories and footwear sales hit $18.3 billion in 2006, while computers were $17.2 billion. The group predicts 10% of [...]