We’ve known for a while now that the app marketplace is a job creator – not just in the U.S., but also around the world. Last week, Apple announced it created or contributed 629,000 jobs across Europe, attributing over 500,000 of these to the app economy, as reported in ZDNet by [...]
Today, ACT President Jonathan Zuck traveled to Brussels to speak about the mobile health landscape in Europe at the 2014 European mHealth Conference. Ray Pinto of Microsoft and leaders from the European mobile medical industry joined Jonathan on a panel about developing standards for coordinated, interoperable and universal mHealth solutions, [...]
The Swedish Presidency announced last week that the EU Patent System was one step closer. We are of course very pleased to see that the dossier is moving forward; and we have continuously praised the Swedish Presidency for their great efforts. A good patent protection is essential to achieving the levels of innovation that European SMEs deserve.
European governments are known for supporting green environmental policies, but it seems that they are now joining ACT's crusade to improve the Tech Environment as well. The Portuguese EU Presidency Forum "Financing Innovation – From Ideas to Market" has adopted the "Estoril Declaration." The goal of this Declaration sounds positively [...]
I (Izabela Kowalczuk, a Warsaw University law student and ACT's Polish intern) just came back to Washington, DC from the Economic Forum in Krynica, Poland the largest economic conference in Central and Eastern Europe. The Association for Competitive Technology, represented by Mike Sax, Braden Cox and me, created an entire [...]