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The European Commission’s proposed a seven-year, €4.2 billion Competitiveness and Innovation Programme (CIP) which includes €2.6 billion for a new Entrepreneurship and Innovation Programme to improve the regulatory environment, help SMEs Continue reading…
“The task forse on the future of American innovation” comprised of organizations from industry and academia, advocates increased federal support for research in the physical sciences and engineering.
Formed in 2004, the Task Force urges strong, sustained increases for research budgets at the National Science Foundation, Department of Energy Office of Science, National Institute of Standards and Technology, and Department of Defense. Continue reading…
Laura Bottazzi and Giovanni Peri estimated the effect of research externalities across space, in generating innovation. They used R&D and patent data for 68 European Regions from 1977 to 1995 and found that regional spillovers exist within a distance of 300 Km. Continue reading…
Hackensack University Medical Center offers a good example of an organisation using different technologies, layered onto the system, to facilitate internal tasks and work processes. See a slideshow from the BusinessWeek on the technologies now deployed at the hospital. Continue reading…
Stanford University President John L. Hennessy spoke with BusinessWeek Silicon Valley Correspondent Jim Kerstetter about the Valley and the nature of innovation. The Valley, he says, still represents an area of critical mass in terms of innovation, Continue reading…
“Intelligent Environments are becoming one of the hot topics for industrial and academic research. Intelligent Environments are public and private spaces such as cars, shopping malls, work, homes and even our own bodies which respond “thoughtfully” to our needs. Continue reading…
The competitive industrial performance (CIP) index, developed by UNIDO for developing countries mainly, benchmarks competitive industrial activity by countries against the backdrop of liberalization and globalization. The index is based on four variables that capture different aspects of competitive performance. Continue reading…
The problems and their solutions, the mistakes and the lessons to draw from them — and the rewards of creativity.
View this slideshow from Business Week Magazine.
A set of interesting papers that were written with the contribution of different people and countries from the NATO alliance regarding the flow of information in the networked world. The papers were provided by The Information Management Committee (IMC) to support a Lecture Series presented on 8-10 September 2004 in Sofia, Bulgaria. Continue reading…
In a recent McKinsey Global Survey of Business Executives, IT and business executives agree that technological innovation, emerging economies, and offshore manufacturing are the three most important global business trends. But tech executives are more bullish about what innovation will contribute to their company’s profitability. Since they expect growth to come primarily through the improvement of current products, they emphasize new-product development less than business executives do. Continue reading…
