Archive for December, 2005

Intelligence and Lund

A master thesis by Dragana Radovanovi? under the supervision of Leif Edvinsson. The purpose of the work is to identify factors associated with the Ragusa’s survival persistence and subject awareness, in order to highlight what the city of Lund may learn from this intelligent city. Continue reading…

The 2005 World Knowledge Competitiveness Index

wkciThe 2005 edition of World Knowledge Competitiveness Index (WKCI) is published today by Robert Huggins Associates. The WKCI conciders to be the only composite and relative measure of the knowledge economies of the world’s leading regions. Continue reading…

Major Tech Trends and Companies to Watch in 2006

According to Rob Enderle opinion that is published in TechNewsWorld the major technology trends of 2006 can be grouped in the following categories: Continue reading…

Modelling Innovation Environments

The paper of Rhonda Roberts, University of Wollongong, Australia, ‘Issues in Modelling Innovation Intense Environments: The Importance of the Historical and Cultural Context’ defines innovation intense environments as those special spaces which are purported to accelerate the rate of innovation and proliferation of new, high technology industries. Continue reading…

Open Collaboration to Accelerate Innovation

Twelve leaders from four IT companies, seven American universities and the Kauffman Foundation have adopted a set of guiding principles to address how to approach open collaborative research between universities and the IT industry. The expectation is that the principles will promote and accelerate innovation, shortening the time it takes to move from concept to development. Continue reading…

Networks of Knowledge

The network is the pervasive organizational image of the new millennium. This book examines one particular kind of network - the ‘knowledge network’ - whose primary mandate is to create and disseminate knowledge based on multidisciplinary research that is informed by problem-solving as well as theoretical agendas.

In their examination of five knowledge networks based in Canadian universities, Continue reading…

Make start-ups fly

The Alpha Summit Europe 2005 brought together world experts in each of the fields of technology, education, entrepreneurship and private equity in order to synthesize their combined experiences to help the European technopreneurship communities to realize their full potential.
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Collaborative Entrepreneurship

Anticipating the future environment of business, Collaborative Entrepreneurship discusses a revolutionary new competitive strategy of continuous innovation that fulfills the need for efficient provision of a constant stream of new products, services, and markets. The book explains how firms can build a collaborative community within which they can freely share in the creation of wealth through innovation with the assurance that the wealth they create will be equitably distributed. Continue reading…

United States top 10 Digital Cities for 2005

The most technology-advanced cities in America have been named by the Center for Digital Government based on its 2005 Digital Cities Survey. The annual study examines how city governments are utilizing digital technologies to better serve their citizens and streamline operations. Continue reading…

IBM on Collaborative Innovation

IBM hosted a forum promoting the idea that collaboration is essential to achieving the innovation required for competitive advantage. The speakers explored the challenges and opportunities presented by the quest for innovation, how the economics of innovation and collaboration is changing and what companies need to do today to prepare themselves to take advantage of these new market dynamics. Continue reading…