Archive for March, 2007

The Wired 40 most innovative companies

wired40.gifWired magazine has published its 10th annual list of the most innovative companies in the world, featuring companies that are masters of innovation and technology, as well as global thinkers that dominate their industries and point the way to the future. Continue reading…

How Businesses are using Web 2.0

McKinsey_Web2The latest global survey by McKinsey & Company is trying to identify the next trends on the web based applications. Continue reading…

The Business of Innovation

businessofinnovation.jpgThe Business of Innovation is a series of 5 one-hour programmes produced by CNBC which explores in-depth on of the most important topics in the business world today - Innovation. Continue reading…

Benchmarking Economic Transformation in USA

neweconomy07.jpgMassachusetts, New Jersey, Maryland, Washington and California top the list of states that are leading an economic transformation in adapting to an increasingly global-, knowledge- and innovation-based New Economy, according to “The 2007 State New Economy Index”, released by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation and the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF). Continue reading…

10 Emerging Technologies for 2007

10 Emerging Technologies for 2007 - Technology Review magazineAs every year, MIT’s Technology Review magazine presents the 10 technologies that it finds most exciting–and most likely to alter industries, fields of research, and even the way we live. Continue reading…

RegioStars 2008 – The Awards for Regional Innovative Projects

EU starsRegioStars - The Awards for Innovative Projects - form part of the “enhanced communication effort” proposed in the Communication on Regions for Economic Change (COM(2006) 675). The Communication states that “Integral to the communication policy of Regions for Economic Change Continue reading…

Cohesion Policy and Cities

cohesion-and-cities.jpgCohesion Policy and cities: The urban contribution to growth and jobs in the regions, is the latest Communication of the European Commission to the Council and Parliament on urban policy. The document sets out the Strategic Guidelines where it would be appropriate to give a priority to the preparation of Operational programmes for Cohesion Policy for 2007-2013. Continue reading…

Product Development 2.0

Product Development 2.0 - Dion HinchcliffeDion Hinchcliffe uses the term Product Development 2.0 to describe a concept that embodies the use of Web 2.0 concepts such as harnessing collective intelligence, users as co-creators, and turning applications into platforms, into the product development process. Continue reading…