A report from the Federal Bureau of Economic Analysis provides an extremely detailed look at the impact of R&D investment on the growth of the U.S. economy over the last 50 years.
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The results of a survey conducted by the National Bureau of Statistics in China found that the cities with the best environment for innovation are Shanghai, Hangzhou, Qingdao, Shenzhen, Suzhou, Beijing, Changzhou, Yantai, Guangzhou and Shaoxing. Shanghai is regarded as the most ideal place in China to open a business.
On October 4-5, 2006, the Business Innovation Factory convened its second annual Collaborative Innovation Summit. BIF-2 featured storytellers who are redefining the rules of innovation and transforming how value is delivered in every arena, from health care and homeland security to education and entertainment.
The Seoul Metropolitan Government opened “Seoul Oasis,” a portal Web site that allows citizens of Seoul to freely exchange their ideas and suggestions on municipal policies.
MIT’s Center for Collective Intelligence basic research question is: How can people and computers be connected so that “collectively” they act more intelligently than any individuals, groups, or computers have ever done before?
The development of a comprehensive, citywide Wi-Fi network is essential to the sustained economic and intellectual growth of a city, its residents and businesses. The Wi-Fi network developed in the Boston, US was provided by the city and financed by advertising placed on sign-on Web pages.
A new report from The Work Foundation argues that European countries together have a ‘knowledge economy’ that is as big if not bigger than that of the US, with over 40 per cent of workers employed in knowledge-based industries. But the continent has not matched the US in terms of economic growth and productivity largely because it has not invested as much in its knowledge base and may be suffering a slowdown in technological progress as a result.