At the fourth W2i Digital Cities Convention, organized in cooperation with UNITAR and the Basque local government in Bilbao, Spain (7-9 November 2005), the Wireless Internet Institute will work with international development organizations, local government associations, field practitioners and the private sector to draft Continue reading
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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
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