Patents - Good or Evil?

Why patents in software turn more and more into monopoly games and do not enable new innovations.

Link to article from Glyn Moody here

[OKCon 2011] Glyn Moody - From Openness to Abundance from Open Knowledge Foundation on Vimeo.

Economist Schumpeter - on Innovation

An article in the Economist describes a new book by Clay Christensen “The Innovator’s DNA”. In this book, five habits of mind that characterise disruptive innovators are introduced:
1) Associating - Look for inspiration outside your sector. Best ideas come not at work
2) Questioning - Why things aren’t done differently?
3) Observing - Look at what happens, how people behave in real life.
4) Networking - Not to get contracts, but to get new ideas
5) Experimenting- Both with the products and with the business model

See for the whole article here

Harvard Business Publishing - Course on Innovation

For all courses 1-8 click here

What about the future?

Why would you have to know about the future as a company, if you are just struggling to survive today? What is important for any company is not if you are winning or losing the battle, it is more about are you in the right battle? If you still fight over some small market share, while competitors have found or created a whole new market you are loosing anyway. To know where is the new market, you have to know what would be in demand in the future, and therefore you have to understand the future.

More in this article.

Dosi on Schumpeter, Keynes and Innovation

In a video interview, prof. Dosi discusses topics related to finance, innovation, economics and has some clear interesting ideas. Really worth watching...