Archive for April, 2010

New Business Models from the Global South

April 22nd, 2010

Many Americans–at their peril—continue to view the world’s emerging economies as primarly a source of cheap labor where call centers and other kinds of labor intensive activities are outsourced.  However, it’s become quite clear that many of these economies, especially the so-called BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, and China) are becoming potenial innovation powerhouses in their […]

Innovation: Moving from Knowledge-Creation to Knowledge-Exploitation

April 7th, 2010

If you’re looking for new and interesting thinking about innovation, you could do worse than to check out the regular reports and features from Great Britain’s National Endowment for Science, Technology, and the Arts (NESTA).  I’ve become a huge fan of their work.  Their latest working paper, Local Knowledge: Case Studies of Four Innovative Places […]