by Alok Aggarwal, Hedda Pahlson-Moller, Evalueserve 1.1 Background Around 175,000 patent applications are filed with the European Patent Office (EPO) every year. Of these patent application filings, a significant number – almost 44 percent per year – are made by non-European states. This clearly indicates that a great deal of patenting activity is taking place in various … [Read more...] about Offshoring Patent Drafting and Prosecution Services
Facing the development and delivery of digital content
by OECD WORKING PARTY ON THE INFORMATION ECONOMYDIGITAL BROADBAND CONTENT PANEL AND GOVERNMENT SESSION, 3 JUNE 2004 SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS The panel was designed to analyse and discuss changing digital broadband content value chains and business models and help identify new challenges and issues facing the development and delivery of digital content. Three sectors … [Read more...] about Facing the development and delivery of digital content
Notes Towards a Literacy for the Digital Age
by Milverton Wallace The kid enters the coffee shop and is greeted excitedly by her friends. They jostle to exchange high fives, knuckle greetings and finger snaps with her. What is the cause of their admiration? Her Rocaway jeans? Her high tan Jimmy Choo boots? Her Armani sun-glasses? Her Karl Lagerfeld jacket? Nah! It is the gleaming silver object dangling from a pair … [Read more...] about Notes Towards a Literacy for the Digital Age
Navigating in a Rough Sea
by Franz Tessun Decision Making in Complex and Uncertain Business Environments This paper shows the need of a totally different thinking. There are three sectors of thinking: a) network thinkingb) future open thinkingc) strategic thinking. t will be shown that only the combination of these three parts of thinking is able to deal in an efficient and economic way with … [Read more...] about Navigating in a Rough Sea
Rethinking The European ICT Agenda
by PricewaterhouseCoopers Ten ICT-breakthroughs for reaching Lisbon goalsThe Hague, August 2004Management summaryEurope has set itself the highest target, it wants to become the most competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economy, to have sustained and accelerated economic growth with full employment and a modernised social protection system. But everyone agrees that the … [Read more...] about Rethinking The European ICT Agenda