Journal

The Knowledge Economy: Is the United States loosing its competitive edge?

by Task Force on the Future of American Innovation Introduction For more than half a century, the United States has led the world in scientific discovery and innovation. It has been a beacon, drawing ...

IP Value 2005

by PricewaterhouseCoopers Introduction to tax and IPby Andrew Casley – PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP “The schoolboy whips his taxed top – the beardless youth manages his taxed horse, with a taxed b...

Offshoring Patent Drafting and Prosecution Services

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...

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 digit...

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...

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) fut...

Rethinking The European ICT Agenda

by PricewaterhouseCoopers Ten ICT-breakthroughs for reaching Lisbon goals The Hague, August 2004 Management summaryEurope has set itself the highest target, it wants to become the most competitive and...

Tim Harper on NanoWater

by Rocky Rawstern, Nanotechnology Now Please talk about NanoWater, the reasons behind it, and the goals and timeframe. Why water, as opposed to food or shelter, or other basic needs? NanoWater is...

Europe’s water: An indicator-based assessment

by European Environment Agency Foreword Progress is being made in improving the quality and quantity of Europe ’s water resources, particularly in the European Union. Much of this improvement has been...