tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-94855432026-04-28T21:41:39.053+02:00Ideas & thoughts on IT and Innovationesteve almirallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15584870562542535650noreply@blogger.comBlogger177125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9485543.post-72744713733354636772014-10-05T09:25:00.003+02:002014-10-05T09:25:49.192+02:00

Estos días hemos estado muy ocupados en ESADE con un workshop con el World Bank, un par de eventos tipo TEDx y Smart City Expo. Todo alrededor de las Smart Cities. Allí hemos tenido oportunidad de escuchar muchas historias de cómo el código abierto, compartir código y metodologías como Living Labs están avanzando en el mundo local. Una de estas historias ha logrado resonar en muchos de

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When we think of policies, we inevitably think of taxes or fiscal stimulus. Innovation is certainly no stranger. The promotion innovation is often implemented as a tax relief for investments categorised as innovation. I guess we are all immediately able to recognise the limitations and shortcomings of this practice. Just to follow with the line of reasoning

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It has been three years since my last blog. In these three years many things happened both in my personal life and in innovation, the subject of this blog ... As Bill Gates once said, Innovate or Die is the logic behind in the market we are in, or if we want to express it in other words, most of market now competes on innovation and this is probably more true than ever. However, the way in

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This thing of predicting is difficult, especially when your predictions are situated in the future. However, let’s give it a try :-) Here are my predictions for 2011 !!!1.- Facebook will surpass Yahoo and enter China. Yahoo and in general Social Networking sites offer more than search, offer connection with real people, something that we all want and the reason behind its growth. Facebook is not

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First of all let me apologize, there is not such a thing as Policy Analytics, at least not yet. However, as I will argue, it will be worth to invent it.Policies are derived from frameworks that represent our understanding of a field. They cannot exist isolated without this reference.For example if we understand Innovation in terms of economic growth, our policies will probably focus in the

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Last week I was in Ghent attending the Future Internet Conference and the assembly of the ENoLL (European Network of Living Labs). I had a presentation of our project Open Cities and I also was invited to participate in a panel on Smart Cities. Curiously enough even when the concept of Smart Cities speaks of Innovation, there was little talk about this aspect. Mostly most of the speakers focus on

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Manifiesto “En defensa de los derechos fundamentales en internet”Ante la inclusión en el Anteproyecto de Ley de Economía sostenible de modificaciones legislativas que afectan al libre ejercicio de las libertades de expresión, información y el derecho de acceso a la cultura a través de Internet, los periodistas, bloggers, usuarios, profesionales y creadores de Internet manifestamos nuestra

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Last year things weren't rosy for the big Taiwanese manufactures like TSM who were operating at a fraction of their capacity. True is that this year things look much better, Acer became n. 2 PC manufacturer, only after HP and companies like Amtran (Vizio) are really making inroads in US markets. HTC is embracing Android, proving that was nothing wrong with the split strategy of Win-Handset

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So much has been written about clusters that is rare to find not  a novel approach but an approach that excites our curiosity.  The term was introduced and popularized by Porter in the 90's in The Competitive Advantage of Nations (1990) and since then has enjoyed tremendous success among governments and innovation agencies, specially in Europe and Asia. Many of us suspect that this

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Innovation is not linear, we know that. We know that innovation happens in waves, trigger by the advent of groups of new technologies that open new and many times unexpected opportunities. Why this happens that way, honestly we don't know, but there is plenty of evidence that this is an stable pattern.The good news is that this is happening and these are the bad news too. After decades of mostly

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These days the World Economic Forum released its Global Competitiveness Report. The big news is that USA is no longer number 1 and this privileged position has been taken by ... Switzerland. Let's take, first of all a look to the first positions. After all rankings are built for that for knowing who are the winners and who are the losers .... Global Competitiveness Index 2009-2010

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Kevin Kelly wrote in Wired a provocative article portraying Internet as the new socialism. Concretely he was referring to phenomena like user generated contents and user produced goods.This article was brilliantly rebated by Lessig on the basis of the significance of concept socialism.Lessig points out that Socialism implies using the power of the State to change society and produce a kind of

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Today we had lunch with a pirate :-) Amelia Andersdotter from the Swedish Piratpartiet that is about to get a seat as a member of the European Parliament.As my friend Artur says, in Spain we send old people to the European Parliament while in Sweden they send young ones :-) !!!She has all the ingenuity, the boldness and the courage to fight for difficult things of a 21 year old Swedish - maybe

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A study about the geography of American Venture Capital by Henry Chen and altri posted in the SSRN network finds both expected and unexpected results.The expected ones portray that american VC prefer to invest in States and in the traditional zones that have a proven record (SF, San Jose, Boston and NY.However, they also find that the most successful investments are the ones made outside their

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El periodico de Catalunya tuvo la gentileza de reproducir el discurso que Jordi Nadal pronunció el pasado 20 de mayo en un acto para muchos curioso, anacrónico y quizás extrano, la presentación de un libro conmmerando los 450 años de un Gremio de Fabricantes en Sabadell.Más allá del acto en si, el discurso del profesor Nadal, con cuyas obras intenté hace muchos años aprender algo de historia ...

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Michael Mandel in his last BW article was dealing with the failed promise of Innovation in the US. This certainly resonates with our childhood full of images of flying cars, human colonies in the Moon and Mars, almost unlimited supply of energy, etc...In the last five years, I had the opportunity to participate in many innovation processes in Europe and witness sometimes the birth, sometimes the

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Today we can read in the NYTimes a short story about TSMC, the world's lagerest foundry. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing - TSMC - is one of the success stories of the Hsinchu Science Park, the most well known and most successful Science Park in Taiwan. TSMC being the largest for-hire foundry in the world has greatly contributed to the maintenance of the Moore's law and the low price of

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(sobre un artículo en el NYTimes) Este es el nuevo Prius. Antes de que saliese al mercado Toyota tenia 80.000 de éstos vendidos sobre unas ventas totales de 400.000 el año anterior. Es decir 1/5 de todas las ventas del año anterior ya se habian cubierto antes de poder poner un sólo coche en la calle.En Mayo Toyota vendió 110.000 nuevos Prius en Japón y tienen una lista de espera de meses.Desde

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This mail shows Google's intentions of releasing Native Client for Chrome.Native client is Google's technology for executing native x86 code rather than the slower javascript counterpart directly in the browser.Given current Internet speeds and the relative small size of code, plus the use of caches, Native Client holds the promise to marry the best of both worlds: desktop and Internet, and put

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A short commentary from Sidney Winter, one of the fathers of evolutionary economics about a subject that we see nowadays in many newspapers' headlines: Is Capitalism dead?Winter's insights are always interesting. In this short video we can hear from somebody who spent a lifetime building models and trying to understand the inner workings of our market system, the urgent need for designing

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Bernardo is a very energetic, fast and intelligent guy that smells the market long before you can imagine that it could be possible ... lolCongratulations Bernardo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Una de las cosas que hago, aparte de dedicarme a la innovación, User Driven, Open, los Living Labs, etc... son modelos teóricos que intentan explicar y ahondar en las condiciones en las que esa innovación se produce. Cosas como si debe variar la gestión (Open o Closed) según la complejidad del entorno, etc...Cuando modelas intentas mapear dos comportamientos básicos, el de búsqueda, via

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Hoy Henry Chesbrough estuvo en Barcelona presentando la versión de su famoso libre Open Innovation en español. Vino de la mano de Kim Barcelona y Xavier Marcet.En su presentación Chesbrough no sólo re-explicó el concepto de innovación abierta y su oportunidad sino que nos deleitó con diversas interpretaciones del mismo que ha ido recogiendo a lo largo de estos años y con multitud de ejemplos,

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On June 3, Business Week published a really interesting article of Michael Mandel with a provocative argument: we have lived through an innovation shortfall during the last decade, specially in the US, and this is the main culprit of the problems that we face today.The long and detailed article walks the reader through a decade long series of unachieved promises, pointing out that it has been the

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Apple va a permitir pagos realizados desde las aplicaciones de iPhone/iPod en OS 3.0.Parece una noticia sencilla y simple, pero tiene la potencialidad de cambiar radicalmente el modelo de negocio de los proveedores de aplicaciones.Pudiendo realizar cobros por contenido, upgrades, hints,merchandising, etc... desde la propia aplicación los desarrolladores ya noestarán sometidos a la tiranía de

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