Office 2.0 analysis released
September 2, 2009 by aileen
Top IT predictions 2009
February 4, 2009 by aileen
I just came across a nice post by my former colleague Valentin Zacharias titled “The year of the cloud”. Finally Jeremy Rifkin’s year 2000 prediction of a Age of Access seems to come near - clearly at least for computing in data centers.
Valentin nicely summarizes the main topics in IT that people predict in the Web:
- Cloud Computing
- Regaining Control: Governance, Risk Management and Compliance (GRC)
- social media for the enterprise and Enterprise2.0 technologies (think knowledge management, customer service and marketing), where our startup innoraise invited quite some usefull technology on top of well-known social functionalities
- Green IT
- Business Intelligence for everyone
- increased use of IT for eGovernment
- Identity Management and Identity Portability
- Mobile Web breakthrough
- Powerful graphics chips looking for new work
Meet us at Shaping the Knowledge and Innovation Communities (KICs) - Future Communication Society at Budapest (Jan 23, 2009)
January 15, 2009 by aileen
Meet us at the very first seminar of the new European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) which covers a discussion on the future of the innovation in Europe among 125 leading luminaries in the European innovation scene. If you can’t make it, please free to contact us if you have questions on the outcomes of this seminar and our stance on the required agenda for European small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).
Treffen Sie uns auf dem Kongress Mittelstand und Innovation (Jan 15, 2009)
January 15, 2009 by aileen
Treffen Sie uns auf dem Kongress Mittelstand und Innovation des Wirtschaftsministerium Baden-Württemberg am 16.1.2008 in Stuttgart. Gerne geben wir Ihnen auch bei einem persönlichen Gespräch einen Überblick über die Ergebnisse dieser Tagung, welche über die aktuellen innovationsrelevanten Rahmenbedingungen und Fördermaßnahmen für Kleine und Mittelständische Unternehmen in Baden-Württemberg informiert. Wir freuen uns auf Ihre Fragen !
Top 10 innovative regions in Europe 2008
December 8, 2008 by aileen
Statistics are made for innovation, too. One of the more adequate measures is the innovation index developed by the Statistical Office of Baden-Württemberg, a federal state in Germany.
According to their index the ten most innovative regions in Europe are:
- Baden-Württemberg, a state in the south-west of Germany (our home state)
- Berlin (state), the capital of Germany
- Ile de France, the region around Paris, the capital of France
- Bayern (Bavaria), a state in the south-east of Germany
- Finnland
- Bremen, a state in the north-west of Germany
- Sweden
- Hessen, a state in the mid-west of Germany
- Denmark
- The Grand-Duché of Luxembourg
There is a nice colored map that depicts the innovation level across the different regions in Europe. We have put the top 10 spots on a Google map for your convenience:
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It is interesting to understand how the ranking is determined. The index is derived by an as-is (niveau) part and a dynamic part, which measures the average change rates of the as-is part across years.
As you have seen in the ranking above, larger countries such as France and Germany are split into smaller regions (so called NUTS2 regions), while smaller countries such as Finnland and Sweden are ranked as a whole.
Besides R&D expense and R&D personell also the share of employees in high-tech industries is measured. Further the share of employees in knowledge intensive services as well as the number of people working in so-called HRSTO jobs (science, education and technical jobs). The last metric part of the index calculation is the number of patents issued per resident.
Successful enterprises are rare and high impact comes late
December 1, 2008 by aileen
While attending Erkko Autios lecture at the Heidelberger Innovationsforum on November 25th, we have come across interesting figures about the success of enterpreneurs and their enterprises in the U.S. :
These figures actually should shatter most of the public policies that focus on getting many enterpreneurs started in certain industry domains. Another study by the SBA Office of Advocacy in the US titled “High Impact Firms: Gazelles Revisited” shows that success often does not come at the start of companies. Companies classified above as high impact companies (that is companies that experience high growth and generate jobs) are actually quite old, on average 25 years ! These companies are generating almost all of U.S. job growth and also not predominantly high-tech. So, contrary to common belief, it is not the usual Internet startup of a college drop-out that ensures our future prosperity, but often the hidden champion around the corner in established industries.
Prof. Scott A. Shane has written an interesting book,The Illusions of Entrepreneurship: The Costly Myths That Entrepreneurs, Investors, and Policy Makers Live By that supports these lines of thought and describes many more examples of common misconceptions about enterpreneurship.