Intellective Computing

Intellective Computing

TECHNOLOGICAL, INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP

Three interrelated forces are dramatically changing the global economic landscape today: technological progress, entrepreneurship and competitive markets. The main constraints to innovation are: mind-set, money, management and market. Plus the message, that is, the information flows necessary for sourcing technology and other inputs. Exposure to the harsh forces of world markets is the discipline that countries and businesses need to become and stay competitive.

The industrial based economy has given way to a post-industrial order in which the Internet is a crucial platform for commerce and communications. Right now, there is too much focus on numbers of patents and startups without determining which products make it to the marketplace and what type of social and economic impact they have.

Building an Educated and Innovative Workforce, and Reducing Bottlenecks in the Dissemination and Commercialization of Knowledge is imperative. There are a number of challenges in our current system that constrain innovation and make it difficult to take full advantage of the digital revolution. While Internet infrastructure serves as the backbone for new applications in various areas we need to improve skills, increase the commercialization of knowledge, harmonize cross-border laws, and protect freedom of expression.

Our overriding theme in each of these areas TECHNOLOGICAL, INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP  is how to move from ideas, norms, structures, and regimes developed during an industrial period to institutions and policies for the digital world.  Developing new solutions to our continuing economic and political woes, this included the identification of promising reform, ideas and ways to encourage growth through innovation.

There is a global transformation underway. Innovative new business, economic and social models, coupled with access to rapidly advancing new technologies, are empowering people to transform our world. Positioning Tech Inovations to succeed in this transformational environment is not an option; it is an imperative.  It is essential for succession and survival – and it is every leader’s mandate to take part in that journey with intelligence, culture, and process.