March 2012
2 posts
How to Demolish the Barriers to Puerto Rico...
The Government of Puerto Rico has tried to get the knowledge economy going for forever, but is confused on the difference between invention (what you get from R&D) and innovation (what you get from entrepreneurship). Invention gets you a technology. Innovation gets you customers. The heroes of invention are scientists. The heroes of innovation are entrepreneurs. Scientists consume money....
Startup Politics in America
Startups have recently gotten into the political radar of the United States, perhaps most prominently with the public/private Startup America initiative to place the emerging companies at the center of US policymaking. Two in particular bear recogntion:
Startup Visa is legislation aimed at allowing brilliant startup founders born outside the United States to be able to easily come to America to...
