<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3662809872152515524</id><updated>2011-09-12T20:34:05.775-07:00</updated><category term='trabalhar em rede'/><category term='imprensa'/><category term='comunicação'/><category term='dados'/><category term='museus'/><category term='redes de cooperação'/><category term='Celso Guedes de Carvalho'/><category term='inovação'/><category term='propriedade intelectual'/><category term='tendencias'/><category term='consumo'/><category term='inpi'/><category term='marcas; Celso Guedes de Carvalho'/><category term='consumidores; Celso Guedes de Carvalho'/><category term='diagnóstico'/><title type='text'>Innovation Network Portugal</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://asspinov.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3662809872152515524/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://asspinov.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Innovation Network Portugal</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06412211225403664784</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>71</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3662809872152515524.post-6527528662289933626</id><published>2008-11-03T23:16:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2008-11-03T23:16:47.312-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Portugal 2013</title><content type='html'>Portugal é um país e uma nação com mais de oito séculos cuja história evidencia tanto de potencial quanto de paradoxal, numa dualidade que tem sido a chave dum inconformismo genético vital para a sua consolidação e sobrevivência.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Um dos paradoxos emergentes que caracterizam o debate actual sobre o nosso futuro colectivo é o paradoxo da narrativa ou da visão mobilizadora. Quando alguém ousa propor uma abordagem pragmática de intervenção nos diversos eixos de modernização do país sujeita-se de imediato à crítica duma suposta ausência de estratégia e de visão, como se fosse possível a acção consistente sem foco agregador. Em contraponto, quando alguém se aventura na explicitação da estratégia e na elaboração da visão, sujeita-se a ser de imediato apelidado de teórico, inconsistente e dissimulador das dificuldades e desafios do quotidiano.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Este paradoxo tem uma explicação histórica que parece medianamente óbvia. Portugal sempre abusou do messianismo para ultrapassar momentos complexos e recorreu à memória das dificuldades para não se inscrever com determinação nos momentos de forte oportunidade.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A evolução recente da sociedade global criou de novo um campo fértil para o paradoxo. Após o ciclo da sociedade industrial, complexo e difícil para um pequeno país periférico, sem matérias-primas nem mercados de proximidade, o mundo entrou num novo ciclo de globalização acelerada, em que uma nação-rede como Portugal não tem desculpa para falhar, mas pode falhar se não conseguir uma conjugação adequada entre políticas e percepções, capaz de gerar confiança, compromisso e envolvimento de toda a sociedade perante o desafio da mudança.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Este texto é um exercício simples que visa dar um contributo pragmático para a redução do paradoxo. Se as medidas de modernização em curso no contexto da aplicação em Portugal da Agenda de Lisboa e do Plano Tecnológico e determinantes no desenho do Quadro Estratégico de Referência Nacional (QREN) continuarem a mobilizar a sociedade portuguesa e tiverem o impacto esperado, como será Portugal em 2013?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Um país não muda radicalmente em cinco anos. Este exercício sublinha tendências e oportunidades de bifurcação disruptiva e não reinvenções impossíveis e indesejáveis. O que aqui se esboça não surgirá por milagre nem por simples vontade política. Estamos na fronteira do possível, e a concretização do possível depende do esforço conjugado de todos nós. A razão do meu optimismo é a confiança nos portugueses e na sua capacidade de surpreender, quando apoiados por políticas públicas ousadas, focadas na qualificação e com foco estratégico partilhado.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Em 2013, Portugal terá consolidado três âncoras estratégicas que permitirão alavancar toda a sua economia para um nível mais elevado nas cadeias de valor da economia global.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Será, em primeiro lugar, um "nearshore" global, ou seja um território-pivôt na intermediação de serviços altamente sofisticados entre os grandes centros tecnológicos e os centros para onde vão continuar a deslocalizar-se as funções de mais baixo valor. As recentes decisões de investimento neste domínio por parte de empresas tão significativas como a Nokia - Siemens, a Cisco ou a Fujitsu confirmam e reafirmam a tendência e reforçam a subida do país na cadeia de valor, tendo em conta que se trata de investimento conquistado em luta renhida com outros "nearshores" de referência como a Irlanda e a Holanda.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Em segundo lugar, será um território de inovação no domínio do turismo de nova geração, da logística e das energias renováveis. O défice de criação de riqueza resultante da produção de bens transaccionáveis tem caracterizado desde sempre a nossa economia. A tripla aposta nestas três dimensões de valorização do território permitirá extrair valor de factores intangíveis como a identidade, a segurança, o clima e a localização geoestratégica.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Em terceiro lugar, Portugal confirmar-se-á como um mercado teste para as novas soluções e produtos para o mercado mundial, atraindo cada vez mais empresas nos domínios científicos e tecnológicos emergentes e dando um novo fôlego às empresas portuguesas que, no domínio das novas tecnologias e da sua aplicação aos sectores económicos tradicionais ou aos serviços aos cidadãos, têm vindo a conquistar nichos de mercado significativo e prestígio global.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Não temos um mercado de proximidade com dimensão para dar por si só sustentabilidade às novas cadeias de valor no domínio da biotecnologia, da nanotecnologia, das tecnologias da informação e da comunicação ou da reinvenção dos sectores tradicionais pela incorporação destas tecnologias, mas temos condições excepcionais de criatividade, adaptabilidade e velocidade de adopção e incorporação de novas soluções, para sermos um nó crítico da rede que constituirá a matriz do mercado mundial.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Portugal 2013 será um nó da rede vencedora na nova economia emergente. Sabemos o enorme esforço que isso implica. Um esforço de qualificação das pessoas, das empresas e dos territórios e um esforço de mudança de atitude e de assunção do risco e da iniciativa.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Não é garantido que o cenário que aqui tracei se verifique. Os tempos estão difíceis para a prospectiva em economia e desenvolvimento. Garantido é que as políticas públicas estão focadas neste objectivo e este cenário é possível, dependendo da capacidade de cada português acreditar, aprender para agir e empreender para criar valor e ajudar o país a vencer.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fonte: Carlos Zorrinho - Coordenador Nacional da Estratégia de Lisboa e do Plano Tecnológico, JN, 14 de Março de 2008&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3662809872152515524-6527528662289933626?l=asspinov.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://asspinov.blogspot.com/feeds/6527528662289933626/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3662809872152515524&amp;postID=6527528662289933626' title='2 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3662809872152515524/posts/default/6527528662289933626'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3662809872152515524/posts/default/6527528662289933626'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://asspinov.blogspot.com/2008/11/portugal-2013.html' title='Portugal 2013'/><author><name>Celso Guedes de Carvalho</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13078841516415214608</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_K2qARRpdhZ4/SKUe69twCTI/AAAAAAAAAc0/Tj5h77Hk0tM/S220/celso+guedes+de+carvalho.bmp'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3662809872152515524.post-502555913961508386</id><published>2008-07-29T00:31:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2008-07-29T00:31:47.593-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='propriedade intelectual'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='inpi'/><title type='text'>Propriedade intelectual</title><content type='html'>Bobby Knight, o lendário treinador de basquetebol, dizia que todos querem vencer, mas poucos são os que estão dispostos a prepararem-se para o fazer. No mundo tecnológico, essa preparação consiste em desenvolver propriedade intelectual: patentes, marcas, direitos de autor, e outras formas de protecção.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pode-se não gostar desta realidade, mas ela é dominante no principal mercado mundial: as empresas americanas detêm impressionantes portfólios de propriedade intelectual.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A propriedade intelectual não é utilizada apenas para protecção contra potenciais usurpadores. Existem diversas alternativas para a sua exploração documentadas em cursos como o referido em http://www.exed.hbs.edu/programs/ip/.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Empresas como a IBM têm demonstrado que a rentabilização óptima da propriedade intelectual passa pela sua utilização em serviços ou na criação de produtos. O desenvolvimento, «marketing» e venda dos serviços ou produtos podem ser conduzidos internamente ou em regime de contratação externa, mas a gestão do processo deverá ser sempre da empresa detentora da propriedade intelectual.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Um vice-presidente de uma das maiores empresas tecnológicas americanas dizia, numa recente visita a Portugal, que as empresas devem ser geridas considerando três fases: a execução (no presente); a investigação (preparando o médio prazo); e a visão (para o longo prazo). A paisagem das patentes registadas (disponível via http://www.google.com/patents) deve condicionar a definição da visão e programas de investigação de uma empresa, de modo a beneficiar a sua execução futura.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A investigação académica (em Portugal e em muitos outros países) está frequentemente dissociada dessa paisagem, construída globalmente por actores não necessariamente universitários. Esta dissociação limita as contribuições da Universidade para o crescimento de empresas existentes e na criação de novas empresas competitivas.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fonte: António Câmara, Expresso, 26 de Junho de 2008&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3662809872152515524-502555913961508386?l=asspinov.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://asspinov.blogspot.com/feeds/502555913961508386/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3662809872152515524&amp;postID=502555913961508386' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3662809872152515524/posts/default/502555913961508386'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3662809872152515524/posts/default/502555913961508386'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://asspinov.blogspot.com/2008/07/propriedade-intelectual.html' title='Propriedade intelectual'/><author><name>Celso Guedes de Carvalho</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13078841516415214608</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_K2qARRpdhZ4/SKUe69twCTI/AAAAAAAAAc0/Tj5h77Hk0tM/S220/celso+guedes+de+carvalho.bmp'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3662809872152515524.post-7431989818483780413</id><published>2008-07-16T03:23:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-07-16T03:30:47.688-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Portugal quer mudar critérios de inovação</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_UUsOsrDJWws/SH3NRuy0V-I/AAAAAAAAAGY/dPyOh95vuV8/s1600-h/citywall.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5223556847322290146" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_UUsOsrDJWws/SH3NRuy0V-I/AAAAAAAAAGY/dPyOh95vuV8/s320/citywall.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Governo usa novos resultados para justificar necessidade de mudança de critérios de avaliação da inovação por parte da Comissão Europeia&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;O Plano Tecnológico (PT) "contribuiu para aumentar a cultura empreendedora e a base empresarial do país e este está melhor preparado" para enfrentar a actual crise económica, defende o coordenador da Estratégia de Lisboa e do Plano Tecnológico, Carlos Zorrinho, com base nos primeiros indicadores de impacto do PT.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;O país já conhece os indicadores de execução do PT, mas não do seu impacto integrado sobre a economia portuguesa, cujo número de empresas de base tecnológica triplicou desde 2005, enquanto as exportações de produtos de alta tecnologia e as receitas da balança tecnológica duplicaram. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Os economistas João Caraça e Vítor Corado Simões apresentam hoje ao Conselho Consultivo do Plano Tecnológico a sua grelha de avaliação e os respectivos resultados. Baseiam-se em cinco áreas - sociedade em rede, condições económicas, qualificação dos recursos humanos, infra-estruturas de ciência e tecnologia, sistema de financiamento - com efeito sobre o empreendedorismo e a capacidade empresarial.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;O estudo constitui também um novo argumento do Governo em defesa da alteração dos critérios de análise da inovação até agora vigentes na União Europeia, e cuja discussão está aberta. Queixosos são sobretudo os países do Sul da Europa - Portugal, Espanha, França, Itália e Grécia. "Os indicadores do painel de inovação [de Bruxelas] não são adequados à dinâmica de inovação do Sul da Europa", sublinha Zorrinho. A grande diferença pode ser resumida entre inovação de produto (registo de patentes) no Norte da Europa, e melhoria de produto (registo de processo) no Sul.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Para além de defender "uma ferramenta que capte as várias dimensões do processo de inovação", o responsável considera que se têm de encontrar indicadores mais actuais. "É inaceitável que o último número que a Comissão Europeia tem sobre o investimento em investigação e desenvolvimento (I&amp;amp;D), que é um dos seus referenciais, seja de 2005".Quanto ao que significa a "melhor preparação" do país, Carlos Zorrinho faz uma leitura optimista. "O mais importante desta preparação não é tanto a resistência necessária nos próximos meses [face à crise internacional], mas a possibilidade de estarmos na primeira linha quando começar o ciclo de recuperação", diz.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Os grandes temas de discussão do Conselho Consultivo de hoje são os planos tecnológicos sectoriais da Educação e da Justiça, contando com a presença da ministra da Educação, Maria de Lurdes Rodrigues, e do secretário de Estado da Justiça, João Tiago Silveira. O Plano Tecnológico visa, desde 2005, promover a competitividade do país, através do conhecimento, da tecnologia e da inovação.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3662809872152515524-7431989818483780413?l=asspinov.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://asspinov.blogspot.com/feeds/7431989818483780413/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3662809872152515524&amp;postID=7431989818483780413' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3662809872152515524/posts/default/7431989818483780413'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3662809872152515524/posts/default/7431989818483780413'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://asspinov.blogspot.com/2008/07/portugal-quer-mudar-critrios-de-inovao.html' title='Portugal quer mudar critérios de inovação'/><author><name>Innovation Network Portugal</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06412211225403664784</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_UUsOsrDJWws/SH3NRuy0V-I/AAAAAAAAAGY/dPyOh95vuV8/s72-c/citywall.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3662809872152515524.post-7598912587910962739</id><published>2008-07-16T03:19:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-07-16T03:23:23.990-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Inovação nos Vinhos</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_UUsOsrDJWws/SH3Lpg6OvlI/AAAAAAAAAGQ/7cVg7cLVHw4/s1600-h/curso_provas_vinho.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5223555056888888914" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_UUsOsrDJWws/SH3Lpg6OvlI/AAAAAAAAAGQ/7cVg7cLVHw4/s320/curso_provas_vinho.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;O Laboratório do IVDP, IP acaba de obter a aceitação da OIV – Organização Internacional da Vinha e do Vinho – para um novo método de doseamento de sulfatos em vinhos por electroforese capilar.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Este novo método, inteiramente desenvolvido e validado nos laboratórios do IVDP, IP, poderá ascender brevemente a método de referência, após minuciosa discussão pela comunidade científica internacional, que se iniciará em Março de 2009, em sede da Subcomissão de Métodos de Análise da OIV que se reunirá em Paris.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Esta nova metodologia possibilita elevado nível de automatização, permitindo obter, com um volume reduzido de amostra, tempos de análise muito curtos a baixos custos operativos, revelando-se, ainda, não poluente, pelo facto de utilizar reagentes químicos em quantidades muito reduzidas.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;A presença de sulfatos em vinhos está limitada internacionalmente, sendo quantificada por rotina no IVDP, IP pois constitui uma exigência de diversos países importadores.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://advank.blogspot.com/2008/07/inovao-nos-vinhos.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;http://advank.blogspot.com/2008/07/inovao-nos-vinhos.html&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3662809872152515524-7598912587910962739?l=asspinov.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://asspinov.blogspot.com/feeds/7598912587910962739/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3662809872152515524&amp;postID=7598912587910962739' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3662809872152515524/posts/default/7598912587910962739'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3662809872152515524/posts/default/7598912587910962739'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://asspinov.blogspot.com/2008/07/inovao-nos-vinhos.html' title='Inovação nos Vinhos'/><author><name>Innovation Network Portugal</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06412211225403664784</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_UUsOsrDJWws/SH3Lpg6OvlI/AAAAAAAAAGQ/7cVg7cLVHw4/s72-c/curso_provas_vinho.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3662809872152515524.post-3919718840985478629</id><published>2008-07-16T03:16:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-07-16T03:18:30.939-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Inovaçao e Cosntrução Sustentável</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_UUsOsrDJWws/SH3K8M-tsjI/AAAAAAAAAGI/vRpi8yuwAYE/s1600-h/cincos.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5223554278444872242" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_UUsOsrDJWws/SH3K8M-tsjI/AAAAAAAAAGI/vRpi8yuwAYE/s320/cincos.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;A Plataforma para a Construção Sustentável é hoje uma rede que congrega empresas, centros de I&amp;amp;D, autarquias e outros agentes comprometidos com este tema da sustentabilidade e em usá-lo como mote para a inovação. O seu interesse abrange toda a fileira do Habitat e tem como objectivo concentrar recursos para valorizar empresarial e socialmente o conhecimento sobre a sustentabilidade do ambiente construído.&lt;br /&gt;De modo a concretizar este objectivo, entendeu esta Plataforma promover um evento internacional dirigido a empresas, centros de I&amp;amp;D, autarquias e demais agentes interessados em divulgar o que fazem nesta área e discutir o papel que a Construção Sustentável pode ter sobre a Inovação, particularmente, na fileira Habitat. Um fórum onde os diversos agentes de inovação se possam encontrar e gerar parcerias úteis.&lt;br /&gt;Assim surge este Congresso de Inovação na Construção Sustentável (CINCOS’08) a realizar na Curia (Portugal), no Hotel das Termas da Curia, de 23 a 25 de Outubro de 2008 e para o qual desejamos convidá-lo a participar.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.centrohabitat.net/cincos.htm"&gt;http://www.centrohabitat.net/cincos.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://advank.blogspot.com/2008/07/inovaao-e-cosntruo-sustentvel.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;http://advank.blogspot.com/2008/07/inovaao-e-cosntruo-sustentvel.html&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3662809872152515524-3919718840985478629?l=asspinov.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://asspinov.blogspot.com/feeds/3919718840985478629/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3662809872152515524&amp;postID=3919718840985478629' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3662809872152515524/posts/default/3919718840985478629'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3662809872152515524/posts/default/3919718840985478629'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://asspinov.blogspot.com/2008/07/inovaao-e-cosntruo-sustentvel.html' title='Inovaçao e Cosntrução Sustentável'/><author><name>Innovation Network Portugal</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06412211225403664784</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_UUsOsrDJWws/SH3K8M-tsjI/AAAAAAAAAGI/vRpi8yuwAYE/s72-c/cincos.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3662809872152515524.post-5017970761102662414</id><published>2008-06-24T22:51:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2008-06-24T22:51:54.454-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='tendencias'/><title type='text'>O melhor do mundo</title><content type='html'>Ter o “melhor do melhor” ou possuir artigos totalmente personalizados são definições que alguns dos mais conhecidos players do mundo da moda usam para descrever o verdadeiro luxo. Um mundo que não está ao alcance de todos mas que, apesar da crise, tem um número crescente de adeptos, na busca de mais status ou de melhor qualidade de vida.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Num mundo onde a imagem tem cada vez mais importância, os artigos considerados de luxo são um símbolo de status. Mas o que é que o luxo significa actualmente? É tão simples como ter mais tempo para si ou é uma ideologia para manter um certo sentido de liberdade e um objectivo num mundo de valores supérfluos e maior controlo social?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nem todos vêem o luxo da mesma forma e entre críticas à ostentação exagerada e a exaltação da qualidade, a visão sobre este conceito é múltipla, como provam as opiniões dos executivos de topo e de alguns dos grandes nomes ligados à moda.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Para os gostos de Tom Ford, Silvia Fendi, directora criativa da casa italiana, Yves Carcelle, CEO da Louis Vuitton, e Bernard Arnaud, o patrão multimilionário do grupo LVMH, o luxo é uma questão de qualidade, inovação, serviço e criatividade. Para alguns, como Dana Thomas, autora do livro “Deluxe: How Luxury Lost Its Lustre” e crítica do consumismo, é sobre «vender artigos de baixo custo com grandes margens embrulhados em logótipos».&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Para muitos, a explosão do mercado de artigos de luxo é um paralelo em relação à confiança e prosperidade da economia. Ao mesmo tempo que os preços das casas aumentaram ao longo dos anos, também aumentou o número de lojas de design e de luxo nas principais cidades do mundo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;À medida que caminhamos para o fim da década, marcada por uma grande incerteza, novos conceitos como produção ética e ecológica estão a começar a imperar. Em último caso, se vamos pagar preços altíssimos por artigos artesanais ou de designer, estes têm de ser feitos respeitando os mais altos padrões e incorporarem um design criativo e único que permita igualmente a personalização ou a customização.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;De acordo com Silvia Fendi, o luxo é «ter o melhor… não só de acordo com a tendência do momento, mas ter algo para toda a vida que foi feito com a melhor qualidade».&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tom Ford acredita que é sair da esfera do logótipo; em vez disso, afirma, «pode ter-se tudo com monogramas pessoais, para se tornar realmente teu». Ford criou uma marca que é a loja ideal para o homem que tem pouco tempo para procurar mas que quer ter a melhor qualidade e o melhor serviço que o dinheiro pode comprar. Planeia abrir quatro lojas nos próximos cinco anos em Londres, Los Angeles, Milão e Havai.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No final do último ano, na Conferência do Luxo do Herald Tribune em Moscovo Ford, explicou a um cronista do jornal inglês a sua visão de para onde os artigos de luxo se dirigem, este ano e no futuro. «O luxo não vai deixar de estar na moda, apenas precisa de mudar de estilo. Temos de substituir o supérfluo pelo profundo».&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Com efeito, a crise pode ter rebentado no mercado imobiliário mas parece que não há abrandamento no topo do mercado de luxo – apenas um reajustamento de imagem e de mensagem. Apesar da crise do crédito, da queda do consumo e dos alertas dos analistas para a necessidade de «poupar, poupar, poupar», há um novo impulso no mercado do luxo, estando prevista a abertura de diversas lojas. Louis Vuitton, Gucci, Tom Ford, Prada – e mesmo marcas como Martin Margiela, que não faz publicidade, e que tem uma abordagem um pouco marginal ao luxo – estão a preparar-se para novos investimentos e a sua confiança no mercado parece ser à prova de bala.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Fonte: Portugal Têxtil, 18-02-2008&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3662809872152515524-5017970761102662414?l=asspinov.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://asspinov.blogspot.com/feeds/5017970761102662414/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3662809872152515524&amp;postID=5017970761102662414' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3662809872152515524/posts/default/5017970761102662414'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3662809872152515524/posts/default/5017970761102662414'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://asspinov.blogspot.com/2008/06/o-melhor-do-mundo.html' title='O melhor do mundo'/><author><name>Celso Guedes de Carvalho</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13078841516415214608</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_K2qARRpdhZ4/SKUe69twCTI/AAAAAAAAAc0/Tj5h77Hk0tM/S220/celso+guedes+de+carvalho.bmp'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3662809872152515524.post-1412366283337570512</id><published>2008-06-22T04:51:00.003-07:00</published><updated>2008-06-22T04:51:56.558-07:00</updated><title type='text'>O colector de ideias</title><content type='html'>O esforço para invalidar uma nova ideia é gerador de conhecimento útil&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A inovação nasce das ideias aplicadas com um determinado propósito prático. Uma vez que os colaboradores de uma empresa são a sua maior e mais importante fonte de ideias, é compreensível que se deve aproveitar ao máximo esse potencial.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As empresas líderes em inovação sabem-no bem, porque baseiam a sua competitividade na capacidade de gerar ou absorver conhecimento e de o encaminhar por processos de criação de riqueza, orquestrados pelo que se costuma designar por Sistema de Gestão da Inovação (SGI). Neste contexto de captação de novas ideias para o negócio, um dos módulos mais importantes de um SGI é o chamado ‘colector de ideias’.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Acessível a todos os colaboradores, a sua utilização em modo «bottom up» deve ser encorajada pela liderança da empresa. Neste processo, a cada colaborador que participa com a sua ideia deve ser sempre dado um «feedback», o mais completo possível, seja a ideia válida, isto é, com potencial de implementação, ou não. O sistema que avalia as ideias é normalmente constituído por uma rede informal de pequenos grupos de colaboradores, agregados por critérios claros retirados da estratégia de inovação da empresa e com competências específicas por área tecnológica e/ou de negócio.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A estes grupos a empresa tem de disponibilizar tempo, regras de actuação e ‘ferramentas’ de inovação. Num sistema em que o colector já atingiu quer a massa crítica quer a velocidade de cruzeiro, o resultado normal tende a ser o ‘chumbo’ para a grande maioria das ideias. Mas será isso mau? Não, porque o sucesso deste processo não pode ser apenas medido pela taxa das ideias que passam à fase de implementação e ao respectivo valor criado mas também pelo «spill over» que surge das actividades de análise e discussão. Da minha experiência profissional, pude concluir que o esforço que a organização tem para invalidar uma nova ideia não é perdido mas sim gerador de conhecimento útil para a empresa. A reprovação de uma ideia induz ao debate «out of the box» e ao aprofundamento, sob novos ângulos, dos temas em análise, numa lógica de criação destrutiva.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fonte: João Picoito, Expresso, 29 de Dezembro de 2007&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3662809872152515524-1412366283337570512?l=asspinov.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://asspinov.blogspot.com/feeds/1412366283337570512/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3662809872152515524&amp;postID=1412366283337570512' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3662809872152515524/posts/default/1412366283337570512'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3662809872152515524/posts/default/1412366283337570512'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://asspinov.blogspot.com/2008/06/o-colector-de-ideias.html' title='O colector de ideias'/><author><name>Celso Guedes de Carvalho</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13078841516415214608</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_K2qARRpdhZ4/SKUe69twCTI/AAAAAAAAAc0/Tj5h77Hk0tM/S220/celso+guedes+de+carvalho.bmp'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3662809872152515524.post-713224817155054277</id><published>2008-06-22T04:51:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2008-06-22T04:51:34.888-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='consumo'/><title type='text'>O cérebro consumista</title><content type='html'>Encontrar uma promoção pode disparar o ritmo cardíaco para 192 batidas por minuto, com efeitos semelhantes aos de uma paixão, indica um estudo liderado por David Lewis, neuropsicólogo especializado no comportamento dos consumidores.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;O trabalho realizado em Inglaterra, em Julho de 2007, com o objectivo de explorar os efeitos psicológicos e neurológicos das promoções no consumidor, concluiu, também, que a adrenalina causada equivale a um salto de pára-quedas, mostrando que “parece haver um caçador de promoções dentro de cada um”.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“Identificamos picos de actividade cerebral associados à excitação e às emoções positivas coincidentes com o momento em que a promoção foi detectada”, explica David Lewis.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;O passo seguinte foi comparar esses picos com as imagens de vídeo para perceber quais os itens a que um consumidor reagiu. As conclusões indicam que o cérebro do homem ficou especialmente activo quando viu um «kit» de ferramentas com 60% de desconto. As mulheres foram atraídas pelo vestuário.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Neste estudo, David Lewis usou uma nova ferramenta desenvolvida pela Mind Lab International e pela Universidade de Sussex que permite criar instrumentos de pesquisa capazes de fornecer mais detalhes sobre o funcionamento da mente no que toca às suas motivações, preferências, ambições, expectativas e necessidades de consumo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Para isso, os consumidores são equipados com aparelhos ligados a um monitor que controla os batimentos cardíacos e os níveis de agitação física, enquanto os óculos, com uma câmara incorporada, gravam o que prende o olhar e sensores ligados ao crânio monitorizam a actividade das várias partes do cérebro.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Em Portugal, a ferramenta será testada, a 27 de Fevereiro, numa grande superfície do grupo Sonae. Logo de seguida, David Lewis explica a relação entre a neurociência e o «marketing» na II Conferência da QSP - Consultoria de Marketing, subordinada ao tema ‘Como é que o marketing pode inovar?’.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A resposta do «neuromarketing», através do QEEG - Quantified Electroencephalography mostra como a decisão de compra aumenta a actividade eléctrica do cérebro. Permite, até, fazer um mapa dos picos de interesse e das suas causas.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Este método de analisar o cérebro, desvendar as decisões dos consumidores e indicar a gestores e técnicos de «marketing» a melhor forma de falar com os clientes já é utilizado por empresas como a Procter &amp;amp; Gamble, Audi e Hewlett Packard.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A Twenty Century Fox também recorre a esta ferramenta para aumentar ou cortar cenas de filmes em função do seu impacto. “As grandes empresas sabem que o investimento na nossa investigação pode ter grande valor comercial, podendo torná-las mais competitivas e eficientes na aproximação aos clientes”, afirma David Lewis.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mas haverá um interruptor no cérebro que pode ser accionado para obrigar o consumidor a comprar? “Podemos apenas melhorar a forma como as empresas criam e divulgam as suas mensagens para as tornarem mais eficazes”, garante o neuropsicólogo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fonte: Expresso, 16 de Fevereiro de 2008&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3662809872152515524-713224817155054277?l=asspinov.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://asspinov.blogspot.com/feeds/713224817155054277/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3662809872152515524&amp;postID=713224817155054277' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3662809872152515524/posts/default/713224817155054277'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3662809872152515524/posts/default/713224817155054277'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://asspinov.blogspot.com/2008/06/o-crebro-consumista.html' title='O cérebro consumista'/><author><name>Celso Guedes de Carvalho</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13078841516415214608</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_K2qARRpdhZ4/SKUe69twCTI/AAAAAAAAAc0/Tj5h77Hk0tM/S220/celso+guedes+de+carvalho.bmp'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3662809872152515524.post-2334594574796131939</id><published>2008-06-22T04:50:00.002-07:00</published><updated>2008-06-22T04:51:04.013-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='diagnóstico'/><title type='text'>Inovar é preciso</title><content type='html'>O modelo de crescimento económico de um país desenvolvido é igual ao de um país emergente? Não, de todo, como explicou António Borges, no 5º Encontro Nacional de Inovação COTEC. No segundo caso, trata-se de um modelo de crescimento económico simples. No caso de um país desenvolvido, não é o investimento em geral a chave do crescimento, mas sim saltos qualitativos, com melhores tecnologias e soluções mais inovadoras.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Portugal teve o tipo de crescimento dos países emergentes entre 1985 e 2002, mas é notório que, a cada década, ele é cada vez menos vigoroso. E esta tendência não será ultrapassada, a não ser por saltos tecnológicos das nossas empresas, nos processos, nos produtos, mas também se não estiver enraizada na sua cultura, se não for assumida pelos seus recursos humanos e se não for servida por sistemas de gestão eficientes e eficazes, como sublinhou Artur Santos Silva, presidente da COTEC.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Por isso é que a actividade da COTEC tem sido tão importante, ao promover, de forma consistente, a inovação nas pequenas e médias empresas. É notável a experiência-piloto liderada por João Picoito, feita com 15 empresas, onde foi aplicado um sistema de gestão da inovação, com possibilidades de certificação, e um sistema de «scoring» (classificação) interno da inovação. A experiência será agora alargada a 650 empresas. Se correr bem, fará mais pela inovação no tecido produtivo do que todas as campanhas desenvolvidas até agora. E, no final, teremos um país bem melhor.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fonte: Expresso, 7 de Junho de 08&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3662809872152515524-2334594574796131939?l=asspinov.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://asspinov.blogspot.com/feeds/2334594574796131939/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3662809872152515524&amp;postID=2334594574796131939' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3662809872152515524/posts/default/2334594574796131939'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3662809872152515524/posts/default/2334594574796131939'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://asspinov.blogspot.com/2008/06/inovar-preciso.html' title='Inovar é preciso'/><author><name>Celso Guedes de Carvalho</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13078841516415214608</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_K2qARRpdhZ4/SKUe69twCTI/AAAAAAAAAc0/Tj5h77Hk0tM/S220/celso+guedes+de+carvalho.bmp'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3662809872152515524.post-191947042632301468</id><published>2008-06-22T04:50:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2008-06-22T04:50:34.569-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='museus'/><title type='text'>Hotéis e restaurantes com museu virtual</title><content type='html'>Antigas etiquetas de hotéis que se colavam nas malas dos hóspedes ou cartazes publicitários do início do séc. XX integram o acervo do Museu Virtual de Hotelaria, Restauração e Turismo (&lt;a href="http://www.aphort.com/"&gt;www.aphort.com&lt;/a&gt; ), lançado pela Associação Portuguesa de Hotelaria, Restauração e Turismo (APHORT), a nova designação da Unihsnor Portugal.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Fonte: Expresso, 25 de Abril de 08&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3662809872152515524-191947042632301468?l=asspinov.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://asspinov.blogspot.com/feeds/191947042632301468/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3662809872152515524&amp;postID=191947042632301468' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3662809872152515524/posts/default/191947042632301468'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3662809872152515524/posts/default/191947042632301468'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://asspinov.blogspot.com/2008/06/hotis-e-restaurantes-com-museu-virtual.html' title='Hotéis e restaurantes com museu virtual'/><author><name>Celso Guedes de Carvalho</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13078841516415214608</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_K2qARRpdhZ4/SKUe69twCTI/AAAAAAAAAc0/Tj5h77Hk0tM/S220/celso+guedes+de+carvalho.bmp'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3662809872152515524.post-4058762889850531984</id><published>2008-06-22T04:49:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-06-22T04:50:00.271-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Computador cabe em envelope A4</title><content type='html'>O computador portátil mais fino do Mundo cabe dentro de um envelope A4. O Macbook Air é a nova estrela da Apple. Visto de perfil mede entre quatro e 19 milímetros, tem um écrã LED de 13,3 polegadas e está entre os mais leves com apenas 1,2 quilogramas.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ontem, na abertura da exposição MacWorld, em São Francisco, o presidente do grupo Apple, Steve Jobs, explicou que o MacBook Air tem um processador Core 2 Duo da Intel, que foi comprimido em 60% para caber dentro do novo portátil.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;O processador tem uma velocidade de 1,6 GHz, ampliável para 1,8 GHz, e a bateria alcança as cinco horas de autonomia. O disco duro tem 80GB , mas o portátil traz ainda uma memoria SSD de 64 GB. O MacBook Air começa a ser distribuído nos E UA dentro de duas a três semanas vai custar cerca de 1700 euros.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Na mesma ocasião, Jobs anunciou o lançamento no site iTunes de um serviço de aluguer online de filmes, que deverá chegar à Europa durante o ano. O serviço vai permitir que os leitores de música iPod e o telemóvel iPhone entrem num mercado dominado por grupos como a Blockbuster e a Netflix. A Apple vai oferecer o aluguer de filmes da Sony, Universal, Paramount, Walt Disney, Warner Brothers e 20th Century Fox. Os preços vão variar entre os cerca de dois euros para os filmes antigos e os 2,60 euros para as novidades. Jobs anunciou ainda o lançamento de um novo modelo da Apple TV, um descodificador que liga a televisão à Internet, sem passar pelo computador, que permitirá ver no televisor os filmes alugados online.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;O líder da Apple revelou também que o iPhone, lançado nos EUA em Junho de 2007, vendeu quatro milhões de unidades.Chegou à Europa em Novembro, mas ainda não está à venda em Portugal.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fonte: JN, 16 de Janeiro de 2008&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3662809872152515524-4058762889850531984?l=asspinov.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://asspinov.blogspot.com/feeds/4058762889850531984/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3662809872152515524&amp;postID=4058762889850531984' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3662809872152515524/posts/default/4058762889850531984'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3662809872152515524/posts/default/4058762889850531984'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://asspinov.blogspot.com/2008/06/computador-cabe-em-envelope-a4.html' title='Computador cabe em envelope A4'/><author><name>Celso Guedes de Carvalho</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13078841516415214608</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_K2qARRpdhZ4/SKUe69twCTI/AAAAAAAAAc0/Tj5h77Hk0tM/S220/celso+guedes+de+carvalho.bmp'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3662809872152515524.post-458273209321953279</id><published>2008-05-20T04:53:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-05-20T04:57:58.289-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Micro-Innovation: Bringing Billions into the Conversation</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Submitted by &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nextbillion.net/user/1287" nicetitle="View user profile."&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Grace Augustine&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Base of the Pyramid (BoP) strategy has a few key tenets, one of which is the power of aggregated demand. Those living at the base of the economic pyramid may have little buying power on their own, but when they are pooled together, their consolidated demand amounts to a viable market. Companies are increasingly aware of and planning around this aggregated demand approach, as we have seen through such examples as the William J. Clinton Foundation's ability to bring down the prices of AIDS drugs through a guaranteed high volume of sales. That said, there is a need for not only existing products and services, but even more so for innovation at the BoP – so what about aggregating demand in those cases? How do you assess the ability and willingness of the poor to pay for products and services that do not already exist, and how do you convince companies to take a risk on such a vast and fragmented market?I asked myself this question while researching the myriad of innovative water filtration systems designed for the BoP. As I was getting ready to critique a few of the designs and business models, I realized that I wasn’t qualified to make those judgments. I have only had to use a water filtration system a handful of times, and I don’t know the numerous local realities well enough to criticize one design over another. However, the targeted population for these systems is geographically scattered, linguistically diverse, and resource-intensive to reach, so who would decide which innovations would move forward?While many in the base of the pyramid movement have hoped that innovations to serve both developing and developed markets will come from BoP communities themselves, co-creation has been lengthy, intricate, complex and time-consuming. Hart and Simanis have invested countless hours in the field practicing their &lt;a href="http://www.advank.com/"&gt;embedded innovation model&lt;/a&gt;, and although they have had numerous success stories, the businesses that have been created through this model are still primarily community-centric versus globally-reaching. As Al Hammond’s recent writings on transformative sector scaling have pointed out, "A number of community-initiated business models have produced good results, but they aren't easily replicable and don't scale." Going from community to community and engaging each in participatory design may be the ideal for embedded innovation, but it is certainly not at the scale that is necessary to reach efficiency gains and profitability through aggregated demand.So, how do we engage with and understand the needs of millions of geographically dispersed people? Part of the solution may come from the model of internet-based networks that consolidate demand – which I was first introduced to through Pop!Tech’s curator Andrew Zolli.Zolli spoke recently at Columbia Business School about forces shaping our society. One of the key determinants that he laid out was the power of networks. Zolli, who is known as an expert in global foresight and innovation, said that understanding networks will be an increasingly invaluable skill, and the power that networks yield will also grow in enormity.He was not just referring to social networks or to personal networks, but also to technology-based demand networks. These are online communities that have been created to aggregate the demand of multiple users in order to attract events, boycott businesses, and even design new gadgets. He cited Eventful and CrowdSpirit as two leading examples of these technology-based demand networks. Thanks to the internet, individual actors who would normally not yield much power on their own are able to connect virtually with people with similar demands and make something happen.CrowdSpirit, though very much a start-up, is the type of platform that I feel could help bridge the divide between innovation and high-volume demand at the BoP. It was launched to "co-create" electronic gadgets through an online design community. In essence, innovators from anywhere can submit ideas to the site, and numerous people vote for their favorite designs and aspects and then agree to purchase the device if the producer adopts their preferences.The inventor decides to go forward with the idea if he or she sees that there is sufficient demand. CrowdSpirit is built on community-based and participative design, and takes some risk out of the equation for the producer/inventor, since there’s an advance purchase commitment at the end of the R&amp;amp;D pipeline. Although it is built for high-end electronics, the model is fascinating. The internet is enabling people to overcome traditional boundaries and bringing together the voices of millions. In 1983 Pierre Bourdieu, an early economic sociologist, realized the power that could be created through networks of relationships, "enabling numerous, varied, scattered agents to act as one and overcome the limitations of space and time."That sounds like exactly the type of model that would work for the BoP, and with technology that Bourdieu could not imagine only two decades ago, it may be possible. In C.K. Prahalad’s latest book The &lt;a href="http://www.advank.com/"&gt;New Age of Innovation&lt;/a&gt;, the author notes that "we have finally reached the point where the confluence of connectivity, digitization, and the convergence of industry and technology boundaries are creating a new dynamic between consumers and the firm." He continues by observing that&lt;br /&gt;"today, instead of a small group of people sitting and thinking about innovation, you can have three billion people not only being micro-producers and micro-consumers, but micro-innovators…everybody has an opportunity to contribute to innovation."&lt;br /&gt;I am certainly not saying that the ideal of participatory design and on-the-ground co-creation or the marrying of resources and shared risk should be scrapped altogether in favor of a tool such as CrowdSpirit, but perhaps more individuals could be brought into the conversation over a shorter period of time if we can use technological advances to enable these numerous, varied, scattered agents to act as one and have a voice in innovation.An example of this more democratized design platform may be the collaborative competition put on by the Global Water Challenge and Ashoka’s Changemakers to find disruptive technologies and solutions to the water sanitation challenge. By sourcing design ideas from all over the world and opening up the judging to anyone with an internet connection, Ashoka’s Changemakers may prove to be a leader in demand consolidation and technology-enabled participatory design. In a recent MIT Press article, Charlie Brown, Executive Director of Ashoka’s Changemakers, wrote that&lt;br /&gt;"democratizing the processes of finding social solutions and judging their worth creates a market place where beneficiaries can spell out what they need and how they think those needs can be met, and where investors can play a more active role in selecting, refining, replicating and scaling up projects."&lt;br /&gt;As cell phone and broadband internet penetration rates increase around the world, countless individuals are being brought into this vast network. But it is up to BoP-minded innovators to creatively ensure that this connection brings those people not only online, but also puts them first in line.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nextbillion.net/blogs/2008/05/13/micro-innovation-bringing-billions-into-the-conversation"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;http://www.nextbillion.net/blogs/2008/05/13/micro-innovation-bringing-billions-into-the-conversation&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3662809872152515524-458273209321953279?l=asspinov.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://asspinov.blogspot.com/feeds/458273209321953279/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3662809872152515524&amp;postID=458273209321953279' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3662809872152515524/posts/default/458273209321953279'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3662809872152515524/posts/default/458273209321953279'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://asspinov.blogspot.com/2008/05/micro-innovation-bringing-billions-into.html' title='Micro-Innovation: Bringing Billions into the Conversation'/><author><name>Innovation Network Portugal</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06412211225403664784</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3662809872152515524.post-1511158646065330617</id><published>2008-05-20T04:43:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-05-20T04:47:39.601-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_UUsOsrDJWws/SDK6ID3eLQI/AAAAAAAAAGA/RUoJnovmbbo/s1600-h/technology0.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5202425167206034690" style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_UUsOsrDJWws/SDK6ID3eLQI/AAAAAAAAAGA/RUoJnovmbbo/s320/technology0.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;A empresa Magenn, do Canadá, afirmou que está às vésperas de tornar real um projeto que, segundo seus fundadores, deverá revolucionar a forma como a energia eólica pode ser aproveitada.Em vez de gigantescos cata-ventos, instalados em postes, a idéia é utilizar balões dotados de um sistema que os faz girar ao longo do seu eixo horizontal.Nos últimos dias, a empresa tem conduzido os testes finais com o seu primeiro balão em escala real, enchendo-o com hélio. Inicialmente o sistema será testado no interior de um gigantesco hangar, com mais de 60 metros de altura. Se tudo correr dentro do planeado, o balão será esvaziado, retirado do hangar, e finalmente posto em testes ao ar livre.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://advank.blogspot.com/2008/05/balo-que-gera-electricidade.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;http://advank.blogspot.com/2008/05/balo-que-gera-electricidade.html&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3662809872152515524-1511158646065330617?l=asspinov.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://asspinov.blogspot.com/feeds/1511158646065330617/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3662809872152515524&amp;postID=1511158646065330617' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3662809872152515524/posts/default/1511158646065330617'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3662809872152515524/posts/default/1511158646065330617'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://asspinov.blogspot.com/2008/05/empresa-magenn-do-canad-afirmou-que-est.html' title=''/><author><name>Innovation Network Portugal</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06412211225403664784</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_UUsOsrDJWws/SDK6ID3eLQI/AAAAAAAAAGA/RUoJnovmbbo/s72-c/technology0.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3662809872152515524.post-110732472787380809</id><published>2008-05-01T01:09:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-05-01T01:10:12.428-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='dados'/><title type='text'>Investidores fora do mercado</title><content type='html'>Apenas 19 em cada 100 cientistas portugueses trabalham em empresas. O número é minúsculo se comparado com as economias mais ricas do planeta, como a americana (80% de investigação nas empresas) ou a alemã. Nestes países, os privados são os grandes empregadores de investigadores, contratados para desenvolverem artigos com elevado interesse para o consumidor.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;De qualquer maneira, Portugal tem saltado patamares nesta matéria. Começam a surgir sinais de aproximação entre empresas e universidades e o Governo tem dado uma forte ajuda através do lançamento de políticas incentivadoras. Dentro de semanas, o ministro da Ciência vai anunciar mais um programa, destinado à contratação de investigadores por parte de companhias que actuam na área da Investigação e Desenvolvimento.&lt;br /&gt;…&lt;br /&gt;Fonte: Expresso, 25 de Abril de 08&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3662809872152515524-110732472787380809?l=asspinov.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://asspinov.blogspot.com/feeds/110732472787380809/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3662809872152515524&amp;postID=110732472787380809' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3662809872152515524/posts/default/110732472787380809'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3662809872152515524/posts/default/110732472787380809'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://asspinov.blogspot.com/2008/05/investidores-fora-do-mercado.html' title='Investidores fora do mercado'/><author><name>Celso Guedes de Carvalho</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13078841516415214608</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_K2qARRpdhZ4/SKUe69twCTI/AAAAAAAAAc0/Tj5h77Hk0tM/S220/celso+guedes+de+carvalho.bmp'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3662809872152515524.post-6855596941633350532</id><published>2008-04-22T23:05:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2008-04-22T23:05:58.979-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='redes de cooperação'/><title type='text'>A universidade e o futuro</title><content type='html'>…&lt;br /&gt;Bolonha - que como se sabe aumenta significativamente a mobilidade do talento no espaço europeu - vem sublinhar a necessidade de aumentarmos a sério a competitividade do nosso ensino Universitário. Neste contexto e embora não sendo suficiente, parece-me necessário alterar o modelo de governo das Universidades. Começar por separar a gestão estratégica ligada à componente académica - no ensino e na I&amp;amp;D - da gestão operacional, que deve ser profissional. Neste plano, integre-se o que há para integrar, aproveitem-se as sinergias operativas, estabeleça-se uma cultura de prestação interna de serviços e uma lógica empresarial, porque os recursos são escassos e as necessidades crescentes. Em suma, menos custos de «overhead» para mais e melhor ensino e produção científica.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No plano académico, acredito na agregação das unidades orgânicas clássicas em novas áreas de saber, mais abrangentes, em rede, com liderança e escala. O conhecimento não se desenvolve em silos estanques, porque as ciências são realidades integradas, pluridisciplinares.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;O novo modelo de governo deve, sem ambiguidades, reafirmar a unidade da Universidade, reforçar o papel do seu líder, flexibilizar a gestão da mudança, e acomodar uma estratégia de competitividade.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fonte: João Picoto, Expresso, 19 de Abril de 08&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3662809872152515524-6855596941633350532?l=asspinov.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://asspinov.blogspot.com/feeds/6855596941633350532/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3662809872152515524&amp;postID=6855596941633350532' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3662809872152515524/posts/default/6855596941633350532'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3662809872152515524/posts/default/6855596941633350532'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://asspinov.blogspot.com/2008/04/universidade-e-o-futuro.html' title='A universidade e o futuro'/><author><name>Celso Guedes de Carvalho</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13078841516415214608</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_K2qARRpdhZ4/SKUe69twCTI/AAAAAAAAAc0/Tj5h77Hk0tM/S220/celso+guedes+de+carvalho.bmp'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3662809872152515524.post-4120451974672311912</id><published>2008-04-17T21:42:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-04-17T21:43:25.805-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='inovação'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Celso Guedes de Carvalho'/><title type='text'>A Inovação na Terra do Pai Natal</title><content type='html'>Tive, recentemente, a oportunidade de conhecer em detalhe o sistema de inovação da Finlândia. A Finlândia ocupa hoje os lugares cimeiros em praticamente todos os «rankings» internacionais ligados à competitividade, investigação e desenvolvimento, inovação e desenvolvimento da sociedade da informação e do conhecimento.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Os finlandeses reconhecem, com orgulho, que o sucesso do país se deve à aposta sustentada na educação, investigação e tecnologia. Investem anualmente 3,5% daquilo que produzem em actividades ligadas à inovação. Mais de 5 B€, dos quais 70% são assegurados pelo sector privado. A parceria entre o sector privado e o sector público é uma constante e um factor determinante nas decisões de suporte aos projectos de investigação. Os incentivos públicos às unidades de investigação das universidades estão condicionados ao envolvimento das empresas no financiamento e na execução dos projectos. O sistema promove e favorece a ligação entre a universidade e a indústria, potenciando a aplicação comercial dos resultados da inovação. A incubação de novas empresas de base tecnológica é assumida como um dos principais objectivos.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A pequena dimensão, o facto de cerca de 68% do território ser coberto por floresta e a existência de uma população de apenas 5,4 milhões, poderiam levar a pensar que as actividades de inovação estariam essencialmente concentradas na capital, em Helsínquia. Tal não é verdade. A Finlândia aposta fortemente no poder local e na regionalização. 20 universidades, 29 politécnicos e 22 parques de ciência e tecnologia, estão distribuídos pelas diferentes cidades, articulando-se em «clusters» com um conjunto significativo de empresas tecnológicas nas áreas das TIC, das quais a Nokia é o exemplo mais paradigmático, da floresta, saúde, biotecnologia, ambiente, energia, materiais, etc.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Na intervenção dos principais actores sente-se uma atitude permanente de colaboração e parceria.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Vale a pena reflectir e aprender com o exemplo finlandês. Não basta contudo acreditar no Pai Natal. É preciso muito trabalho para garantir que as prendas possam, um dia, vir a aparecer no nosso sapatinho.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Fonte: Paulo Nordeste, Expresso, 12 de Abril de 08&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3662809872152515524-4120451974672311912?l=asspinov.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://asspinov.blogspot.com/feeds/4120451974672311912/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3662809872152515524&amp;postID=4120451974672311912' title='1 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3662809872152515524/posts/default/4120451974672311912'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3662809872152515524/posts/default/4120451974672311912'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://asspinov.blogspot.com/2008/04/inovao-na-terra-do-pai-natal.html' title='A Inovação na Terra do Pai Natal'/><author><name>Celso Guedes de Carvalho</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13078841516415214608</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_K2qARRpdhZ4/SKUe69twCTI/AAAAAAAAAc0/Tj5h77Hk0tM/S220/celso+guedes+de+carvalho.bmp'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3662809872152515524.post-5860997167116759519</id><published>2008-04-13T09:56:00.002-07:00</published><updated>2008-04-13T09:57:11.261-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='dados'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Celso Guedes de Carvalho'/><title type='text'>Portugal vendeu mais tecnologia do que importou</title><content type='html'>O primeiro-ministro, José Sócrates, afirmou hoje, durante a inauguração do novo Centro de Competências da Fujitsu, que Portugal registou o ano passado, pela primeira vez, uma balança tecnológica positiva, tendo exportado mais tecnologia do que importou.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"A balança tecnológica portuguesa em 2007 foi finalmente positiva. Portugal vendeu mais tecnologia do que importou", afirmou o primeiro-ministro durante a cerimónia de inauguração do novo centro da empresa japonesa líder na Europa de prestação de serviços de tecnologia de informação.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Isto mostra uma evolução no perfil de Portugal e uma mudança de paradigma", afirmou o primeiro-ministro, sublinhando que a "exportação de serviços a empresas é já maior do que a exportação dos sectores tradicionais, como o calçado e o têxtil".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A Fujitsu Services espera investir 10 milhões de euros no novo Centro de Competências até ao final deste ano e 4,2 milhões de euros anuais nos próximos anos, afirmou o director-geral da Fujitsu Portugal, Carlos Barros.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Este novo centro, que emprega actualmente 200 pessoas, e espera até ao final do ano atingir os 500 colaboradores, vai fornecer serviços a 40 mil utilizadores em 106 países.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A escolha de Portugal para instalar este novo centro, entre vários países onde o grupo opera, deve-se, segundo Carlos Barros, às qualificações dos portugueses para falar uma segunda língua, à capacidade do país de atrair investimento e pessoas que falem vários idiomas.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fonte: JN, 29 de Janeiro de 2008&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3662809872152515524-5860997167116759519?l=asspinov.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://asspinov.blogspot.com/feeds/5860997167116759519/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3662809872152515524&amp;postID=5860997167116759519' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3662809872152515524/posts/default/5860997167116759519'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3662809872152515524/posts/default/5860997167116759519'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://asspinov.blogspot.com/2008/04/portugal-vendeu-mais-tecnologia-do-que.html' title='Portugal vendeu mais tecnologia do que importou'/><author><name>Celso Guedes de Carvalho</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13078841516415214608</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_K2qARRpdhZ4/SKUe69twCTI/AAAAAAAAAc0/Tj5h77Hk0tM/S220/celso+guedes+de+carvalho.bmp'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3662809872152515524.post-3853473910223448738</id><published>2008-04-13T09:56:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2008-04-13T09:56:41.998-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Celso Guedes de Carvalho'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='trabalhar em rede'/><title type='text'>Portugal dos pequeninos</title><content type='html'>Em 2007, no rescaldo do 3GSM World Congress, desafiei as diferentes empresas que tinham estado presentes em Barcelona para estudarmos em conjunto uma forma mais inovadora de organizar a participação em 2008. Como é costume ninguém aderiu à ideia e cá viemos de novo, cada qual por si, 10 pequenos espaços perdidos na imensa área ocupada pelas 1300 empresas que este ano, sob o tema «ideas in motion», arribaram à Catalunha.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A GSM Association, entidade responsável pela organização do evento, estima que cerca de 80000 pessoas possam ter visitado a feira. Perdemos assim, na minha opinião, mais uma oportunidade de contribuir para a afirmação do Portugal Tecnológico que todos queremos ajudar a construir.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Será que não existe uma forma mais inteligente e eficaz de rentabilizar os poucos metros quadrados que cada empresa consegue alugar? Vamos continuar a alimentar o preconceito de esconder, por trás de um nome em inglês, a origem da nossa tecnologia?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Não é preciso inventar nada! Basta aprender com outros países, com destaque para os que têm a nossa dimensão como a Irlanda, a Holanda, a Dinamarca, a Noruega, a Finlândia, a Suécia, a Hungria ou Israel, que agregaram as suas empresas tecnológicas num mesmo espaço, ou em espaços adjacentes. Esta organização é tipicamente conduzida por entidades governamentais ligadas ao comércio externo, com o objectivo de promoção da capacidade tecnológica e da imagem dos respectivos países. Antes da feira as embaixadas fizeram o trabalho de casa, multiplicando contactos, tentando agendar visitas aos respectivos «stands».&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Não poderia a nossa AICEP tentar seguir o exemplo das suas congéneres internacionais? Pelo impacto que tem na economia do conhecimento o sector das TIC não deveria ser uma das maiores apostas para as nossas exportações?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Acho que o modelo do Portugal dos pequeninos, ainda por cima dispersos e divididos, está ultrapassado. Só conseguiremos ter dimensão e credibilidade se conseguirmos associar-nos e trabalhar em rede.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fonte: Paulo Nordeste, Expresso, 16 de Fevereiro de 2008&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3662809872152515524-3853473910223448738?l=asspinov.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://asspinov.blogspot.com/feeds/3853473910223448738/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3662809872152515524&amp;postID=3853473910223448738' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3662809872152515524/posts/default/3853473910223448738'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3662809872152515524/posts/default/3853473910223448738'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://asspinov.blogspot.com/2008/04/portugal-dos-pequeninos.html' title='Portugal dos pequeninos'/><author><name>Celso Guedes de Carvalho</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13078841516415214608</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_K2qARRpdhZ4/SKUe69twCTI/AAAAAAAAAc0/Tj5h77Hk0tM/S220/celso+guedes+de+carvalho.bmp'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3662809872152515524.post-3137102878940719446</id><published>2008-03-16T06:54:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2008-03-16T06:54:42.500-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='inovação'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Celso Guedes de Carvalho'/><title type='text'>É preciso acreditar</title><content type='html'>A inovação nas organizações tem de ser uma atitude vivida e partilhada por todos. Não pode ser esporádica, mas sistémica e permanente. Não aparece espontaneamente mas tem de ser fruto de uma decisão consciente dos seus principais responsáveis.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Para ter sucesso, a inovação precisa de ser planeada, ter recursos humanos, financeiros e logísticos adequados, tempo para se afirmar e, obviamente, conseguir obter resultados mensuráveis em tempo útil. A inovação não pode estar confinada às pessoas do departamento de investigação e desenvolvimento mas exige o envolvimento de toda a empresa, nomeadamente das áreas de marketing, comercial e engenharia. Poucas são as empresas que têm a sorte de alcançar uma inovação radical. Na maioria dos casos, a inovação é incremental, feita de pequenos passos, muito trabalho, paciência e persistência.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A competição global a que as empresas estão sujeitas, com a consequente necessidade de apresentarem resultados no curto prazo, torna difícil atribuir à inovação a atenção, o tempo e a prioridade necessárias ao seu desenvolvimento. Não é fácil mobilizar as pessoas para investirem em acções cujo resultado não é imediato. As unidades de negócio, pressionadas pelos objectivos anuais, dificilmente libertam os recursos necessários e apropriados, para a participação em projectos de inovação cujo impacto só se fará sentir mais tarde.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ao contrário dos projectos de investigação e desenvolvimento que, em determinadas situações, podem ser feitos no exterior da empresa por universidades ou unidades de interface, a inovação não é delegável.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Uma das decisões mais difíceis da gestão de uma empresa é conseguir um equilíbrio adequado entre as actividades de curto, médio e longo prazo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A inovação tem de estar presente em todas elas e constitui uma forma poderosa de as interligar. Trabalhar no futuro permite, muitas vezes, encontrar a solução mais adequada para resolver os problemas do presente.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A percepção dominante em muitas empresas é que a inovação é um custo e não um investimento. Assim, quando há necessidade de cortar custos, as actividades ligadas à inovação estão entre as principais candidatas à redução ou extinção. Nessas situações, é preciso encontrar a arte e o engenho para resistir, continuando a acreditar que, sem inovação, não há futuro.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Fonte: Paulo Nordeste, 15 de Março de 08&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3662809872152515524-3137102878940719446?l=asspinov.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://asspinov.blogspot.com/feeds/3137102878940719446/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3662809872152515524&amp;postID=3137102878940719446' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3662809872152515524/posts/default/3137102878940719446'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3662809872152515524/posts/default/3137102878940719446'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://asspinov.blogspot.com/2008/03/preciso-acreditar.html' title='É preciso acreditar'/><author><name>Celso Guedes de Carvalho</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13078841516415214608</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_K2qARRpdhZ4/SKUe69twCTI/AAAAAAAAAc0/Tj5h77Hk0tM/S220/celso+guedes+de+carvalho.bmp'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3662809872152515524.post-7242063487380321919</id><published>2008-03-09T00:58:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-03-09T00:59:05.883-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='inovação'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Celso Guedes de Carvalho'/><title type='text'>A geografia da inovação</title><content type='html'>O mundo é plano, escreveu Thomas Friedman em 2005. Não é bem assim, respondeu Richard Florida chamando a atenção para os picos, colinas e vales na geografia da inovação. Na altura, a maioria dos picos da inovação estava concentrada nas costas Leste e Oeste dos EUA, no Norte da Europa e no Japão. Os números da Organização Mundial da Propriedade Intelectual no que respeita ao registo de patentes em 2007 mostram o aparecimento de novos picos de inovação. Os EUA continuam a ser líderes mundiais no registo de novas patentes. O Japão está em segundo lugar e a Alemanha em terceiro. As mudanças a ter em conta vêm a seguir. A Coreia do Sul ultrapassou a França e subiu ao quarto lugar. A China subiu ao sétimo lugar. Em 2007 o Nordeste da Ásia foi responsável por mais de um quarto das patentes registadas.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Fonte: Expresso, 8 de Março de 2008&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3662809872152515524-7242063487380321919?l=asspinov.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://asspinov.blogspot.com/feeds/7242063487380321919/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3662809872152515524&amp;postID=7242063487380321919' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3662809872152515524/posts/default/7242063487380321919'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3662809872152515524/posts/default/7242063487380321919'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://asspinov.blogspot.com/2008/03/geografia-da-inovao.html' title='A geografia da inovação'/><author><name>Celso Guedes de Carvalho</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13078841516415214608</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_K2qARRpdhZ4/SKUe69twCTI/AAAAAAAAAc0/Tj5h77Hk0tM/S220/celso+guedes+de+carvalho.bmp'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3662809872152515524.post-8251487204927708626</id><published>2008-03-09T00:57:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-03-09T00:58:23.953-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='inovação'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Celso Guedes de Carvalho'/><title type='text'>Gazelas, tartarugas e foguetões</title><content type='html'>As instituições de capital de risco preferem empresas que procuram uma oferta pública de venda num período que raramente ultrapassa os cinco anos após investimento.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Essas firmas são apelidadas de ‘foguetões’ devido ao seu crescimento explosivo. São empresas de alto risco que exigem financiamentos elevados: existem dezenas de insucessos para cada Lotus ou Compaq, exemplos clássicos de ‘foguetões’ com êxito.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A maioria das novas firmas segue um modelo oposto: um crescimento lento e seguro, sem investimento externo. Estas empresas são conhecidas como ‘tartarugas’.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Segundo Darius Mahdjoubi da Universidade do Texas, os ‘foguetões’ (cerca de 0,2% das «start-ups») são responsáveis por 20% dos empregos criados por novas empresas nos EUA. As ‘tartarugas’ contribuem do mesmo modo para a geração de emprego, embora representem quase 80% das «start-ups» norte-americanas.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dariusargumenta(http:// www.ischool.utexas.edu/˜darius/Action_Business_Planning-PPT-Brief.pdf) que existe um terceiro tipo de empresas relevantes: as firmas ‘gazelas’ (cerca de 20% das «start-ups») que se desenvolvem lentamente na fase inicial mas que depois crescem rapidamente, com investimentos reduzidos. A Microsoft e a Dell são apresentadas como exemplos paradigmáticos: passaram para um domínio dos respectivos sectores depois de, nos primeiros anos, facturarem menos do que as rivais Lotus e Compaq.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As qualidades destas empresas são similares às dos maratonistas: mantêm-se na corrida com resiliência até surgir uma oportunidade para se destacarem do pelotão. A aposta na investigação é habitualmente superior à das empresas rivais do modelo ‘foguetão’, garantindo o futuro. A sua contribuição relativa para a geração de novos empregos atinge os 60% nos EUA.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;O modelo de empresa ‘foguetão’ é encorajado habitualmente em competições nacionais para jovens empreendedores. Mas os benefícios deste modelo são duvidosos considerando os riscos associados. O modelo de empresa ‘gazela’ é aquele que, a prazo, mais beneficia os empreendedores, accionistas e países.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Fonte: Presidente da Y-Dreams, Expresso, 8 de Março de 2008&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3662809872152515524-8251487204927708626?l=asspinov.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://asspinov.blogspot.com/feeds/8251487204927708626/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3662809872152515524&amp;postID=8251487204927708626' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3662809872152515524/posts/default/8251487204927708626'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3662809872152515524/posts/default/8251487204927708626'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://asspinov.blogspot.com/2008/03/gazelas-tartarugas-e-foguetes.html' title='Gazelas, tartarugas e foguetões'/><author><name>Celso Guedes de Carvalho</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13078841516415214608</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_K2qARRpdhZ4/SKUe69twCTI/AAAAAAAAAc0/Tj5h77Hk0tM/S220/celso+guedes+de+carvalho.bmp'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3662809872152515524.post-5306408947171754641</id><published>2008-03-04T22:10:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-03-04T22:11:15.110-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Celso Guedes de Carvalho'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='comunicação'/><title type='text'>A Comunicação da Inovação</title><content type='html'>Luke W, colaborador do Yahoo, considera que o «design» é o factor decisivo na afirmação de produtos inovadores. De facto, produtos como I-Phone distinguem-se sobretudo pela sua interface revolucionária. Mas a qualidade do «design» de um produto é só por si insuficiente para o afirmar: tem que ser comunicada de forma efectiva.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Essa comunicação começa por ser intraorganizacional. O inventor tem que convencer a gestão a investir no desenvolvimento do produto. A deficiente formação em comunicação de muitos criadores tem contribuído para a rejeição de produtos, com um potencial significativo, nesta fase. Uma paródia a uma apresentação típica de um inventor pode ser vista em &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZKWCuEFze0"&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZKWCuEFze0&lt;/a&gt; .&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A Web é hoje o ambiente mais apropriado para a fase seguinte: a comunicação externa. Blogues como o Engadget, Gizmodo e Boing Boing são extremamente populares e o seu factor de impacto supera frequentemente o dos «media» tradicionais. Estes «sites» tecnológicos são aliás dominantes nas classificações mundiais de blogues segundo o Technorati (&lt;a href="http://www.technorati.com/pop/blogs"&gt;http://www.technorati.com/pop/blogs&lt;/a&gt; ). Uma referência publicada num deles pode ser decisiva para o sucesso de uma invenção.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Uma peça de vídeo publicada previamente no You Tube, ou serviço similar, é o elemento central na comunicação de um produto num blogue. O sucesso de um produto correlaciona-se crescentemente com o êxito do seu vídeo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Os «sites» das empresas tecnológicas estão a incorporar esta linguagem transformando-se num conjunto de canais de microvídeos. O «site» experimental do MIT Tech TV (http://techtv.mit.edu/) demonstra o potencial desta evolução.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As deficiências na comunicação parodiadas no documento supracitado têm vindo a ser corrigidas através de cadeiras de comunicação escrita e oral nos cursos de engenharia. Mas a importância crescente do vídeo na Web introduz a necessidade de uma outra aprendizagem para os que participam na comunicação da inovação: a da linguagem visual associada a este meio.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fonte: Expresso, 9 de Fevereiro de 08&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3662809872152515524-5306408947171754641?l=asspinov.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://asspinov.blogspot.com/feeds/5306408947171754641/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3662809872152515524&amp;postID=5306408947171754641' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3662809872152515524/posts/default/5306408947171754641'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3662809872152515524/posts/default/5306408947171754641'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://asspinov.blogspot.com/2008/03/comunicao-da-inovao.html' title='A Comunicação da Inovação'/><author><name>Celso Guedes de Carvalho</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13078841516415214608</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_K2qARRpdhZ4/SKUe69twCTI/AAAAAAAAAc0/Tj5h77Hk0tM/S220/celso+guedes+de+carvalho.bmp'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3662809872152515524.post-4537853311453716410</id><published>2008-02-16T11:25:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-02-16T11:26:15.012-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='marcas; Celso Guedes de Carvalho'/><title type='text'>Marcas nacionais disparam na Europa</title><content type='html'>No ano passado, as empresas portuguesas registaram 1266 marcas comunitárias. Trata-se de um aumento de quase 22% em relação a 2006, quando, pela primeira vez, tinha sido ultrapassada a barreira das mil.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Os dados da Organização para Harmonização do Mercado Interno mostram que Portugal continuou em 2007 a trajectória de convergência com a média da União Europeia em matérias de número de marcas por milhão de habitantes. A economia nacional manteve-se, pelo segundo ano consecutivo, acima da França e aproximou-se da Itália.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Para Sandro Mendonça, investigador do Instituto das Ciências do Trabalho e da Empresa (ISCTE) e da Universidade de Sussex (Reino Unido), que compilou estas estatísticas, é claramente um sinal de dinamismo das empresas nacionais. “Portugal tem sido um caso de excepção nos últimos anos e estes números são um sinal de músculo comercial”, refere o economista.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;De facto, a economia portuguesa foi a que mais cresceu neste domínio na última década. Em 1996 foram registadas 161 marcas e só em 2003 foi pela primeira vez ultrapassado o número das 500 marcas comunitárias. Nos últimos dois anos, o ritmo de crescimento manteve-se excepcionalmente elevado. Em 2006 quase duplicou o total de registos e no ano passado houve uma subida superior a 200.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“São dados que demonstram vontade das empresas de ir a jogo”, sublinha Sandro Mendonça. O registo de uma marca comunitária, ao contrário das patentes europeias que têm de adicionar países caso a caso, torna-a automaticamente válida em toda a União Europeia e nos países que tenham acordos com o espaço europeu.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Esta evolução positiva no plano comercial, que pode ser espelhada pelo crescimento das exportações nos últimos anos, nota-se também em termos tecnológicos, nomeadamente com o registo de patentes. Embora não haja ainda números para 2007, Portugal tem apresentado um crescimento contínuo do número de patentes europeias registadas no Instituto de Patentes Europeu. Em 2006, foram 88 patentes, o valor mais elevado de sempre. Em 2004 e 2005, o total de registos tinha sido de, respectivamente, 50 e 66.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Esta semana, foi divulgado o &lt;a href="http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/innovation/index_en.htm#3"&gt;European Inovation Scoreboard&lt;/a&gt;, que colocou Portugal como a sétima economia que mais progrediu em termos de inovação com base num conjunto de indicadores. A economia portuguesa subiu uma posição em 2007 e está agora no 30º lugar do «ranking», que inclui todos os Estados-membros da União Europeia, Suíça, Islândia, Noruega, Croácia, Turquia, EUA, Israel, Canadá, Japão e Austrália.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sinais de recuperação&lt;br /&gt;-        Em 2006, o número de marcas comunitárias registadas por empresas portuguesas quase duplicou ao chegar a 1041; no ano passado, voltou a crescer em mais de 200&lt;br /&gt;-        Portugal está há dois anos à frente da França, já bastante acima da Grécia e cada vez mais próximo da Itália e da Bélgica em termos «per capita»&lt;br /&gt;-        As patentes europeias das empresas nacionais estão a crescer ininterruptamente desde 2002&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Fonte: Expresso, 16 de Fevereiro de 2008&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3662809872152515524-4537853311453716410?l=asspinov.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://asspinov.blogspot.com/feeds/4537853311453716410/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3662809872152515524&amp;postID=4537853311453716410' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3662809872152515524/posts/default/4537853311453716410'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3662809872152515524/posts/default/4537853311453716410'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://asspinov.blogspot.com/2008/02/marcas-nacionais-disparam-na-europa.html' title='Marcas nacionais disparam na Europa'/><author><name>Celso Guedes de Carvalho</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13078841516415214608</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_K2qARRpdhZ4/SKUe69twCTI/AAAAAAAAAc0/Tj5h77Hk0tM/S220/celso+guedes+de+carvalho.bmp'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3662809872152515524.post-783025466802770971</id><published>2008-01-27T23:47:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2008-01-27T23:47:31.676-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='consumidores; Celso Guedes de Carvalho'/><title type='text'>Chocolate, Internet e muita opinião</title><content type='html'>Vivem sozinhos, vão ser 29% da população mundial em 2020 e têm uma vida “interessante”, diz a TNS World Pannel, especialista em consumidores.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A diferenciação clara destes sub-30 faz com que comecem a ser vistos pelas marcas como um campo permeável à inovação mas também como «prosumers»: consumidores proactivos e muito bem informados que ditam tendências.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As casas de uma só escova de dentes, ligação permanente à Net e sushi ao lado de vinho alentejano no frigorífico tem um poder de influência que ultrapassa em muito a sua tradução numérica. Mesmo assim, a TNS regista um universo de 538.938 lares de jovens independentes, concentrados sobretudo na Grande Lisboa e Porto. Na globalidade dos lares portugueses este «cluster» representou 14%, no ano de 2007.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Muitos dos melhores blogues temáticos são o rabo de fora destes novos consumidores proactivos, com muitas horas diárias investidas em pesquisa na Web e que não se deixa influenciar pela publicidade tradicional. Segundas evidências: são mais fiéis à opinião dos amigos do que às marcas, são inconstantes e especialistas seguros. “Está-se a tornar muito rentável saber o que eles pensam e o que pretendem”, adianta Vasco Perestrelo, da Euro RSCG.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No mundo globalizado, de confiança renovada na informação boca-a-boca, os «prosumers» “podem tornar-se embaixadores de uma marca ou actuar precisamente no sentido contrário”, continua. Este CEO do grupo que criou o conceito de «prosumer» relembra a tendência da música «on-line» individualizada, antecipada por este tipo de consumidor e que levou ao sucesso comercial do iPod, alargada depois a outros grupos. Segundo a TNS, nos produtos de grande consumo (escolhidos maioritariamente das prateleiras dos hipers Continente e Jumbo, segundo os dados de 2007) o grupo fez gastos acima da média nos chocolates, «snacks», refeições prontas congeladas e fruta para beber. “São escolhas que revelam falta de tempo, um dado confirmado pela frequência das idas ao supermercado, inferior à média”, explica Suzana Correia, gestora de clientes da TNS.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Apesar disso, 93% dizem gostar de fazer uma alimentação saudável (dificilmente encomendada «on-line»), segundo a informação recolhida ao longo do ano pela TNS. Sem tempo a sobrar das exigências profissionais, do Second Life, do Hi5 ou de outra rede social, este é um estilo de vida global que não deixa de incluir um compromisso com a saúde e o ambiente.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Neste alvo emergente, 82% admitem procurar produtos que não prejudiquem o ambiente e 62% pagariam mais por alimentos sem aditivos ou conservantes. António Quina, da empresa A vida é bela, estima que 60% dos seus clientes de experiências «zen» (spa, terapias alternativas, massagens de relaxamento) se integrem neste grupo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A menor sociabilidade é uma característica muitas vezes atribuída ao grupo. Uma individualização máxima que exige uma leitura cuidada, para Carlos Coelho. O especialista em «branding» e CEO da Ivity reconhece sim uma nova sociabilidade. “Estar mais horas em casa não significa um maior isolamento. Esta é uma nova individualidade em que se escreve mais, onde se conhecem mais pessoas, de uma outra forma”, defende. Para Carlos Coelho, este grupo irá gerar o «self branding», onde as marcas vão ter de responder à individualidade de que estes «singles» não pretendem abrir mão, mesmo que isso implique um esforço de produção industrial que hoje parece inatingível.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Para a Europa do futuro, onde estes consumidores serão cada vez mais numerosos e representativos, a TNS tipificou cinco tipos emergentes com necessidades diferenciadas. São eles o egoísta, ecológico, ético, e-consumidor e étnico.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Inovar para eles&lt;br /&gt;O iogurte Agros Biológico é exemplo de uma inovação focalizada bem sucedida, juntando saúde e ambiente, feito por medida para a cesta destes consumidores. Foi comprado por metade do universo dos jovens independentes e registou uma taxa de repetição de 73%. Lançado em Março de 2007, foi pioneiro no segmento de biológicos de produção nacional. O iogurte conquistou uma quota superior a 70%, depois de ter sido apresentado ao mercado como sendo produzido numa quinta de produção biológica, “onde as vacas são alimentadas livremente em pastos naturais, sem recurso a estimulantes, num processo rigorosamente controlado e certificado”. Nutritivo, saudável e ecológico, em três palavras.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;O produto correspondeu aos anseios dos jovens independentes e a inovação arrastou o crescimento do segmento de iogurtes biológicos que cresceu exponencialmente (387%). A Lactogal planeia aumentar a gama dos biológicos.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cinco consumidores&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Egoísta&lt;br /&gt;-        Geração de consumidores narcisistas, preocupados com a imagem e que cresceram em sociedades de bem-estar&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Étnico&lt;br /&gt;-        Valorizam o mundo global e mestiçado, a origem e a tradição&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ÉTICO&lt;br /&gt;-        Sensível ao comércio justo, às causas e à responsabilidade social&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ecológico&lt;br /&gt;-        Procura o autêntico e a natureza. Evidencia preocupações com a sustentabilidade do planeta&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;E-consumidor&lt;br /&gt;-        Ligado às tecnologias e transversal aos restantes traços centrais&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fonte: TNS World Panel&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fonte: JN, 12 de Janeiro de 08&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3662809872152515524-783025466802770971?l=asspinov.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://asspinov.blogspot.com/feeds/783025466802770971/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3662809872152515524&amp;postID=783025466802770971' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3662809872152515524/posts/default/783025466802770971'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3662809872152515524/posts/default/783025466802770971'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://asspinov.blogspot.com/2008/01/chocolate-internet-e-muita-opinio.html' title='Chocolate, Internet e muita opinião'/><author><name>Celso Guedes de Carvalho</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13078841516415214608</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_K2qARRpdhZ4/SKUe69twCTI/AAAAAAAAAc0/Tj5h77Hk0tM/S220/celso+guedes+de+carvalho.bmp'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3662809872152515524.post-7824577645615463643</id><published>2007-12-19T08:37:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2007-12-29T02:32:55.400-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Shape-Shifting Enterprises</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_UUsOsrDJWws/R2lI5jVGP7I/AAAAAAAAAF4/40Qx-6RMGMA/s1600-h/shapeshifting.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5145724202820976562" style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_UUsOsrDJWws/R2lI5jVGP7I/AAAAAAAAAF4/40Qx-6RMGMA/s320/shapeshifting.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;A new set of on-demand, Web-based toolkits for business emerges out of the innovation movement. These kits focus on maximizing new options and possibilities for a fast-changing, uncertain global business environment, not boosting efficiencies for existing processes in a stable marketplace. They manage talent, production, and creativity on a global scale.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3662809872152515524-7824577645615463643?l=asspinov.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://asspinov.blogspot.com/feeds/7824577645615463643/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3662809872152515524&amp;postID=7824577645615463643' title='1 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3662809872152515524/posts/default/7824577645615463643'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3662809872152515524/posts/default/7824577645615463643'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://asspinov.blogspot.com/2007/12/shape-shifting-enterprises.html' title='Shape-Shifting Enterprises'/><author><name>Innovation Network Portugal</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06412211225403664784</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_UUsOsrDJWws/R2lI5jVGP7I/AAAAAAAAAF4/40Qx-6RMGMA/s72-c/shapeshifting.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3662809872152515524.post-7306591134144419956</id><published>2007-12-19T08:35:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-12-29T02:32:47.239-08:00</updated><title type='text'>The Customer Is King</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_UUsOsrDJWws/R2lIjTVGP6I/AAAAAAAAAFw/1ZIL_mS8mLI/s1600-h/customer.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5145723820568887202" style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_UUsOsrDJWws/R2lIjTVGP6I/AAAAAAAAAFw/1ZIL_mS8mLI/s320/customer.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;The end of competition for business occurs. Consumers replace competitors as the key reference point for corporate strategy. Reason? Disruptive innovation now often takes places outside the normal competitive environment. Think Google in advertising or Apple in mobile phones/music/retail. Consumers are more knowledgeable and more powerful than competitors.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3662809872152515524-7306591134144419956?l=asspinov.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://asspinov.blogspot.com/feeds/7306591134144419956/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3662809872152515524&amp;postID=7306591134144419956' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3662809872152515524/posts/default/7306591134144419956'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3662809872152515524/posts/default/7306591134144419956'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://asspinov.blogspot.com/2007/12/customer-is-king.html' title='The Customer Is King'/><author><name>Innovation Network Portugal</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06412211225403664784</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_UUsOsrDJWws/R2lIjTVGP6I/AAAAAAAAAFw/1ZIL_mS8mLI/s72-c/customer.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3662809872152515524.post-5219567070930998988</id><published>2007-12-19T08:34:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2007-12-29T02:32:38.725-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Hang On to the Good Stuff</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_UUsOsrDJWws/R2lIIDVGP5I/AAAAAAAAAFo/DAuKXzA1Rl0/s1600-h/longetivity.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5145723352417451922" style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_UUsOsrDJWws/R2lIIDVGP5I/AAAAAAAAAFo/DAuKXzA1Rl0/s320/longetivity.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;"Longevity" replaces "sustainability" as a core concept for the green thing. Just hanging on to that expensive, fancy car does more to help the planet than recycling stuff again and again. Or so the marketing argument will go. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3662809872152515524-5219567070930998988?l=asspinov.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://asspinov.blogspot.com/feeds/5219567070930998988/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3662809872152515524&amp;postID=5219567070930998988' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3662809872152515524/posts/default/5219567070930998988'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3662809872152515524/posts/default/5219567070930998988'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://asspinov.blogspot.com/2007/12/hang-on-to-good-stuff.html' title='Hang On to the Good Stuff'/><author><name>Innovation Network Portugal</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06412211225403664784</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_UUsOsrDJWws/R2lIIDVGP5I/AAAAAAAAAFo/DAuKXzA1Rl0/s72-c/longetivity.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3662809872152515524.post-4422477097984100273</id><published>2007-12-19T08:28:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2007-12-29T02:32:30.624-08:00</updated><title type='text'>t's All About Me</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_UUsOsrDJWws/R2lG0TVGP4I/AAAAAAAAAFg/8K3tMzfYghI/s1600-h/aboutme.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5145721913603407746" style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_UUsOsrDJWws/R2lG0TVGP4I/AAAAAAAAAFg/8K3tMzfYghI/s320/aboutme.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Identity" replaces "experience" as the next big concept in design and media thinking. People create their own identities interacting with products and services. The notion of a consumer experience is a more passive way of thinking. It's so 20th century. Identity gets the buzz in '08.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3662809872152515524-4422477097984100273?l=asspinov.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://asspinov.blogspot.com/feeds/4422477097984100273/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3662809872152515524&amp;postID=4422477097984100273' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3662809872152515524/posts/default/4422477097984100273'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3662809872152515524/posts/default/4422477097984100273'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://asspinov.blogspot.com/2007/12/ts-all-about-me.html' title='t&apos;s All About Me'/><author><name>Innovation Network Portugal</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06412211225403664784</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_UUsOsrDJWws/R2lG0TVGP4I/AAAAAAAAAFg/8K3tMzfYghI/s72-c/aboutme.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3662809872152515524.post-8542158721547555747</id><published>2007-12-19T08:16:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2007-12-29T02:32:21.188-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Kindle Catches Fire</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_UUsOsrDJWws/R2lEFjVGP2I/AAAAAAAAAFM/LzV-D5PV4QU/s1600-h/amazon_kindle.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5145718911421267810" style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_UUsOsrDJWws/R2lEFjVGP2I/AAAAAAAAAFM/LzV-D5PV4QU/s320/amazon_kindle.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Amazon's (&lt;a href="http://stockmarket.businessweek.com/www/search.html?q=AMZN" target="businessweek"&gt;AMZN&lt;/a&gt;) Kindle e-book reader does much better than the tech blogs predicted. Shifting from paper made from trees to electronic paper reduces personal carbon footprints enormously, and this makes Kindle a darling of the Green Movement, propelling sales. Along the way, Kindle's remarkable direct-to-Web capabilities and cool, anti-iPod design finally get credit.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3662809872152515524-8542158721547555747?l=asspinov.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://asspinov.blogspot.com/feeds/8542158721547555747/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3662809872152515524&amp;postID=8542158721547555747' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3662809872152515524/posts/default/8542158721547555747'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3662809872152515524/posts/default/8542158721547555747'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://asspinov.blogspot.com/2007/12/kindle-catches-fire.html' title='Kindle Catches Fire'/><author><name>Innovation Network Portugal</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06412211225403664784</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_UUsOsrDJWws/R2lEFjVGP2I/AAAAAAAAAFM/LzV-D5PV4QU/s72-c/amazon_kindle.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3662809872152515524.post-7824101451272687624</id><published>2007-12-19T08:14:00.002-08:00</published><updated>2007-12-29T02:32:11.138-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Mobile Explosion</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_UUsOsrDJWws/R2lDvjVGP1I/AAAAAAAAAFE/xCaFB7ooQc8/s1600-h/iphone.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5145718533464145746" style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_UUsOsrDJWws/R2lDvjVGP1I/AAAAAAAAAFE/xCaFB7ooQc8/s320/iphone.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;The next big disruptive innovation is—Super Mobility. A flood of new applications for the iPhone (&lt;a href="http://stockmarket.businessweek.com/www/search.html?q=AAPL" target="businessweek"&gt;AAPL&lt;/a&gt;), the newly opened Verizon (&lt;a href="http://stockmarket.businessweek.com/www/search.html?q=VZ" target="businessweek"&gt;VZ&lt;/a&gt;) network, and Google's (&lt;a href="http://stockmarket.businessweek.com/www/search.html?q=GOOG" target="businessweek"&gt;GOOG&lt;/a&gt;) Android platform generate an explosion of great cell-phone experiences. Especially watch the apps developed for Facebook on the iPhone. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3662809872152515524-7824101451272687624?l=asspinov.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://asspinov.blogspot.com/feeds/7824101451272687624/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3662809872152515524&amp;postID=7824101451272687624' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3662809872152515524/posts/default/7824101451272687624'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3662809872152515524/posts/default/7824101451272687624'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://asspinov.blogspot.com/2007/12/mobile-explosion.html' title='Mobile Explosion'/><author><name>Innovation Network Portugal</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06412211225403664784</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_UUsOsrDJWws/R2lDvjVGP1I/AAAAAAAAAFE/xCaFB7ooQc8/s72-c/iphone.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3662809872152515524.post-3604987132984424950</id><published>2007-12-19T08:14:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2007-12-29T02:31:57.996-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Unfriend Me</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_UUsOsrDJWws/R2lDcDVGP0I/AAAAAAAAAE8/xXAk5PfZc1k/s1600-h/unfriend.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5145718198456696642" style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_UUsOsrDJWws/R2lDcDVGP0I/AAAAAAAAAE8/xXAk5PfZc1k/s320/unfriend.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Who you're friends with becomes more important than how many friends you have. Exclusivity and privacy replace open community in social media. People move to gated networks from &lt;a href="http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapId=20765463" target="businessweek"&gt;Facebook&lt;/a&gt; and MySpace (&lt;a href="http://stockmarket.businessweek.com/www/search.html?q=NWS" target="businessweek"&gt;NWS&lt;/a&gt;), fleeing the commercialization of their personal information and relationships.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3662809872152515524-3604987132984424950?l=asspinov.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://asspinov.blogspot.com/feeds/3604987132984424950/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3662809872152515524&amp;postID=3604987132984424950' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3662809872152515524/posts/default/3604987132984424950'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3662809872152515524/posts/default/3604987132984424950'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://asspinov.blogspot.com/2007/12/unfriend-me.html' title='Unfriend Me'/><author><name>Innovation Network Portugal</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06412211225403664784</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_UUsOsrDJWws/R2lDcDVGP0I/AAAAAAAAAE8/xXAk5PfZc1k/s72-c/unfriend.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3662809872152515524.post-2940506099171092630</id><published>2007-12-19T08:12:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-12-29T02:31:44.358-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Fly WiFi</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_UUsOsrDJWws/R2lDMjVGPzI/AAAAAAAAAE0/dmTZAXRXnIg/s1600-h/wifi.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5145717932168724274" style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_UUsOsrDJWws/R2lDMjVGPzI/AAAAAAAAAE0/dmTZAXRXnIg/s320/wifi.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;WiFi on U.S. planes changes the travel experience. Forrester (&lt;a href="http://stockmarket.businessweek.com/www/search.html?q=FORR" target="businessweek"&gt;FORR&lt;/a&gt;) estimates that 38% of frequent business travelers would use WiFi—even at a cost of $25 a trip. European airline Lufthansa already offers the service, and demand is big&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3662809872152515524-2940506099171092630?l=asspinov.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://asspinov.blogspot.com/feeds/2940506099171092630/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3662809872152515524&amp;postID=2940506099171092630' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3662809872152515524/posts/default/2940506099171092630'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3662809872152515524/posts/default/2940506099171092630'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://asspinov.blogspot.com/2007/12/fly-wifi.html' title='Fly WiFi'/><author><name>Innovation Network Portugal</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06412211225403664784</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_UUsOsrDJWws/R2lDMjVGPzI/AAAAAAAAAE0/dmTZAXRXnIg/s72-c/wifi.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3662809872152515524.post-6228680755520614151</id><published>2007-12-19T08:11:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2007-12-29T02:31:22.354-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Our Urban Planet</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_UUsOsrDJWws/R2lC5DVGPyI/AAAAAAAAAEs/DqYK0b5aC5E/s1600-h/192021.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5145717597161275170" style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_UUsOsrDJWws/R2lC5DVGPyI/AAAAAAAAAEs/DqYK0b5aC5E/s320/192021.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The 192021 project—a study of 19 cities with 20 million people in the 21st century—gains massive corporate support. For the first time, in 2007, more than half the planet's people live in cities. 192021 plans to generate uniform data on the rise of these supercities and the role their consumers and creators play in business and civic life.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3662809872152515524-6228680755520614151?l=asspinov.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://asspinov.blogspot.com/feeds/6228680755520614151/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3662809872152515524&amp;postID=6228680755520614151' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3662809872152515524/posts/default/6228680755520614151'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3662809872152515524/posts/default/6228680755520614151'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://asspinov.blogspot.com/2007/12/our-urban-planet.html' title='Our Urban Planet'/><author><name>Innovation Network Portugal</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06412211225403664784</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_UUsOsrDJWws/R2lC5DVGPyI/AAAAAAAAAEs/DqYK0b5aC5E/s72-c/192021.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3662809872152515524.post-8038051848368495246</id><published>2007-12-19T08:10:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-12-26T06:26:51.054-08:00</updated><title type='text'>One Laptop Boomerangs</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_UUsOsrDJWws/R2lCmTVGPxI/AAAAAAAAAEk/-zDpXL2bwE4/s1600-h/onelaptop.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5145717275038727954" style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_UUsOsrDJWws/R2lCmTVGPxI/AAAAAAAAAEk/-zDpXL2bwE4/s320/onelaptop.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;The One Laptop Per Child "$100 laptop" becomes a Christmas best-seller in the U.S. but fails overseas. OLPC is criticized as "Western high-tech imperialism." Governments in Asia and Africa reject the beautifully designed children's computer because of high costs for installation, repair, and electricity as well as limited local educational content.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3662809872152515524-8038051848368495246?l=asspinov.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://asspinov.blogspot.com/feeds/8038051848368495246/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3662809872152515524&amp;postID=8038051848368495246' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3662809872152515524/posts/default/8038051848368495246'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3662809872152515524/posts/default/8038051848368495246'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://asspinov.blogspot.com/2007/12/one-laptop-boomerangs.html' title='One Laptop Boomerangs'/><author><name>Innovation Network Portugal</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06412211225403664784</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_UUsOsrDJWws/R2lCmTVGPxI/AAAAAAAAAEk/-zDpXL2bwE4/s72-c/onelaptop.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3662809872152515524.post-357979612480883273</id><published>2007-12-19T08:09:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2007-12-26T06:25:15.156-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Presidential Policy</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_UUsOsrDJWws/R2lCYjVGPwI/AAAAAAAAAEc/Fmvnq-_VrAg/s1600-h/presidential_policy.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5145717038815526658" style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_UUsOsrDJWws/R2lCYjVGPwI/AAAAAAAAAEc/Fmvnq-_VrAg/s320/presidential_policy.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;A national innovation policy emerges as a key part of the Presidential campaign. With the economy sinking into recession and competitors from China, India, and Europe embracing national innovation plans, Hillary Clinton is the first to propose a program—and rivals respond. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3662809872152515524-357979612480883273?l=asspinov.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://asspinov.blogspot.com/feeds/357979612480883273/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3662809872152515524&amp;postID=357979612480883273' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3662809872152515524/posts/default/357979612480883273'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3662809872152515524/posts/default/357979612480883273'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://asspinov.blogspot.com/2007/12/presidential-policy.html' title='Presidential Policy'/><author><name>Innovation Network Portugal</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06412211225403664784</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_UUsOsrDJWws/R2lCYjVGPwI/AAAAAAAAAEc/Fmvnq-_VrAg/s72-c/presidential_policy.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3662809872152515524.post-907886499745881615</id><published>2007-12-19T08:06:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-12-26T06:24:27.074-08:00</updated><title type='text'>B-School Goes D-School</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_UUsOsrDJWws/R2lB-jVGPvI/AAAAAAAAAEU/LNHJPB-Yyqs/s1600-h/rotman_school.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5145716592138927858" style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_UUsOsrDJWws/R2lB-jVGPvI/AAAAAAAAAEU/LNHJPB-Yyqs/s320/rotman_school.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;A top American B-school follows the lead of University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management and transforms its curriculum to a design model. Business administration focuses on making existing business processes and products better and more efficient. Business design focuses on creating new options for new forms of enterprise.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3662809872152515524-907886499745881615?l=asspinov.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://asspinov.blogspot.com/feeds/907886499745881615/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3662809872152515524&amp;postID=907886499745881615' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3662809872152515524/posts/default/907886499745881615'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3662809872152515524/posts/default/907886499745881615'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://asspinov.blogspot.com/2007/12/b-school-goes-d-school.html' title='B-School Goes D-School'/><author><name>Innovation Network Portugal</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06412211225403664784</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_UUsOsrDJWws/R2lB-jVGPvI/AAAAAAAAAEU/LNHJPB-Yyqs/s72-c/rotman_school.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3662809872152515524.post-1935184143271992546</id><published>2007-12-19T07:54:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-12-26T06:24:11.911-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Innovation Consolidation</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_UUsOsrDJWws/R2lBLjVGPuI/AAAAAAAAAEM/AugjXmqlRC4/s1600-h/consolidation.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5145715715965599458" style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_UUsOsrDJWws/R2lBLjVGPuI/AAAAAAAAAEM/AugjXmqlRC4/s320/consolidation.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;One of the big, established consulting firms such as &lt;a href="http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapId=101502" target="businessweek"&gt;McKinsey&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapId=824396" target="businessweek"&gt;Bain&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href="http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapId=135794" target="businessweek"&gt;BCG&lt;/a&gt; makes a pass at one of the small design-turned-innovation consultancies—Jump, Continuum, &lt;a href="http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapId=813054" target="businessweek"&gt;IDEO&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.advank.com/"&gt;Advank&lt;/a&gt; or ZIBA—to bolster its innovation practice. Demand from corporate clients for help in executing innovation is surging, and consolidation in the innovation field is on the rise.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3662809872152515524-1935184143271992546?l=asspinov.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://asspinov.blogspot.com/feeds/1935184143271992546/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3662809872152515524&amp;postID=1935184143271992546' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3662809872152515524/posts/default/1935184143271992546'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3662809872152515524/posts/default/1935184143271992546'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://asspinov.blogspot.com/2007/12/innovation-consolidation.html' title='Innovation Consolidation'/><author><name>Innovation Network Portugal</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06412211225403664784</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_UUsOsrDJWws/R2lBLjVGPuI/AAAAAAAAAEM/AugjXmqlRC4/s72-c/consolidation.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3662809872152515524.post-7360526707952541601</id><published>2007-12-19T07:51:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-12-20T05:00:55.369-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Innovation Predictions for 2008</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_UUsOsrDJWws/R2k-eTVGPtI/AAAAAAAAAEE/-URqXiwCqzw/s1600-h/inova+01.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5145712739553263314" style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_UUsOsrDJWws/R2k-eTVGPtI/AAAAAAAAAEE/-URqXiwCqzw/s320/inova+01.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The only truly predictable thing about the coming year is that it's sure to be full of surprises. But some innovations will be ways of dealing with just that fact&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;By Bruce Nussbaum&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;2008 will be one hairy beast, what with a U.S. Presidential election playing in the background and huge economic and social forces making us lead our lives in constant beta. Predictions are foolhardy in these circumstances, but...fun. I tapped into the wisdom of my crowd for this enterprise, including Doblin's Larry Keeley, Richard Saul Wurman, Tim Brown of IDEO, David Armano from Critical Mass, Peer Insight's Jeneanne Rae, writers Jessie Scanlon and Jessi Hempel, Pop!Tech's Andrew Zolli, Ammunition's Robert Brunner, consultant John Kao, and a couple more. So—here goes some fun. Fourteen guesses of what may take place in the innovation and design space next year.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3662809872152515524-7360526707952541601?l=asspinov.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://asspinov.blogspot.com/feeds/7360526707952541601/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3662809872152515524&amp;postID=7360526707952541601' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3662809872152515524/posts/default/7360526707952541601'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3662809872152515524/posts/default/7360526707952541601'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://asspinov.blogspot.com/2007/12/innovation-predictions-for-2008.html' title='Innovation Predictions for 2008'/><author><name>Innovation Network Portugal</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06412211225403664784</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_UUsOsrDJWws/R2k-eTVGPtI/AAAAAAAAAEE/-URqXiwCqzw/s72-c/inova+01.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3662809872152515524.post-7592384435436878868</id><published>2007-12-19T07:49:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-12-20T05:00:28.579-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Innovation Predictions 2008</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Get ready for … anything. As companies, governments—indeed, entire countries—confront an array of dilemmas, the only constant will be change&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Building the next-generation enterprise—and maybe even the next-generation nation—will preoccupy most of us in 2008. The demand for innovation is soaring in the business community and is just beginning to gain traction in the political sphere. Most of the leading Presidential candidates &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.businessweek.com/innovate/content/nov2007/id20071114_806956.htm"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;have thoughtful positions on innovation&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt; (BusinessWeek.com, 11/15/07). And nearly all CEOs and top managers who have learned the language of innovation are now seeking the means to make it happen. It took the Quality Movement a generation to change business culture. The Innovation Movement is still in its infancy, but it's growing fast.&lt;br /&gt;You can see that in the vast changes taking place within the field. Companies are demanding new tools and methods to execute that change within their existing organizations, as well as for the kind of design thinking that transforms cultures. To take advantage of the opportunities, chief innovation officers in big corporations such as Procter &amp;amp; Gamble (&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/snapshot/snapshot.asp?symbol=PG" rel="ticker"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;PG&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;) and Harley Davidson (&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/snapshot/snapshot.asp?symbol=HOG" rel="ticker"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;HOG&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;) are leaving to join consultancies or set up shop for themselves. Consolidation is quickening apace as small innovation consultancies try to combine big-picture thought leadership with specific, on-demand Web applications that manage networks, talent, customers, suppliers, and employees around the world. In 2007, consultancy &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/snapshot/snapshot.asp?capId=131716"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Monitor&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt; bought into innovation strategy specialists &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/snapshot/snapshot.asp?capId=848802"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Doblin&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;, led by Larry Keeley, while another large consultancy, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/snapshot/snapshot.asp?capId=34231036"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;BSG Alliance&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt; acquired research firm &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/snapshot/snapshot.asp?capId=39201486"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;New Paradigm&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;, led by Wikinomics co-author Don Tapscott.&lt;br /&gt;What's up for 2008? Keep an eye on the business schools. Companies are demanding that their managers be more creative and less obsessed with cost and efficiency. The last revolution within executive education was the introduction of Management Science in the 1950s. Will we see the spread of IM—Innovation Management—in "exec ed"?&lt;br /&gt;Privacy, Mobility, and the Next Big Idea&lt;br /&gt;And expect the whole realm of social networking to change in 2008. Just when you "got it" and thought it was all about open, personal, and casual online relationships, social media will morph into another ecosystem—one with lots of gates. Who your friends are is becoming far more important than how many friends you have. We can probably thank our advertising friends for this. The drive to monetize &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/snapshot/snapshot.asp?capId="&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Facebook&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt; and &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/snapshot/snapshot.asp?capId=120412"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;MySpace&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt; (&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/snapshot/snapshot.asp?symbol=NWS" rel="ticker"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;NWS&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;) by using members' personal information is alienating many people, driving them to more private networks. Stay tuned, and watch Europe and Brazil for future trends. Social networks are beginning to feel a lot like hot nightclubs—with velvet rope barriers.&lt;br /&gt;As for hot products in 2008, prepare for yet more surprises. The triumph of opening up the cell phone will create an array of new applications we can only dream of right now. GPS may seem old hat by next summer. The mobile Facebook is bound to be fascinating. And the e-book may be just an iteration away from taking off. Want to reduce your personal carbon footprint easily? Read books, magazines, and newspapers on an e-book.&lt;br /&gt;And the Big Idea for 2008? Stop competing against your competitors. Your traditional rivals aren't your biggest worry. Disruptive innovation is hitting corporations from outside their business. Verizon (&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/snapshot/snapshot.asp?symbol=VZ" rel="ticker"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;VZ&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;) was forced to open its cell-phone service because Apple (&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/snapshot/snapshot.asp?symbol=AAPL" rel="ticker"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;AAPL&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;) and Google (&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/snapshot/snapshot.asp?symbol=GOOG" rel="ticker"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;GOOG&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;) smacked it hard. Verizon's new business model will probably generate 10 times the demand for service. You just never know. That's life, in beta.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3662809872152515524-7592384435436878868?l=asspinov.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://asspinov.blogspot.com/feeds/7592384435436878868/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3662809872152515524&amp;postID=7592384435436878868' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3662809872152515524/posts/default/7592384435436878868'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3662809872152515524/posts/default/7592384435436878868'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://asspinov.blogspot.com/2007/12/innovation-predictions-2008.html' title='Innovation Predictions 2008'/><author><name>Innovation Network Portugal</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06412211225403664784</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3662809872152515524.post-7805514411700557313</id><published>2007-12-19T07:17:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-12-19T08:39:36.304-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Spiral: an organizing force in nature and innovation</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_UUsOsrDJWws/R2k3cjVGPsI/AAAAAAAAAD8/vg988Bi3DWE/s1600-h/200544107_426f48c02a_m.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5145705012907097794" style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_UUsOsrDJWws/R2k3cjVGPsI/AAAAAAAAAD8/vg988Bi3DWE/s320/200544107_426f48c02a_m.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;by &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://blog.marsdd.com/Veronika?aid=9"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Veronika @ MaRS&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;The festive season is with us once again, and if you’ve never spent much time looking at pine cones, perhaps now is the time to take a close look at those marvels of nature. Or any other vine, tree branch or a sunflower. The article &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mywire.com/pubs/ScienceNews/2007/07/21/4250760" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;“Mathematical lives of plants: why plants grow in geometrically curious patterns”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt; describes how these natural structures also show some surprising mathematical properties. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“As a plant puts out leaves or seeds around some central structure, each seed or leaf spaced from the last by about the golden angle, interlocking spiral arms form in clockwise and counterclockwise directions.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a id="more-593"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;The spiral is also an excellent project management methodology, especially for innovative products. Since most of us work in the highly uncertain market environments we need nimble product development approaches to match the business uncertainty. In other words, one can’t expect to turn out new products like a Six Sigma factory produces standard widgets. Classic product development methodologies, like &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.stage-gate.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Stage-Gate®&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt; have been excellent in optimizing new product development. However, they don’t work that well for creating brand new things for the simple reason that the Stage-Gate® methodology seeks to eliminate uncertainty… But without uncertainty, there is no innovation.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All projects can be managed better when segmented into a hierarchy of chunks or a waterfall of sequential steps. This is a well-established practice in project management, especially when applied to software development (see a simple and useful set of instructions here: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.hyperthot.com/project.htm" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Principle Based Project Management&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;The ultimate evolution from the waterfall is a spiral. This process is a lot more flexible, allowing changes to occur later in the process without too much disruption.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.buzzle.com/editorials/1-13-2005-64082.asp" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Spiral Development Model&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt; takes advantage of the fact that development projects work best when they are both incremental and iterative, where the team is able to start small and benefit from enlightened trial and error along the way. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you get that first product development right, it just might propel your product concept onto the next step of the innovation spiral, where successful innovations beget others.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://blog.marsdd.com/2007/12/18/spiral-an-organizing-force-in-nature-and-innovation/#more-593"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;http://blog.marsdd.com/2007/12/18/spiral-an-organizing-force-in-nature-and-innovation/#more-593&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3662809872152515524-7805514411700557313?l=asspinov.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://asspinov.blogspot.com/feeds/7805514411700557313/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3662809872152515524&amp;postID=7805514411700557313' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3662809872152515524/posts/default/7805514411700557313'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3662809872152515524/posts/default/7805514411700557313'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://asspinov.blogspot.com/2007/12/spiral-organizing-force-in-nature-and.html' title='Spiral: an organizing force in nature and innovation'/><author><name>Innovation Network Portugal</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06412211225403664784</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_UUsOsrDJWws/R2k3cjVGPsI/AAAAAAAAAD8/vg988Bi3DWE/s72-c/200544107_426f48c02a_m.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3662809872152515524.post-6994919547014032838</id><published>2007-12-19T07:12:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-12-19T07:15:08.829-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Predictions for Innovation Next Year</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;By Bruce Nussbaum&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;As for hot products in 2008, prepare for surprises. The triumph of opening up the cell phone will create an array of new applications we can only dream of right now. GPS may seem old hat by next summer. The mobile Facebook is bound to be fascinating. And the e-book may be just an iteration away from taking off&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Building the next-generation enterprise -- and maybe even the next-generation nation -- will preoccupy most of us in 2008. The demand for innovation is soaring in the business community and is just beginning to gain traction in the political sphere. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Most of the leading Presidential candidates have thoughtful positions on innovation. And nearly all CEOs and top managers who have learned the language of innovation are now seeking the means to make it happen. It took the Quality Movement a generation to change business culture. The Innovation Movement is still in its infancy, but it's growing fast.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You can see that in the vast changes taking place within the field. Companies are demanding new tools and methods to execute that change within their existing organizations, as well as for the kind of design thinking that transforms cultures.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To take advantage of the opportunities, chief innovation officers in big corporations such as Procter &amp;amp; Gamble and Harley Davidson are leaving to join consultancies or set up shop for themselves. Consolidation is quickening apace as small innovation consultancies try to combine big-picture thought leadership with specific, on-demand Web applications that manage networks, talent, customers, suppliers, and employees around the world.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In 2007, consultancy Monitor bought into innovation strategy specialists Doblin, led by Larry Keeley, while another large consultancy, BSG Alliance acquired research firm New Paradigm, led by Wikinomics co-author Dan Tapscott.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What's up for 2008? Keep an eye on the business schools. Companies are demanding that their managers be more creative and less obsessed with cost and &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.cio-today.com/accuserve/accuserve-go.php?c=7243"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;efficiency&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.cio-today.com/accuserve/accuserve-go.php?c=7243"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;. The last revolution within executive education was the introduction of Management Science in the 1950s. Will we see the spread of IM -- Innovation Management -- in "exec ed"? &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Privacy, Mobility, and the Next Big Idea&lt;br /&gt;And expect the whole realm of social networking to change in 2008. Just when you "got it" and thought it was all about open, personal, and casual online relationships, social media will morph into another ecosystem -- one with lots of gates. Who your friends are is becoming far more important than how many friends you have. We can probably thank our advertising friends for this.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The drive to monetize Facebook and MySpace by using members' personal information is alienating many people, driving them to more private networks. Stay tuned, and watch Europe and Brazil for future trends. Social networks are beginning to feel a lot like hot nightclubs -- with velvet rope barriers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As for hot products in 2008, prepare for yet more surprises. The triumph of opening up the cell phone will create an array of new applications we can only dream of right now. GPS may seem old hat by next summer. The mobile Facebook is bound to be fascinating. And the e-book may be just an iteration away from taking off. Want to reduce your personal carbon footprint easily? Read books, magazines, and newspapers on an e-book.&lt;br /&gt;And the Big Idea for 2008? Stop competing against your competitors. Your traditional rivals aren't your biggest worry. Disruptive innovation is hitting corporations from outside their business. Verizon was forced to open its cell-phone service because Apple and Google smacked it hard. Verizon's new business model will probably generate 10 times the demand for service. You just never know. That's life, in beta&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.bpm-today.com/story.xhtml?story_id=57260"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;http://www.bpm-today.com/story.xhtml?story_id=57260&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3662809872152515524-6994919547014032838?l=asspinov.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://asspinov.blogspot.com/feeds/6994919547014032838/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3662809872152515524&amp;postID=6994919547014032838' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3662809872152515524/posts/default/6994919547014032838'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3662809872152515524/posts/default/6994919547014032838'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://asspinov.blogspot.com/2007/12/predictions-for-innovation-next-year.html' title='Predictions for Innovation Next Year'/><author><name>Innovation Network Portugal</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06412211225403664784</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3662809872152515524.post-5905076601069126318</id><published>2007-12-17T23:24:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2007-12-17T23:24:58.899-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='imprensa'/><title type='text'>A sofisticação do mundo</title><content type='html'>Uma das várias vantagens da «Monocle» é a de chamar as coisas pelos nomes. &lt;br /&gt;   &lt;br /&gt;Por nomes a revista entende tudo o que de bom vale a pena neste mundo plano de mediania à medida que vai mostrando as coisas e as pessoas que fazem a vida tal como ela deve ser tida. Evidencia em cada página a criatividade humana por esse mundo fora e, por mundo, a revista entende as partes ainda não reveladas especialmente quando constituem oportunidades de negócio, de bem-estar e usufruto. Ao detectar as tendências, sugere um sem-número de iniciativas que podem encher o seu bolso e melhorar a sua vida, e a dos outros. A sua atenção às pequenas coisas que vão aparecendo nas cidades coloca-a sempre à frente no relato das modernidades e dos confortos. O seu ponto forte é a soma dos pontos fortes de cada sítio - centenas em cada edição. E a de Dezembro/Janeiro tem ainda o aliciante de incluir uma separata onde se fixa o estado da elegância no mundo.Com sugestões do que faz falta em cada segmento.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fonte: Expresso, 15 de Dezembro de 07&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3662809872152515524-5905076601069126318?l=asspinov.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://asspinov.blogspot.com/feeds/5905076601069126318/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3662809872152515524&amp;postID=5905076601069126318' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3662809872152515524/posts/default/5905076601069126318'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3662809872152515524/posts/default/5905076601069126318'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://asspinov.blogspot.com/2007/12/sofisticao-do-mundo.html' title='A sofisticação do mundo'/><author><name>Celso Guedes de Carvalho</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13078841516415214608</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_K2qARRpdhZ4/SKUe69twCTI/AAAAAAAAAc0/Tj5h77Hk0tM/S220/celso+guedes+de+carvalho.bmp'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3662809872152515524.post-2413522537275015200</id><published>2007-12-10T03:29:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-12-10T03:33:07.810-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Biocombustíveis: Biodiversity key to sustainable biofuel</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/environment_sciences/report-60547.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/environment_sciences/report-60547.html&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9900;"&gt;Biodiversity key to sustainable biofuel according to University of Minn. researcher’s findings&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/environment_sciences/report-60486.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;next article &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;01.06.2006&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Ecosystems containing many different plant species are not only more productive, they are also better able to withstand and recover from climate extremes, pests and disease over long periods of time.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;These findings, published in the June 1 issue of Nature, are the culmination of 12 years of experiments conducted by David Tilman, Regents Professor of Ecology at the University of Minnesota, to explore the value of biodiversity. The research was carried out at Cedar Creek Natural History Area, near Cambridge, a field station operated by the university’s College of Biological Sciences. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;"This is exciting because it shows that biodiversity can be used to produce a sustainable supply of biomass for biofuels," Tilman says. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;For more than 50 years, scientists have debated the hypothesis that biodiversity stabilizes ecosystems. The University of Minnesota study is the first to provide enough data -- gathered over a sufficient time period in an experiment that controlled biodiversity – to confirm the theory. The time period of the study allowed researchers to evaluate the average net effects of diversity on resistance to and recovery from drought, pests, disease and other disturbances. Tilman and his collaborators began the work in the early 1990s and began publishing a series of landmark papers in 1994. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Biodiversity of global ecosystems has decreased as global population has increased because diverse ecosystems such as forests and prairies have been cleared to make way for agricultural fields planted with monocultures, buildings and roads. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Tilman’s research has shown that ecosystems containing many different plant species are more productive than those containing only one of those species. A return to biodiversity may prove to be the key to meeting energy needs for the growing number of people on the planet and for restoring global ecosystems. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;"Diverse prairie grasslands are 240 percent more productive than grasslands with a single prairie species," Tilman says. "That’s a huge advantage. Biomass from diverse prairies can be used to make biofuels without the need for annual tilling, fertilizers and pesticides, which require energy and pollute the environment. High diversity allows us to produce biofuels with low inputs, and this means that we can get more energy from an acre of land, year after year, with high certainty. Because they are perennials, you can plant prairie grass once and mow it for biomass every fall essentially forever.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;" The research was carried out in 168 plots, each of which was randomly planted with 1-16 perennial grasses and other prairie plants. Over 12 years, rainfall during the growing season varied more than twofold and average daily high temperatures ranged from 21.5 C to 24.4 C. Stability was dependent on diversity and root mass. Roots store nutrients and buffer against climate variations. Prairie plants, which are perennials, have far more root mass than crops such as corn, which must be replanted annually.&lt;br /&gt;Mark Cassutt  Source: EurekAlert! Further information: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.umn.edu/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;www.umn.edu&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Nuno Oliveira&lt;br /&gt;Director, Coordenador Estratégia ‘Business and Biodiversity’ e ‘Countdown 2010’&lt;br /&gt;(+351) 96 294 02 09&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;E-mail: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a title="mailto:ambiodiv@ambiodiv.com" href="mailto:ambiodiv@ambiodiv.com"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;ambiodiv@ambiodiv.com&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;  Site: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ambiodiv.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;http://www.ambiodiv.com&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3662809872152515524-2413522537275015200?l=asspinov.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://asspinov.blogspot.com/feeds/2413522537275015200/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3662809872152515524&amp;postID=2413522537275015200' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3662809872152515524/posts/default/2413522537275015200'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3662809872152515524/posts/default/2413522537275015200'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://asspinov.blogspot.com/2007/12/biocombustveis-biodiversity-key-to.html' title='Biocombustíveis: Biodiversity key to sustainable biofuel'/><author><name>Innovation Network Portugal</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06412211225403664784</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3662809872152515524.post-6378243862851648582</id><published>2007-12-05T03:52:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-12-05T03:56:04.048-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Innovation is key for shoe sellers in tough market</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_UUsOsrDJWws/R1aRWTrDAYI/AAAAAAAAAD0/vKA4Gmcs6qo/s1600-h/y-3+white+field+adidas.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5140455837113975170" style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_UUsOsrDJWws/R1aRWTrDAYI/AAAAAAAAAD0/vKA4Gmcs6qo/s320/y-3+white+field+adidas.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;by Zac Bissonnette&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Back in August, I wrote about all the beaten-down shoe stocks currently on the market: companies like &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://finance.aol.com/quotes/rocky-brands-inc/rcky/nas"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Rocky Brands&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt; (NASDAQ: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://finance.aol.com/quotes/rocky-brands-inc/rcky/nas"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;RCKY&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;), &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://finance.aol.com/quotes/finish-line-inc-the/finl/nas?tabs=quotesandnews"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Finish Line&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt; (NASDAQ: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://finance.aol.com/quotes/finish-line-inc-the/finl/nas?tabs=quotesandnews"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;FINL&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;), &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://finance.aol.com/quotes/phoenix-footwear-group-inc/pxg/ase?tabs=quotesandnews"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Phoenix Footwear Group&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt; (AMEX: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://finance.aol.com/quotes/phoenix-footwear-group-inc/pxg/ase?tabs=quotesandnews"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;PXG&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;), and &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://finance.aol.com/quotes/shoe-pavilion-inc/shoe/nas?tabs=quotesandnews"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Shoe Pavilion&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt; (NASDAQ: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://finance.aol.com/quotes/shoe-pavilion-inc/shoe/nas?tabs=quotesandnews"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;SHOE&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;).Basically, selling shoes without a strong brand name is a tough business. Companies like Phoenix and Rocky are seeing their margins crushed by competitive forces, and retailers like Finish Line, Shoe Pavilion, and &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://finance.aol.com/quotes/genesco-inc/gco/nys?tabs=quotesandnews"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Genesco&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt; (NYSE: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://finance.aol.com/quotes/genesco-inc/gco/nys?tabs=quotesandnews"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;GCO&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;), owner of stores like Journeys, are having a hard time making any money.Innovation is they key to success in the industry, and there have been a few stories recently about companies looking to do just that. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://finance.aol.com/quotes/nike-inc-cl-b/nke/nys?tabs=quotesandnews"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Nike&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt; (NYSE: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://finance.aol.com/quotes/nike-inc-cl-b/nke/nys?tabs=quotesandnews"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;NKE&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;) and &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://finance.aol.com/quotes/foot-locker-inc/fl/nys?tabs=quotesandnews"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Foot Locker&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt; (NYSE: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://finance.aol.com/quotes/foot-locker-inc/fl/nys?tabs=quotesandnews"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;FL&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;) have teamed up to &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/nike-foot-locker-shoot-score/story.aspx?guid=%7B214AB9FB-B62C-4F1D-A30B-73935EBB48C3%7D"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;launch&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt; House of Hoops, which aims to be a "destination" for basketball consumers. At its Nike stores as well, the leading basketball footwear company is realizing that, to differentiate itself and expand margins, it will have to provide customers with more than just a nice shoe: they need a unique shopping experience.To that end, Nike and other companies including &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://finance.aol.com/quotes/madden-steven-ltd/shoo/nas?tabs=quotesandnews"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Steve Madden&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt; (NASDAQ: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://finance.aol.com/quotes/madden-steven-ltd/shoo/nas?tabs=quotesandnews"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;SHOO&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;) are allowing people to &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/02/business/yourmoney/02shoes.html?ref=business"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;custom-design&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt; their own shoes online. Of course, that's more expensive than buying them off the rack, but that really offers shoppers something unique: a one-of-a-kind shoe.And of course, Adidas, Puma, and Nike are all trying to &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D8T9HOR00.htm"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;capitalize&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt; on the excitement surrounding this week's European Championship.There are a lot of cheap shoe stocks out there. But the companies that are selling commodities and providing customers with a commodity-like experience are unlikely to see a turnaround. Before investing in shares of a shoe retailer like Finish Line, Foot Locker, or Genesco, ask yourself whether that company provides an experience that is unique. If all they're selling are shoes, they'll be extremely vulnerable to price competition.Right now, it looks like Foot Locker is the only company that's innovating. Of course, that could change, and Finish Line already has plans to launch promotions similar to Foot Locker's House of Hoops with Nike.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.bloggingstocks.com/2007/12/03/innovation-is-key-for-shoe-sellers-in-tough-market/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;http://www.bloggingstocks.com/2007/12/03/innovation-is-key-for-shoe-sellers-in-tough-market/&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3662809872152515524-6378243862851648582?l=asspinov.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://asspinov.blogspot.com/feeds/6378243862851648582/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3662809872152515524&amp;postID=6378243862851648582' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3662809872152515524/posts/default/6378243862851648582'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3662809872152515524/posts/default/6378243862851648582'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://asspinov.blogspot.com/2007/12/innovation-is-key-for-shoe-sellers-in.html' title='Innovation is key for shoe sellers in tough market'/><author><name>Innovation Network Portugal</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06412211225403664784</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_UUsOsrDJWws/R1aRWTrDAYI/AAAAAAAAAD0/vKA4Gmcs6qo/s72-c/y-3+white+field+adidas.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3662809872152515524.post-7307516928623041026</id><published>2007-12-05T03:35:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-12-05T03:48:10.519-08:00</updated><title type='text'>SMEs Redefining Innovation: Insights on the New Ventures India</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_UUsOsrDJWws/R1aPcTrDAXI/AAAAAAAAADs/mi9eDQMjf4s/s1600-h/india+inovation.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5140453741169934706" style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_UUsOsrDJWws/R1aPcTrDAXI/AAAAAAAAADs/mi9eDQMjf4s/s320/india+inovation.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;by Derek Newberry&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;At first glance, the lineup of products and services on display at this year's New Ventures India Investor Forum seemed to reflect traditional Indian knowledges and practices. Banana-leaf materials, light posts, and packaged Indian foods were some of the offerings on display by entrepreneur finalists. Only the banana leaves were fashioned into modern kitchen ware, the light posts were solar powered and the traditional Indian foods were harvested under an organic, fair trade system designed to exceed the most stringent international standards.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;World Resources Institute Vice President Manish Bapna summed up this phenomenon nicely in his keynote speech: "Innovation is not invention; it is the application of existing ideas in a new context." I normally tell people that these enterprises are chosen for their innovation in building profitable businesses that benefit society and the environment, but in this case the word innovation deserves some clarification. As much attention as India gets from investors for its rapid growth and technological advancements, the November 3rd Forum demonstrated that India's entrepreneurs are spurring this growth on their own terms. Theirs is a uniquely Indian brand of innovation that readapts traditional knowledges for new environmental markets.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Witness the example of Span Pump (pictured), a company that adds a carousel or see-saw component to the technology of the many water pumps that dot India's rural areas. These "Funflow" pumps build upon conventional technology to create a device that harnesses the energy of children at play to pump water for sanitation and agricultural purposes. Span Pump is just one example of the modern-traditional innovations on display at the Forum. Others included bikes by Kabirdass which mimick the two-wheelers that are ubiquitous in cities like Bombay, but with electric, zero-emissions motors. Ankur Scientific presented power plants that utilize the jatropha weed, common in rural India, as a fuel source. Each SME taps into Indian traditions and practices of water management, agriculture, and other knowledges.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;These companies are far from just feel-good projects - they are increasingly being backed by mainstream investors. The Forum itself was partially geared toward the launch of a Green Investor Network, a New Ventures India initiative that brings together investors such as ICICI bank and the Global Environment Fund to invest in SMEs like the ones on display at the event. In addition, Yes! Bank's Somak Ghosh announced that his firm would be raising a $50 million fund for small sustainable businesses.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;The challenge for India now is to support enterprises like these New Ventures finalists that are applying their business skills to connect traditional Indian knowledge and technologies with high-growth markets for sustainable goods. Investors are showing interest, and the ideas are everywhere amid India's thriving entrepreneurialism. What these entrepreneurs require now is the mentoring and showcasing that will prepare their business models for investment and connect them with the capital they need to grow.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nextbillion.net/blogs/2007/12/04/smes-redefining-innovation-insights-on-the-new-ventures-india-investor-forum"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;http://www.nextbillion.net/blogs/2007/12/04/smes-redefining-innovation-insights-on-the-new-ventures-india-investor-forum&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3662809872152515524-7307516928623041026?l=asspinov.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://asspinov.blogspot.com/feeds/7307516928623041026/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3662809872152515524&amp;postID=7307516928623041026' title='1 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3662809872152515524/posts/default/7307516928623041026'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3662809872152515524/posts/default/7307516928623041026'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://asspinov.blogspot.com/2007/12/smes-redefining-innovation-insights-on.html' title='SMEs Redefining Innovation: Insights on the New Ventures India'/><author><name>Innovation Network Portugal</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06412211225403664784</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_UUsOsrDJWws/R1aPcTrDAXI/AAAAAAAAADs/mi9eDQMjf4s/s72-c/india+inovation.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3662809872152515524.post-2108708442297753403</id><published>2007-12-05T03:23:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-12-05T03:26:13.203-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Prémios Inovação-Popular Science</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_UUsOsrDJWws/R1aKlTrDAWI/AAAAAAAAADk/cJ-Ygje1Eho/s1600-h/pscience.gif"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5140448398230618466" style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_UUsOsrDJWws/R1aKlTrDAWI/AAAAAAAAADk/cJ-Ygje1Eho/s320/pscience.gif" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;A revista norte-americana Popular Science divulgou recentemente os vencedores dos prémios inovação em diversas categorias. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;O produto vencedor da categoria "tecnologias verdes" venceu também como a inovação do ano: Nanosolar Powersheet. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;A Nanosolar é uma empresa de Silicon Valley que produz células solares através do processo tradicional de impressão em prensas.Uma fina camada de um nano-pigmento capaz de absorver energia solar é impressa em folhas de metal. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Desta forma, os painéis podem ser produzidos custando cerca de um décimo do custo de um painel tradicional e pode ser produzido a uma velocidade de centenas de folhas por minuto.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://advank.blogspot.com/2007/12/prmio-inovao-popular-science.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;http://advank.blogspot.com/2007/12/prmio-inovao-popular-science.html&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3662809872152515524-2108708442297753403?l=asspinov.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://asspinov.blogspot.com/feeds/2108708442297753403/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3662809872152515524&amp;postID=2108708442297753403' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3662809872152515524/posts/default/2108708442297753403'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3662809872152515524/posts/default/2108708442297753403'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://asspinov.blogspot.com/2007/12/prmios-inovao-popular-science.html' title='Prémios Inovação-Popular Science'/><author><name>Innovation Network Portugal</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06412211225403664784</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_UUsOsrDJWws/R1aKlTrDAWI/AAAAAAAAADk/cJ-Ygje1Eho/s72-c/pscience.gif' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3662809872152515524.post-1181515780743399576</id><published>2007-11-30T03:03:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-11-30T03:31:19.948-08:00</updated><title type='text'>phone-ix</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_UUsOsrDJWws/R0_uhNjh4BI/AAAAAAAAADc/foW4AW4G7sU/s1600-R/DA01000407.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5138587954194800658" style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_UUsOsrDJWws/R0_uhNjh4BI/AAAAAAAAADc/gNTgoLtlGdY/s320/DA01000407.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;Inovar nos correios?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt; Sem dúvida os CTT - Correios de Portugal, têm enquadrado de forma óptima a sua missão: "&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;o estabelecimento de ligações físicas e electrónicas&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;".  Numa era onde as novas tecnologias lideram as comunicações, onde o papel e o correio tradicional perde adeptos, faz todo sentido tirar partido da" &lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;sua tradição postal  progressivamente reforçada e alargada às actividades e áreas de negócio, onde a vocação logística e comunicacional da Empresa possa ser eficientemente colocada ao serviço dos Clientes&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;".&lt;br /&gt;Este é um excelente exemplo de como as empresas inovadoras devem ser.&lt;br /&gt;Adequar-se atempadamente para evoluir no sentido da sua verdadeira vocação e entender onde se encontra o seu verdadeiro centro de actividade empresarial, permitir-lhes-á evoluir e sobreviver frente à dinâmica do mercado.&lt;br /&gt;No caso dos CTT, o phone-ix faz todo sentido e tira partido duma fatia do mercado que procura produtos descomplexados, quando todos os outros players apostam cada vez mais no luxo.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://advank.blogspot.com/2007/11/phone-ix.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;http://advank.blogspot.com/2007/11/phone-ix.html&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3662809872152515524-1181515780743399576?l=asspinov.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://asspinov.blogspot.com/feeds/1181515780743399576/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3662809872152515524&amp;postID=1181515780743399576' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3662809872152515524/posts/default/1181515780743399576'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3662809872152515524/posts/default/1181515780743399576'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://asspinov.blogspot.com/2007/11/phone-ix.html' title='phone-ix'/><author><name>Innovation Network Portugal</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06412211225403664784</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_UUsOsrDJWws/R0_uhNjh4BI/AAAAAAAAADc/gNTgoLtlGdY/s72-c/DA01000407.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3662809872152515524.post-2752545146977621041</id><published>2007-11-29T02:33:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-11-29T02:34:07.217-08:00</updated><title type='text'>An industry in dire need of innovation</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Talking today with a colleague in the innovation space, we were discussing industries that are more or less capable and prepared for change. Many industries have a history of research and development or new product development, and so may be more culturally and systemically prepared for innovation. Some industries, however, have had little change in many years and are less able to consider the tasks necessary for innovation. The industry we spent some time talking about most specifically is the newspaper industry.Tom Brokaw made &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.businessandmedia.org/articles/2007/20071120095553.aspx"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;news&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt; recently by stating that he felt the Washington Post would not be published on paper in the next few years. That's because there are two significant trends impacting the news business. First, demographically, younger people get their news from a range of sources, including the internet, radio and television, rather than the newspaper. Reading seems a bit old fashioned. The older generations who were faithful newspaper readers are dying off. Second, the availability of information has exploded. You can get real time news and insights on any topic, from a wide range of sources online. Many times a story in the daily paper will seem like yesterday's news, if not older. The relevancy of the information and its currency are at risk.Newspapers face dwindling subscriber bases and make money on advertising, especially local advertising like car dealers, real estate and local merchants. They make no money and place little value on the content they generate. Newspapers also are still a very "local" phenomenon, a reminder of the past when stores, restaurants and businesses competed locally but not geographically or nationally. What Ted Turner did to broadcast television with TBS was to create a "national" channel. Other than the USA Today, there's not a "national" newspaper.All of these factors mean that newspapers and the media companies that own them need to rapidly change, yet they face significant hurdles. Most newspapers are still small, family-owned businesses with little cross-fertilization in the management ranks. Culturally, newspapers are fairly independent and not willing to adopt lessons that other businesses have learned. There are a number of cultural factors that will make innovation difficult, at a time when radical innovation is required.I can see at least three alternatives for newspapers: one, fulfill the "last mile", two, sell content not advertising and three, build a national presence. In the first case, the "last mile" is where all the difficulties lie and all the value is hidden. There are still very important needs for very local news, commentary and information, but the newspapers need to become information brokers for the local community rather than simply news providers. Second, many newspapers have extensive contacts in wide geographic areas and deep experience reflected in their reporters. Why not publish the stories and allow individuals to aggregate the papers online? Then, the newspapers would compete on the best content rather than assume a captive local audience. Finally, newspapers could create a more national newspaper by aggregating information from a broad array of sources and publishing the newspaper online for a national audience.These are a few ideas for the newspaper industry - I'm sure there are more. But this industry faces a number of challenges from the web, from the steady stream of content and information, and the existing demographics. Anyone watching the trends carefully could see this coming. Think about a world with no tactile Washington Post or New York Times. It could happen, sooner than they think.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a title="http://innovateonpurpose.blogspot.com/" style="COLOR: green" href="http://innovateonpurpose.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Innovate on Purpose - http://innovateonpurpose.blogspot.com/&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3662809872152515524-2752545146977621041?l=asspinov.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://asspinov.blogspot.com/feeds/2752545146977621041/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3662809872152515524&amp;postID=2752545146977621041' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3662809872152515524/posts/default/2752545146977621041'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3662809872152515524/posts/default/2752545146977621041'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://asspinov.blogspot.com/2007/11/industry-in-dire-need-of-innovation.html' title='An industry in dire need of innovation'/><author><name>Innovation Network Portugal</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06412211225403664784</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3662809872152515524.post-731032333254067703</id><published>2007-11-29T02:30:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-11-29T02:31:29.390-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Customer-Driven Innovation</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;By Chris Bucholtz&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Back on November 6, we ran a story about Salesforce.com’s new idea incubator, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a title="Ideas" href="http://www.insidecrm.com/features/salesforce-latest-idea-incubators-110607/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Salesforce Ideas &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;, a product it was selling to customers to allow them to harvest, rank and evaluate ideas from customers, employees and other interested parties. It’s a concept that blurs the edges of where and to whom CRM concepts apply.&lt;br /&gt;Salesforce.com isn’t the only one advocating this concept. Just before the Thanksgiving holiday I was able to sit down with Matt Greeley, the CEO of &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a title="Brightidea" href="http://www.brightidea.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Brightidea&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;, which offers Webstorm, a product in a similar vein, but with some unique differences.  While Ideas is useful for collecting and ranking suggestions, for most companies the next step can be difficult to manage. That involves taking valuable input and translating it into changes in various aspects of the business: not just marketing and sales but also manufacturing. &lt;br /&gt;Brightidea’s differentiator is that it allows customers to track ideas all the way through implementation. “I don’t think it’s enough for companies just to pile up 5000 ideas and then sit on them,” Greeley said. “That just pisses off the customers and the employees.” While Salesforce’s IdeaExchange works because the ideas it generates are taken up by independent software vendors, most companies translate their ideas into their own products and services, so their innovation process is longer and needs closer scrutiny, he said. Brightidea has already collected a number of large customers during its eight-year existence. But it may be smaller businesses that benefit the most from this technology, since it can turn the users of a company’s products into a distributed research department to generate new products. &lt;br /&gt;The implementation stage of Brightidea’s solution allows management to set the parameters on the process, so that innovation doesn’t elbow out other operational concerns.   The goal, Greeley said, is to shift from the old, self-contained methods of innovation to a scenario in which the customer is “directly touching and affecting the innovation process,” Greeley said. “The customer can feel like he’s co-creating the product. We think that is a very valuable culture change – allowing the customer to feel as if he has the ability to influence both future products and incremental enhancements to existing products.” If that doesn’t help build customer loyalty, I’m not sure what would.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a title="http://www.insidecrm.com/blog" style="COLOR: green" href="http://www.insidecrm.com/blog" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;The Inside CRM Blog - http://www.insidecrm.com/blog&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3662809872152515524-731032333254067703?l=asspinov.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://asspinov.blogspot.com/feeds/731032333254067703/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3662809872152515524&amp;postID=731032333254067703' title='1 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3662809872152515524/posts/default/731032333254067703'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3662809872152515524/posts/default/731032333254067703'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://asspinov.blogspot.com/2007/11/customer-driven-innovation.html' title='Customer-Driven Innovation'/><author><name>Innovation Network Portugal</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06412211225403664784</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3662809872152515524.post-4735730906965154342</id><published>2007-11-29T02:19:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-11-29T02:29:35.246-08:00</updated><title type='text'>A National Innovation Agenda</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;PROGRESSIVE GROWTH&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;A National Innovation Agenda&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Progressive Policies for Economic Growth and Opportunity Through Science and Technology&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_UUsOsrDJWws/R06UStjh4AI/AAAAAAAAADU/8NqV7mXZy6E/s1600-h/darpa_rev_prosthetics.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5138207274063486978" style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_UUsOsrDJWws/R06UStjh4AI/AAAAAAAAADU/8NqV7mXZy6E/s320/darpa_rev_prosthetics.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;SOURCE: FotoSearch&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;The Center for American Progress today releases the first pieces of Progressive Growth, its Economic Plan for the Next Administration, which includes a chapter on expanding growth and opportunity through science and technology&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;By Thomas Kalil, John S. Irons  Wednesday, November 28th, 2007&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2007/11/pdf/innovation_chapter.pdf"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Read the full chapter&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt; (pdf)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2007/11/progressive_growth.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Read the overview of Progressive Growth&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.americanprogress.org/projects/progressive_growth/index.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;More information on the Progressive Growth project&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;The Importance of Science, Technology, and Innovation&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Science, technology, and innovation have long provided the foundation for America’s prosperity. Naturally inquisitive and inventive, the American people have developed new products and technologies that have fueled our economy and improved our quality of life. Consider how different our lives would be without electricity, air travel, antibiotics, computers, and the Internet.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Along the way, myriad new products and services emerged from this shared public and private commitment to science, technology, and innovation, creating entirely new industries and good paying jobs up and down the economic ladder. This creativity still underpins our economy, yet the United States faces intense economic competition in the 21st century and is not adopting the policies that will keep it at the cutting-edge of innovation.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That’s why science, technology, and innovation policy must be a top priority for the next administration and a central component of America’s national economic strategy.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Science, technology, and innovation are critical to America’s future for a variety of reasons. First, innovation—the development of new products, services, and processes—drives economic growth and job creation. Innovation is important not only for high-tech sectors such as advanced manufacturing, aerospace, clean energy, the life sciences, semiconductors, and the Internet. It is also essential for companies that are using technology to develop products more rapidly, harness the “collective IQ” of their customers and employees, and orchestrate sophisticated global supply chains. Innovation is not solely the province of the venture capitalist, the entrepreneur, and the molecular biologist. Innovation can create jobs for workers who are installing broadband networks, retrofitting buildings with energy-efficient technologies, manufacturing biopharmaceuticals, and building a 21st century infrastructure.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Second, even small differences in productivity have a huge impact on America’s long-term standard of living. Our average standard of living will double every 23 years if our productivity growth rate is 3 percent, and every 70 years if it is 1 percent. Furthermore, high productivity growth rates will make it much easier to honor our commitments to older Americans, expand access to healthcare for the uninsured, and increase our investments in infrastructure, education, and worker training.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Third, innovation is currently a source of competitive advantage for the United States in the global economy. We have world-class research universities, an entrepreneurial culture, flexible labor markets, and deep capital markets. Americans are twice as likely as adults in Europe and Japan to be “high expectation” entrepreneurs—that is, to start a business with the intention of growing it rapidly. The United States is also one of the quickest and least expensive places to start a new business. It costs less than 1 percent of per capita income to start a business in the United States, compared to 5.1 percent in Germany and 7.5 percent in Japan.1 The United States can not afford to rest on its laurels, however. Other countries are determined to match and surpass America’s investment in research and development and a skilled workforce. We should have a laser-like focus on strengthening our position as an innovation superpower.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fourth, innovation can play an important role in meeting many of the most important goals we have as a nation. Innovation is pivotal to providing all Americans with longer, healthier lives, fighting global warming, maintaining a strong defense at home and abroad, expanding access to high-quality education and training, and making government more open and efficient.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fifth, innovation is important in the civic sector as well as the private sector. A new generation of “social entrepreneurs” is changing the way we educate our children, lift people out of poverty, prevent crime, and build vibrant communities. Innovation in the civic sector has the potential to help address some of our toughest and most persistent societal challenges (see box on page 3).&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Finally, advancing the frontiers of human knowledge and increasing our understanding of ourselves and the world around us are worthy goals themselves. We want to understand the ultimate fate of the universe, the nature of matter, the origin of life, and how human consciousness emerges from 100 billion neurons and 100 trillion synapses. We want to know why civilizations rise and fall, and how to foster thriving, multi-cultural societies. It is important to support unfettered inquiry to address these and many other questions.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;An Innovation Agenda&lt;br /&gt;This report sets forth an innovation policy agenda that will foster economic growth, create high-wage jobs, and help address the critical challenges we face in the 21st century. This agenda is informed by a set of principles (see box on page 4) and an important but limited role for the government in fostering innovation. It builds on the important work of the Council on Competitiveness and the National Academy of Sciences (particularly the Rising Above the Gathering Storm report)2 but with a greater emphasis on harnessing innovation to help meet key economic and societal goals.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The agenda—outlined here and described in greater detail in the pages below, consists of four sets of policy proposals to:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Increase federal research funding&lt;br /&gt;Spur private sector investment in research and innovation&lt;br /&gt;Build a workforce with world-class science and technology skills&lt;br /&gt;Restore the integrity of U.S. science and technology policy. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The next administration should provide sustained increases in funding for research and development by boosting the budgets of key science agencies such as the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health. Some of these increases should be targeted to help address some of the key challenges we face in the 21st century, such as fighting global warming and developing more effective technologies for education and training. The impact of these investments should be increased by boosting support for research that is multidisciplinary and offers the potential for revolutionary advances in science and technology.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This increased federal support for research must be complemented by policies that will spark private sector investment in research and innovation, such as a permanent Research and Experimentation tax credit, a commitment to build thriving regional economies, and a strategy for promoting the deployment of broadband networks.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;America’s global competitiveness and capacity to innovate, however, ultimately rests on the skills of its workforce. The next administration should increase our nation’s commitment to creating a workforce with world-class skills in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, while making it easier for the “best and brightest” from all over the world to study here and contribute to our economy.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Finally, the next administration should increase the capacity of the government to understand the forces that are shaping America’s economic competitiveness and restore integrity to U.S. science policy.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These bold policy directions must be embraced by the next president and the Congress if the United States is to remain at the forefront of innovation while leading the world toward a more prosperous and sustainable future. The policy prescriptions that follow constitute a comprehensive blueprint to ensure all Americans benefit from sustained productivity and innovation in this new century. Future work by the Center for American Progress will address additional critical innovation policy issues, such as intellectual property.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2007/11/pdf/innovation_chapter.pdf"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Read the full chapter&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt; (pdf)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3662809872152515524-4735730906965154342?l=asspinov.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://asspinov.blogspot.com/feeds/4735730906965154342/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3662809872152515524&amp;postID=4735730906965154342' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3662809872152515524/posts/default/4735730906965154342'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3662809872152515524/posts/default/4735730906965154342'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://asspinov.blogspot.com/2007/11/national-innovation-agenda.html' title='A National Innovation Agenda'/><author><name>Innovation Network Portugal</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06412211225403664784</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_UUsOsrDJWws/R06UStjh4AI/AAAAAAAAADU/8NqV7mXZy6E/s72-c/darpa_rev_prosthetics.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3662809872152515524.post-8812287054464179012</id><published>2007-11-28T02:42:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-11-28T02:46:43.383-08:00</updated><title type='text'>report 28 nov 07</title><content type='html'>&lt;a style="COLOR: #00f" href="http://www.aston.ac.uk/about/news/071127.jsp" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Aston University in double innovation award&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Aston University has been awarded two prestigious innovation awards in a week after taking the Impact through Innovation award at the Lord Stafford Awards* and a £100K EPSRC Knowledge Transfer Challenge Award**.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a title="http://www.aston.ac.uk/about/news/index.jsp" style="COLOR: green" href="http://www.aston.ac.uk/about/news/index.jsp" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Aston University News - http://www.aston.ac.uk/about/news/index.jsp &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a title="http://innovationjournalists.blogspot.com/" style="COLOR: green" href="http://innovationjournalists.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a style="COLOR: #00f" href="http://www.innovationjournalism.org/blog/2007/11/video-doug-engelbart-at-ij-4.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Video: Doug Engelbart at IJ-4&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;By David Nordfors(David Nordfors) Doug's vision fits well together with the concept of innovation journalism. Doug addresses this in his talk, noting that innovation journalism can be the "perceptory system" of the collective intelligence. ...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a title="http://www.innovationjournalism.org/blog/" style="COLOR: green" href="http://www.innovationjournalism.org/blog/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;The Innovation Journalism Blog - http://www.innovationjournalism.org/blog/ &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a style="COLOR: #00f" href="http://venture2.typepad.com/innovationnet/2007/11/innovation-ne-1.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Innovation networks: disruption and progress (part 2 of 2)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;By Mike When asked about how a company would actually go about building and participating in an innovation network once it has decided to move in that direction, Larry Huston explained that the company needs to be clear on what he calls its ...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a title="http://venture2.typepad.com/innovationnet/" style="COLOR: green" href="http://venture2.typepad.com/innovationnet/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;innovation.net - http://venture2.typepad.com/innovationnet/ &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a style="COLOR: #00f" href="http://creativityandinnovation.blogspot.com/2007/11/citigroup-inc-nyse-c-benefits-from-abu.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Citigroup Inc. (NYSE: C) benefits from Abu Dhabi Investment&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;By Sanjay Dalal(Sanjay Dalal) Although Citigroup is not included in the 20 innovators comprising The Innovation Index for 2007, at the current valuation where it is at five year lows, Citigroup is a great BUY. Citigroup is a great company, that will stand the test ...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a title="http://creativityandinnovation.blogspot.com/" style="COLOR: green" href="http://creativityandinnovation.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Creativity And Innovation Driving... - http://creativityandinnovation.blogspot.com/&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3662809872152515524-8812287054464179012?l=asspinov.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://asspinov.blogspot.com/feeds/8812287054464179012/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3662809872152515524&amp;postID=8812287054464179012' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3662809872152515524/posts/default/8812287054464179012'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3662809872152515524/posts/default/8812287054464179012'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://asspinov.blogspot.com/2007/11/report-28-nov-07.html' title='report 28 nov 07'/><author><name>Innovation Network Portugal</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06412211225403664784</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3662809872152515524.post-607380789323400322</id><published>2007-11-19T02:40:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-11-19T02:41:02.244-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a style="COLOR: #00f" href="http://venezuela-usa.blogspot.com/2007/11/article-98-patents-and-decline-of.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Article 98: Patents and the decline of innovation in Venezuela&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;By KA(KA) The State recognizes and protects intellectual property rights in scientific, literary and artistic works, inventions, innovations, trade names, patents, trademarks and slogans, in accordance with the conditions and exceptions ...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a title="http://venezuela-usa.blogspot.com/" style="COLOR: green" href="http://venezuela-usa.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Venezuela-US topics - http://venezuela-usa.blogspot.com/ &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a style="COLOR: #00f" href="http://smarteconomy.typepad.com/entrepreneurship_and_inno/2007/11/cfps-shocked-by.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;CfP's &gt; Shocked by Alliances: How Interorganizational ...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;By SmartEconomy He became Doctor in Applied Economics (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium) in 2006 with a thesis titled: 'Collaboration for Innovation: Processes of Governance and Learning in R&amp;amp;D Alliances'. He has published papers in journals ...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a title="http://smarteconomy.typepad.com/entrepreneurship_and_inno/" style="COLOR: green" href="http://smarteconomy.typepad.com/entrepreneurship_and_inno/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Entrepreneurship and Innovation Today - http://smarteconomy.typepad.com/entrepreneurship_and_inno/ &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a style="COLOR: #00f" href="http://www.biztechtalk.com/2007/11/legos-and-innov.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Legos and Innovation - Self-building machines&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;By Dan Keldsen Now all along, I've also been doing a ton of research into Innovation, who is doing it, how do they do it, why do they do it (or more likely WHY NOT?), what is the role of R&amp;amp;D these days - is it backroom, coming directly from customers, ...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a title="http://www.biztechtalk.com/" style="COLOR: green" href="http://www.biztechtalk.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;BizTechTalk - http://www.biztechtalk.com/&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3662809872152515524-607380789323400322?l=asspinov.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://asspinov.blogspot.com/feeds/607380789323400322/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3662809872152515524&amp;postID=607380789323400322' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3662809872152515524/posts/default/607380789323400322'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3662809872152515524/posts/default/607380789323400322'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://asspinov.blogspot.com/2007/11/article-98-patents-and-decline-of.html' title=''/><author><name>Innovation Network Portugal</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06412211225403664784</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3662809872152515524.post-1174028910107546259</id><published>2007-11-19T02:36:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-11-19T02:37:35.605-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Lisboa, 13 de Novembro de 2007.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Novadelta e Portucel apostam na comunicação das boas práticas pró-Biodiversidade.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;A Novadelta e o grupo Portucel Soporcel tornaram-se no dia 13, durante a conferência dedicada ao ‘Business and Biodiversity’, nos mais recentes membros da rede internacional ‘Countdown 2010 – travar a perda de Biodiversidade’. Ambas as empresas assinaram através dos seus CEO, nomeadamente Miguel Ribeirinho, pela Novadelta, e José Honório, pelo grupo Portucel Soporcel.&lt;br /&gt;Nos dois casos, a adesão ao Countdown 2010 foi assumida como um complemento à visão estratégica declarada no Memorando de Entendimento ‘Business and Biodiversity’ de procura do objectivo ‘No Net Loss’, isto é, desenvolvimento de actividades comerciais e industriais com impacto zero na Biodiversidade e serviços ecológicos da paisagem e ecossistemas.&lt;br /&gt;Em particular, a Novadelta irá comunicar a importância da Biodiversidade através do uso do logótipo do Countdown 2010 nos seus lotes de café ‘Origens’, que incluem café certificado como ‘Rainforest Alliance’, ‘Agricultura Biológica’ e ‘Comércio Justo’.&lt;br /&gt;A Portucel irá apostar mais no apoio à comunidade escolar mais jovem, e irá promover prémios e desenvolver iniciativas que levem as crianças a compreender a importância do equilíbrio ecológico para uma floresta saudável e a serem mais exigentes com o que compram e consomem.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Em ambos os casos, todo o processo de adesão foi acompanhado pela AmBioDiv – Valor Natural, sendo que o mesmo acontecerá para o processo de implementação das medidas protocoladas.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Muito em breve será feita a adesão da Associação para a Defesa do Património de Mértola e da Quinta do Valle do Riacho, também com apoio da AmBioDiv – Valor Natural.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Para mais informações contacte:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;"&gt;Nuno Oliveira&lt;br /&gt;Director, Coordenador Estratégia ‘Business and Biodiversity’ e ‘Countdown 2010’&lt;br /&gt;(+351) 96 294 02 09&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3662809872152515524-1174028910107546259?l=asspinov.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://asspinov.blogspot.com/feeds/1174028910107546259/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3662809872152515524&amp;postID=1174028910107546259' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3662809872152515524/posts/default/1174028910107546259'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3662809872152515524/posts/default/1174028910107546259'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://asspinov.blogspot.com/2007/11/lisboa-13-de-novembro-de-2007.html' title=''/><author><name>Innovation Network Portugal</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06412211225403664784</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3662809872152515524.post-6715026340497689252</id><published>2007-11-12T03:12:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-11-12T03:13:57.754-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Forum Financing Innovation</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_UUsOsrDJWws/Rzg1X9y72jI/AAAAAAAAADE/ZYzdurFgmuE/s1600-h/Invest%2520Novembro.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5131910461230144050" style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_UUsOsrDJWws/Rzg1X9y72jI/AAAAAAAAADE/ZYzdurFgmuE/s320/Invest%2520Novembro.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;No passado dia 8e 9 de Outubro Estoril foi a sede do “Forum Financing Innovation”, neste contexto foram debatidos diferentes aspectos fundamentais para o impulso da inovação, investigação e desenvolvimento, espírito empreendedor, crescimento e criação de trabalho dentro dos objectivos de Lisboa. A iniciativa surge no contexto da presidência portuguesa do concelhio da união europeia e concluiu com importantes iniciativas...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Um dos pontos mais importantes assinalados neste fórum foi que pouco importante é ter os recursos disponíveis se não se tem empresas com projectos realmente inovadores, se a linhas de investigação no aportam nada o desenvolvimento económico do pais, sim no é reforçada uma cultura de empreendedurismo, si as empresas não conseguem levar a inovação ao mercado e se não temos recursos humanos de qualidade nas empresas....&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ver artigo completo na REVISTA INVEST de Novembro &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3662809872152515524-6715026340497689252?l=asspinov.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://asspinov.blogspot.com/feeds/6715026340497689252/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3662809872152515524&amp;postID=6715026340497689252' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3662809872152515524/posts/default/6715026340497689252'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3662809872152515524/posts/default/6715026340497689252'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://asspinov.blogspot.com/2007/11/forum-financing-innovation.html' title='Forum Financing Innovation'/><author><name>Innovation Network Portugal</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06412211225403664784</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_UUsOsrDJWws/Rzg1X9y72jI/AAAAAAAAADE/ZYzdurFgmuE/s72-c/Invest%2520Novembro.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3662809872152515524.post-3907300824493764337</id><published>2007-11-12T03:09:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-11-12T03:11:57.383-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a style="COLOR: #00f" href="http://sciencecommons.org/weblog/archives/2007/10/30/hippel-on-opennness-and-innovation/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Eric Von Hippel on Openness and Innovation in Scholarly Publishing&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;By Kaitlin Thaney "Professor von Hippel speaks about his experiment with making two of his books openly available on his website at no cost to the reader, and about the broader issue of how the economics of innovation are increasingly favoring open, ...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a title="http://sciencecommons.org" style="COLOR: green" href="http://sciencecommons.org/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Science Commons - http://sciencecommons.org &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a style="COLOR: #00f" href="http://publications.mediapost.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=Articles.showArticleHomePage&amp;amp;art_aid=70102" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Video Insider: The Next Video Ad Innovation: Automation of Ad Assembly&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;By Bernie Day The onslaught of demand by marketers and advertisers alike has driven innovation surrounding the distribution of video advertisements of all types -- whether they are ads surrounding, laying over or inserted within user-generated ...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a title="http://publications.mediapost.com" style="COLOR: green" href="http://publications.mediapost.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;MediaPost  Online Media News - http://publications.mediapost.com &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a style="COLOR: #00f" href="http://www.demos.co.uk/items/10582" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Innovation for development&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;This comes at the same time as an interesting survey, brought my way by the ever-excellent Will Davies, showing that France lead the way in pointing their innovation policies towards developing world needs. Will makes the point that ...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a title="http://www.demos.co.uk/" style="COLOR: green" href="http://www.demos.co.uk/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Demos - http://www.demos.co.uk/ &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a style="COLOR: #00f" href="http://flux.futurelab.org.uk/2007/10/30/innovation-in-m-learning/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Innovation in m-learning&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;By Martin Owen Some weeks ago I wrote about an article on "heuristics for innovation" that started from reading Suw Charman's blog. I asked if it the rules discussed there applied to teacher innovation. I have since attended a number of events and ...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a title="http://flux.futurelab.org.uk" style="COLOR: green" href="http://flux.futurelab.org.uk/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Flux - http://flux.futurelab.org.uk &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a style="COLOR: #00f" href="http://blogs.sun.com/bmseer/entry/innovation_setting_world_records_in" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Innovation: Setting World Records in TPC-H Paraccel &amp;amp; Sun Fire ...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;By bm_seer Innovation is an infectious thing in a very good way. Innovators seek out innovators to get even greater things. This is a story that is all about that. Customer wanted innovative hardware, they came to Sun, customer was interested in ...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a title="http://blogs.sun.com/bmseer/" style="COLOR: green" href="http://blogs.sun.com/bmseer/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;BM Seer - http://blogs.sun.com/bmseer/&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3662809872152515524-3907300824493764337?l=asspinov.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://asspinov.blogspot.com/feeds/3907300824493764337/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3662809872152515524&amp;postID=3907300824493764337' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3662809872152515524/posts/default/3907300824493764337'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3662809872152515524/posts/default/3907300824493764337'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://asspinov.blogspot.com/2007/11/eric-von-hippel-on-openness-and.html' title=''/><author><name>Innovation Network Portugal</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06412211225403664784</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3662809872152515524.post-6761050873632310110</id><published>2007-11-12T03:05:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2007-11-12T03:06:42.942-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Fórum Missão Exportar 2007</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_UUsOsrDJWws/Rzgzj9y72iI/AAAAAAAAAC8/EdQW5EF8V8o/s1600-h/20071115_missao_exportar07.gif"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5131908468365318690" style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_UUsOsrDJWws/Rzgzj9y72iI/AAAAAAAAAC8/EdQW5EF8V8o/s320/20071115_missao_exportar07.gif" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;Fórum Missão Exportar 2007&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Lisboa, PORTUGAL – 15 de Novembro de 2007&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;O Fórum Missão Exportar 2007 é um evento dirigido prioritariamente às empresas que querem dar os primeiros passos para a internacionalização e/ou alargar as suas capacidades de exportação. Este ano, a COTEC Portugal estará presente através de um expositor que reunirá uma delegação de empresas da Rede PME Inovação.&lt;br /&gt;O Fórum permitirá aos empresários uma visão integrada das entidades, instrumentos, apoios e serviços disponíveis para iniciar ou estruturar a actividade exportadora da empresa, nomeadamente através da realização de um pré-diagnóstico para a internacionalização, do apoio de consultoria em internacionalização por uma equipa de consultores especializados e do contacto com especialistas de mercado e acesso a informação privilegiada relativamente aos mercados de Angola, Argentina, Brasil, China, Espanha, EUA, Índia, Marrocos, Polónia e Rússia.&lt;br /&gt;Será também possível conhecer os testemunhos de empresas portuguesas com experiência de internacionalização, no “Speaker´s corner”, espaço vocacionado para o debate informal. Os visitantes poderão ainda participar na II Missão e Encontro de Negócios Brasil – Portugal, bem como em nas sessões destinadas às empresas portuguesas nas áreas da Biotecnologia e Tecnologia e Informação (TIC) com vista aos mercados dos EUA e China.&lt;br /&gt;As Embaixadas acreditadas em Portugal e as Câmaras de Comércio e Indústria bilaterais estarão também presentes e proporcionarão documentação e informação sobre os respectivos países.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Inscrições e mais informações em &lt;a href="http://www.missaoexportar.aip.pt/" target="_blank"&gt;http://www.missaoexportar.aip.pt/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3662809872152515524-6761050873632310110?l=asspinov.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://asspinov.blogspot.com/feeds/6761050873632310110/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3662809872152515524&amp;postID=6761050873632310110' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3662809872152515524/posts/default/6761050873632310110'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3662809872152515524/posts/default/6761050873632310110'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://asspinov.blogspot.com/2007/11/frum-misso-exportar-2007-lisboa.html' title='Fórum Missão Exportar 2007'/><author><name>Innovation Network Portugal</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06412211225403664784</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_UUsOsrDJWws/Rzgzj9y72iI/AAAAAAAAAC8/EdQW5EF8V8o/s72-c/20071115_missao_exportar07.gif' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3662809872152515524.post-8230433050171416477</id><published>2007-11-04T03:09:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-11-04T03:11:41.854-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a style="COLOR: #00f" href="http://blogs.verisign.com/innovation/2007/10/from_adsense_to_idsense_or_why.php" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"&gt;From AdSense to IDSense or why may Facebook be worth $15B.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;By Nico Popp We have all heard about it. On Wednesday, Microsoft invested $240M into Facebook, beating Google to the punch, and giving the folks on University Avenue a $15B valuation ("yes, mini-me, $15B dollars...") and a war chest large enough to ...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a title="http://blogs.verisign.com/innovation/" style="COLOR: green" href="http://blogs.verisign.com/innovation/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"&gt;Blue Ocean - Innovation at VeriSign - http://blogs.verisign.com/innovation/ &lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a style="COLOR: #00f" href="http://econtent.typepad.com/econtent/2007/10/innovation-and-.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"&gt;Innovation and Networked Economy Podcasts&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;By rhoeg This post contains my favorite Innovation and Networked Economy Podcasts. In all instances the podcasts are interviews with the authors who review the major theories and themes of their respective books. A podcast's appearance in this ...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a title="http://econtent.typepad.com/econtent/" style="COLOR: green" href="http://econtent.typepad.com/econtent/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"&gt;eContent - http://econtent.typepad.com/econtent/ &lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a style="COLOR: #00f" href="http://tacticalphilanthropy.com/2007/10/slingshot-fund-philanthropic-innovation/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"&gt;Slingshot Fund &amp;amp; Philanthropic Innovation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;By Sean Stannard-Stockton We've debated recently on this blog whether innovation for the sake of innovation is valuable in the philanthropic sector. I originally said that it was not, but then quickly came around to the idea that since innovation is not rewarded ...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a title="http://tacticalphilanthropy.com" style="COLOR: green" href="http://tacticalphilanthropy.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"&gt;Tactical Philanthropy - http://tacticalphilanthropy.com &lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a style="COLOR: #00f" href="http://www.jackmartinleith.com/?p=61" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"&gt;First, second and third generation innovation practice&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;By jackmartinleith Innovation 3 is what Edward Matchett calls Creative Action - the title of this website. Corresponding with Worldview 3, it is an organic endeavour that springs from a connection with what Matchett calls Creative Energy, containing "the ...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a title="http://www.jackmartinleith.com/" style="COLOR: green" href="http://www.jackmartinleith.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"&gt;Creative Action - http://www.jackmartinleith.com/ &lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3662809872152515524-8230433050171416477?l=asspinov.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://asspinov.blogspot.com/feeds/8230433050171416477/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3662809872152515524&amp;postID=8230433050171416477' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3662809872152515524/posts/default/8230433050171416477'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3662809872152515524/posts/default/8230433050171416477'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://asspinov.blogspot.com/2007/11/from-adsense-to-idsense-or-why-may.html' title=''/><author><name>Innovation Network Portugal</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06412211225403664784</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3662809872152515524.post-8823524996623396705</id><published>2007-11-04T02:35:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-11-04T02:38:55.300-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a style="COLOR: #00f" href="http://blogs.codegear.com/davidi/2007/10/28/38838" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"&gt;Software piracy and innovation...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;There has been a lot of software innovation in the first 50 years of the computer industry. Software continues to transform our world. The CEOs of companies that are members of the Business Software Alliance (BSA) believe that 75 ...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a title="http://blogs.codegear.com/davidi" style="COLOR: green" href="http://blogs.codegear.com/davidi" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"&gt;Sip from the Firehose - http://blogs.codegear.com/davidi &lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a style="COLOR: #00f" href="http://discussionleader.hbsp.com/hamel/2007/10/be_bold_in_your_innovation.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"&gt;Be Bold in Your Innovation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;If management innovation has been mostly incremental in recent years, it may be due to a lack of daring in the choice of problems to tackle. Ask yourself, has your company ever taken on a management challenge that was truly ...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a title="http://discussionleader.hbsp.com/hamel/" style="COLOR: green" href="http://discussionleader.hbsp.com/hamel/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"&gt;Gary Hamel - http://discussionleader.hbsp.com/hamel/ &lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a style="COLOR: #00f" href="http://www.uq.edu.au/events/event_view.php?event_id=3619" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"&gt;Innovation Leadership Course - UQ Business School Executive Education&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;By UQ Events Dr John Steen from the UQ Business School will be leading the Innovation Leadership course, which will run from Monday 29 October 2007 to Friday 2 November 2007. Innovation has been described as the fundamental source of competitive ...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a title="http://www.uq.edu.au/events/" style="COLOR: green" href="http://www.uq.edu.au/events/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"&gt;UQ Events - http://www.uq.edu.au/events/ &lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a style="COLOR: #00f" href="http://digg.com/tech_news/Fusing_Measuring_Innovation_with_Global_R_D" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"&gt;Fusing Measuring Innovation with Global R&amp;amp;D&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;The fusion of 60 years of measuring innovation with a worldwide R&amp;amp;D capability has catapulted Trimble to the forefront of state-of-the-art instrumentation.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a title="http://digg.com/" style="COLOR: green" href="http://digg.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"&gt;Digg / upcoming - http://digg.com/ &lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3662809872152515524-8823524996623396705?l=asspinov.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://asspinov.blogspot.com/feeds/8823524996623396705/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3662809872152515524&amp;postID=8823524996623396705' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3662809872152515524/posts/default/8823524996623396705'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3662809872152515524/posts/default/8823524996623396705'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://asspinov.blogspot.com/2007/11/software-piracy-and-innovation.html' title=''/><author><name>Innovation Network Portugal</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06412211225403664784</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3662809872152515524.post-191314045874597920</id><published>2007-10-20T04:39:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2007-10-20T04:41:44.972-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Jornadas de Inovaçao na FIL</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_UUsOsrDJWws/RxnpZq4P45I/AAAAAAAAAC0/TzV9St6o-jI/s1600-h/logo_site_jornadas.gif"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5123382678326862738" style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_UUsOsrDJWws/RxnpZq4P45I/AAAAAAAAAC0/TzV9St6o-jI/s320/logo_site_jornadas.gif" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3662809872152515524-191314045874597920?l=asspinov.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://asspinov.blogspot.com/feeds/191314045874597920/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3662809872152515524&amp;postID=191314045874597920' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3662809872152515524/posts/default/191314045874597920'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3662809872152515524/posts/default/191314045874597920'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://asspinov.blogspot.com/2007/10/jornadas-de-inovaao-na-fil.html' title='Jornadas de Inovaçao na FIL'/><author><name>Innovation Network Portugal</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06412211225403664784</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_UUsOsrDJWws/RxnpZq4P45I/AAAAAAAAAC0/TzV9St6o-jI/s72-c/logo_site_jornadas.gif' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3662809872152515524.post-2508174861502024021</id><published>2007-10-18T08:32:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-10-18T08:35:47.025-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Associação Mundial de Business Angels</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;Cimeira Mundial de Business Angels dá origem à criação da Associação Mundial de Business Angels&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Representantes de 5 continentes encontram-se no Estoril para preencher uma falha do mercado mundial de financiamento&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No dia 10 de Outubro de 2007, no Estoril (Portugal), os participantes da Cimeira Mundial de Business Angels (Business Angels Leaders Forum), co-organizado pela FNABA (Federação Nacional de Associações de Business Angels), pela EBAN (European Business Angels Network) e pela ACA (Angel Capital Association), da América do Norte, decidiram criar a Associação Mundial de Business Angels, com início oficial a 1 de Janeiro de 2008.Este encontro foi patrocinado pelo IAPMEI, DNA Cascais, InovCapital e pela Gesventure.António d’Orey Capucho, Presidente da Câmara Municipal de Cascais, mostra-se satisfeito por “decorrer no município de Cascais a recepção desta comunidade internacional que tanto representa o esforço que o próprio município tem feito no estímulo ao empreendedorismo”.Este evento teve lugar no âmbito da Presidência Portuguesa da U.E., facto que levou Jaime Andrez, Presidente do IAPMEI, a comentar no encerramento do evento que “este é um importante passo para o desenvolvimento da comunidade de business angels em todo o mundo, sendo certo que a presidência portuguesa continuará este movimento no próximo Conselho de Ministros da U.E. sobre a Competitividade, que terá lugar em Novembro em Portugal”.As seguintes regiões foram representadas pelas associações:- América do Norte, representada pela ACA- Europa, representada pela EBAN- Países de origem Árabe, representados pela ABAN (Arab Business Angels Network)Os seguintes países estiveram presentes:&lt;br /&gt;Angola&lt;br /&gt;Austrália&lt;br /&gt;Brasil&lt;br /&gt;Cabo Verde&lt;br /&gt;Chile&lt;br /&gt;China&lt;br /&gt;Finlândia&lt;br /&gt;França&lt;br /&gt;Índia&lt;br /&gt;Itália&lt;br /&gt;Japão&lt;br /&gt;Malásia&lt;br /&gt;Polónia&lt;br /&gt;Portugal&lt;br /&gt;Espanha&lt;br /&gt;Reino Unido&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“Ter representantes de 5 continentes e mais de 30 paíeses, foi um grande desafio para a FNABA, EBAN e ACA. Estou desde já muito satisfeito com os resultados atingidos e que excederam largamente as nossas expectativas. Tenho a certeza de que este evento e a criação da associação munidal, fomentará a actividade da Comunidade de Business Angels portuguesa e de todo o mundo”, mencionou Francisco Banha, Fundador e Presidente da FNABA.Os participantes consideraram que:- A actividade dos Business Angels em todo o mundo contribui para a criação de um ambiente propício ao financiamento da inovação e do empreendedorismo.- É importante conhecer e disseminar as ferramentas adequadas para o financiamento da inovação e empreendedorismo, de forma a estimular o aparecimento de empresas start-ups com o suporte de Business Angels.- É importante estabelecer parcerias entre redes de anjos de diferentes países, bem como fomentar os investimentos transnacionais.- É importante para os legisladores de cada país ter acesso à informação recolhida pela comunidade de Business Angels e fomentar a sua capacidade de criar e desenvolver mecanismos de financiamento numa lógica público-privada, tendo em vista o suporte à inovação e ao empreendedorismo.“A EBAN considera que esta iniciativa se tornará no pontapé de saída para uma vigorosa comunidade internacional de Business Angels. Gostaria de agradecer à FNABA, ao Governo Português, ao Município de Cascais e aos patrocinadores que tornaram este evento possível”, afirmou Anthony Clarke, Presidente da EBAN.A Associação Mundial de Business Angels terá os seguintes objectivos:• Divulgar mundialmente a importância e a prática do investimento realizado pelos Business Angels;• Apoiar os membros na reflexão, realização de iniciativas e tomadas de decisão que contribuam para a difusão do conceito de investimento em early stage, nomeadamente o investimento de early stage realizado por particulares em empresas;• Realização de um evento anual;• Criar um portal de web para disseminação de informação e facilitar a comunicação entre os membros;• Identificar e divulgar através do website informação relevante que conduza à adopção internacional de boas práticas no financiamento da inovação e do empreendedorismo;• Estudar a exequibilidade de investimentos transnacionais com a participação de vários business Angels.• Promover a partilha de informação e conhecimento de boas práticas por Business Angels;• Contribuir para o desenvolvimento sustentável da sociedade, promovendo a adopção de todos os recursos disponíveis sobre Business Angels para o suporte à inovação e ao empreendedorismo.John May, Presidente da organização que representa mais clubes, afirmou reconhecer que “nunca mais um país ou rede de business Angels pode ficar no topo da inovação e da energia do empreendedorismo, sem considerar o resto do mundo. Agradecemos a oportunidade de co-organizar este inovador encontro mundial. Ficamos agora disponíveis para participar em esforços organizativos futuros”.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Portugal, Estoril, 10 de Outubro de 2007&lt;br /&gt;Para mais informações contacte:&lt;br /&gt;EBAN – &lt;a href="mailto:claire.munck@eban.org"&gt;claire.munck@eban.org&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ACA – &lt;a href="mailto:john@angelcapitalassociation.org"&gt;john@angelcapitalassociation.org&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;FNABA – &lt;a href="mailto:info@fnaba.org"&gt;info@fnaba.org&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3662809872152515524-2508174861502024021?l=asspinov.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://asspinov.blogspot.com/feeds/2508174861502024021/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3662809872152515524&amp;postID=2508174861502024021' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3662809872152515524/posts/default/2508174861502024021'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3662809872152515524/posts/default/2508174861502024021'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://asspinov.blogspot.com/2007/10/associao-mundial-de-business-angels.html' title='Associação Mundial de Business Angels'/><author><name>Innovation Network Portugal</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06412211225403664784</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3662809872152515524.post-2453778076688343296</id><published>2007-10-16T08:47:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2007-10-16T08:49:58.600-07:00</updated><title type='text'>concurso para empreendedores!!</title><content type='html'>A Missão deste concurso, orientado para empreendedores, é o de desenvolver o espírito de iniciativa de natureza empresarial, em qualquer sector de actividade e em todo o território nacional.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_UUsOsrDJWws/RxTdQq4P43I/AAAAAAAAACk/wh3jFjAYX0s/s1600-h/audax_logo.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5121961954684953458" style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_UUsOsrDJWws/RxTdQq4P43I/AAAAAAAAACk/wh3jFjAYX0s/s320/audax_logo.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;É intuito dos promotores desta iniciativa incentivar empreendedores a elaborar planos de negócios para a criação de novas empresas de cariz inovador e produtivo, que venham a contribuir de forma clara para a criação de riqueza e para o crescimento da economia portuguesa. O concurso “AUDAX – Negócios à Prova” pretende ser assim uma iniciativa de referência na área do empreendedorismo nacional.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.audax.tv/"&gt;http://www.audax.tv/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Manuel Guerra Pinheiro, Paulo Reis &amp;amp; Associados -&lt;br /&gt;Sociedade de Advogados&lt;br /&gt;Law Firm&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Helena Margarida GPV Reis, PhD, MBA&lt;br /&gt;Consultant&lt;br /&gt;Rua Barata Salgueiro, 30, 3.ºEsq – 1250-044 LISBOA&lt;br /&gt;Tel.: [+351] 210 010 640 – Fax: [+351] 210 010 644 Tlm.: [+351] 913 455 681&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3662809872152515524-2453778076688343296?l=asspinov.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://asspinov.blogspot.com/feeds/2453778076688343296/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3662809872152515524&amp;postID=2453778076688343296' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3662809872152515524/posts/default/2453778076688343296'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3662809872152515524/posts/default/2453778076688343296'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://asspinov.blogspot.com/2007/10/concurso-para-empreendedores.html' title='concurso para empreendedores!!'/><author><name>Innovation Network Portugal</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06412211225403664784</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_UUsOsrDJWws/RxTdQq4P43I/AAAAAAAAACk/wh3jFjAYX0s/s72-c/audax_logo.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3662809872152515524.post-6547058707775262040</id><published>2007-10-16T03:38:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-10-16T08:51:22.431-07:00</updated><title type='text'>o que para nós é I&amp;D e Desenvolvimento Sustentável?</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;o que para nós é I&amp;amp;D e Desenvolvimento Sustentável?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Saudações a todos,&lt;br /&gt;Nuno Oliveira&lt;br /&gt;Coordenador Estratégia ‘Business and Biodiversity’ e ‘Countdown 2010’&lt;br /&gt;(+351) 96 294 02 09&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; AmBioDiv ~ Valor Natural&lt;br /&gt;  R. Filipe da Mata, 10, 1º Frente  1600-071 Lisboa&lt;br /&gt;  Tel: 217 975 132&lt;br /&gt;  Fax: 217 959 141&lt;br /&gt;  E-mail: &lt;a title="mailto:ambiodiv@ambiodiv.com" href="mailto:ambiodiv@ambiodiv.com"&gt;ambiodiv@ambiodiv.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3662809872152515524-6547058707775262040?l=asspinov.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://asspinov.blogspot.com/feeds/6547058707775262040/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3662809872152515524&amp;postID=6547058707775262040' title='2 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3662809872152515524/posts/default/6547058707775262040'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3662809872152515524/posts/default/6547058707775262040'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://asspinov.blogspot.com/2007/10/o-que-para-ns-i-e-desenvolvimento.html' title='o que para nós é I&amp;D e Desenvolvimento Sustentável?'/><author><name>Innovation Network Portugal</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06412211225403664784</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3662809872152515524.post-3613632392858985392</id><published>2007-10-15T02:31:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-10-15T02:32:21.107-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Fueling Biodiversity</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://www.wbcsd.org/plugins/DocSearch/details.asp?MenuId=MTcw&amp;amp;ClickMenu=&amp;amp;doOpen=1&amp;amp;type=DocDet&amp;amp;ObjectId=MjY1NTI"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;http://www.wbcsd.org/plugins/DocSearch/details.asp?MenuId=MTcw&amp;amp;ClickMenu=&amp;amp;doOpen=1&amp;amp;type=DocDet&amp;amp;ObjectId=MjY1NTI&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;Fueling Biodiversity&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Geneva, 5 October 2007 - The Netherlands is one of the biggest importers of palm oil for biofuels. However, recent studies illustrate that harvesting oil from Southeast Asia, in particular Indonesia and Malaysia where 85% of commercial palm oil is grown, causes major carbon emissions through the destruction of rainforests and the draining and burning of peat land.&lt;br /&gt;“As a biofuel, it’s a failure,” said Marcel Silvius, a climate change expert for &lt;a href="http://www.wetlands.org/" target="_parent"&gt;Wetlands International&lt;/a&gt;, in an interview with the Associated Press.&lt;br /&gt;Even though global efforts to decrease greenhouse gas emissions are increasingly concentrating on biofuels, numerous energy companies have put on hold plans to switch to palm oil. They are actually homing in on other solutions, including the possibility of moving towards so-called “second generation” biofuels that go beyond palm oil, corn (maize) and sugarcane as feedstocks.&lt;br /&gt;First generation biofuels can degrade biodiversity because they traditionally use grains (wheat, corn, soybean), sugarcane and palm oil grown on the cleared forest land of wetlands. Some of these biofuels require almost as much energy to produce as they offer as fuels. They can affect food security as choices are made between using a crop as food or fuel, and because using farmland to plant for fuels can make food crops scarcer and more expensive. This could bring food shortages to poorer countries that rely on food imports and food aid.&lt;br /&gt;The race to produce biofuels is also driving up land prices. As land prices go up, people who cannot prove tenure are pushed off their land to make way for commercial exploitation, as is happening in Brazil.&lt;br /&gt;While first generation biofuels focus on corn and sugar and do not use all of the plant, second-generation biofuels use more of the feedstock, including the waste, to generate the fuel. The technology allows fuel to be made from any plant material.&lt;br /&gt;“You can exchange food for energy,” said Fernando Almeida, BCSD Brazil (&lt;a href="http://www.cebds.org/" target="_parent"&gt;CEBDS&lt;/a&gt;) at the &lt;a href="http://www.wbcsd.org/" target="_parent"&gt;WBCSD&lt;/a&gt;’s March Liaison Delegates meeting in Montreux, Switzerland, but “be very careful, for when you solve a problem for one side of the world, you create problems for another.”&lt;br /&gt;Cultivation of biofuels also brings with it risks of soil erosion, soil compaction, nutrient leaching, water use, declining crop diversity, and declining farmland diversity. Forestry risks stem from the conversion of forestland to agricultural uses, leading to species loss, habitat loss/fragmentation, declining site fertility, soil erosion and declining forestry diversity, not to mention competition for resources from other industry sectors that rely on forests for their primary products.&lt;br /&gt;Similarly, there is the question of the amount of virtual water required to produce biofuels. For example, according to &lt;a href="http://www.waterfootprint.org/" target="_parent"&gt;www.waterfootprint.org&lt;/a&gt;, as much as 1,300 liters of water are required to produce 1kg of wheat.&lt;br /&gt;However, second generation biofuels could be used to increase biodiversity and help restore prairies, as flowering plants provide more useable energy per acre than corn fuel ethanol or soybean diesel and are far better for the environment. According to some estimates, prairie flowers provide 238% more bioenergy on average when there is a diverse mixture rather than a single species. The shift from annual to perennial crops also reduces the need to plough and till the fields, reducing the agricultural risks.&lt;br /&gt;But “it will take second generation technology to make that work ... and it’s about commercializing that science,” said WBCSD’s George Weyerhaeuser, also at the Montreux meeting.&lt;br /&gt;The second generation biofuels market could encourage forest landscape restoration through cleaner water, timber production and nature conservation, rather than simply maximizing tree cover on individual forest sites. Opportunities include incentives for forest landscapes by keeping forest land in forests and returning degraded agricultural lands to forest, which is good for nature conservation and clean water production, and reducing fire risk by getting rid of the fuel buildup in the understory (the area of a forest which grows in the shade of forest canopy).&lt;br /&gt;But the challenge remains to create the enabling factors for biofuels to&lt;br /&gt;enhance biodiversity. Some of these enabling factors include:&lt;br /&gt;Environmental guidelines;&lt;br /&gt;Planning processes to promote environmentally beneficial cropping and forestry;&lt;br /&gt;Certification to inform intermediary buyers and endconsumers, thereby enabling differentiation in the marketplace and allowing people to make informed choices;&lt;br /&gt;Technological innovations to get to the second generation quicker.&lt;br /&gt;The standards should be appropriate for and applicable to all feedstocks, practical to implement and use, and cover the full life cycle. An energy company such as &lt;a href="http://www.bp.com/" target="_parent"&gt;BP&lt;/a&gt; could have a role in doing an objective, thorough life cycle analysis of biofuels through its US$ 500 million energy bioscience institute based at the Universities of &lt;a href="http://www.berkeley.edu/" target="_parent"&gt;Berkeley&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://www.uiuc.edu/" target="_parent"&gt;Illinois&lt;/a&gt;. “One option is to pursue regulation… another is to create market value and let customers differentiate to marginalize the nonsustainable processes,” said &lt;a href="http://www.iucn.org/" target="_parent"&gt;IUCN&lt;/a&gt;’s Andrea Athanas, also in Montreux.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nuno Oliveira&lt;br /&gt;Coordenador Estratégia ‘Business and Biodiversity’ e ‘Countdown 2010’&lt;br /&gt;(+351) 96 294 02 09&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3662809872152515524-3613632392858985392?l=asspinov.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://asspinov.blogspot.com/feeds/3613632392858985392/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3662809872152515524&amp;postID=3613632392858985392' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3662809872152515524/posts/default/3613632392858985392'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3662809872152515524/posts/default/3613632392858985392'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://asspinov.blogspot.com/2007/10/fueling-biodiversity.html' title='Fueling Biodiversity'/><author><name>Innovation Network Portugal</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06412211225403664784</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3662809872152515524.post-8685583067664543543</id><published>2007-10-15T02:29:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-10-17T10:24:28.563-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Declaração do Estoril</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;Declaração do Estoril&lt;/span&gt; -&lt;br /&gt;Seminário sobre «Inovação no mercado de financiamento de PMEs»&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;(versão original em inglês)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- Estoril, 8-9 Outubro&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Data: 2007-10-12&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;INTRODUCTION&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The European vision of a successful knowledge-based economy, where high potential enterprises can emerge, growth, create employment and improve innovative capabilities, has among other priority issues, a major challenge: - to overcome the imperfect nature of the financial markets.Meeting this challenge requires a holist view of the financial system, spanning the equity-debt spectrum from both formal and informal risk capital markets, to the bank intermediation process, in order to reinforce the availability of a range of appropriate financing solutions for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) throughout their development life-cycle. The goal requires the active participation of the entire entrepreneurial infrastructure, including the businesses owners and managers, the financial services industry, government policy makers, academia and the media.The Estoril Declaration is the result of the Portuguese EU Presidency Forum “Financing Innovation – From Ideas to Market”, a joint initiative between the European Commission and IAPMEI (the Portuguese Agency for SMEs and Innovation), held at Estoril on the 8th and 9th of October 2007. The Estoril Declaration summarises the principles and good practice policies that help to achieve a more effective integration of the four pillars identified of the financial innovation value chain: - From Ideas to Market; Investment Readiness; The Right Environment; and Savings for Growth.Lessons from both practical experience and formal research activity by the Members States of the European Union and the European Commission have provided a clear set of policy priorities focused on improving the level and quality of entrepreneurial, small business activity within Europe.Initiatives should be taken to scan and distinguish the good practices and experiences in this important field. So, the range of measures to stimulate entrepreneurship and innovation can be well known and advocated at all levels of society, and policymakers should make use of them to develop suitable policies.Current policies are more effectively taken up and implemented across the twenty-seven members of the European Union. To that end, the Estoril Declaration can be used as framework in the context of the renewed Lisbon Partnership for Growth and Jobs that the Commission and the Member States can use when developing, implementing and monitoring policies.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;THE ESTORIL DECLARATION&lt;br /&gt;The European Union needs to continue to develop a world-class environment supporting innovative and high growth Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs); an environment in which competitive markets work efficiently both within and across borders to allocate a range of appropriate forms of finance and related services, from professional and well informed providers to similarly competent entrepreneurs and their businesses at all stages of the enterprise life-cycle.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;From Ideas to Market &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;I.&lt;/span&gt; Successful entrepreneurial economies need a ‘can do’ attitude to transforming interesting and novel ideas and discoveries into new products and services to both existing and new customers. The full realisation of Europe’s innovative resources and their delivery to world markets requires the ‘catalyst’ of a strong entrepreneurial culture to be supported by efficient financial markets&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The conference recommendations to achieve this:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Entrepreneurial culture and new business formation should be promoted as an attractive and feasible career choice. This should be widely fostered by politicians, businesspeople, academics, students, and those teaching and advising current and future generations of European citizens.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Spin-out activities that commercialise intellectual property from universities and the research community should be encouraged. In particular use should be made of academic-private funding arrangements that recognise the demanding requirements of professionally-run and commercially attractive fund structures. Effective structures are likely to require cross-institutional collaboration, co-financing and risk sharing schemes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The support of Europe’s financial services community is essential in the identification and industry adoption of practicable means by which intangible assets, such as intellectual property, can be pragmatically valued in order to attract additional debt finance and other resources. This is important especially for innovative and technology-based start-ups.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The specific demands of young and growing SMEs should be recognised by enterprise support infrastructures, as well as specialist and expert services. They should also acknowledge the considerable scale and scope of benefits stemming from the active concentration of new enterprise activity into dense and mutually-supportive local and regional clusters.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is essential that a full spectrum of SME’s life-cycle financial and support services are available for attractive growth enterprises, from ‘seed stage’ incubators through business angels, guarantee societies and debt providers, to corporate venturing and institutional venture capital funds.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Investment Readiness&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;II. New and growing enterprises should have access to the right resources, as allocated by a free and competitive market. They have to earn investors’ interest and commitment by the greater attractiveness of their businesses profile compared to other available investment opportunities.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The conference recommendations to achieve this:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The enterprises’ internal capabilities to attract investors should be improved and reinforced so that they can supply sufficient, timely and accurate information to financial providers in order to get appropriate financial resources and other related services at competitive conditions. In particular, entrepreneurs, their commercial partners and their advisers need to recognise that Basel II capital requirements for transparency will require a greater effort from all parties to reduce information asymmetries.&lt;br /&gt;It is highly relevant to develop professional mentoring and other advisory support services specially designed to meet the needs of attractive but often inexperienced entrepreneurs seeking external sources of finance.&lt;br /&gt;When enterprises assume the responsibility of adopting appropriately rigorous standards of governance and disclosure, the financial infrastructure may provide the full spectrum of finance and support to the specific needs of early growth, development and the transfer or buy-out of established businesses.&lt;br /&gt;Priority should be given to benchmarking tools to enhance the reputation of the best-performing enterprises, improving their market position and negotiation capabilities among their finance sources, individually or as a reference group.&lt;br /&gt;The critical role of business angels and other informal investors should be recognised and exploited as the largest potential source of knowledge and of stable, early-stage, informal risk capital to young enterprises.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;The Right Environment&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;III. Governments should ensure that entrepreneurial environments in which young firms are created, developed and traded are favourable to entrepreneurs and investors, avoiding inappropriate and costly legislative, fiscal or regulatory systems. Thus, policy makers should actively strive to remove existing barriers and promote new business formation and the growth of existing SMEs. Governments have a key mission in supporting enterprise, but should seek to ensure a subsidiary role compatible with ‘free’ market activity.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The conference recommendations to achieve this:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Legal, fiscal and administrative policy frameworks should directly encourage risk-taking by entrepreneurs and external investors, such as business angels and venture capitalists, also encouraging the entrance of new market players and professionals.&lt;br /&gt;The importance of advisory services, like Business and Innovation Services, should be recognised to foster start-ups and spin-offs through their direct hands-on support. These networks have proven to be of great value to young promising and growing businesses, transforming their business models into robust and consistent ones.&lt;br /&gt;Public authorities should leverage private sector involvement by setting up co-investment funds investing on a pari-passu basis with business angels and private investors.&lt;br /&gt;Increasing levels of cross-border investment should be promoted with the goal of creating a single pan-European market in venture capital and private equity. This requires further legal and fiscal harmonisation or mutual recognition between member states.&lt;br /&gt;The important role of Financial Institutions, in particular of guarantee societies, should be recognised as providers of financial and commercial knowledge to the SME entrepreneur on one side and of specialised risk assessment to the banks on the other.&lt;br /&gt;Importance should be given to the creation of efficient and cost effective systems for the transfer of businesses to new ownership/management in order to ensure the continuation and growth of existing viable enterprises. Such transfer systems should also expedite the timely removal of unsuccessful business ventures from the market, thereby assisting the efficient reallocation of existing resources.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Savings for Growth&lt;br /&gt;IV. Savings should be channelled and long term investments mobilised for investment in SME assets, for example through structured finance instruments. This process should be supported by public risk sharing schemes whenever needed, to encourage private investment into market failure areas where it would be otherwise particularly difficulty to attract a sufficient stock of funding due to the well known information asymmetries and the high transaction costs incurred.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The conference recommendations to achieve this:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The valuable role of banks should be recognised, in particular when they are supported by mutual or public loan guarantee schemes and related initiatives to securitise SME debt is essential as this allows increasing the liquidity within the financial market and the capacity for renewed banking exposures on SME finance.&lt;br /&gt;The practical relevance of venture capital should be emphasised by strengthening the links between business angel groups and investors from the formal sector would facilitate the continued flow of financing for enterprise growth, simultaneously providing opportunities for early stage investor exits.&lt;br /&gt;Venture capital and private equity should be recognised as an attractive asset class for long-term institutional investors, such as pension funds and insurance companies.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There is a need for a single pan-European stock market of sufficient economic scale, liquidity, technical expertise and specialism in high growth/high potential, new knowledge-based firms across the member states. Stock market trading in growing and high-potential companies provides an important source of capital and acts as an exit channel for later stage investors.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Alternative and novel financing instruments are needed to overcome financing problems, including micro-finance, mezzanine, equity and mezzanine guarantees as well as and stock options. Such instruments can be focused specifically on the growth needs of young innovative SMEs.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Estoril, 9th of October 2007&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ana Filipa Gouveia&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a title="mailto:afgouveia@ambiodiv.com" href="mailto:afgouveia@ambiodiv.com"&gt;afgouveia@ambiodiv.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tel: (+351) 934 370 456&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3662809872152515524-8685583067664543543?l=asspinov.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://asspinov.blogspot.com/feeds/8685583067664543543/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3662809872152515524&amp;postID=8685583067664543543' title='7 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3662809872152515524/posts/default/8685583067664543543'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3662809872152515524/posts/default/8685583067664543543'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://asspinov.blogspot.com/2007/10/declarao-do-estoril-seminrio-sobre.html' title='Declaração do Estoril'/><author><name>Innovation Network Portugal</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06412211225403664784</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>7</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3662809872152515524.post-5723334820299863050</id><published>2007-10-15T02:24:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-10-15T02:25:30.470-07:00</updated><title type='text'>sabeis quanto  que o nosso governo pos???</title><content type='html'>This page is sent to you by Helena MGPV Reis (&lt;a href="mailto:helena_reis3@hotmail.com"&gt;helena_reis3@hotmail.com&lt;/a&gt;) with the message:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ol a todos! 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For corn, this figure is 0.9–1.5, indicating that it is perhaps better to continue using petrol than to grow and burn biofuels.&lt;br /&gt;Sugar cane was the only crop shown to have a favourable balance of greenhouse gas savings and emissions, because it requires less fertilizer than other biofuel crops.&lt;br /&gt;Brazil, one of the world's major sugar cane producers, has invested heavily in ethanol production and biofuel use. According to the Brazilian Geographic and Statistics Institute, Brazil's sugar cane production reached 425 million tonnes in 2006–2007.&lt;br /&gt;Jurandir Zullo Jr, an agricultural engineer and researcher from the Brazilian Centre for Meteorological and Climate Research in Agriculture (Cepagri), says the Crutzen study is relevant, but many other factors need to be considered when calculating the greenhouse gas emissions of biofuels, from chemical to social and economical aspects.&lt;br /&gt;He adds that if these conclusions were confirmed, it would encourage further sugar cane production in Brazil. The expansion of sugar cane crops however threatens to continue to encourage deforestation, which also contributes to global warming.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The discussion paper was published in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Discussions.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.atmos-chem-phys-discuss.net/7/11191/2007/acpd-7-11191-2007.pdf" target="_blank"&gt;Link to full paper&lt;/a&gt; [382KB]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Related SciDev.Net articles:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.scidev.net/News/index.cfm?fuseaction=readNews&amp;amp;itemid=3892&amp;amp;language=1"&gt;Mexican President vetoes biofuel law&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.scidev.net/News/index.cfm?fuseaction=readNews&amp;amp;itemid=3890&amp;amp;language=1"&gt;Colombia to advise Central America on biofuels&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.scidev.net/News/index.cfm?fuseaction=readNews&amp;amp;itemid=3813&amp;amp;language=1"&gt;Guyana is ready to bet on biofuels&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.scidev.net/dossiers/index.cfm?fuseaction=policybrief&amp;amp;policy=88&amp;amp;dossier=4"&gt;Brazil &amp;amp; climate change: a country profile&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Related links: &lt;a href="http://www.cpa.unicamp.br/" target="_blank"&gt;Cepagri&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nuno Oliveira&lt;br /&gt;(+351) 96 294 02 09&lt;br /&gt;************************************************************************************************** AmBioDiv ~ Valor Natural&lt;br /&gt;R. Filipe da Mata, 10, 1º Frente 1600-071 Lisboa&lt;br /&gt;Tel: 217 975 132&lt;br /&gt;Fax: 217 959 141&lt;br /&gt;E-mail: &lt;a title="mailto:ambiodiv@ambiodiv.com" href="mailto:ambiodiv@ambiodiv.com"&gt;ambiodiv@ambiodiv.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Site: &lt;a href="http://www.ambiodiv.com/"&gt;http://www.ambiodiv.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Blog: &lt;a title="http://ambiodiv.blogspot.com/" href="http://ambiodiv.blogspot.com/"&gt;http://ambiodiv.blogspot.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3662809872152515524-4008626937588290885?l=asspinov.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://asspinov.blogspot.com/feeds/4008626937588290885/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3662809872152515524&amp;postID=4008626937588290885' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3662809872152515524/posts/default/4008626937588290885'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3662809872152515524/posts/default/4008626937588290885'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://asspinov.blogspot.com/2007/10/biofuels-could-add-to-greenhouse-gas.html' title='Biofuels could add to greenhouse gas emissions'/><author><name>Innovation Network Portugal</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06412211225403664784</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_UUsOsrDJWws/Rw9xwK4P4vI/AAAAAAAAABE/bhXS5KtM6Bo/s72-c/picture109.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3662809872152515524.post-6982240757146917508</id><published>2007-10-12T05:59:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-10-12T06:02:28.297-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Oxford Institute for Energy Studies &amp; oxford climate policy</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Food Miles or Poverty Eradication?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The moral duty to eat African strawberries at Christmas&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;by Benito Müller&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Director, Energy &amp;amp; Environment OIES, Managing Director OCP&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In his latest Energy and Environment Comment, Dr Benito Müller looks at the recent controversy about discouraging consumers particularly in the UK from buying produce of least developed countries because of their 'food miles', i.e. the transport carbon emissions (especially from air freight), and the effect that such an environmental consumer boycott has on the efforts to eradicate poverty in these countries. He proposes a solution to the dilemma which offers a 'double development dividend', not only in terms of clean exports, but also in promoting much needed CDM activities in these poorest and most vulnerable countries.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;available at&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.oxfordclimatepolicy.org/publications/mueller.html"&gt;http://www.oxfordclimatepolicy.org/publications/mueller.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nuno Oliveira&lt;br /&gt;(+351) 96 294 02 09&lt;br /&gt;**************************************************************************************************  AmBioDiv ~ Valor Natural&lt;br /&gt;  R. Filipe da Mata, 10, 1º Frente  1600-071 Lisboa&lt;br /&gt;  Tel: 217 975 132&lt;br /&gt;  Fax: 217 959 141&lt;br /&gt;  E-mail: &lt;a title="mailto:ambiodiv@ambiodiv.com" href="mailto:ambiodiv@ambiodiv.com"&gt;ambiodiv@ambiodiv.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;  Site: &lt;a href="http://www.ambiodiv.com/"&gt;http://www.ambiodiv.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;  Blog: &lt;a title="http://ambiodiv.blogspot.com/" href="http://ambiodiv.blogspot.com/"&gt;http://ambiodiv.blogspot.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3662809872152515524-6982240757146917508?l=asspinov.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://asspinov.blogspot.com/feeds/6982240757146917508/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3662809872152515524&amp;postID=6982240757146917508' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3662809872152515524/posts/default/6982240757146917508'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3662809872152515524/posts/default/6982240757146917508'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://asspinov.blogspot.com/2007/10/blog-post.html' title='Oxford Institute for Energy Studies &amp; oxford climate policy'/><author><name>Innovation Network Portugal</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06412211225403664784</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3662809872152515524.post-3309270018626420079</id><published>2007-10-11T07:53:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-10-11T08:09:18.927-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Sistemas de Apoio á Inovação</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_UUsOsrDJWws/Rw48HK4P4uI/AAAAAAAAAA8/Wj5X9jKZznU/s1600-h/citywall.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5120095920243860194" style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_UUsOsrDJWws/Rw48HK4P4uI/AAAAAAAAAA8/Wj5X9jKZznU/s320/citywall.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;2ª &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Sessão Auditório &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;Sistemas de Apoio á Inovação&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;– Campo Grande, Nº 56 r/c, Lisboa Conferência Gratuita &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;A Alma Consulting Group, convida-o a estar presente na 2ª Sessão sobre Sistemas de Apoio á Inovação, dia 24 de Outubro, pelas 17h30. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Porque a Inovação é vital para as empresas, e representa um custo elevado, a Alma Consulting Group dá início em Lisboa á segunda conferência sobre os sistemas de apoio ao desenvolvimento da Inovação Empresarial (Subvenções da C.E., Benefícios e Incentivos Fiscais,...). &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Usando a sua experiência de 21 anos de consultadoria (com remuneração ao success fee) a Alma Consulting Group coloca os seus clientes Portugueses que investem em Projectos de Inovação ao nível dos seus congéneres Europeus. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Programa: &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;· “Innovation Incentives in the World” A importância dos Apoios à Inovação para manter a competitividade da economia. Vincent Fournié, International Innovational Manager, Alma Consulting Group International. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;· “Como beneficiar do SIFIDE?” Manual de utilização do principal incentivo fiscal à Inovação. Rui Manuel dos Santos, Manager, Alma Consulting Group &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;· “Outros programas Nacionais QREN 2007-2013”. Nuno Nazaré, Innovation Manager, Alma Consulting Group Portugal. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;· “How Europe can help you to finance your R&amp;amp;D projects?” 7º Programa Quadro para Investigação e Desenvolvimento na U.E. (2007-2013). Marine Giraud, Development of Collaborative Projects Activity, Alma Consulting Group France. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;· “Success Story” Um empresário conta o seu exemplo concreto de utilização dos Sistemas de Apoio à Inovação para financiar os seus projectos inovadores e aumentar sua competitividade. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;· Cocktail &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Agradecemos que confirme a sua presença para os seguintes contactos: &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Joana Facha Tel.: 916 484 550 &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;E-mail: &lt;a href="mailto:joanafacha@netcabo.pt"&gt;joanafacha@netcabo.pt&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Natália De Almeida&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;E-mail: &lt;a href="mailto:ndealmeida@almacg.com"&gt;ndealmeida@almacg.com&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3662809872152515524-3309270018626420079?l=asspinov.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://asspinov.blogspot.com/feeds/3309270018626420079/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3662809872152515524&amp;postID=3309270018626420079' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3662809872152515524/posts/default/3309270018626420079'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3662809872152515524/posts/default/3309270018626420079'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://asspinov.blogspot.com/2007/10/sistemas-de-apoio-inovao.html' title='Sistemas de Apoio á Inovação'/><author><name>Innovation Network Portugal</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06412211225403664784</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_UUsOsrDJWws/Rw48HK4P4uI/AAAAAAAAAA8/Wj5X9jKZznU/s72-c/citywall.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3662809872152515524.post-4548446518861731672</id><published>2007-10-11T01:47:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-10-11T02:13:14.500-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_UUsOsrDJWws/Rw3kDq4P4tI/AAAAAAAAAAw/l_GZfFc0RD8/s1600-h/green-chair-0307.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5119999103091073746" style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_UUsOsrDJWws/Rw3kDq4P4tI/AAAAAAAAAAw/l_GZfFc0RD8/s320/green-chair-0307.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;As empresas apostam cada vez mais em ideias verdes! Por exemplo, esta cadeira é feita com aproximadamente 50% de material reciclado e no final do seu ciclo de vida o seu material é 98% reciclável.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Há muito por fazer no sector das Bio-tecnologias e é neste sector que as empresas portuguesas podem intervir com inovação. Portugal tem-se distinguido pelo desenvolvimento de empresas que actuam em sectores muito especializados, podendo esta vir a ser uma grande oportunidade. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Jorge Carpinteyro&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.advank.com/"&gt;Advank&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.advank.com/"&gt;Innovation Consulting&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3662809872152515524-4548446518861731672?l=asspinov.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://asspinov.blogspot.com/feeds/4548446518861731672/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3662809872152515524&amp;postID=4548446518861731672' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3662809872152515524/posts/default/4548446518861731672'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3662809872152515524/posts/default/4548446518861731672'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://asspinov.blogspot.com/2007/10/as-empresas-apostam-cada-vez-mais-em.html' title=''/><author><name>Innovation Network Portugal</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06412211225403664784</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_UUsOsrDJWws/Rw3kDq4P4tI/AAAAAAAAAAw/l_GZfFc0RD8/s72-c/green-chair-0307.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3662809872152515524.post-6985904211332165958</id><published>2007-10-11T01:38:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-10-11T01:53:02.169-07:00</updated><title type='text'>‘Business and Biodiversity’</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_UUsOsrDJWws/Rw3ia64P4rI/AAAAAAAAAAg/tjF9hlgJ_Eg/s1600-h/logoBB.gif"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5119997303499776690" style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_UUsOsrDJWws/Rw3ia64P4rI/AAAAAAAAAAg/tjF9hlgJ_Eg/s320/logoBB.gif" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Conforme poderá ser do Vosso interesse, passamos a enviar a notícia referente à mais recente adesão à iniciativa ‘Business and Biodiversity’&lt;br /&gt;Caso deseje saber mais sobre o modelo de gestão ‘Business and Biodiversity’ contacte-nos ou vá a &lt;a href="http://www.ambiodiv.com/BusinessBiodiversity.shtm"&gt;http://www.ambiodiv.com/BusinessBiodiversity.shtm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_UUsOsrDJWws/Rw3ipK4P4sI/AAAAAAAAAAo/lPBuXvU8UCc/s1600-h/green-chair-0307.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Com os nossos melhores cumprimentos,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nuno Oliveira&lt;br /&gt;Coordenador Estratégia ‘Business and Biodiversity’ e ‘Countdown 2010’&lt;br /&gt;AmBioDiv – Valor Natural&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://ultimahora.publico.clix.pt/noticia.aspx?id=1307106&amp;amp;idCanal=undefined"&gt;http://ultimahora.publico.clix.pt/noticia.aspx?id=1307106&amp;amp;idCanal=undefined&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No âmbito da iniciativa Business and BiodiversityCinco instituições assinam parceria para promover biodiversidade dos montados de sobro e azinho &lt;a href="http://10.38.1.194/admin/editaNoticiaHTM.asp?idNot=1307106&amp;amp;id=10" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;10.10.2007 - 15h54 PUBLICO.PT&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Esta tarde é assinada em Coruche uma parceria entre a Corticeira Amorim, a Direcção-Geral dos Recursos Florestais (DGRF), Instituto de Conservação da Natureza e da Biodiversidade (ICNB), Quercus e WWF para promover e valorizar a biodiversidade dos montados de sobro e azinho, no âmbito da iniciativa Business and Biodiversity.&lt;br /&gt;Segundo fonte do ICNB, a Corticeira Amorim – que transforma e comercializa 30 por cento da produção mundial de cortiça - disponibiliza-se a “montar um esquema de consultoria, que é oferecido directamente aos produtores florestais, para melhorar a biodiversidade dos montados”.Será disponibilizado aos produtores que explorem montado de sobro um serviço de aconselhamento técnico gratuito para identificar as melhores práticas a implementar.Além disso, vai ser instituído um prémio para as melhores práticas na gestão e valorização do montado.A parceria prevê a criação de uma comissão técnica de acompanhamento, onde participarão todas as entidades.O montado, habitat Rede Natura 2000, tem reconhecido o seu papel de suporte à biodiversidade e de combate à desertificação. Além disso, o montado português terá absorvido 4,8 milhões de toneladas de dióxido de carbono em 2006, segundo um estudo do Instituto Superior de Agronomia. No entanto, regista-se uma mortalidade anormal de sobreiro e azinheira, pelo que foi criado, no ano passado, o Programa de Acção Para a Recuperação dos Montados de Sobro e de Azinho.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nuno Oliveira&lt;br /&gt;(+351) 96 294 02 09&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;AmBioDiv ~ Valor Natural&lt;br /&gt;R. Filipe da Mata, 10, 1º Frente 1600-071 Lisboa&lt;br /&gt;Tel: 217 975 132&lt;br /&gt;Fax: 217 959 141&lt;br /&gt;E-mail: &lt;a title="mailto:ambiodiv@ambiodiv.com" href="mailto:ambiodiv@ambiodiv.com"&gt;ambiodiv@ambiodiv.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Site: &lt;a href="http://www.ambiodiv.com/"&gt;http://www.ambiodiv.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Blog: &lt;a title="http://ambiodiv.blogspot.com/" href="http://ambiodiv.blogspot.com/"&gt;http://ambiodiv.blogspot.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3662809872152515524-6985904211332165958?l=asspinov.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://asspinov.blogspot.com/feeds/6985904211332165958/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3662809872152515524&amp;postID=6985904211332165958' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3662809872152515524/posts/default/6985904211332165958'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3662809872152515524/posts/default/6985904211332165958'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://asspinov.blogspot.com/2007/10/business-and-biodiversity.html' title='‘Business and Biodiversity’'/><author><name>Innovation Network Portugal</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06412211225403664784</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_UUsOsrDJWws/Rw3ia64P4rI/AAAAAAAAAAg/tjF9hlgJ_Eg/s72-c/logoBB.gif' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3662809872152515524.post-8216583378540246890</id><published>2007-10-10T04:42:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-10-16T03:27:09.869-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Conclusões...</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_UUsOsrDJWws/RxSR764P42I/AAAAAAAAACY/QJNRhliQMJo/s1600-h/fiforum.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5121879134830584674" style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_UUsOsrDJWws/RxSR764P42I/AAAAAAAAACY/QJNRhliQMJo/s320/fiforum.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_UUsOsrDJWws/Rwy6064P4qI/AAAAAAAAAAM/-XOh9WLb4u0/s1600-h/fiforum.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3662809872152515524-8216583378540246890?l=asspinov.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://asspinov.blogspot.com/feeds/8216583378540246890/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3662809872152515524&amp;postID=8216583378540246890' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3662809872152515524/posts/default/8216583378540246890'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3662809872152515524/posts/default/8216583378540246890'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://asspinov.blogspot.com/2007/10/conclues.html' title='Conclusões...'/><author><name>Innovation Network Portugal</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06412211225403664784</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_UUsOsrDJWws/RxSR764P42I/AAAAAAAAACY/QJNRhliQMJo/s72-c/fiforum.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>
