Replicating Taiwan’s Success

→  June 27th, 2010  →  Blog

I’m always a fan of stories/articles highlighting the importance of Taiwan in the technology industry, so I was especially pleased that one of my favorite publications recently put out an article highlighting the very key Computex industry conference, the role of the Taiwanese government’s ITRI R&D organization in cultivating Taiwan’s technology sector, and the rise [...]

Russia dreams of Silicon Valley sheep

→  March 22nd, 2010  →  Blog

The Economist has an interesting article on the Kremlin’s latest push to modernize Russia’s economy and kick-start a wave of innovation which would supposedly lead to a “Russia with nuclear-powered spaceships and supercomputers.” Far-fetched as this premise sounded, the article raised many thought-provoking questions on whether or not (and how) Russia could hope to build [...]