Incrível é perceber que o Brasil simplesmente não aprende. Mostra-se um país incapaz de aprender, principalmente no que diz respeito às políticas públicas. O E-readiness rankings 2008 mostra alguns números para defender esta tese. Embora estejamos com pontuação baixa em diversos critérios, na infra-estrutura aparecemos pior ainda, e este é o segundo critério mais importante do relatório com 20% de relevância, perdendo apenas para a adoção de consumidores e empresas, que tem 25% de relevância e também não estamos classificados entre os três primeiros. Uma surra!

Números, entre 10 pontos possíveis, na América Latina e um comparativo com os Eua:

Conectividade e infraestrutura tecnológica:

Eua - 8.50
Chile - 4.50
Argentina - 4.30
Mexico, Venezuela - 3.50

Ambiente de negócios:

Eua - 8.53
Chile - 8.07
Argentina - 7.24
Brasil - 7.01

Ambiente social e cultural:

Eua - 9.0
Chile - 6.60
Argentina - 6.13
Brasil - 6.13

Ambiente legal:

Eua - 9.0
Chile - 8.0
Brasil - 7.40
México - 7.40

Política governamental e visão:

Eua - 9.0
Chile - 7.10
México - 6.80
Brasil - 6.10

Adoção dos consumidores e empresas:

Eua - 9.50
Chile - 6.40
México - 5.90
Argentina - 5.20

Leia o relatório completo e a metodologia.

Patent systems have come under increasing scrutiny in the digital world in the past year. This is particularly the case with the US patent system, as it provides the governance for much of the world’s patentable intellectual property. It is also a very old system, one that, according to research from Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, was grounded in the principles of commercialising discoveries, rather than protecting the creative process surrounding innovation. Thus, many in the digital world see the proposed US Patent Reform Act of 2007 as a great legislative leap into the information age. The act, if passed, would limit the ability of litigants to claim patent infringements broadly, and would seek to switch to a “first to file” system more in line with global practice. As a result, however, this threatens to weaken the position of existing patent holders under the “first to invent” system, and as such has come under international criticism, most vocally from China.

Texto extraído do E-readness 2008. (Relatório produzido pela IBM sobre indicadores mundiais em TIC).

http://pontogp.wordpress.com/2008/04/01/investir-em-ti-eleva-producao-diz-ipea/

FAVARETTO, Eduardo. Inteligência coletiva e as comunidades na rede. in: iMaster. Disponível em: <http://imasters.uol.com.br/artigo/7944/mercado/inteligencia_coletiva_e_as_comunidades_na_rede/>. Acesso em: 6 fev. 2008.

LIMA, Wilame Amorim. Empresas minam seus melhores talentos com burocracia. In: Canal RH. Disponível em: <http://www.canalrh.com.br/Mundos/entrevistas_artigo.asp>. Acesso em: 9 jan. 2008.

Closed Innovation: Organisations

• Hire bright people
• Put them in special conditions
• Free from market pressures
• Pipeline of ideas to products
• Delivered to passive waiting consumers

Closed Innovation: Assumptions

• Knowledge is created, codified, sent and received
• Authors of inventions can define their use
• Intellectual property should be protected to create incentives
• Consumption is passive - a yes/no choice
• Innovation comes from within, self-reflective process

Closed Innovation: Applications

• The R & D Lab: Thomas J Watson, Bell Labs
• Specialist creative activities in companies
• Professional disciplines of architecture and design
• Elite university education
• The Pipeline view of the world

Closed Innovation: Policy

• R & D subsidies traditionally defined
• Invest in “knowledge base”
• Promote elite university education
• Intellectual property regimes
• Speed up flow down pipeline and ease of transfer into business

Closed Innovation: Reforms

• Not a fixed model
• Overlapping or simultaneous rather than sequential
• Cross functional teams in organisations
• Use consumer insights earlier in development
• Market oriented R & D

Closed Innovation: Breaking Down?

• Rise and spread of new sources of ideas and know-how
• Able to connect more easily outside large organisations
• Changing role of consumption and propagation as innovation in use
• Old assumptions and organisational forms of innovation outmoded

Open Innovation: Generation

• Multiplying sources of ideas
• Technology costs down
• Combining ideas in networks easier
• Skilled labour more mobile, independent
• Outsourcing: distribution of labour leading to distribution of knowledge
• End of knowledge monopolies

Open Innovation: Propagation

• Consumers are innovators
• Radical innovations: the users work out what innovation is for
• Disruptive innovation: passionate users innovate, producers follow
• New markets and business models start in marginal markets
• Service innovation requires users to rewrite scripts
• Leisure economy: Pro-Am users and serious leisure

Open Innovation: Advantages

• Increase diversity of parallel experiments: faster learning
• Public platforms, shared development, lower cost
• Better at dealing with technological and market uncertainty
• New roles for users and co-producers: efficient, adaptive, responsible
• Communities build momentum, scale behind products

Open Innovation: Applications

• Open source communities
• Networked companies/platform innovators
• Clusters and networks in regions
• Cities and countries as open innovation systems
• Not networks, not emergent and self organising
• Structured communities of co-creation: achieve complex tasks

Open Innovation: Assumptions

• Innovation essential social and dynamic
• Authorship joint, complex and evolutionary
• Knowledge created by interaction
• Innovation as a mass activity

Communities of Co-Creation: Principles

• Community has to start with something, who provides the kernel/core?
• Communities are structured: membership, decision making.
• Motivation is not selfless but problem solving, learning
• Provide people with easy to use tools, allow decentralised initiative
• Governance to manage conflict, uphold values, set direction
• Speed of feedback, allows pragmatic trial and error
• Designed to be incomplete, and so to evolve
• Good ideas drive out bad according to clear yardsticks
• Distribution of labour, not division of labour
• Ownership blurred between community and host organisation
• Open leadership by simple rules

Open Innovation: Limits

• Who gets the kernel going? How is that funded?
• Good for mass incremental innovation but what about big leaps?
• What about people who excluded?
• What if product cannot be modularised?
• What if speed of feedback much slower?

Open and Closed Innovation: The Future?

• Continued reform of the closed model: networked, platform innovators
• Closed innovators learning from open model
• Wider application of the open model from software
• Hybrid mixes of the open and closed models

Argeniss co-founder Cesar Cerrudo has found serious design weaknesses that could allow a skilled hacker to take complete control of the operating system.

A hacker picking apart the security model of Microsoft’s brand new Windows Server 2008 has found serious design weaknesses that render some of the product’s new security protections “useless.”

Cesar Cerrudo, founder and CEO of Argeniss Information Security, in Parana, Argentina, says the weaknesses could lead to privilege escalation attacks opens the door for a skilled hacker to take complete control of the operating system.

“[We found] from design issues that were not identified by Microsoft engineers during the Security Development Lifecycle (SDL), and allows accounts commonly used by Windows services — NETWORK SERVICE and LOCAL SERVICE — to bypass new Windows services protection mechanisms and elevate privileges, Cerrudo explained.

http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Security/Hacker-Pours-Cold-Water-on-Windows-Server-2008-Security-Design/

Com o objetivo de aumentar o compartilhamento de código e a eficiência das soluções, Empresa estimula a produção colaborativa interna e externamente. A Internet inseriu uma série de fenômenos culturais na sociedade contemporânea. Uma delas é a produção colaborativa, processo criativo coletivo no qual a informação possui caráter mutável, sendo possível alterá-la e personalizá-la.

http://www.softwarelivre.org/news/10924