peterme.com: ” … innovation is occurring in places with almost no official R&D spend “

That reminds me of the recent (spring 2006) Procter & Gamble (t d f) report that points out that while spending more money for R&D (t d f) the productivity and innovation rate went down. P&G changed their strategy – away from increasing expenses for internal R&D – then and put networking with outside the corporate firewalls (C&D) on top priority.

Thanks to Jochen Robes for pointing me to the work foundation’s report on “Defining the knowledge economy“(PDF). While this is more of a generic paper that tries to come to a definition what a knowledge economy (t d f) is – by digging through piles of statistics and reports – there are some interesting statements that relate more to my interests and the entire issue of knowledge worker (t d f)s, innovation, information technology, knowledge sharing and, I dare to say, in the end social software (t d f).

Interview:Profil_06_08(PDF). Issues: Social Software, MySpace (t d f), the Web, Media (t d f) and Culture.

Got a request recently to describe BlogTalk, here is what I answered:

- BlogTalk’s language was and will be in English, it’s an international conference after all.
- BlogTalk (t d f) is a unique conference insofar as it blends academics, practitioners, bloggers, developers.
- BlogTalk has already successfully established – although the field of interest is rather new – a place for conversations about Weblogs (t d f), Social Software (t d f) and alike.