Author: David Bollier / Topic: Industrial Policy

Author:: David Bollier
Publication Date:: 01-2001
Content Type:: Working Paper
Institution:: Aspen Institute
Abstract:: Now that the heady first paroxysms of electronic commerce (e-commerce) have faded—and the online sector has experienced its first major shake-out—thinking about what it means to live in a digital economy is becoming more focused. Established businesses are becoming more strategic in exploiting digital technologies. Venture capitalists are becoming more discriminating in their investments. Governments at all levels are exploring how to integrate the Internet and other technologies to advance their missions.
Topic:: Industrial Policy and Science and Technology
Political Geography:: United States

Author:: David Bollier
Publication Date:: 01-2000
Content Type:: Working Paper
Institution:: Aspen Institute
Abstract:: It has become a truism in recent years that technological innovation lies at the core of a robust economy. Once an arcane matter for economists, innovation has moved from the back salons of corporate strategy to the grand ballroom of mainstream culture. Fueled by the World Wide Web and other electronic technologies, unknown entrepreneurs with big ideas have joined with investment bankers, multinational corporations, and Main Street investors on a relentless search for The New New Thing, as the title of Michael Lewis' book on Silicon Valley calls it.
Topic:: Industrial Policy and Science and Technology
Political Geography:: United States

Author:: David Bollier and Max Frankel
Publication Date:: 01-1999
Content Type:: Working Paper
Institution:: Aspen Institute
Abstract:: Henry, for that generous introduction. I am proud to bear the title of Catto Fellow and if I were allowed to recite your biography as you have recited mine, you would know the source of my great pride. But like Harry Evans in a similar recent situation, (and now also his wife, Tina Brown), I am reminded of the New Yorker cartoon showing a partygoer being introduced at a cocktail party while enduring the urgent plea of a spouse: “Tell them who you WERE, dear. Tell them who you WERE!” I have to emphasize who I once was not only because I have retired from executive duties but also because the Revolution that I have come to discuss often regards me as passé, out of date, an expiring person of print—you know, that dying industry. That may be so. But the revolutionary “new” media are exhausting themselves parading their newness while actually betraying highly familiar symptoms of a very old media disease. We are all mad: just not newly mad.
Topic:: Industrial Policy and Science and Technology
Political Geography:: United States and New York

Author:: David Bollier
Publication Date:: 01-1999
Content Type:: Working Paper
Institution:: Aspen Institute
Abstract:: Future historians may call this period the entrepreneurial age. Rarely has such an explosion of new business ventures, technological innovation, and cultural experimentation swept across diverse cultures of the globe simultaneously. Government leaders in Beijing and Singapore, Warsaw and Caracas, Moscow and London are looking to business mavericks to energize their economies. Multinational companies are eager to instill entrepreneurial values within their workforces to boost their competitiveness. On the periphery of such power centers, meanwhile, entrepreneurs large and small are remaking entire sectors of the economy and creating high-tech boomtowns in San Jose, California; Bangalore, India; Cambridge, England; Austin, Texas; and many other places.
Topic:: Industrial Policy and Science and Technology
Political Geography:: United States, India, London, California, Moscow, England, Singapore, Bangalore, Austin, and Texas

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