Saturday, December 8, 2007

The Economist, October 13, 2007




A 14-page special report on innovationInnovation, long the preserve of technocratic elites, is becoming more open. This will be good for the world.How globalisation and information technology are spurring faster innovation.Responding to the Asian challenge.Like management methods before it, innovation is turning from an art into a science.The move toward open innovation is beginning to transform entire industries.The best thing that governments can do to encourage innovation is get out of the way.
The party congress in China: China, bewareThe country's rulers care too much for their own welfare, and too little about the rural peasants.
British politics: The emperor's new clothesHaving wasted everybody's time with his phantom election, Gordon Brown must show what he stands for.
Pakistan: Farce in IslamabadA general election would have been better than the "re-election" of a general.
ABN AMRO: Triple playThe world's biggest banking deal is a milestone for other reasons too.
Che Guevara: A modern saint and sinnerWhy the Che myth is bad for the left.
Corporate governance: Keeping shareholders in their placeBosses around the world celebrate a series of victories over shareholder activists.
Commercial property: View from the topIt looks a long way down from the peak of the global market for office space.
Medicine: Blood simpleBecause they lack an essential component, blood transfusions may be killing some of the people they are intended to save.
The 2007 Nobel science prizes: It's a knockoutPrizes for genetically disadvantaged mice, computer hard drives and the basis of much of industrial chemistry.


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