Ron Palmeri Minor Ventures San Francisco, CA United States Competitiveness, Innovation & Economic Growth OECD World Forum Friday June 29, 2007
Cycle of Creative Destruction Innovation CompetitivenessGrowth
The Internet is the Innovation People Self-organizing Death of Distance Free Unlimited Distribution
Global Internet Use
Open Source v. Microsoft Millions of Developers working together on open source software ~15,000 Microsoft Developer Unfortunately, no good data available!
Impact of Innovation on Incumbent
Venture Capital Investments It takes a lot less money now to start a technology company then ever before “Ebay Inc.'s $2.6 billion acquisition of Internet telephony company Skype Technologies SA stands out. With only $20 million in venture money” ( Again, unfortunately, no good data available!
Conclusion “Model” Broadly Applied…