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In a recent op-ed piece in The Wall Street Journal, Carl Schramm, Robert Litan and Dane Stangler of the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation called on policy makers to “unleash America’s academic entrepreneurs” as a way “to foster the creation and growth of new businesses.” While I agree with the authors’ view that America’s academic entrepreneurs are an important tool for encouraging new business creation and growth, I believe that they underestimate the scope of academic entrepreneurship. They say that “currently, a university professor with an idea may commercialize it only by using his university’s technology licensing office,” but that view underestimates the vast amount of academic entrepreneurship that occurs outside of the university licensing system.
Can Academics Be Entrepreneurial? - You’re the Boss Blog - NYTimes.com
Social Media: Highlights of Future of Civic Media
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Ph.D. scolarship: Virtual Worlds, 1 Nov. | Virtual Worlds Research Project
The research project “Sense-making strategies and the user-driven innovations in Virtual Worlds” (2008-2011) – funded by the Danish Strategic Research Council, KINO – offers one full, 3-year Ph.D. scholarship. The start date is 1 November 2008. The Ph.D. scholarship will be located in the Research Group, Communication Forms and Knowledge Production, Department of Communication, Business and Information Technologies (CBIT), Roskilde University. The overall aim of the research project is to gain theoretically- and empirically-based insight into avatar-based virtual worlds as sites for user-driven innovation. The project works with an understanding of innovation as socially and culturally specific processes of meaning-making in which learning takes place and knowledge is constructed, negotiated and shared.I was reading the NY Times today on the excellent Editors Choice App on the iPad and came across this line in a piece by Scott Shane : “We’re still focused on the nation and not the network,” said John Arquilla, professor of defense analysis at the Naval Postgraduate School. “You can do brilliantly in Afghanistan and still not deal with the Faisal Shahzads of the world.” This is not a post about the US' strategy in its war against terrorism. I have very mixed feelings about it and don't feel that I can add anything to that debate.
A VC: Nations And Networks
Businomics Blog: Good Readings in Economics
I confess that I have not read all of these; I tend to do little reading of economics aimed at a general audience. (Most of the ideas in these books I saw in the economics journals before the books came out.) Capitalism and Freedom : I'll always remember how thrilled I was reading this my freshman year of college. Highly recommended. Some topics are a bit dated, but you'll learn a lot from them nonetheless.
Are you applying for tenure, promotion or a new job? Do you want to include evidence of the impact of your research? Is your work cited in journals which are not ISI listed? Then you might want to try Publish or Perish, designed to help individual academics to present their case for research impact to its best advantage. Publish or Perish is a software program that retrieves and analyzes academic citations.
Publish or Perish - Anne-Wil Harzing
UPDATE: seminar programme details, including the presentation topics, available below. On Monday, 2nd June, the AVEA project at Helsinki Institute for Information Technology (HIIT) organizes an open research seminar on so-called virtual economies. In the seminar we focus on the following question: “Why should economists and social scientists be interested in virtual economies?” Through discussion and presentations by academic researchers and industry representatives, we investigate the potential of conducting quantitative research on virtual economies that is of interest to mainstream, “serious” researchers.
Seminar on quantitative research in virtual economies - programme details | Virtual Economy Research Network
paper and video-discussion about what virtual worlds are
This is a PDF version of a paper that was published as part the book " New Media and Innovative Technologies " from the The Hubert Burda Center for Innovative Communications at Ben Gurion University of the Negev. This paper is the first official version of the 3D3C definition for Real Virtual Worlds. Here is the abstract: The Metaverse is described as a three-dimensional world in which human characters spend their time, play, work and live.
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edcucation (academic, tutorials, discussion groups) on second life: a very useful list
I recently listened to Edward Castronova’s EconTalk podcast (hosted by Russ Roberts) on the Exodus to the Virtual World (e.g. Second Life, see here ). Castronova’s comments on the rising importance of the virtual world are worth listening to.
libertarian tendencies in virtual worlds