21st Century Dilemma Management

A report from the Brookings Institution and the Center on International Co-operation at New York University, "Confronting the Long Crisis of Globalization", download here, discusses that the sort of problems governments will face in the 21st century will be unpredictable versus those faced during old great power rivalries.  Concerns related to demography, climate change and shifts in economic power build up quietly for a long time and finally trigger sudden, disruptive shifts.

The authors suggest institutional level changes and changes in the frame of mind in solving the needs or crisis.  They recommend risk mitigation and resilience to shocks - "Resilient systems are those that can absorb disturbance and reorganize while undergoing change, so as to retain or enhance effective function, structure, identity and feedbacks."

The days of narrow focused, blinders on, problem solving are over as the deeply interconnected world continues to grow to be more so.  This is the century of the "butterfly effects".

Startup Visa to USA?

USA's innovation comes from the outside or the "outside" mind (~50% of top tier patents filed are by immigrants to USA or naturalized citizens)... details regarding legislation being requested here. Similarly, I wrote about Dubai's startup visa here.

If passed, this will be an interesting way to attract "creative" minds to the USA. The cost of entry is pretty minimal if one considers - "The bill requires each entrepreneur to have a sponsoring US venture capital or angel investor who will invest at least $100,000 in their startup, and total funds raised must be at least $250,000 per company."

The question that remains for me is if the equity of USA is still strong enough among the innovators of the world for them come over? Also, why wouldn't the Silicon Valley VC give, let's take for example a robotics company in Thailand (the reader can easily find the company I refer to) $100,000 which will go ten times farther in both attracting top talent and run operations?

Perhaps the policy being suggested is more reactionary as most things government are... that is after the fact! Has the ship sailed?

Governments and Innovation

I heard Jim Greenwood (bio here), President & CEO, Biotechnology Industry Organization state on CNBC:

"Government can spur innovation, it can incentivize innovation... but the government cannot innovate."

US Gov.'s Consumer - The Citizen - Insight

The Economist discusses "Americans have grown slightly more receptive to the idea of an activist government."  Read complete article here.

The US citizen is the consumer of the US government.  From the consumer insight perspective, I found this graph of value.