Posts tagged “politics”
Innovation In Large Companies Is Like Inflation
I was walking home last night from the Startup Christmas party in downtown Helsinki, organised by GrowVC and Aalto Entrepreneurship Society, I came up with an interesting way of looking at our innovation system from the national perspective. Innovation, as we all know, is an extremely hot topic among politicians as they try to dig [...]
Murdoch Gives Terrorists The Finger And A Whole Lotta Other Good Stuff
David Speers of SkyNews Australia interviewed Rupert Murdoch, the Chairman and CEO of News Corp. about a ton of different things. They also touched on the issues of Australian immigration laws and while Murdoch defended the more multicultural and liberal immigration approach, but disapproved of extremists and while doing so, this 78-year old business tycoon [...]
Estonia – At Sea With Market Forces
I was in Tallinn today for business and had a chance to meet some of the local parliament people there after I had given my talk. We were greeted by Taavi Veskimägi who gave us a look into the fiscal policy of Estonia that just came out last week. Call me boring, but I found [...]
Bush told to fight climate crisis
Good news for once. BBC reports that some of the largest companies in the US have told President Bush that he must push government actions to stop climate change. The companies in question have formed a partnership to cut greenhouse gases by 60% until 2050. That’s a pretty damn respectful goal. Nice to see some [...]
Israel kills Finnish UN peacekeeper
I don’t write that many political blog entries, because they aren’t the easiest. But – now that I read the sad news that an unarmed Finnish peacekeeper has been killed in Lebanon by Israeli bombs, I had to react. I have followed the conflict from blogs and news and many sources say the same: Israel [...]