Two recent and related social developments of note for libraries are an upsurge in cultural participation enabled by Web 2.0 media and calls in government policy for enhanced innovation through education. Ironically, these have occurred at the same time that increasingly stringent copyright laws have restricted access to cultural content. Concepts of governmentality are used here to examine these tensions and contradictions. In particular, Foucault's critique of the author figure and freedom as part of the will to govern within liberal democratic societies is used to argue for better quality copyright education programs in school libraries and library information science education programs. For purposes of teaching and research, copyrights are defined as agglomerations of legal, economi...
Collaborative creativity is a prerequisite for the generation of innovation. It is of even greater interest when attempting to move from incremental to radical innovation that aims at huge instead of incremental improvements of products, processes, services, or structures that actually changes social practices. The main objective behind this paper is to call for an extension of the creativity perspective by abandoning an exclusive focus on individual creative capabilities, and extending inner-organizational collaborative creative sources with a goal of creating an "open creativity" system by including external creative sources. In addition to a system's internal creativity (such as of an organization or a region), the synergetic interplay between internal and external sources of creativ...
Since the earliest days of the Internet, copyright issues and intellectual property rights have been among the hottest of hot-button issues for Internet users. Today, American copyright law dictates that any original work fixed in a "tangible form of expression" is bound by copyright. Enter Creative Commons, an 8-year-old nonprofit that serves as a digital tour guide for intellectual property licenses. The Creative Commons Web site offers free digital licensing and a brief explanation of copyright laws. Creative Commons offers the following four basic licensing conditions, which can be used in different combinations: 1. attribution, 2. share alike, 3. noncommercial, 4. no derivative works.
Though the use of digital intermediates has only come into vogue in the last few years, the phrase "digital intermediate" is already moving towards obsolescence. Rather than a brief, intermediary step along the way, digital technology is fast becoming a cornerstone of the moviemaking process. Thanks to high-end digital cameras like the Sony F950, the Dalsa Origin, the Thomson/Grass Valley Viper, the Panavision Genesis and the Arriflex D-20, big-budget moviemaking is on the cusp of a sweeping change in production. Hoping to capitalize this paradigm shift, Shatkin details the Creative Bridge's Mobile Digital Lab and Theater, which is designed to provide "pre-post" look management and supervision in a controlled environment at the production location.
Little is known about firms disappearing not through failure, but rather by business combination. Is merger an intentional act allowing continued exploitation of strategic assets, or a final effort to salvage an underperforming firm? Exits via merger for young firms represent "creative combination", whereby the established firms obtain novel technology or other resources necessary for adaptation to the changed environment, rather than being forced out of the marketplace through "creative destruction." We analyze exit type and dates of incorporation and dissolution of more than 18 thousand young businesses in a Midwestern state from 1900 through 2000. We find that young firms exit earlier through merger than through explicit dissolution, and at a higher rate during economic growth. This ...
Melissa Range's voice comes through in all she does. Conversation with her is pleasant -- a gentle, disarming upper east Tennessee drawl colors each word, conveying all the charm and courtesy of a young woman who fits the definition of unassuming. Her writing is no less accented by her heritage and the matters that govern her heart, her affections never articulated through affectation, rather flowing up and out from deep wells of experience and observation within. Photo by Gerik Parmele
Some of the most accomplished CEOs have risen to the business world's highest ranks despite having difficulty doing something as basic as reading a memo. At a time when chief executives are expected to absorb copious amounts of information about their highly complex organizations and the industries in which they compete, the success of these dyslexic CEOs offers a lesson in leadership. Rather than futilely try to plow on, they have created simpler ways of doing things and relied on the abilities of others. For decades, leaders like Sir Richard Branson, John Chambers and Charles Schwab kept their learning disabilities a secret from the public. But ultimately, for almost every CEO, telling their stories provides its own rewards. The challenges these leaders faced made them better CEOs, as...
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