{"id":313,"date":"2005-06-24T07:21:01","date_gmt":"2005-06-24T05:21:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/wp_1\/?p=313"},"modified":"2005-06-24T09:21:25","modified_gmt":"2005-06-24T07:21:25","slug":"fanning-innovation-euro-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/2005\/06\/fanning-innovation-euro-style\/","title":{"rendered":"Fanning Innovation, Euro-Style"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen Wildstrom has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/technology\/content\/jun2005\/tc20050621_8311_tc081.htm?campaign_id=rss_techn\">an interesting article<\/a> on innovation and its problems in Europe &#8230; <\/p>\n<p>notice this statement by Marten Mickos, CEO of MySQL:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;This continent is one of the most conservative places on the planet,&#8221; [&#8230;] He notes that <strong>Europe has a long history of successful invention, but a weak history of turning those inventions into innovations<\/strong>, which he defined as something &#8220;that makes money or saves money.&#8221; Real innovators, he said, &#8220;don&#8217;t mind being laughed at. This is perhaps not the place for people with the courage to be different.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>and<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There was general agreement that changing a culture deeply suspicious of the values that foster entrepreneurship &#8212; ambition, the willingness to stand out and be different, a desire to challenge the established order, even a bit of greed &#8212; will be hard to come by.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>read more at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/technology\/content\/jun2005\/tc20050621_8311_tc081.htm?campaign_id=rss_techn\">BusinessWeek<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen Wildstrom has an interesting article on innovation and its problems in Europe &#8230; notice this statement by Marten Mickos, CEO of MySQL: &#8220;This continent is one of the most conservative places on the planet,&#8221; [&#8230;] He notes that Europe has a long history of successful invention, but a weak history of turning those inventions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,11,4,8],"tags":[35,15,200,26,55,564],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}