The underlying asset that supports both the Collateralized Debt Obligation and the Collateralized Innovation Obligation is a person and their ideas; one is an asset and the other is a liability. Both types of people go to work every day to interact with other people. They both share ideas and create better ways of doing things. People increase human productivity through fault tolerant networks and support systems. They transform information into knowledge and innovation – and both pay their mortgage.
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If It Ain’t Broker, Don’t Fix It.
The knowledge market is the mother of all imperfect information markets. Social media is a single iteration away from greatly improving information in all knowledge markets.
Out of Cache; Will Work For Bandwidth
We can measure the time in minutes, we can measure distance in miles, and we can measure mass in grams – so how do we measure Innovation? Am I missing something or is this possibly the most stunning omission in the history of civilization? Who is keeping score? Where’s the referee? This is serious business, [...]
Social Enterprise; Show Me The Money
The term social capital is thrown around with great ease without really understanding what the word “capital” implies. Capital is money used to earn more money; that means that social capital must somehow be related to, or derived from money. There is no shortage of blog posts asking the timeless question “Where’s the money in [...]
Intellectual Property in the Innovation Economy
Today there is a big scare that bad people will run off with your intellectual property and make a ton of money with it. Another problem is that the Patent system is so slow and so expensive that the vast majority of innovators simply do not have access to patent protection – many people just [...]