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It sounds obvious, but it is always appropriate to remember, that public policy can have a strong role in nudging the market towards technological solutions, especially during transitions times between paradigms. The case of electric vehicles is interesting, since you can find both issues related to regulation (e.g. emission-based standards, and traffic rules), taxation (e.g. fuel tax, tax incentives) and infrastructure (e.g. recharging stations )

An interesting portrait of the founder and CEO of SAS and of the corporate culture he created at his company, completely geared towards well-being, work-life balance. .. and somewhat less at financial wealth. As it appears, it seems to be a good way to extract commitment and productivity from highly-skilled knowledge workers.

The Netflix contest was significant as a test case for new ideas about how to efficiently foster innovation in the Internet era - notably, offering prizes as an incentive and encouraging online collaboration to tap minds worldwide. The lessons of the Netflix contest could extend well beyond improving movie picks. The researchers from around the world were grappling with a huge data set - 100 million movie ratings - and the challenges of large-scale modeling, which can be applied across the fields of science, commerce and politics.