Re: [Patents] OBS: Innovation is not the invention!

[Simo Sorce <simo.sorce@xsec.it>]

On Sat, 2003-11-22 at 13:48, Stefano Maffulli wrote:
> On Sat, 2003-11-22 at 12:55, Jacek Gancarson Eurofresh wrote:
> > It sounds like invitation to protection of business methods. That means in
> > long run patenting of market segments!
> 
> Not necessarily, imho. 

Sorry Stefano, but the claims never speka about financing, so I think he
was not speaking about that.

>  It looks to me that liikanen is talking about
> policies to support and finance innovative biz models, like the VC did
> in the early 90s for internet enterprise.

That was speculation on the most, as you can see, the market has not
been changed too much, very few new players came out form that period,
most simply disappeared the same way they came out, from nothing to
nothing :)

>   It seems to me infact that
> access to credit for innovative business is crucial to compete on the
> market and innovate. 

It is.

> Are banks and VC stopping innovation?

Imho, in some cases they are. As they prefer an immediate return and
value more yet proven business models. This way they prefer to fund
companies that use wellknown classical models.
This block (lack of funding) the ""technical"" innovation carried out
through innovative business models.

but, I think we are going a bit OT now.

Simo.

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