In considering the recommendations of the CoFoE on digitsation, I came to consider how economies innovate and how competitive the EU is in the technology industries. The key programme may be the EU Regional Development Fund. See also their factsheet. This of course has relevance due to the announcement of the UK’s levelling up grants…
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I have been thinking about Brexit again over the last few days, I issued my personal short term manifesto, and read the British Chamber of Commerce’s puff in the FT. I comment on the one benefit identified so far, Crown logos on pint glasses. Otherwise, here are some notes,
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I read Marc Armstrong’s academic paper Open Access to Research and wanted to make a commentary on my blog. Here are my notes,
Read moreI have been attempting to finish an article I started five years ago and hoped that reviews of David Warsh’s Knowledge and Wealth of Nations might help me avoid re-reading it. One of the reviews I came across was by Prof. Michael A Bernstein. Here are my notes.
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I think I’ll try and get to grip with this, but Marx is very hard read. I am also particularly interested in his views on General Intellect, it seems he agrees that software should be free, but then he also thought that workers should run the state. The fragment on machines is part of the…
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