Jeff Amerine has issued a research paper on open-source software and its use as a business model.
Amerine is a seven-time serial entrepreneur, staff consultant for Innovate Arkansas, and currently serves as Technology Licensing Officer and adjunct professor of entrepreneurship at the University of Arkansas.

Here’s the intro [...]

Entrepreneurship-development expert Michelle Stockman of Arkansas Capital Corp. offers a lesson on protecting the intellectual property that goes along with start-ups. She writes on The City Wire about the importance of copyrighting that intellectual property.
Here’s an excerpt:
"Whether the business creates a tag line, sells a book, music or creates software code, copyright protection will [...]

Mike Masnick at techdirt thinks patents are overrated. In fact, he thinks execution trumps patents every time when it comes to leading start-ups to success.
He blogs that if you’re talking to a VC who demands a patent to invest, you might be better served by looking elsewhere. Here’s a snippet on why he believes patents [...]

Science-fiction fans will remember Hal 9000 from the Space Odyssey movies and books. Hal represented what folks in the late ’60s and ’70s imagined a supercomputer would be like in the future.
We’ve not yet caught up to that world, but we’re working on it. Quantum computers are a step closer to reality.  Check out [...]