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 to get you started. Check out the [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]