This essay reports the results of a survey of IT exporters from Poland, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria and the Czech Republic. The survey identifies the key competitive advantages and disadvantages of Central European IT companies as they compete for outsourcing work in the US and Western European...

This report offers a multi-disciplinary perspective on the cybersecurity industry. Conceptualizing cybersecurity industry clusters as ecosystems, we focus on three distinct mega-clusters: the San Francisco Bay Area, metropolitan Washington, D.C., and Israel. Benefits of clustering include:...

This essay reports the results of a survey of IT exporters from Poland, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria and the Czech Republic. The survey identifies the key competitive advantages and disadvantages of Central European IT companies as they compete for outsourcing work in the US and Western European...

Startup Chile (SUP), a business accelerator launched with much international fanfare by the Chilean government in 2010, is seen as a key reason that Santiago is now ranked among the world’s top startup cities. One of SUP’s primary goals is to link Chile’s innovation ecosystem to the world...

Nations now compete in their time zone position. Indian IT has long positioned itself as ideal in time zone geography: we get the work done while you're sleeping! So, since the beginning of this decade the Brazilian IT industry, in order to differentiate from India, has proclaimed: we are...

Time-zone dependent (TZD) workers have some dependency on another entity in a far-away time zone in order to complete their immediate task. For example, Asian call center workers timeshift by working at night to answer calls from daytime North America. We examine TZD practices in three key...