AI and Geoeconomics

René Magritte, "Les mémoires d'un saint", 1960, The Menil Collection, Houston   © ADAGP, Paris 2016 Excerpts from the Indian Journal of Science and Technology, Volume 8, Issue 24, September 2015 The Impact of Transformational Leadership The purpose of this study is to analyze the causal relationship between individual creativity and organizational creativity by focusing on transformational  and emotional leadership amid various factors that bring about innovation to organizations. The results of the analysis show that transformational leadership  had a significant effect on individual creativity, while individual creativity had a significant effect on organizational innovation. While emotional leadership, which, of late, has been receiving growing attention, did not have a significant positive effect on individual creativity, it did have a significant positive effect  on organizational innovation. In particular, the core factor that was responsible for ...

The Statute of Anne came into force in 1710 Blockchain and IP rights One of the most obvious applications of blockchain technology is as a registry of IP rights, to catalogue and store original works. In the UK, copyright is unregistered and comes into existence automatically on creation of an original qualifying work. This means that, unlike registered trade marks which can be recorded and viewed on various registries around the world, there is often no adequate means for authors to catalogue their works. As such, ownership can be hard to prove. It can also be difficult for authors to see who is using their work, and equally difficult for third parties using a work to know who to seek a licence from. The result of this is that authors are often unable to stop infringements or to make the most of monetising their works. Using blockchain as an IP registry may help give clarity to copyright authors, owners and users. By registering their works to a blockchain, authors could...

Alexey Bestuzhev (1693 – 1768), Grand Chancellor of Russia Negotiation  101: Why Republicans Capitulate on Budget — for Now Breitbart News -2 mai 2017 The Republicans came to these budget negotiations without a BATNA (1), or with a very bad one. They were not prepared to shut down the government under almost any circumstances. A shutdown in President Donald Trump’s first 100 days would have made him look like a weak chief executive, and might have caused lasting political damage. A shutdown would also have made the GOP-dominated Congress look reckless and incompetent. It was never going to happen. The Democrats might also have suffered from a shutdown, but they have an institutional advantage, in that the public is conditioned to expect federal spending as the norm, and the mainstream media almost always blame the Republicans for shutdowns. So their BATNA, while bad, was better than President Trump and House Speaker Paul Ryan’s BATNA. America – Trump's Small ...