Start–Ups, Not Foreign Head Offices

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Submitted by dsanden 2010–05–16 16:21:43 EDT

Theme: Growing the ICT Industry
Idea Status: +11 | Total Votes: 19 | Comments: 1

The goals conflict. To attract foreign head offices, you need obedient workers sticking to operational plans in impersonal control cultures. Thick bureaucratic regulations (in "The Mystery of Capital", Hernando de Soto sense) to block employees from splitting to start competing firms, and judical favoring of patent disputes based on size of legal representation comfort foreign head office relocators. To home–grow a technology industry you need the opposite: Renegade bohemian types (in the "Who's Your City?", Richard Florida sense) improvising excellent products, patents and service ideas in R&D cultures where everything and everyone is challenged in flat organizations (See book "StartUp Nation", Senor & Singer chapter 5.)

Comment

digitaltiger — 2010–06–15 16:29:51 EDT wrote

I agree. Canada sorely lacks the programs, supports, and incentives required to have support a thriving ICT industry. There was once a time when, as an SME, I would deal directly with Federal government representatives to grow and support my small business. Bring back those times.

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