1. Ron Palmeri Minor Ventures San Francisco, CA United States Competitiveness, Innovation & Economic Growth OECD World Forum Friday June 29, 2007

2. Cycle of Creative Destruction Innovation CompetitivenessGrowth

3. The Internet is the Innovation People Self-organizing Death of Distance Free Unlimited Distribution

4. Global Internet Use http://www.swivel.com/graphs/show/18527080

5. Open Source v. Microsoft Millions of Developers working together on open source software ~15,000 Microsoft Developer Unfortunately, no good data available!

6. Impact of Innovation on Incumbent http://www.swivel.com/graphs/show/18612439

7. Venture Capital Investments It takes a lot less money now to start a technology company then ever before “Ebay Inc.'s $2.6 billion acquisition of Internet telephony company Skype Technologies SA stands out. With only $20 million in venture money” (http://vcinsights.blogspot.com/2006_10_01_archive.html)http://vcinsights.blogspot.com/2006_10_01_archive.html Again, unfortunately, no good data available!

8. Conclusion “Model” Broadly Applied…