Era of Openness

• Wherever possible, companies, countries and individuals should embrace open standards as a way of encouraging innovation.
• Notions of intellectual property are changing and will change even more. Clever companies will manage their intellectual property like mutual funds — with some IP highly protected and other IP shared with the world free of charge.
  

Wikinomics and the Era of Openness: European Innovation at the Crossroads | Anthony D. Williams