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The Economist, October 13, 2007PDF | English | 2 MB A 14-page special report on innovation Innovation, long the preserve of technocratic elites, is becoming more open. This will be good for the world. How globalisation and information technology are spurring faster innovation. Responding to the Asian challenge. Like management methods before it, innovation is turning from an art into a science. The move toward open innovation is beginning to transform entire industries. The best thing that governments can do to encourage innovation is get out of the way.
The party congress in China: China, beware The country's rulers care too much for their own welfare, and too little about the rural peasants.
British politics: The emperor's new clothes Having wasted everybody's time with his phantom election, Gordon Brown must show what he stands for.
Pakistan: Farce in Islamabad A general election would have been better than the "re-election" of a general.
ABN AMRO: Triple play The world's biggest banking deal is a milestone for other reasons too.
The 2007 Nobel science prizes: It's a knockout Prizes for genetically disadvantaged mice, computer hard drives and the basis of much of industrial chemistry.
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