First class with Google´s Chief Economist Hal Varian today. I think this is going to be a great class – a lot of interesting examples and discussion today anyway. The class reader (Information Rules) is of course written by the professor – he is apparently working on an update.
Had a short refresh of Porter and Welch before we started to look at the focus for our class: important forces for tech industries. Inventions, patents, innovations, the competition – it will definitely be an interesting class 
