Frequent spill

I have blogged earlier about what I thought Denmark should do in order to achieve its pronounced goal of becoming a leading IT-nation – or maintaining that role.

Now, Janus Friis, one of the founders of Skype, just won this year’s annual Danish IT-award. In an interview with Computerworld, he answers questions on what Denmark should do to maintain its leading role as an IT-nation. His reply to the question was:

Jeg sad med i et forum for “innovationsfremme” ledet af Martin Thorborg. Alle snakkede om, hvordan man skulle stimulere, blande sig og lære studenterne at være iværksættere under deres uddannelse. Da det blev min tur, sagde jeg, at jeg synes vi skulle fokusere på “statsudblanding” i stedet for statsindblanding

Translated to English, that is:

At a forum for promoting inovation lead by Martin Thorborg (Jubii founder), everybody was talking about how the state should stimulate, take part of, and teach students how to be entrepreneurs during their education. When it was my turn, I said that I thought we should focus on “state outerference” instead of “state interference”.

Another remark was (translated into English from Danish):

Society needs to take care of the basic settings for the development of new companies, which is primarily tax-related. If not, the companies will simply move out into the globalized world.

I echo that 100%. I am glad that somebody with greater voice than mine finally came out at said it.

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