I never know quite what to make of Global Province. It doesn’t look like a blog, but it feels like a blog. Its wide reaching observations aren’t always news, but I still check in every now and then. Today I learned that innovation is flourishing in Turkey. The leader of one of its leading business families just appointed his niece to succeed him. It does seem to be a society embracing change:

Link: Agile Companies.

Turkey, incidentally, is yet another of what we like to call “Falling-off-the-Map” countries re-inventing the world economy. Developing economies, as we have pointed out, are turning in twice the growth of the developed nations, and, increasingly, are accounting for some of the most strident innovation in business products and processes. The Turkish economy grew 8% in 2004. “This rosy picture owes a lot to the unprecedented political stability that Turkey has enjoyed since the AK party, led by Recep Tayyip Erdogan … came to power in 2002….”