Innovation Nation: How America is Losing Its Innovation Edge, Why it Matters and What We Can Do to Get it Back
Not long ago, Americans could rightly feel confident in our preeminence in the world’s economy, as we set the pace for everything from the personal computer to the internet, from Wall Street to Hollywood, form the decoding of the genome to Web 2.0. So why is it that today Finland has the world’s most competitive economy? Why do US students rank 24th in math literacy around the world and why, in a reverse “brain drain”, did 30,000 highly trained professionals leave the US to return to their native India in 2005-6?
Let us look at some of the world’s leading innovation centers such as those in Singapore, Denmark and Finland to see how they are trumping us in their more focused and creative approaches to fueling innovation. From this information we can form a groundbreaking plan for a national innovation strategy that would empower the US to actually innovate the process of innovation.
Speaker Details
John Kao is a thought leader on the intersecting subjects of corporate innovation, transformation, digital media and design strategy, and from 1997-2001 was the founder and CEO of The Idea Factory. For 14 years Kao taught at Harvard Business School where he developed courses and seminars on issues of entrepreneurship, venture management, innovation, leadership and organizational change, and was also a visiting professor at the MIT Media Lab.He is the author of the Business Week bestseller Jamming: The Art and Discipline of Business Creativity, has founded several companies, is an accomplished jazz musician and a Tony nominated producer of theater and film, including the film “sex, lies and videotape.”The fall lineup of speakers in the MSR Visiting Speaker Series can be found here: http://sharepoint/sites/visitingspeaker/default.aspx.
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- Speakers:
- John Kao
- Affiliation:
- Kao and Associates and founder, The Idea Factory
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Jeff Running
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