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Innovation Nation How America Is Losing Its Innovation Edge, Why It Matters, and What We Can Do to Get It Back

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ISBN-10: 1416532684

ISBN-13: 9781416532682

Edition: 2007

Authors: John Kao

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Not long ago, Americans could rightfully feel confident in our preeminence in the world economy. The United States set the pace as the world's leading innovator: from the personal computer to the internet, from Wall Street to Hollywood, from the decoding of the genome to the emergence of Web 2.0, we led the way and the future was ours. So how is it, bestselling author and leading expert on innovation John Kao asks, that today Finland is the world's most competitive economy? That U.S. students rank twenty-fourth in the world in math literacy and twenty-sixth in problem-solving ability? That in 2005 and 2006 combined, in a reverse brain drain, 30,000 highly trained professionals left the…    
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Book details

List price: $28.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Free Press
Publication date: 10/2/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 320
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.20" tall
Weight: 1.056
Language: English

John Kao is academic director of the Managing Innovation program at Stanford University. A former Harvard Business School professor, he is founder of several companies in the fields of biotechnology, film, and multimedia. A lecturer and adviser to numerous companies, Kao is also a member of the Global Business Network. He lives in San Francisco, CA.

Introduction
Bringing Innovation to Innovation
Silent Sputnik
The New Geography of Innovation
Making Talent
Seducing Talent
The Importance of Place
The "Us" in USA
Welcome to the Future
A National Innovation Agenda
What's Good for the World Is Good for America
Epilogue
Notes on Sources
Acknowledgments
Index