Innovation Nation: How America Is Losing Its Innovation Edge, Why It Matters, and What We Can Do to Get It Back - John Kao
Business Week/Courtesy of © 2008, YellowBrix, Inc.
February 24, 2008
Finally, in a book that reviewer Bruce Nussbaum called “scary, insightful, and ultimately very useful,” consultant John Kao asserts that America’s competitive advantage is going, going, nearly gone. Innovation Nation: How America Is Losing Its Innovation Edge, Why It Matters, and What We Can Do to Get It Back (Free Press) notes that today, talent is more widely dispersed across the globe than ever before. Venture-capital pools are launching a generation of new startups across Asia and Europe. How should the U.S. respond? For one thing, Kao would spend $20 billion to create 20 innovation hubs revolving around such things as clean energy, digital media, and health care. Kao certainly has big ideas—but he is far from the only author providing smart thinking for the New Year.
