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Innovation Nation
John Kao
How America Is Losing Its Innovation Edge, Why It Matters, and What We Can Do to Get It Back
Free Press
October 2007
On Sale: October 2, 2007
320 pages ISBN: 1416532684 EAN: 9781416532682 Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
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 United
States to return to their native India? Even as the United States has lost standing in the world
community because of the war in Iraq, Kao warns, the country
is losing its edge in economic leadership as well. The
future of our prosperity, and of our national security, is
at serious risk. But it doesn't have to be this way. Based
on his in-depth experience advising many of the world's
leading companies and studying cutting-edge innovation "best
practices" in the most dynamic hot spots of innovation both
in the United States and around the world, Kao argues that
the United States still has the capability not only to
regain our competitive edge, but to take a bold step out
ahead of the global community and secure a leadership role
in the twenty-first century. We must, though, take serious
and concerted action fast. First offering a stunning, troubling portrait of just how
serious is the erosion in recent years of U.S.
competitiveness in innovation, Kao then takes readers on a
fascinating tour of the leading innovation centers, such as
those in Singapore, Denmark, and Finland, which are trumping
us in their more focused and creative approaches to fueling
innovation. He then lays out a groundbreaking plan for a
national innovation strategy that would empower the United
States to actually innovate the process of innovation: to
marshal our vast resources of talent and infrastructure in
the particular ways that his studies of innovation have
shown lead to transformative results. Innovation Nation is vital reading for all those Americans
who are troubled by the great challenges the United States
faces in the ever-more-competitive economy of our
twenty-first-century world.
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