Are American Leaders Losing the Innovation Race?

"A leading expert on innovation, John Kao has taught a popular course on the subject at the Harvard Business School for fourteen years, in addition to teaching at the MIT Media Lab and U.S. Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. Kao is founder and CEO of Kao & Company, which advises top-tier Fortune 500 business leaders as well as government leaders around the world, and specializes in instructing organizations in the methods for making innovation happen. In his new book, Innovation Nation: How America Is Losing its Innovation Edge, Why It Matters, and How We Can Get it Back, many leaders, both national and international, “have a dangerously limited understanding” of what innovation is..."
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Source: Wharton Leadership Digest

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[MBA ZoNe]

You can read the article here:
http://www.businessinnovationfactory.com/weblog/archives/2008/02/john_kao_qa_how.html

I also posted the great list of innovation blogs that I found at Business Innovation Factory.

Thank you Christine!

[Christine Flanagan]

I had the opportunity to interview John Kao a couple of weeks ago. He is one our research advisors at the Business Innovation Factory. You read the article here
- or feel free to email me and I'll send you a pdf.

We talked a lot about the importance of place power and how even the smallest of regions can create huge innovative output. He's a really interesting guy and his book is fantastic.

Cheers - Chris