About this title: Kao, author of the "Business Week" bestseller "Jamming," argues in this provocative new book for a bold national strategy to regain this countrys innovation edge and to restore its preeminence in the 21st century.
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Free Press, New York
Date Published: 2007
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"I read this book for my Strategic Technology class and I only read 2/3 of it because I ran out of time.
In Innovation Nation John Kao explores why the U.S. is losing it's edge on innovation. Countries like Singapore, India, and China are investing in their people, education, and innovation. The United States is falling behind in their education levels, especially in the areas of math and science. The U.S. needs to create more funding opportunities for innovation and technology. It also needs to invest more in educating the youth so that they can keep up with other countries and in order to be Innovation Nation.
Good read. Easy to understand. Offers solutions for the U.S.'s innovation slump."
"Innovation Nation: How America Is Losing Its Innovation Edge, Why It Matters, and What We Can Do to Get It Back John Kao Free Press
Kao asserts that in the United States, "our national capacity for innovation is eroding, with deeply troubling implications for our future...In tomorrow's world, even more than today's, innovation will be the engine of progress. So unless we move to rectify this dismal situation, the United States cannot hope to remain a leader. What's at stake is nothing less than the future prosperity and security of our nation...While our competitor nations focus on educating and training engineers and inventors, our schools are turning out youngsters who are better consumers than they are creators."
What to do? Kao proposes that the United States become an "innovation nation" by making a major commitment of resources, both human and financial, to rejuvenate our innovation age. "And the obvious first step is simply to acknowledge the challenges we face at a national level. After which we must develop a compelling vision and a blueprint for action that will reinvent the way we educate our children, marshal our resources, pursue our research projects, communicate and share our discoveries, and conduct ourselves in the world community."
One of Kao's most interesting ideas is what he calls an "Information Hub" such as the one in San Diego that demonstrates "how talent, investment, and creativity flow to places whose culture encourages the pioneer spirit, the search for open spaces, and the hunger to express itself as much by creating value in a place as through the ideas and ventures that are generated by it." He proposes a BHAG for the United States (Big Hairy Audacious Goal is a term introduced by Jim Collins): to establish twenty Innovation Hubs, each devoted to solving one "wicked" problem, with initial funding of at least $20 billion. One day, he hopes, "the catalytic nature of diversity and the power of innovation on a planetary basis will unleash the full potential of human beings to better themselves and to create a world well worth living in.""
"This book builds a great case for increased education and innovation in the United States. Other countries are catching up to us and in some cases are passing us in critical areas. Hopefully some of our nations leaders take the advice in this book to heart."
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