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The Rising Worldwide Interest in Innovation Policy ... Can Governments Till the Fields of Innovation?
Colleagues,
As reported in the New York Times ...
INNOVATION — the tricky, many-step process by which ideas become products and services — has typically been seen, studied and celebrated at the micro level, as a pursuit for entrepreneurs and clever companies.
But governments are increasingly wading into the innovation game, declaring innovation agendas and appointing senior innovation officials. The impetus comes from two fronts: daunting challenges in fields like energy, the environment and health care that require collaboration between the public and private sectors; and shortcomings of traditional economic development and industrial policies...
Innovation policy, to be sure, is an emerging discipline ... The most explicit embrace of it has been outside the United States, though the Obama administration is taking some initial steps ... the government’s new chief technology officer, Aneesh Chopra, speaks of building “innovation platforms” to spur growth.
...The rising worldwide interest in innovation policy represents the search to answer an important question: What is the appropriate government role in creating industries and jobs in today’s high-technology, global economy?
...That central issue animated much of the discussion at an unusual gathering earlier this month at a lodge north of San Francisco. This invitation-only affair included senior policy officials from ten countries: United States, Australia, Brazil, Britain, Chile, Colombia, Finland, India, Norway and Singapore...
... I think the "MedTech-IQ" community is ahead of the curve in examining "Triple Helix" - Academic, Government, Industry - open innovation strategies. Rock on! It appears that the global public at large, is beginning to catch up.
Read on at: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/21/technology/21unboxed.html?th&...
ENJOY!
CC
As reported in the New York Times ...
INNOVATION — the tricky, many-step process by which ideas become products and services — has typically been seen, studied and celebrated at the micro level, as a pursuit for entrepreneurs and clever companies.
But governments are increasingly wading into the innovation game, declaring innovation agendas and appointing senior innovation officials. The impetus comes from two fronts: daunting challenges in fields like energy, the environment and health care that require collaboration between the public and private sectors; and shortcomings of traditional economic development and industrial policies...
Innovation policy, to be sure, is an emerging discipline ... The most explicit embrace of it has been outside the United States, though the Obama administration is taking some initial steps ... the government’s new chief technology officer, Aneesh Chopra, speaks of building “innovation platforms” to spur growth.
...The rising worldwide interest in innovation policy represents the search to answer an important question: What is the appropriate government role in creating industries and jobs in today’s high-technology, global economy?
...That central issue animated much of the discussion at an unusual gathering earlier this month at a lodge north of San Francisco. This invitation-only affair included senior policy officials from ten countries: United States, Australia, Brazil, Britain, Chile, Colombia, Finland, India, Norway and Singapore...
... I think the "MedTech-IQ" community is ahead of the curve in examining "Triple Helix" - Academic, Government, Industry - open innovation strategies. Rock on! It appears that the global public at large, is beginning to catch up.
Read on at: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/21/technology/21unboxed.html?th&...
ENJOY!
CC
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