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The Innovation Crisis

In: Inside Real Innovation How the Right Approach Can Move Ideas from R&D to Market — And Get the Economy Moving

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  • Eugene Fitzgerald

    (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, School of Engineering, USA and Cornell University, Johnson School of Management, USA and The Innovation Interface, USA)

  • Andreas Wankerl

    (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, School of Engineering, USA and Cornell University, Johnson School of Management, USA and The Innovation Interface, USA)

  • Carl Schramm

    (The Kauffman Foundation, USA)

Abstract

As the United States economy staggered through the booms and busts of the first decade of the 2000s, the hunt for scapegoats began, as it always does in troubled times. Where are the people who did this? Who fumbled away our jobs, drained our budgets and wiped out the value of our portfolios? As usual, it was easy to blame the moneychangers: the financiers and speculators, the investment gurus who proclaim what our dollars should be put into. And there have been plenty of signs pointing to the money people as the guilty parties…

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  • Eugene Fitzgerald & Andreas Wankerl & Carl Schramm, 2010. "The Innovation Crisis," World Scientific Book Chapters, in: Inside Real Innovation How the Right Approach Can Move Ideas from R&D to Market — And Get the Economy Moving, chapter 1, pages 1-11, World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd..
    • Handle: RePEc:wsi:wschap:9789814327992_0001
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