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Why innovation
and globalization?
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Council
on Competitiveness
Innovation will be the single most
important factor in determining
America's success through the 21st
century
America's Role
The
legacy America bequeaths to its
children will depend on the
creativity and commitment of our
nation to lead a new era of
prosperity at home and abroad.
America's Challenge
America's challenge is to unleash
its innovation capacity to drive
productivity, standard of living and
leadership in global markets. At a
time when macro-economic forces and
financial constraints make
innovation-driven growth a more
urgent imperative than ever before,
American businesses, government,
workers and universities face an
unprecedented acceleration of global
change, relentless pressures for
short-term results, and fierce
competition from countries that seek
an innovation-driven future for
themselves.
America's Task
For
the past 25 years, we have optimized
our organizations for efficiency and
quality. Over the next quarter
century, we must optimize our entire
society for innovation.
- Innovate
America, Council on
Competitiveness,
National Innovation Initiative
Summit and Report, 2005.
The
National Academies,
United States of America
This nation must prepare with
great urgency to preserve its
strategic and economic security.
Because other nations have, and
probably will continue to have the
competitive advantage of low-wage
structure, the United States must
compete by optimizing its
knowledge-based resources,
particularly in science and
technology, and by sustaining the
most fertile environment for new and
revitalized industries and
well-paying jobs they bring.
- Rising Above
the Gathering Storm: Energizing and
Employing America for a Brighter
Future, The National Academies
Press, 2006
The
Atlas of Ideas, United Kingdom
We used to know where new ideas
would come from: established
universities and corporate research
centres in highly developed
countries. While production was
dispersed among global networks of
suppliers, it was assumed that more
knowledge-intensive tasks would stay
at home.
All that is changing fast. As
globalization moves up a gear, ideas
are emerging in unexpected places
and flowing around the world as
easily as money and commodities,
carried by a mobile diaspora of
knowledge workers.
- The Atlas of Ideas, DEMOS, U.K.
(A study of science
and innovation in China, India, and South Korea)
"The case we are making very strongly is that there are a lot of
opportunities out there. If the UK can get the right mix of policy and
incentives right to encourage our best scientists to collaborate with these
countries [China, India, and South Korea], that would be the greater good of
everyone. Britain needs to act now to ready itself for a world where
innovation was not dominated by Europe and US - or face being left behind."
- James Wilsdon,
Head of Science and Innovation,
DEMOS,
The Atlas of Ideas,
January 17, 2007
The Innovation and
Globalization Conference
Globalization and
technological change, and the
recognition that intellect and
talent are widely distributed around
the world, are forcing organizations
to rethink their innovation models.
Over 20 senior executives and top
scholars from the innovation,
technology, and globalization
domains will explore and discuss the
following issues at the
Mid-Atlantic's premier innovation
conference:
- The
roles of the federal government,
industry, and universities in innovation
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Innovation, competitiveness, and
globalization
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Open innovation models and global
innovation networks
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Corporate venture capital and innovation
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Innovation in government
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Innovation and economic development
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Meeting the challenge of innovation
Special Features
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Fresh perspectives … new insights
- listen to and interact with over 20
thought leaders from the innovation,
technology, and globalization domains
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Theater: Attend a play at the
Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center,
University of Maryland, on November 8
evening:
The Physicists
by Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Written at the height of the Cold
War, when
scientific innovation was viewed
largely as suspect and potentially
dangerous, Dürrenmatt weaves a murder
mystery with bizarre humor and wacky
situations to question whether man can
be trusted with destructive knowledge.
The Physicists asks the question: "Is
science ultimately responsible to
humanity?"
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CIO Forum (November 9: 2:00 -
4:00 p.m.): Attend a part of the 8th
Annual CIO Forum at the Smith School
on Day 2 (November 9) after the
conclusion of the Innovation and
Globalization conference - at no
extra charge.
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International Career Networking
Event (November 9: 2:30 - 4:30
p.m.): Visiting companies will have
the opportunity to meet Smith School
students interested in more
information about
international
internships and full-time jobs
after graduation - in the United
States and abroad. Participating
students are international
students looking for
opportunities in their home
countries as well as American
students interested in working
abroad. Companies - bring your
recruiting team for this event.
Target Audience
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Middle and senior level executives
from business, industry, government,
consulting, and economic development
and other non-profit organizations
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Investors, including executives from
corporate venture capital firms
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University professors and
researchers; graduate students
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Policymakers
Co-Chairs
Dr. Vinod K. Jain
Director, Center for International
Business Education and Research
Robert H. Smith School of Business
Dr. P.K. Kannan
Harvey Sanders Associate Professor of
Marketing
Director, Center for Excellence in
Service
Robert H. Smith School of Business
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