World Summit on Innovation and Entrepreneurship
President Schlesinger is among the speakers at today’s session of the World Summit on Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Boston. His session focuses on Writing the Future: Trends and Traditions of the Innovation Nation.
What will be the result of today’s shake-up of the world’s banks, financial markets and core industries? Some nations, regions and cities will see their economic leadership diminish. Some certainly will survive and thrive. Others will emerge as the world’s next innovation nations. This session will take an inside look into those places that will attract, over the coming decade, the greater share of investment and development capital; human, cultural and educational capital; and technological and ecological innovation capital.
The session examines key questions such as:
1. When today’s nations run out of capital, what should they do? And, where do they go?
2. Who will survive the financial and environmental crisis? What are the emerging business models?
3. How can entrepreneurs point the way out of today’s crisis and be the focal point for restoring confidence?
4. Which nations will emerge as tomorrow’s innovation powers?
5. What type of breakthrough capital will they need and share?
6. What are the major trends and shape of things to come in health, communication, energy and technology?
Moderator
Marian Salzman, Chief Executive Officer,
Euro RSCG Worldwide
Discussion Leaders
On Innovation Ecology and Selective Venturing
Noubar Afeyan, Managing Partner and CEO,
Flagship Ventures
On National Comebacks
Gary Shapiro, President,
Consumers Electronics Association
On Building a Better World By Doing What You Care About
Len Schlesinger, President,
Babson College
On Business of Social, Social of Business
Adam Pisoni, Co-Founder and CTO,
Yammer
On Smarter Innovation Models
John Levis, Principal and Global Chief Innovation Officer,
Deloitte
On Intrapreneurship
Jacques Rogozinski, General Manager,
Inter-American Investment Corporation
On Whole Human on a Chip and the New Economy
Geraldine A. Hamilton, Senior Staff Scientist, Wyss Institute for
Biologically Inspired Engineering,
Harvard University
Challenger
Jamil Mahuad,
Harvard Fellow,
Former President of Ecuador