http://www.innovationation.org Just another WordPress weblog Wed, 16 Jul 2008 20:21:55 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en John Kao led a session on Prototyping the Global Future at the recent Tällberg Forum. You can watch the session here and here. http://www.innovationation.org/?p=71 Last month, Business Week had a special report on innovation prizes. Reporter Rachel King interviewed John Kao for the report's podcast. Business Week's CEO Guide podcast – click to play http://www.innovationation.org/?p=69 The New York Times profiles John Kao today in its Scientists at Work series. Here's a snippet: “Many people believe there is no problem because we are No. 1,” he said. As long as there is “no current pain,” he said, advocating for an innovation agenda is like advising patients to ... http://www.innovationation.org/?p=66 Cross-posted at the Huffington Post Now that the decks are cleared for the big November presidential showdown, I am praying -- in earnest -- for a meaningful discussion of America's national innovation agenda. There has been scant sign of this to date, a few token mentions of the "I" word not ... http://www.innovationation.org/?p=67 John Kao spoke at the American Association for the Advancement of Science Forum on Science and Technology Policy in Washington, DC in May. The AAAS recently reported on Kao's speech as well as the overall forum: Though many of the experts expressed guarded optimism, the Forum featured an undercurrent of concern ... http://www.innovationation.org/?p=68 GE recently announced it will sell its white goods business. Business Week asked John Kao what he thought: The creation and destruction of business is what gives these conglomerates long life. The management of a corporation like GE should be complimented for entertaining this kind of transformation, even if it means ... http://www.innovationation.org/?p=65 The BBC's Peter Day recently interviewed me for his Global Business program (or should I write programme?). The result concludes his excellent series on innovation. You can listen to it or download it here. http://www.innovationation.org/?p=64 Cross-posted from The Huffington Post I'm sitting up in the nose of a Singapore Airlines 747 on the loonnngggggg flight back to San Francisco.. I've just been there for three days to kick off one of my various "involvements" this year — as a so-called Senior Visiting Fellow of Singapore's Civil ... http://www.innovationation.org/?p=63 I'm very pleased that Robert Scoble decided to kick off his new gig, Fast Company TV, with my interview. viewNode("8d8e61886506a",{ width: 425,height: 274}); http://www.innovationation.org/?p=62 Blogger extraordinaire Robert Scoble came to interview me the other day for his new gig, Fast Company TV. When he posts those videos, I'll point to them. What was particularly interesting, however, was that before the "real" interview started, Robert pulled out his Nokia N95 phone and shot a quick, rough-and-ready ... http://www.innovationation.org/?p=61