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Spurring Technological Innovation in America’s Legacy Sectors

Tuesday, November 3, 201509:00 AM to 10:30 AM EST
Information Technology and Innovation Foundation1101 K Street NW, Suite 610AWashington District Of Columbia, 20005

Event Summary

One of America’s great innovation strengths has long been “greenfield innovation”—standing up whole new “frontier” sectors of the economy based on breakthrough technologies such as biotechnology, information technology, and mobile applications. But the United States has not fared as well in bringing innovation (and productivity growth) to established, “legacy” sectors such as education, energy, transportation, and manufacturing, a vexing challenge that Bill Bonvillian and Charles Weiss address with aplomb in their important new book Technological Innovation in Legacy Sectors(Oxford, 2015).

The book explores key barriers to disruptive innovation in legacy sectors, explains why America needs to rethink existing strategies for promoting innovation, including through a new conceptualization of manufacturing-led innovation processes, and articulates a new, unified, systems-based approach to U.S. innovation policy. Please join ITIF on November 3 as the authors share key conclusions from the book and discuss the implications for U.S. policymakers.

Speakers

Robert D.
Robert D. Atkinson@RobAtkinsonITIF
President
Information Technology and Innovation Foundation
Moderator
William B.
William B. Bonvillian
Former Director
MIT Washington Office
Charles
Charles Weiss
Former Distinguished Professor of Science, Technology, and International Affairs
Georgetown University
Presenter
Stephen
Stephen Ezell@sjezell
Vice President, Global Innovation Policy, and Director, Center for Life Sciences Innovation
Information Technology and Innovation Foundation
Respondent
David M.
David M. Hart@profdavidhart
Senior Fellow
Respondent
J.J.
J.J. Raynor
Special Assistant to the President for Economic Policy
National Economic Council
Respondent
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