Saturday, October 15, 2011

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If the U.S. is to recover from its doldrums, it seems, innovation will need to take center stage once again.

This is a lofty goal, and by all accounts, the summit's participants only got incrementally closer to it. Days were spent tossing out suggestions, not crafting and polishing a game plan. At times, the scene even recalled the leaderless potpourri of Occupy Wall Street, another group of earnest problem-solvers struggling to focus their energies to a single point. But the summit’s organizers say this week's events were less a self-contained process than a jumping-off point for something bigger.

"A lot of ideas are just stewing right now," said Dan Bierenbaum, a senior research associate at the Batten Institute at UVA's Darden School of Business, which arranged the summit.

This week was about "planting seeds," Bierenbaum told The Huffington Post....

In a few weeks, the group will finalize and publish a mission statement -- tentatively known as a Declaration of Innovation, in a nod to Thomas Jefferson’s most famous piece of writing.

After that, it’s not clear what will happen. A summit attendee told HuffPost that once the Declaration is finished, its authors -- a handful of participants from the original group who attended the summit -- will try to circulate it among politicians, federal agencies, business leaders and anyone else who might be interested in a road map for generating economic growth and a culture of creativity.

This is right out of a Scott Adams Dilbert cartoon.

3 comments:

Hugo Heden said...

Something like this? http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2011-01-07

Matt Franko said...

Doesnt 'innovation' usually result in productivity gains? How does that create jobs?

Leaving it up to the 'Invisible Hand' again?

More 'magical thinking' Tom...

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