To Incubate Progress

摘要

With this amusing quotation, John Kao opens Innovation Nation, an engaging account of the current state and possible futures of U.S. innovation policy. In it, Kao takes the reader on a fast-paced journey through both the past and prospects of innovation in America. Importantly, Kao (a consultant who formerly taught innovation and entrepreneurship at the Harvard Business School) reminds us of how government investments in education and the funding of ambitious research projects in the post-World War II era laid the foundation for our current prosperity. The results of these investments were towering accomplishments, such as Armstrong's giant leap for mankind and the ascent into the middle class for millions of Americans.