Inside Real Innovation: How The Right Approach Can Move Ideas From R&d To Market - And Get The Economy Moving

Eugene Fitzgerald is the Merton C Flemings SMA Professor of Materials Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Visiting Professor of Management in the Johnson School at Cornell University and Fellow in the Singapore-MIT Alliance. He is Founder and Board Chairman of Innovation Interface. Building upon his early experience at AT&T Bell Labs, he has created and led a series of fundamental innovations, from early technology to final implementation in the market. As a serial entrepreneur, he has been a founder or founding team member of five start-up companies.

Carl J Schramm, president and CEO of the Kauffman Foundation, is an international authority on entrepreneurial innovation and economic growth. He has served on two Department of Commerce innovation committees during both the Bush and Obama administrations, advises government leaders worldwide on economic expansion, and serves on the Prime Minister of Singapore's Research, Innovation and Enterprise Council. Trained as an economist and lawyer, Schramm has founded and cofounded several healthcare finance and information technology companies. His commentary appears in major publications such as Foreign Affairs and The Wall Street Journal, and his book, Good Capitalism, Bad Capitalism, is available in nine languages.

Andreas Wankerl is Operations Director of the Innovation Interface. He conceptualized its beginnings and co-founded its precursor, the ‘Business of Science and Technology Initiative’ at Cornell University. The Innovation Interface works with corporations on innovation processes and innovation projects at the corporate/university interface. With a PhD in Electrical Engineering and after managing international sales and customer relations in the semiconductor equipment industry, he returned to Cornell to earn his MBA and to start what has become the Innovation Interface.