- Marissa Mayer
Marissa leads the product management efforts on Google's search products - web search, images, groups, news, Froogle, the Google Toolbar, Google Desktop, Google Labs, and more. She joined Google in 1999 as Google's first female engineer and led the user interface and webserver teams at that time.
- Eric von Hippel
Eric von Hippel is the T Wilson Professor of Management, MIT Sloan School of Management. He is known for his pioneering research into the emerging view that users are at the center of the innovation process, rather than manufacturers. In his most recent book, Democratizing Innovation (MIT Press / April 2005), von Hippel shows how communities of users are becoming powerful innovation "engines."
- Ken Robinson
Sir Ken Robinson, CBE (born in Liverpool in 1950) is a leading expert on innovation, creativity and human resources. He is the author of the books "The Arts in Schools: Principles, Practice and Provision" (which discuses the place of the arts in the schools' curricula) and "Out of Our Minds: Learning to be Creative" (which, according to "Arts Professional", "focuses on the widening gulf between academic institution teachings and the feelings, …
- Henry Chesbrough
Henry Chesbrough is the executive director of the Center for Open Innovation at the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley. His research focuses on managing technology and innovation. His new book, Open Innovation (Harvard Business School Press, 2003), articulates a new paradigm for organizing and managing R&D, in which companies must access external as well as internal technologies and take them to market through internal and external paths.
- Raymond Bachand
Raymond Bachand is a politician, a businessman and a lawyer in Quebec, Canada. He is the Member of the National Assembly of Quebec (MNA) for the riding of Outremont, and a member of the Quebec Liberal Party caucus. He is also the current minister of economic development of innovation and export trade in the cabinet of Premier of Quebec Jean Charest. Bachand was educated at the Collège Stanislas, a somewhat prestigious Roman Catholic private school.
- Caterina Fake
What she does: The co-founder of Flickr (now owned by Yahoo), Fake was one of the pioneers of the site-based photo sharing model. Before Flickr, sharing photographs meant sending them piecemeal as email attachments. The site is now widely used as a photo repository by individuals and companies alike. How she got there: Fake graduated with a BA in English from Vassar.
- Gabriel Tarde
Gabriel Tarde (March 12, 1843 in Dordogne, France - May 13, 1904 in Paris) French sociologist and social psychologist who conceived sociology as based on small psychological interactions among individuals (much as if it were chemistry), the fundamental forces being imitation and innovation. Among the concepts that Tarde initiated were the "group mind" (taken up and developed by Gustave Le Bon, and sometimes advanced to explain so-called herd behaviour or crowd psychology), …
- Nicholas G. Carr
Nicholas G. Carr (born 1959) is an American "business writer and speaker whose work centers on strategy, innovation, and technology." Carr holds a B.A. from Dartmouth College and an M.A. from Harvard University. Carr wrote the 2004 book "Does IT Matter? Information Technology and the Corrosion of Competitive Advantage" (Harvard Business School Press) and the 2003 "Harvard Business Review" article "IT Doesn't Matter." In these works, …
- Claude Béchard
Claude Béchard is a politician in Quebec, Canada. He is the current Quebec Liberal Party Member of the National Assembly (MNA) for the riding of Kamouraska-Témiscouata in the Bas-Saint-Laurent region. He is also the current Minister of Natural Ressources and Wildlife and was formally the Minister of Sustainable Development, Environment, Parks, Economic Development, Innovation and Export Trade.
- David Teece
David J. Teece is the Mitsubishi Bank Professor of International Business and Finance and director of the Institute of Management, Innovation, and Organization at the Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley. Teece is a leading researcher in the fields of corporate strategy and innovation who in 2002 was listed among the "Top 50 Business Intellectuals" by Accenture.
- The Scary Guy
At 6ft tall, 18 stone and tattooed from head to toe ... The Scary Guy is quite possibly the most powerful Agent For Change on the planet today! The Power to Create World Peace Lives Within Each and Everyone of Us. - The Scary Guy 2000
- Wolfgang Drechsler
Wolfgang Drechsler (born June 6, 1963, Marburg, Germany) is a Public Administration, Political Philosophy and Innovation Policy scholar. He is Professor and Chair of Governance, and one of the founders and directors of the Technology Governance program, at the Tallinn University of Technology, Tallinn, Estonia. Drechsler holds degrees from Bridgewater College, the University of Virginia, the University of Marburg, …
- Rainer Kattel
Rainer Kattel (born 20 March 1974) is an Estonian academic and science administrator; he is an expert on innovation as well as political philosophy. Kattel was born in Tartu, Estonia, and attended the University of Tartu and, for several years, the University of Marburg, Germany, on a DAAD scholarship. He obtained a BA in a specially-designed major, Political Philosophy, an MA in Classics, and a Ph.D. in Public Administration, all with the highest distinction, …
- William Garrison
William Louis Garrison (born 1924) is an American geographer and transportation analyst, currently a professor emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley. While at the University of Washington in the 1950s, Garrison led the "quantitative revolution" in geography, which applied computers and statistics to the study of spatial problems. As such, he was one of the founders of regional science.
- Linnar Viik
Linnar Viik is an Estonian "internet guru". Currently he is an associate professor of intellectual capital theory in the Estonian IT College. He is a founder and member of the boards of several mobile communications, broadband and software companies, former advisor to the Prime Minister of Estonia on ICT, innovation, R&D and civic society issues.
- Soumodip Sarkar
Soumodip Sarkar is a noted economist and university professor, a leader in the field of entrepreneurship and innovation in management. He is an associate professor of the Department of Management, University of Évora, Évora, Portugal. Dr. Sarkar did his graduate studies at Northeastern University, in Boston, Massachusetts, USA where he got a Ph.D. He worked at the Harvard Institute for International Development (HIID) and later at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, …
- Eduardo Punset
Eduardo Punset Casals (born in Barcelona, Spain, in 1936) is a Spanish lawyer, economist, and scientific popularizer. He holds a degree in Law from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid and a Master's in Economic Sciences from the University of London. He has been an economic writer for the BBC, economics director of the Latin American edition of the newsweekly "The Economist", and an economist for the International Monetary Fund in the United States and Haiti.
- Darryl Banks
Darryl Banks is an African-American comic book artist. He worked on one of the first painted comic books, "Cyberpunk", and teamed with the writer Mark Ellis to revamp the long-running "The Justice Machine" series for two publishers, Innovation and Millennium.
- Nicole Ménard
Nicole Ménard is a Quebec politician. She is the current Member of National Assembly of Quebec for the riding of Laporte in the Montérégie region. She is a member of the Quebec Liberal Party. Meanrd worked at the Bank of Montreal since 1967 and was the director of the bank's regional division in Montreal North. She was the vice-president of the bank since 1995. She headed several foundations and received several awards for her work.
- Jim Hartz
Jim Hartz (born 1940) was a USA broadcast television personality during the mid- and late-1970s. Hartz became best known to a national audience for a two-year stint as the co-host of the "Today Show," along with Barbara Walters. Hartz replaced Frank McGee. Hartz first became a reporter for KOTV in Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1962 and was promoted to news director in 1964, shortly before he joined NBC-owned WNBC-TV in New York as anchor of its late evening newscast, …
- David Engwicht
David Engwicht (born 1950) is a social innovator and a significant international leader of efforts to reduce the negative impacts of motor vehicle traffic on cities and towns. He is a proponent of shared space schemes. He is considered one of the fathers of traffic calming and claims to be the inventor of the Walking bus, Street reclamation, and the Universal Anchoring Device.
- Idan Gafni
Idan Gafni is an award winning mobile expert and entrepreneur. Using a creativity technique he created named “Object Pairing”, Idan harnesses innovation to create mobile value added services. Services are based on mobile interaction, contextual awareness, user-generated content, and dynamic content, using the advantages of technologies such as SMS, MMS, IVVR, and WEB technologies. In the past, Idan served as the innovation manager of Orange Israel, part of the Hutchison 3 telecom group.
- Andrey Golub
BSc- Applied Mathematics/ Software Engineering, PhD- Systems Analysis and Design. Who's Who in the World- 2008 (Marquis), . Prof: IT/TLC/Web Project- Product Manager, Sr.Systems/ Business Analyst and Team Leader. Web: Web 2.0 Evangelist and Researcher (Marketing 2.0/ PR 2.0/ Community Manager) with some broad experience in leading Open-Community (and Open-Source) projects.Co-founder, VP and IT/Web Manager of Business Club 2.0 Milan-IN (official LinkedIn Italia supporter Club).
- Daniel Trimble
Daniel Graham Trimble is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and political executive. He is currently the executive director of Lead21, a prominent public policy organization for entrepreneurship and innovation. Trimble has served as Lead21's executive director since 01 February 2006. He publishes a blog called Eternal Vigilance, which appears to be inactive. Politically, he has claimed to be a moderate Republican who was, earlier in his adult life, a Democrat.
- James M. Phillips
James M. Phillips is an American businessman who is the current president, chairman, and CEO of Luminetx Corporation, a bioscience technology company. He also serves as CEO of Snowflake Technologies Corporation, a subsidiary of Luminetx. Phillips’ career began when he was asked to do research for his master’s thesis on an emerging company, Telecommunications System of America (TSA). TSA sold to Northern Telecom (Nortel Networks) and Phillips stayed on, …
- Stan Relihan
President & CEO of Expert Executive Search - one of Asia Pacific's best-connected Search, Selection & Recruitment Firms. Also a leading international Headhunter, Neural Networker & Technology Enthusiast; Keynote Speaker; Internet & Web 2.0 Subject Matter Expert; Top 30 LinkedIn 'Power User'.Host of TPN :: The Connections Show, an audio podcast series that puts you ahead of the curve with the latest developments in Social & Business Networking. http://connections.thepodcastnetwork.com
- Dubravka Ugrešić
Dubravka Ugrešić is a noted Yugoslavian/Croatian writer who lives in the Netherlands. Dubravka Ugrešić was born in 1949 in former Yugoslavia, now Croatia. She studied Comparative Literature and Russian Language and Literature at the University of Zagreb. She worked at the Institute for Theory of Literature at Zagreb University, pursuing parallel careers as a writer and a literary scholar.
- Marco Zamperini
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- Bill Austin
Accomplished Systems Engineer with extensive experience in Security and Internet Architecture, Information Systems and Project Management. Proven successes in defining and developing complex systems and problem solving involving wireless and Internet technologies as well as the invention of integrated systems applications. Internet marketing expert with extensive experience in improving bottom line performance for medium sized manufacturing and distribution company marketing efforts. . . .
- Edward William Barton-Wright
Edward William Barton-Wright C.E., M.J.S. (member of the Japan Society) (1860-1951) was a British entrepreneur specialising in both self defence training and physical therapy. He is remembered today as one of the first Europeans to teach Japanese martial arts and as a pioneer of the concept of hybrid martial arts.
- Irene Rivka Becker
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- Lev Gonick
Lev Gonick has been teaching, working, and living on the Net since 1987. He is vice president for information technology services and chief information officer at Case Western Reserve University.
- Anonymous Spocker
- Francesco Iarlori
Over 15 years of experience in sales, strategic planning & business development within major player in Global Information and Communication Technology. Visionary and strategic planner in leading, advancing, evaluating strategic and tactical plans, and implement them directly at the customer or internal to the company.Adviser for Investor or Multinational Companies willing to address new GEOs market such us Europe, USA and Africa, this also cooperating with UN for developing countries.
- Anonymous Spocker
- David Audretsch
- Linda Lingle
Governor Lingle attended a groundbreaking ceremony for a new Shriners Hospitals for Children in Honolulu, where she thanked the hospital for serving the medical needs of those who need it most - Hawai`i's families and their children. The Governor is serving as the honorary co-chair of Shriners' capital campaign. "People just want to help children, regardless of their background," Governor Lingle said.
- Giacomo Melani
Innovation is not a matter of budget, is a matter of ideas!; Expert on innovation: I work on Strategy, CRM, Marketing, branding, web. Ideator of one the most innovative web platform for retail channel. I love innovative companies, digital marketing, business developement, retail innovation.
- Marinus van Sandwyk
Of my 25+ years in IT, 20+ of these have been in management positions. I subscribe to very hands-on management. My entire career has been build around the objective of extracting maximum benefit from technology for those with whom I worked and who benefitted by that technology. I absolutely believe that there is no such thing as “impossible” from a computer hardware and software perspective. It all depends on how creative you are and how prepared you are to challenge conventional thinking.
- Anonymous Spocker
Leads the software research team in Ovum, globally - one of the best know analyst firms. Wide range of senior roles through different parts of the global software industry, with particular emphasis on the commercial and visionary elements of the industry.