November 1999
In Search of Innovation
You may know it when you see it, but before you can foster innovation in a company or nation you need to be able to get a grip on it. Meet the researchers who are trying to quantify this crucial but elusive process.
By Robert Buderi
A bright light shone on the United States as business executives, academics and policy leaders-including Al Gore-converged on MIT's glitzy Tang Center for the National Innovation Summit. It was the spring of 1998, and as the country savored one of its best economies ever, Harvard Business School professor Michael Porter sobered the powerful audience by pointing to dangers beyond the horizon.
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