The Secretary of Commerce has released the list of appointments to the Measuring Innovation in the 21st Century Economy Advisory Committee. It is a high powered group of academics and business leaders - many whom have been involved in the innovation/competitiveness debate for some time. They are:
Steve Ballmer, CEO, Microsoft Corporation
David L. Bernd, CEO, Sentara Healthcare
James Blanchard, Retired Chairman of the Board and CEO, Synovus Financial Corp
George Buckley, CEO, 3M
Art Collins, Chairman and CEO, Medtronic
Michael Eskew, Chairman and CEO, UPS
Luther Hodges, Jr., owner/manager of Santa Fe Hospitality and the Hotel Santa Fe (and former Deputy Secretary of Commerce
John Menzer, Vice-Chairman, Wal-Mart Stores
Samuel J. Palmisano, CEO, IBM
Carl Schramm, PhD, President and CEO, Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
Ashish Arora, H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management at Carnegie Mellon University
Rajesh Chandy, Carlson School Professor of Marketing at the Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota
Kathleen B. Cooper. Dean of the College of Business at the University of North Texas (and former Under Secretary for Economic Affairs)
Dale W. Jorgenson, Harvard University
Donald Siegel, Associate Dean of the Graduate School of Management at the University of California at Riverside
It will be interesting to see what the advisory committee comes up with. Their first meeting is February 22.
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