The World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Innovation,
Columbia’s Center on Capitalism and Society,
and Columbia’s School of International Public Affairs
Present
DECODING THE
COMPLEXITY OF
INNOVATION
A workshop
Saifedean
Ammous
Raicho Bojilov
John Hagel
Anders Hoffmann
Philip K. Howard
Merit Janow
Amini Kajunju
David Kappos
Mariana Mazzucato
Mahmoud Naghshineh
Richard R. Nelson
Edmund Phelps
David Rose
David Tse
Edward Zhu
Gylfi Zoega
9:00 am – 4:05 pm, May 11, 2015
School of International and Public Affairs
Room 1501, 420 W. 118th Street, New York, 10027
Lunch and coffee will be provided; RSVP by May 7th to Lizzie Feidelson at
[email protected]
DECODING THE
COMPLEXITY OF
INNOVATION
Schedule 9:00 am – 9:25 am:
9:30 am – 9:45 am:
9:45 am – 10:10 am:
10:10 am – 10:30 am:
10:30 am – 10:45 am:
10:45 am – 11:00 am:
11:00 am – 11:30 am:
11:30 am – 12:00 pm:
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm:
1:00 pm – 1:15 pm:
1:15 pm – 1:30 pm:
1:30 pm – 2:00 pm:
2:00 pm – 2:15 pm:
2:20 pm – 2:50 pm:
2:50 pm – 3:20 pm:
3:25 pm – 3:35 pm:
3:35 pm – 4:05 pm:
Introductory Remarks
Merit Janow, SIPA
David Kappos, Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP
Edmund Phelps, Center on Capitalism and Society
The Meaning of Innovation and Its Consequences
John Hagel, Deloitte Center for the Edge
The Sources of Innovation
Anders Hoffman, Danish Business Authority
The Character of the Innovator
David Rose, Rose Tech Ventures
COFFEE BREAK
Organizational Rigidity and Radical Innovation
David Tse (via video), Hong Kong University
The Rate of Indigenous Innovation
Phelps
Gylfi Zoega, University of Iceland and Birkbeck, University of London
Raicho Bojilov, Ecole Polytechnique
Saifedean Ammous, Lebanese American University
The Determinants of Innovation and an “Index” of Dynamism
Phelps, Zoega, Bojilov, Ammous
LUNCH BREAK On Phelps and Team
Richard R. Nelson, Columbia University
Big Date Enablers of Innovation Mahmoud Naghshineh, IBM
The Role of Government in Innovation Mariana Mazzucato, University of Sussex
On Mazzucato
Nelson
Individual Autonomy for Innovating and Achieving Philip K. Howard, The Rule of Nobody
DIDI: A Case Study in Innovation
Edward Zhu, CHIC Group
City Government Services for Innovators
Amini Kajunju, The Africa-America Institute
The Loss of Innovation in Large Companies Hagel