The Smartest Places on Earth: Why Rustbelts Are the Emerging Hotspots of Global Innovation - Couverture rigide

Van Agtmael, Antoine; Bakker, Fred

 
9781610394352: The Smartest Places on Earth: Why Rustbelts Are the Emerging Hotspots of Global Innovation
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ISBN 10 : 1610394356 ISBN 13 : 9781610394352
Editeur : PublicAffairs, 2016

Synopsis

A remarkable journey to the rustbelts of America and northern Europe, the unlikely new hotspots of innovation, where making things smart (not cheap) is the competitive advantage that is turning globalization on its head.

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À propos de l?auteur

Antoine van Agtmael is a senior adviser at Garten Rothkopf, a public policy advisory firm in Washington, DC. Previously, he was a founder, CEO, and CIO of Emerging Markets Management LLC; a deputy director of the capital markets department of the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the private sector oriented affiliate of the World Bank; and a division chief in the World Bank's borrowing operations. He was an adjunct professor at Georgetown Law Center and taught at the Harvard Institute of Politics.

Van Agtmael is chairman of the NPR Foundation, a member of the board of NPR, and chairman of its Investment Committee. He is also a trustee of the Brookings Institution and cochairman of its International Advisory Council. He is on the President's Council on International Activities at Yale University, the Advisory Council of Johns Hopkins University's Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Alfred Bakker, until his recent retirement, was a journalist specializing in monetary and financial affairs with Het Financieele Dagblad -- the Financial Times of Holland -- serving as deputy editor, editor in chief, and CEO. In addition to his writing and editing duties he helped develop the company from a newspaper publisher to a multimedia company, developing several websites, a business news radio channel, and a quarterly business magazine, FD Outlook, and was responsible for the establishment of FD Intelligence.

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Éditeur
PublicAffairs
Date d'édition
2016
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1610394356
ISBN 13 
9781610394352
Reliure
Relié
Numéro d'édition
1
Nombre de pages
320
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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ISBN 10 :  1610398165 ISBN 13 :  9781610398169
Editeur : PublicAffairs, 2018
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