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

Van Agtmael, Antoine; Bakker, Fred

 
9781610398169: The Smartest Places on Earth: Why Rustbelts Are the Emerging Hotspots of Global Innovation

Synopsis

Longlisted for the FT/McKinsey Book of the Year and the 800 CEO Read Book Prize, The Smartest Places on Earth is 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 des auteurs

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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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
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