http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrMEW1LpnsI
BA Yale Univ/college, MD Yale Medical School, Harvard MBA, Harvard Bus School
professor and now..
originally from China.
It seems he does a strange , global job - for an Asian - interviewing
countries' leaders.
Umesh
http://www.innovationation.org/?page_id=8
umesh sharma [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
http://www.bookmovement.com/app/readingguide/view.php?readingGuideID=5076showFullExcerpt=1#excerpt
Probably, the most widely shared misconception about innovation is that its
all about science and high tech. The rise of microlending, one of the most
powerful innovations in recent years, shatters that notion.
Economist Muhammad Yunus came up with the idea of micro-credit in 1974, after
giving a woman in the village of Jobra, Bangladesh, $27 from his own pocket to
help her make bamboo furniture. Previously, women in a village like Jobra
either had no access to capital or they had to pay usurious rates to local loan
sharks. Realizing that poor women were actually excellent credit risks and that
giving them small loans could transform an entire local economy, Yunus formed
Grameen Bank in 1976 to institutionalize what he called mi-crocredit. The bank
has now loaned more than $6 billion to more than 7 million borrowers, and
Yunus took home a Nobel Peace Prize in 2006 in recognition of his innovative
efforts.
Microlending is not the only social innovation of recent years. We can also
cite the advent of impartial consumer testing of products, carpool lanes on
busy highways, carbon-offset schemes, and a thousand other examples.
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My own definition of innovation is both integrative and aspirational. I define
it as the ability of individuals, companies, and entire nations to continuously
create their desired future. Innovation depends on harvesting knowledge from a
range of disciplines besides science and technology, among them design, social
science, and the arts. And it is exemplified by more than just products;
services, experiences, and processes can be innovative as well. The work of
entrepreneurs, scientists, and software geeks alike contributes to innovation.
It is also about the middlemen who know how to realize value from ideas.
Innovation flows from shifts in mind-set that can generate new business models,
recognize new opportunities, and weave innovations throughout the fabric of
society. It is about new ways of doing and seeing things as much as it is about
the breakthrough idea. Seen in this way, innovation is always in a state of
evolution, with the nature of its practice evolving
along with our ideas about the desired future. That is why innovation has
meant different things at different periods in our nations history, a state of
flux that has made it difficult to fashion a consensus around any one meaning
of innovation itself.
Version 1.0 of our national innovation capability, for instance, featured
individual visionary inventors. Central casting gave us Benjamin Franklin and
his kite, what we might call the artisanal model of innovation.
Umesh Sharma
Washington D.C.
1-202-215-4328 [Cell]
Ed.M. - International Education Policy
Harvard Graduate School of Education,
Harvard University,
Class of 2005
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