Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Webcast for Students

Tuesday, November 18, 2008
11 – 11:45 am ET
2 – 2:45 pm ET

Global Entrepreneurship Week, November 17–23, 2008

As part of Global Entrepreneurship Week, FPRI will present a 45-minute webcast on Innovation and Entrepreneurship. Secondary schools/classes may sign up to view the webcast live online and participate in the Q&A periods.

Background

The founders of Yahoo!, Google, and Facebook are famous and very wealthy. They are our modern heroes. In part, each owes his success to the work and success of many other innovators and entrepreneurs in an unbroken line stretching back hundreds of years. As Isaac Newton famously repeated, “If I have seen a little further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.”

On whose shoulders do Jerry Yang and David Filo (Yahoo!), Sergey Brin and Larry Page (Google), and Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook) stand? What innovations form the foundations of these companies’ products, and how can we understand how history can give each of us a better chance to create great products and achieve great success?

Lawrence Husick, co-director of FPRI’s Wachman Center Program on Teaching Innovation will present a fast-paced webcast that traces these modern systems’ roots from from an early form of telegraph, through Napoleon’s France, to Samuel Morse, Alexander Graham Bell, “Ma” Bell, Bell Labs, and then finally to BitNet, ARPANet, the Internet and World Wide Web.

Media

Answers to Student Questions

Additional Resources

For more resources on teaching innovation, browse FPRI’s Program on Teaching Innovation at www.fpri.org/education/innovation.

FPRI Wishes to Thank its 2011 Partners
Who help make all our programs possible.

On November 15th at the FPRI annual dinner Fouad Ajami was presented with the Seventh Annual Benjamin Franklin Public Service Award. The event was attended by over 360 people.
Dr. John M. Templeton, Jr. was dinner chairman.

FPRI 2011 Annual Dinner

Video of keynote address
Reflections on the Arab Spring
Fouad Ajami

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Al Qaeda and Jihadi Movements After Bin Laden
Christopher Swift

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Peter Bergen

FPRI Dinner Booklet and Annual report