Second Annual Rocco Martino Lecture on Innovation

Innovation and the World Economy

Robert E. Litan, Brookings Institution and Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation

September 23, 2009 / Philadelphia

Robert Litan is the vice president for Research and Policy at the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation in Kansas City. He is co-author of Good Capitalism, Bad Capitalism, and the Economics of Growth and Prosperity, which has been translated into ten languages and is used as a college text around the world. His other books include Financial Statecraft (Yale University Press, 2006) and Worldwide Financial Reporting (Oxford University Press, 2006). Dr. Litan has served in several capacities in the federal government: he was associate director of the Office of Management and Budget, 1995-96; Deputy Assistant Attorney General, 1993-1995; staff specialist at the President’s Council of Economic Advisers, 1977-79. He received his B.S. in economics from the Wharton School, his J.D. from Yale Law School; and his Ph.D. in Economic from Yale University.

In 2007, Dr. Martino founded the Rocco Martino Lectures on Innovation to promote studies and education in innovation. An FPRI Senior Fellow, Dr. Martino has been in the forefront of computer applications and process innovation almost from the inception of the computer. Prior to founding XRT and then CyberFone, he held key positions with Booz Allen & Hamilton, Olin Mathieson, and Mauchly Associates, where he worked in partnership with Dr. John Mauchly, one of the developers of ENIAC and the co-inventor of electronic computers. Dr. Martino earned his Doctorate in Astrophysics from the Institute of Aerospace Studies for his work on the re-entry of space vehicles.

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