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Brian Kahin is Senior Fellow at the Computer & Communications Industry Association in Washington, DC, where his work focuses on patent policy, standards, open source, and innovation policy.  He is also Research Investigator and Adjunct Professor at the University of Michigan School of Information, and a Lecturer at the University of Colorado. Kahin was founding Director of the Information Infrastructure Project at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government (1989-97).  He served as Senior Policy Analyst in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy from 1997 to 2000, where he chaired the interagency working group on the digital economy. Kahin has edited ten books on Internet-related policy, including Advancing Knowledge and the Knowledge Economy (MIT Press 2006).

IMD - International Institute for Management
Development

http://www.imd.ch/

IMD is an independent not-for-profit foundation located in Lausanne,
Switzerland. Its programs are designed to enhance leadership in every
area of management. They help executives and companies to find new
and innovative ways to sustain global competitiveness. IMD maintains
close relationships with business through its Partner and Business
Associate Network. The Network is comprised of over 120 global companies,
which drive IMD's research agenda.

Michael Shattock

Visiting Professor – Institute of Education

University of London

Michael Shattock is a Visiting Professor at the Institute of Education, University of London where he founded an MBA in Higher Education Management. Prior to this and until 1999 he was Registrar (broadly equivalent to Provost in the US system) at the University of Warwick. His best known books are The UGC and the Management of the British University System (1994, Open University Press), Creating a University System ([Ed] 1996 Blackwells) (both historical); Managing Successful Universities (2003, Open University Press), and Managing Good Governance in Higher Education (2006, Open University Press) (both in the field of contemporary management issues). He is now preparing a book on Universities and the Knowledge Economy

John Zysman

Professor of Political Science and Co-Director – BRIE

University of California, Berkeley

John Zysman is a Professor of Political Science at the University of California Berkeley. Professor John Zysman has been a member of the University of California, Berkeley faculty since 1974, and is Co-Director and Co-Founder of the Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy (BRIE), established in 1982. Professor Zysman received his B.A. from Harvard University and his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Over the years his research has spanned an array of topics on the political economy, from French post-industrialist policy to the influence of the internet on industrial competition (Tracking the Transformation). His most recent work assesses the impact of the digital transformation. How Revolutionary was the Digital Revolution? National Responses, Market Transitions, and Global Technology in the Digital Era, (Stanford University Press) is the product of a joint multi year project between BRIE and the Institute on the Finnish Economy (ETLA), and in part the University of Helsinki Institute on European Studies. Professor Zysman’s recent research has two foci. One concerns Re-priming the American Technology Pump. The second foci is The Service Transformation, which looks at the transformation of the service sector and the reality that service reorganization in a digital era should be able to generate productivity increases.