[This Thanksgiving weekend I’m featuring excerpts from the first chapter of Closing the Innovation Gap: Reigniting the Spark of Creativity in a Global Economy by renowned entrepreneur and guest author, Judy Estrin. According to Estrin, innovation comes from the interplay of three drivers of creative change: research, development and application, what she calls the “Innovation Ecosystem”.
Judy Estrin is CEO of JLABS, LLC, formerly known as Packet Design Management Company, LLC. She is the author of Closing the Innovation Gap, published in September 2008. Beginning in 1981 Estrin co-founded three other successful technology companies: Bridge Communications, Network Computing Devices and Precept Software. In 1998 Cisco Systems acquired Precept, and Estrin became Cisco’s chief
I also wrote my story with Amazon for Forbes this week. As I wrote it, I was thinking whom I know in the technology industry who would be able to leverage this sort of a relationship with Amazon. Here are some ideas: Nicholas Carr, Judy Estrin, Om Malik, all of whom have written books before.