During the ongoing U.S. presidential campaign, presidential hopeful Mitt Romney lamented that incumbent president, Barack Obama, spent too much time at Harvard. Romney, who has two degrees from Harvard, does not doubt the value of intellectual life, but knows well that today’s heroes are successful business leaders, like himself, and not the men or women of ideas.
Amid a global economic crisis that seems to be without an end, policy innovators with the ability to link the world of ideas with the real world are increasingly missed. The world’s attention seems to have shifted from policy innovators to the “technopreneurs” - celebrity technology entrepreneurs - such as Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg, Sergey Brin and Larry Page. Around the world, these Silicon Valley-styled technopreneurs are given hero status. Their opinions and advice are sourced at summits, conferences and by media outlets while politicians compete for photo ops.
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