The danger of taking the social out of innovation

By dropping the social in innovation, is North America breaking the innovation chain?

Andy Grove, a co-funder of Intel and a Silicon Valley icon, is sounding two alarms about innovation’s future. Both flow from his disagreement with the accepted article of faith that the US tech sector necessarily should focus high-end jobs in the US and export manufacturing jobs.

One alarm is that US innovation is dropping the ball in job creation. By exporting manufacturing offshore to Asia, the United States is focusing on start-ups.  “Start-ups are a wonderful thing,” says Grove in a recent essay in Bloomberg Businessweek, “But they cannot by themselves increase tech employment.”

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Author: Tim Draimin