Targeting Innovation

If government is going to get more involved with the economy — OK, OK, since government is going to get more involved with the economy — the new administration should take a look at the plan proposed by Bill George (former Medtronic CEO and now a professor of management practice at Harvard) published at Business Week.  George asserts that his plan “will jump-start the innovation economy by providing built-in long-term growth, redistributing wealth without punishing the wealthy, and creating millions of well-paying jobs.”