Innovation and Economic Growth: Lessons from the Story of ENIAC March 9, 2009

Hosted by: Foreign Policy Research Institute

Speaker: Rocco L. Martino, Senior Fellow, FPRI, and CEO, Cyberfone
Technologies, Inc.

The development of the entire computer industry was a significant
innovation. It was centered about Philadelphia with the creation of
ENIAC. In a very short time, the computer became the catalyst for the
largest increase of international wealth in history. How did this come
about? What lessons can be carried forward into the future as America,
and the world, struggles to find ways to reignite the growth cycle.

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