
The 25th of January President Barack Obama held his state-of-the-union address and his answer to America’s great budget and debt problems spells out: INNOVATION.
Obama claimed that America needs to “out-innovate, out-educate and outbuild the rest of the world” and wants to re-create the Sputnik-era in American history, when the US was falling behind the Soviet Union in the space race and mobilized a great scientific and innovative initiative. That is for example the moment when a lot of the research about creativity and innovation, that we still use today, started with the works of Joy P Guilford.
Read more in The Economist…