In this talk, Tim Rowe summarizes the conclusions of the discussions of the experts of the Future Trends Forum on National and Regional innovation and gives ideas on how to apply them to the situation in Spain. He talks about the difference of strategies between the countries and how the actions should be adapted to each country in order to work: there is no recipe.  Tim discusses the situation in Spain and points out the strengths and weaknesses.  He talks about a series of concepts and ideas that came out of the discussion of the experts. Then, Tim shares with the group a few ideas that might help find a way to impulse innovation in Spain to reactivate the economy.

Tim is the Founder and CEO of Cambridge Innovation Center and serves on the boards of several private companies, including Lumidigm, Inc., a biometric sensor technology company. He has particular interest in consumer-oriented mass-market companies. In February 2009 Tim was elected to lead the Kendall Square Association (link to www.kendallsq.org) an organization which works to strengthen Cambridge, Massachusetts’s science and technology cluster. Prior to his current roles, Tim was a Manager with the Boston Consulting Group in Boston and an analyst with the Mitsubishi Research Institute in Tokyo. While a graduate student at MIT in 1994, Tim co-led the student group that coordinated the first international conference on the World Wide Web at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland.