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Google CEO Heads Obama's Innovation Team - THE DAILY RIFF - Be Smarter. About Education.

Google CEO Heads Obama's Innovation Team - THE DAILY RIFF - Be Smarter. About Education.


Google CEO Heads Obama's Innovation Team




"Innovation has been essential to our prosperity in the past,
and it will be essential to our prosperity in the future"

- President Obama


"We are broken.
The entrepreneurial eco-system is broken
because we don't have equity and we're not taking risks in the market."
- Judy Estrin, CEO, JLabs


The Daily Beast reports on the "7 sharpest moments" of a meeting led by Google CEO Eric Schmidt, "convening a panel of 25 renowned technology, innovation and science experts in D.C. yesterday at the behest of the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology - a fancy name for Obama's innovation task force."


"So what did some of the smartest people in the country tell Schmidt to relay to