Gutierrez Names Carl J. Schramm Chair of Commerce Department's Advisory Committee to Measure Innovation

Business Wire, Feb 15, 2007

Samuel J. Palmisano, CEO, IBM, Armonk, N.Y. Under Mr. Palmisano's leadership, IBM's strategy focuses on enabling innovation and the development of the globally integrated enterprise. He is credited with building the largest and most diversified IT services organization in the industry. Mr. Palmisano was co-chair of the Council of Competitiveness' National Innovation Initiative, which produced a report, "Innovate America." One of the key findings of the report is the need to develop new metrics to understand and manage 21st century innovation.

Carl Schramm, Ph.D., President and CEO, Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, Kansas City, Mo. The Kauffman Foundation is the nation's largest philanthropy dedicated to economic research and is the global center of thought on the topic of advancing entrepreneurship. The foundation also leads efforts to find more effective ways to move innovative discoveries from the lab to the market.

ACADEMIC LEADERS:

Ashish Arora, Ph.D., Professor of Economics and Public Policy at the H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pa. Dr. Arora's research focuses on the economics of innovation and of technology-intensive industries such as software, biotechnology and chemicals, the role of patents and licensing in promoting technology startups and facilitating a market for technology, and the economics of information technology.

Rajesh Chandy, Ph.D., Carlson School Professor of Marketing, Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minn. His research specialties include innovation, technology management, and marketing strategy. Dr. Chandy has received several national and international awards for his research on innovation.

Kathleen B. Cooper, Ph.D., Dean, College of Business, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas. As the Commerce Department's Under Secretary for Economic Affairs from 2001 - 2005, she served as the principal economic adviser to Secretary Gutierrez and former Secretary Evans. Dr. Cooper was Chief Economist and Manager of the Economics and Energy Division at Exxon Mobil Corporation and president of the U.S. Association for Energy Economics, where she remains a Senior Fellow.

Dale W. Jorgenson, Ph.D., Professor of Economics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. He has conducted groundbreaking research on information technology and economic growth, energy and the environment, tax policy and investment behavior, and applied econometrics.

Donald Siegel, Ph.D., Professor and Associate Dean, Graduate School of Management, University of California at Riverside, Riverside, Calif. His primary research interests are the economics and strategic implications of technological change, the measurement and analysis of firm performance, university technology transfer, and the impact of public and private investments in technology (R&D and computers) and education on productivity and labor composition.