At Friday's D Brand Summit, keynote speaker John Kao, author of
Innovation Nation, talked about how innovations used to solve Detroit's problems could be valuable lessons for the rest of the country.
Excerpt:
"Detroit could be an icon for the things we’re looking for across the
country," said Kao, a San Francisco-based consultant, writer and
musician. "The things that can get figured out here in Detroit can show
how things will get figured out everywhere else."
But just as
the problems facing Southeast Michigan are immense, so are the problems
confronting the United States, he said. He pointed to large amounts of
spending on education with results lagging other countries.
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