Chapter One: The Innovation Economy
- Sir Peter Hall, author of Cities in Civilization
- Davidi Gilo, CEO, Digital Signal Processing (DSP) Communications
Section One - Silicon Valley, California: The Magnetic Force
Chapter Two: Silicon Valley Overview, Global Entrepreneurs and Marketing of Multi-National companies
- Davidi Gilo, CEO, DSP Communications
- Shirley Horn, Senior Director of Global Brand Management, Agilent
Chapter Three: Silicon Valley Linking Organizations - Non-Government Organizations, Strong Regional Business Associations, and Philanthropies
- Kailash Joshi, President and Co – Founder of the Silicon Valley chapter of IndUS Entrepreneurs
- Carl Guardino, President and CEO, Silicon Valley Manufacturing Group
- Gib Myers, Partner, Mayfield Group & Founder, Entrepreneurs Foundation
- Emil Wang, President, Latitude Communications
Chapter Four: Local Government Working in Partnership with Business
- Henry Manayan, Mayor, The city of Milpitas, California
- David Ferrari, President, Oneworkplace
- Dave Martinez, Facilities Manager, Oneworkplace
- Bob Kraiss, Director of Facilities Management, Adaptec
- Mike Garvey, Manager, the city of San Carlos
- Brian Moura, Assistant City Manager, the city of San Carlos
Section Two - Ireland the Enterprise Island
Chapter Five: Ireland Enterprise Spirit and Trade Union Social Contract
- Brendan Halpin, International Media & Marketing Manager, Ireland Development Agency (IDA)
- Bill Riley, Public Affairs Manager, Intel, Ireland
- Tom Wall, Assistant General Secretary, Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU)
Chapter Six: National Government Directing the Growth of Ireland
- Mary Harney, Tánaiste (Deputy Prime Minister) and Minister, Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment of the Republic of Ireland
- Mattie McCabe, Director, Office of Science and Technology
- David Hanna, Director, Information and Communications Technologies, IDA
Chapter Seven: International Corporations Choosing Ireland for Multi-functional Operations and the Branding of Ireland
- Bill Riley, Public Affairs Manager, Intel Ireland
- Veronica Perdisatt, Vice President, EMC Cork manufacturing division
- Rick St. Vincent, President and Executive Creative Director, St. Vincent/Milone & O’Sullivan, Inc.
- Ruth Croke, Vice President of IDA Ireland in New York
Chapter Eight: Swedish Regional Overview, Industry Specialisation and Leveraging Intellectual Capital
- Peter Kopelman, Managing Director, Cisco Systems Sweden
- Jesper Ejdling Martell, Director, Comintell
- Lars Östmarck, Nordic Regional Manager, Intel Sweden
- Leif Edvinsson, Founder, Universal Networking Intellectual Capital (UNIC)
Chapter Nine: Entrepreneurship Infusion - Political and Societal Change for the Innovation Economy
- Anders Comstedt, President, AB Stokab
- Peter Holmstedt, President, Electrum Foundation
- Carl Cederschiöld, Mayor, City Government of Stockholm
- Jane Walerud, Director of Advanced Products, Alteon Sweden
- Joe Armstrong, Co - Founder, Bluetail Software
- Niklas Flisberg, Co - Founder, Result Knowledge Venture Management
- Section Four - Germany, the United Kingdom and France: Europe’s Industrial Giants Adapting to the Global Innovation Economy
Chapter Ten: Munich - The Hidden Champion: Creating an Entrepreneurial Culture with State Government in Partnership with Business
- Lutz Weber, CEO, Morphochem
- Frank W. Strathmann, Managing Director, Gründerregio-M
- Anthony Maher, Member Board of Siemens Information and Communication Networks (ICN)
- Joe Kaeser, Member Board of Siemens Information and Communication Mobile (ICM)
- Richard Roy, Managing Director, Mirosoft GmbH
- Günther Ernstberger, Managing Director, Gründerzentrum für Neue Medien Unterföhring (GZM)
- Jürgen Vogel, Coordinator of the Pyrenean-Alpine Network of Entrepreneurial Liaisons (PANEL)
Chapter Eleven: Cambridge - Incubator for Innovation, “Small is Beautiful”
- Lindy Beveridge, Author, “The Cambridge Entrepreneurs - In the Business of Technology”
- David Cleevely, Managing Director & Founder, Analysys
- Gordon Edge, Managing Director, The Generics Group
- Paul Auton, Chairman, Arthur D. Little/Cambridge Consultants
Chapter Twelve: Sophia Antipolis - Technology Park the “French Way”
- Senator Pierre Laffitte, Fondation Sophia Antipolis
- Michel Bernasconi, Professor of Management and Head of the High-Tech Entrepreneurship Chair, CERAM
- Ulrich Finger, Director, Institut Eurécom
- Jacques Gros, Director, IBM’s e-business Solutions Center, La Gaude
- Gérard Giraudon, Director, French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control
Section Five - High Tech Islands of Israel and Taiwan
Chapter Thirteen: Taiwan Technology Parks and NGO's
- James Lee, Director General, Hsinchu Science-based Industrial Park (HSIP)
- Mike Liu, Public Relations Manager, Winbond Electronics Corp.
- Alexander Huang, Great China Region Director, Microsoft Taiwan
- George Lin, Vice President, Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International (SEMI)
Chapter Fourteen: Financial Capitalization and the Chinese Networking Culture Extends to China and Beyond
- Shen Jung Chin, Researcher, Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI)
- Wu Se Hwa, Dean and Professor, Department of Business Administration, National Cheng-Chi University
Chapter Fifteen: The Israeli Model - “A High-Tech Island” for Military Technology Transfer to Civilian Applications and Universities as Incubators
- Michel Revel, Chairman, National Biotechnology Committee for Israel.
- Schlomo Dror, Spokesman, Israeli Ministry of Defense,
Chapter Sixteen: Immigration to Israel, Venture Funding and Entrepreneurship
- Edouard Cukierman, Chaiman, Cukierman & Co. Investment House Ltd.; CEO, CatalystFund
- Marc Abitbol, Founder, Chairman of the Board & CEO, Visionix
Section Six - India: The Best Hope for Bridging the Digital Divide
Chapter Seventeen: the Indian IT Sector and Government Initiatives in Education
- Joel Ruet, Coordinator of Economics, Centre de Sciences Humaines
- Shyam Sethi, Visiting Professor, IIT Delhi
Chapter Eighteen: Transnational Links in Venture Capital for the Public Good - An Advantage in Networking
- Abhijit Halder, Consul of Community Affairs, Indian Consulate, San Francisco
- R. M. Abhyankar, Special Secretary, Ministry of External Affairs of the government of India
- Christopher Jaffrelot, Director, Centre d’etudes et de recherches internationals (CERI)
- Kiran Karnik, President, National Association of Software and Services Companies (NASSCOM)
- Pradeep Kar, Founder, Chairman & Managing Director, Microland Group
- Jyoti Gupta, Professor of Finance, ESCP-EAP European Business School of Management
- Rafiq Dossani, Consulting Professor & Senior Research Scholar, Asia/Pacific Research Center, (A/PARC) Stanford University
Special Perspectives: Dialogue across the Atlantic: Lester Thurow and Jacques Attali
- Lester Thurow, Lemelson Professor of Management and Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Jacques Attali, Council of State, French Republic
Special Perspectives: Davidi Gilo and Kailash Joshi
- Davidi Gilo, CEO, DSP Communications
- Kailash Joshi, President and Co - Founder of the Silicon Valley chapter of IndUS Entrepreneurs
Special Perspectives: Human Resources Management in the Innovation Economy: Self-Managed Living Systems
- Thierry Picq, Professor, EM-Lyons