The Economist Innovation Summit 2016 was held on Sept. 6 in Hong Kong. I was honored to speak at the event.
While attending the event, I live-tweeted highlights from the event. The following tweets have been getting many impressions and retweets:
Markus Steilemann: Innovation is about invention that makes money, and China is doing great in that #EconInnov pic.twitter.com/wFHYh17cSk
Victor Foo: innovation should be focusing on solving local market problems. #EconInnovpic.twitter.com/Rq6L6EPEL4
David Chao: Government directed programs never do well. Let the markets take paths #EconInnovpic.twitter.com/S8XepT9xyV
China’s innovation uses tech to solve problems vs. western innovation creates technology first then products #EconInnovpic.twitter.com/fB2Bd2J3pX
China’s innovation is not yet a game changer, but has potential for the future #EconInnovpic.twitter.com/lymaKe10bf
Missing: where’s China’s social and organization innovation? #EconInnovpic.twitter.com/kXVsycFqWu
Kathy Xu: Chinese consumers are born after 1980s. They are spenders, staying home and shopping online #EconInnovpic.twitter.com/T1M7gyjngn
Jonathan Woeltzel: China will not only innovate, but change the innovation process by making it cheaper and faster #EconInnovpic.twitter.com/VghaDCwP9A
In the coming days, I should have more information to share. Stay tuned.