The Smartest Places on Earth: Why Rustbelts Are the Emerging Hotspots of Global Innovation

. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.Alfred Bakker, until his recent retirement, was a journalist specializing in monetary and financial affairs with Het Financieele Dagblad--the Financial Times of Holland--serving as deputy editor, editor in chief, and CEO. Antoine van Agtmae

The next emerging market may, in fact, be the West.. The remarkable story of how rustbelt cities such as Akron and Albany in the United States and Eindhoven in Europe are becoming the unlikely hotspots of global innovation, where sharing brainpower and making things smarter-not cheaper-is creating a new economy that is turning globalization on its headAntoine van Agtmael and Fred Bakker counter recent conventional wisdom that the American and northern European economies have lost their initiative in inno

Looking for business in all the right places Daniel B. Beaulieu Looking for business in all the right places The Smartest Places on Earth: Why Rustbelts are the Emerging HOTSPOTS of Global Innovation BY Antoine van Agtmael and Fred Bakker, a book that everyone in business today should pick up and read.This is by far the most optimistic book of the year because it t. Great Book! With One Component Missing I heard Antoine on NPR, ordered the book and read it cover to cover in two days. I happen to live in a rustbelt city that has a research university and is beginning a comeback, but is in the early stages. The key message in this book that my city needs is the "brainsharing" aspect. I've since purchased. "Fan of the author" according to doug metcalf. I have followed Antoine van Agtmael for 20 years as one of the leading emerging market portfolio managers and his insights on the future of former Rust Belts based on 21st Century technologies was spot-on.

and European older industrial cities: advanced industries and networks of universities, companies and governments that collaborate to compete. Sirkin, Senior Partner, The Boston Consulting Group (BCG)"The riveting story of how failing rustbelts in the Unites States and Northern Europe have transformed themselves into emerging brainbelts through the triumph of collaboration and ingenuity to become promising models of bottom-up innovation."Hilda Ochoa-Brillembourg, Founder and Cha