Currently a distinguished visiting fellow at Johns Hopkins University, Ross served for four years as senior advisor for innovation to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and earned the State Department’s Distinguished Honor Award. A frequent advisor to investors, corporations, and government leaders, Ross combines economic analysis with observations from his extensive world travel to map the route to success in the increasingly high-tech world of the near future. In Industries of the Future, Ross outlines how nations might form their own Silicon Valleys, discusses the marketing of genomics and other new data resources, and shows how the changing notions of work, markets, and money can be used as opportunities for new ventures.

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