Innovation: The Key to Prosperity, Technology & America's Role in the 21st Century Global Economy

How America's lost scientific nerve caused its current meltdown . and how to fix it.

Aris Melissaratos is a founder of Armel Scientifics, LLC, an investor in over 30 start-up companies in advanced technology. He has been honored as the Baltimore Museum of Industry’s 2009 Industrialist of the Year. He was named the Greater Baltimore Technology Council’s Extraordinary Technology Advocate of 2008. He worked for Westinghouse Electric Corporation 32 Years, retiring as Chief Technology Officer and Vice President for Science and Technology responsible for research and development. He also served as Chief Operations Officer for Westinghouse’s Defense Electronics Group, where he was responsible for $3.2 billion in sales. He recently established the Aris Institute, a private foundation to promote technology innovation. Honored technology scholar-writer N.J. Slabbert, a former Reader’s Digest senior editor and staff writer, is co-author of The Intellectual versus the City: Anti-urbanism in America from Jefferson to the 21st Century, with philosopher Morton White, of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J., and Rescue Mission: How US Military Research & Technology Can Help Save Our Economy, introduced by former Vice Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral William A. Owens, both due to be published later this year. His work has appeared in many publications ranging from the Harvard International Review to the Washington Post. He has advised government agencies and companies working in fields from medicine and pharmaceuticals to electronics, telecommunications and environmental technology.