Winner Take All: How Competitiveness Shapes the Fate of Nations »

Richard Elkus has been chief executive or on the board of directors of over fifteen different high-technology companies, as well as a board member of the University of California President’s Board of Science and Innovation, Scripps Research Institute, the Center for Strategic and International Studies, the Economic Strategy Institute, the American Electronics Association, and many other organizations. This is his first book. He lives in Atherton, California.

Why has the U.S. lost dominant market positions in industry after industry, why this is a major problem for American living standards, and what we can do about it

Introduction The Great Giveaway 1

1 Replay 27

2 Convergence 49

3 Evolution, Part 1 77

4 Evolution, Part 2 95

5 Chasing the Rainbow: The Cost of Infrastructure 123

6 Education and Competitiveness: The Vicious and Virtuous Circle 157

7 It's Not about the Picture: The Case of HDTV 179

8 Winners and Losers 205

9 Failure Is Not an Option 223

Acknowledgments 245

Notes 247

Index 257