Special Perspectives: Governments Can Help Make Regional Wealth in the Innovation Economy: A Dialogue Between Kailash Joshi and Davidi Gilo

To conclude our quest for perspectives from entrepreneurial champions , we present a dialogue between leaders in the Innovation Economy, whom you may recall from Chapters 1 and 2.

Kailash Joshi is from India, and is the Silicon Valley president of TiE (The IndUS Entrepreneurs), a multinational NGO, with 30 chapters and 10,000 members , dedicated to entrepreneurial advancement. He started his career on the research faculty of Cornell University in New York and had a distinguished career with IBM that spanned 23 years . He was the general manager of IBM Lexington, which is now Lexmark. Now retired , he devotes his time to TIE, which he helped found in 1992.

Davidi Gilo is from Israel and founded DSP Communications, which pioneered software development for the answering machine and other communications devices. He sold that company to Intel in 1999. In recent years he has been part of a high-tech international consortium advising the Israeli government on government policy on technology.

While both reside in Silicon Valley, each has maintained close interest in and contact with his native country's government to help them be more competitive in the global economy. They provide their perspectives in the hope that governments around the world, and the institutions in their countries , will work to make regional wealth increase everywhere.

In their dialogue, they discuss several areas that are essential for developing world governments to address if they want to be competitive in a free market environment: tax structures, employee stock options, company stock buy-backs, opening up telecommunications, company privatization , and the need to eliminate corruption and special interest protection.