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xii Acknowledgments

Foster, helped us create a much higher quality book. Author
and friend Liz Ridley guided us through the search for an
agent and publisher and provided her expert insights into the
process from start to finish. Alden Hayashi, senior editor at the
MIT Sloan Management Review, might just be the best editor at
a business journal. Thanks for his help in making our 2006 and
2007 articles a success.
Dr. Wolcott would like to specially thank his wife, Ada, who
makes so much possible; his mother, Marilyn Wolcott, for
whom his gratitude is boundless; and his father, Bob Wolcott,
for instilling in him a love for entrepreneurship and innova-
tion and inspiring him to pursue what has become his calling.
Thanks to executive, professor, and National Medal of Tech-
nology recipient Donald N. Frey, his doctoral advisor and men-
tor in the art and science of innovation management and
leadership at large, complex firms.
Dr. Lippitz would like to specially thank his parents, Charles
and Rhita Lippitz; his wife, Susan; and his children, Robin,
Anna, and Marc, for their steadfast love and encouragement.
His doctoral advisor, former U.S. Secretary of Defense William
J. Perry, provided years of wisdom, mentorship, and inspira-
tion at Stanford and the Pentagon. Dr. Richard Van Atta at the
Institute for Defense Analyses provided insights and a decade
of research work on numerous U.S. government innovation
policy challenges.
Our sincerest thanks, again, to everyone who helped make
this book possible.

Robert C. Wolcott and Michael J. Lippitz
Evanston, Illinois