Great Again: Revitalizing America's Entrepreneurial Leadership

Great Again: Revitalizing America’s Entrepreneurial Leadership

In the book, “Great again: Revitalizing America’s Entrepreneurial Leadership” authors Henry Nothhaft and David Kline delve into the way the United States is failing in both the economy and technology advances. They ask, “How can America revitalize its innovation leadership and kick-start its sputtering economy?”

This is not a book you’ll be picking up and thumbing through lightly. The authors rely on “groundbreaking research and original analysis” to show open the readers eyes to a new vision for the country that can be constructed around achievable and practical regulatory, tax and other reforms. The authors believe it is the entrepreneur that will help to strengthen and revitalize the country again.

The authors take on five specific areas in which they feel the US is floundering and offer suggestions on how policies can – and should be – revamped to get the country back on solid footing:

1. Necessary reforms at the patent office – the site for innovators. Because this department is underfunded it is costing the country billions in GDP and loss of jobs. The authors write that every time a patent is issued it creates an average of three to five jobs.

2. The authors explain that tax policies drive start ups overseas or eventually out of business.

3. The US should be looking to invent here and manufacture here, rather than sending innovative ideas overseas to be manufactured.

4. The country’s restrictive immigration policies make it difficult for global talent to thrive. The best and brightest need to be allowed into the country.

5. Money for government-funded research has been in decline for years. If research and development money was offered and spent here, it stands to reason that it would create more industry, jobs and public revenue.

The authors know that the government is vital to the revitalization of the economy. This book offers interviews with venture capitalists and entrepreneurs that offer from-the-trenches insight and the authors back up the statements with scientific data and analysis. This book is one that should be in the hands of government leaders of all levels.

Book review by Robbi Hess for Entrepreneurchic.com. Robbi is a professional blogger, social media consultant, copy (and ghost) writer, editor and creative thinker. Visit her website at www.robbihess.com.

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