Tuesday, November 18, 2008
11:00 AM ET
2:00 PM ET

As part  of Global  Entrepreneurship Week, FPRI will present two 45-minute  webcast on  Innovation and  Entrepreneurship.

Secondary schools/classes  may sign up to view the webcasts live online and participate in the Q&A periods.

The founders  of Yahoo!, Google, and FaceBook are famous and very wealthy. They are our modern heroes. In part, each owes his success to the work and success of many other innovators and  entrepreneurs  in  an  unbroken  line  stretching  back hundreds of  years. As Isaac Newton famously repeated, "If I have seen  a little  further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants."

On whose shoulders do Jerry Yang and David Filo (Yahoo!), Sergey Brin  and Larry  Page (Google), and Mark  Zuckerberg (Facebook) stand? What innovations  form the foundations of these companies’  products, and  how can we understand how history can  give each of us a better chance to create great products and achieve great success?

Lawrence  Husick, co-director of FPRI's Wachman Center Program on the History of Innovation will present a fast-paced webcast that traces these modern systems' roots from an early form of telegraph, through Napoleon's France, to Samuel  Morse, Alexander Graham Bell,  “Ma” Bell, Bell Labs, and  then finally to BitNet, ARPANet, the Internet and World Wide Web.

To register for either or both webcasts go to:

www.fpri.org/education/innovationwebcast/

For additional   information, contact   Aln  Luxenberg  at lux@fpri.org or telephone (215) 732-3774 x105.