I recently interviewed Judy Estrin, one of Silicon Valley’s top entrepreneurs, and asked her about the gender gap in the valley and why there aren’t more women in senior executive ranks.

Ms Estrin is a serial entrepreneur, former CTO at Cisco, and one of Silicon Valley’s top thought leaders.

I first met Ms Estrin about 7 years ago when I profiled her achievements in the Financial Times. What makes Ms Estrin interesting is that she is a dyed-in-the-wool Silicon Valley entrepeneur spanning several decades and she is not afraid to speak her mind.

Over the past few years she has been sounding the alarm about the lack of innovation in Silicon Valley, and in the US. We are living off of investments in innovation made many years ago and we are not creating the conditions for a new crop of innovation. And we need to harvest a bumper crop of innovation if we are to solve four major crises: energy, climate change, healthcare, and security.

Her work has led to a new book - Closing the Innovation Gap: Reigniting the Spark of Creativity in a Global Economy

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Please see:

Thought Leader Interview: Judy Estrin on the Innovation Gap in Silicon Valley and Beyond . . .

We Have a Serious Innovation Deficit Says Silicon Valley Thought Leader Judy Estrin

http://www.theinnovationgap.com/