Stephen Ezell is vice president, global innovation policy at the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, a Washington-DC based technology and economic policy think tank. He is the co-author with Dr. Robert Atkinson of Innovation Economics: The Race for Global Advantage (Yale, September 2012) and a co-author of Innovating in a Service-Driven Economy: Insights, Application, and Practice (Palgrave McMillan, November 2015).