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Robert Jacobson

Consultant, Bluefire Innovation Management (Tucson, Arizona, and Malmö, Sweden)
Innovation management consultant practicing on the US West Coast and Scandinavia. Co-author of the Crisis Innovation Management blog (new).

• Former Principal Consultant, California Legislature, on telecom and info policy (invented the term "electronic commerce" in 1983)

• Former co-author of the Total Experience blog.

• Fulbright Fellow studying role of cellular telephony on transborder communities in the Nordic Arctic circle.

• Twice visualization technology startup CEO (company sold to Nvidia)

• Futurist and Senior Consultant, SRI

• Web 1.0 Contract Strategy VP

• Editor and Contributor, Information Design (MIT 2000), An "Open Approach" to Information Policymaking (Albex 1989), and Municipal Control of Cable Communications (Prager 1977)

PhD, Urban Planning & Design, UCLA; MA, Comm Industry Management, USC Annenberg School; MA, TV Studies, UCLA; BA, Sociology, UCLA

History

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