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
