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中華民國科技顧問，史丹佛國際研究中心總裁卡爾森(Curtis R. Carlson)，今日在第三十一屆科技顧問會議發表演說，對台灣提出四大建議：槓桿使用國際資源，儘快建立創新的生態系統、效法美國國防先進局，引領典範移轉式的科技創新、革新教育系統，增添創新元素，「台灣必須更積極延攬與留用最好的人才，人才是二十一世紀最有價值、最稀少的資源，」他強調。台灣跟美國現階段最大的危機是把人才趕出去。

物理博士，卡爾森率領的團隊曾獲得兩次艾美獎技術貢獻獎，1998年出任史丹佛國際研究中心總裁。史丹佛國際研究中心是全球大學研究技轉產業最成功的典範之一，曾被譽為矽谷的靈魂。卡爾森常針對以創新與國家競爭力議題發表演說，不僅是歐巴馬顧問團隊之一，也是新加坡國家科學基金會共同主席。

卡爾森認為，現在是個機會無窮的世界（a world of Abundance），一方面科技變化極快，另方面出現了極其龐大的新市場，這將是個不創新就會死的年代。創新經濟有四大驅動力。

Curtis R. Carlson, President + CEO | SRI International 總裁兼執行長卡爾森（Curtis R. Carlson）

Curtis R. Carlson

President + Chief Executive Officer

Curtis R. Carlson, Ph.D., became president and CEO of SRI International in December 1998. Previously, he spent more than 20 years with Sarnoff Corporation, an SRI subsidiary that was fully integrated into SRI in 2011.

In 1973, Carlson joined RCA Laboratories, which became part of SRI in 1987 as Sarnoff Corporation. He started and helped lead the high-definition television (HDTV) program that became the U.S. standard, and in 1997 his team won an Emmy Award for outstanding technical achievement. In 2000, another team started and led by Carlson won an Emmy for a system to optimize satellite broadcast image quality. He helped found more than 12 companies.