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Economists Technology Innovators

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Forum talks to the winners of the Economist third annual innovation awards.

Guests:

Dipal Chandra Barua, deputy managing director of Grameen Bank, winner of Social and Economic Innovation award for Microcredit

Tom Standage, editor in chief of Technology Quarterly, The Economist

Christoph Gerber, researcher at IBM Zurich Laboratory in Switzerland, winner of No Boundaries award for word in field of nanotechnology and one of three inventors of the scanning tunneling microscope

Vic Hayes, former chair of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), winner of the Telecom award, considered the father of Wi-Fi

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