“eBay just opened in Thailand this morning.” Meg Whitman, President and CEO of pioneering online auctioneer eBay Inc. (EBAY) looked out across the distinguished audience of academia and industry attending the SIEPR (Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research) Policy Forum – Innovation Policy for the Next President. In her keynote address entitled “The Innovation Agenda,” the dynamic Silicon Valley icon captured the very spirit of innovation itself. Director of SIEPR, Prof. John Shoven introduced Whitman and pointed out that her many accolades including being named one of Time Magazine’s world’s most influential people and The Wall Street Journal’s one of 50 Women to…