Final Conference Program:
Day 2 – Tuesday, 12 July 2011
Venue: McCaw Hall, Arrillaga Alumni Center, 326 Galvez Street, Stanford
08.30- 09.30 |
Breakfast | McCaw Hall Lobby |
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09.00-09.30 ‘Meet the authors’ Breakfast Series (1) Presentation, signing and sale of books authored by TH9 speakers, organized in collaboration with Stanford bookstore: William Draper (Startup Game), Keith Devlin (The Man of Numbers: Fibonacci’ s Arithmetic Revolution), Stephen Adams & Orville Butler (Manufacturing the Future), Constantin Malik (Ahead of Change), Margaret Pugh O’Mara (Cities of Knowledge), Sue Rosser (The Science Glass Ceiling; Diversity & Women’s Health), James Williams (Energy and the Making of Modern California). |
McCaw Hall | |
09.30- 11.00 |
Plenary session 1: “In honour of Christopher Freeman, pioneer in innovation studies”
Technology paradigm transitions, that characterize an Age, are typically recognized after the fact, and are then seen as having been inevitable. Other predicted transitions, like the 1930’s prediction of ubiquitous personal airplanes are viewed as idiosyncratic curiosities, while the long-expected picture-phone, has appeared in a new guise with skype. Will the currently heralded “green transition” of renewables usher in a new age or will “King Coal” reassert primacy in a new guise as China and Newcastle, alike, pursue “clean coal.” Our speakers today will address the issues of transition: what, if anything, is mandated by technological development; what tools do we have for predicting technological futures that are embedded in social and cultural relations; where is the political will to insure that feasible and sustainable technological futures are realized? Chair: Prof. Henry Etzkowitz, Senior Researcher, H-STAR Institute, StanfordUniversity Keynote speaker: Carlota Perez, Professor of Technology and Development at the Technological University of Tallinn, Estonia, Visiting Senior Fellow at London School of Economics, Visiting Scholar at the Faculty of Economics, Cambridge University, U.K. and Honorary Professor at SPRU, School of Business, Management and Economics, University of Sussex, U.K. Speakers:
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McCaw Hall |
11.00- 11.30 |
Tea/Coffee break | |
11.30- 13.00 |
Plenary Session 2: “Building innovation ecosystems: global and regional factors” In this session three American regions will be described – three different innovation ecosystems in which Triple Helix forces have emerged, thrived and been sustained. The factors that shaped their origins and evolution will be discussed from both academic and practitioners’ perspectives. In a dialogue between the speakers and the audience, similarities and differences across these regions will be highlighted and fundamental insights for engines of innovation with global influence will be explored. Chair: Martha Russell, Senior Researcher, Human Sciences Technology Advanced Research Institute (H-STAR), Innovation Ecosystems Network, Associate Director, Media X at Stanford University Keynote speaker: Annalee Saxenian, Professor and Dean at the University of California Berkeley School of Information and Professor in Berkeley´s Department of City and Regional Planning. Speakers:
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McCaw Hall |
13.00- 14.30 |
Lunch
14.00-14.30 “Innovation Think-Tank” After-lunch Talk Series (1) Constantin Malik, Malik Management, St. Gallen, Switzerland |
McCaw Hall |
14.30- 16.00 |
Plenary session 3: ”Achieving gender equality in technology and innovation: 50:50 by 2020?”
Chair: Marina Ranga, Senior Researcher, H-STAR Institute, Stanford University Speakers:
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McCaw Hall |
16.00- 16.30 |
Tea/Coffee Break | |
16.30- 18.00 |
Plenary session 4: “Fire in the Valley” – Entrepreneurship, Venture Capital and the Start-up phenomenon
Entrepreneurship and the entrepreneur-investor relationship has changed visibly in Silicon Valley over the past 20 years. Today’s generation of Web 2.0 founders face a very different market, talent and funding landscape in comparison to enterprise software, semiconductor, Internet and medical device start-ups back in 1995, and bring a whole new set of expectations and skills with them. Over the past two years, the divergence in deal flow between “lean start-ups” and more traditional start-ups has grown dramatically. On the investor side we are also seeing a new breed of “lean VCs” emerge that are closer to the entrepreneur in mindset, and that invest smaller sums in very large numbers of deals, anticipating high failure rates. This panel of industry veterans and new players will explore differences in entrepreneurship and investing across the generations, the impact of the Start-up Genome Project on firm success rates, and how new models of incubators and accelerators are shaping the entrepreneurial ecosystem landscape here in Silicon Valley and around the globe. Chair: Burton Lee, Lecturer in European Entrepreneurship & Innovation, Stanford School of Engineering, and Managing Director of Innovarium Ventures Speakers: |
McCaw Hall |
20.00- 22.00 |
Barbeque at Oak Creek Clubhouse |