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Experts to offer new vision for innovation in tough times
Analysts, start up leaders, funders, innovators will present at SPIE Photonics Innovation Summit.
Radically new approaches are required for transforming breakthrough technology into new business and staying viable in the current economy, say innovation experts who will present at the SPIE Photonics Innovation Summit in the Silicon Valley, San Francisco area, next month.
The summit is intended to meet the needs of CEOs, CTOs, CFOs, and technology managers looking for new, effective ways to accelerate innovation. SPIE annually presents more than 25 technical forums and exhibitions connecting optics and photonics researchers and developers. The Photonics Innovation Summit is unique in speaking directly to the needs of senior executives on one of the key themes in business today and a cornerstone of the American economy: innovation.
“Firms can and should use external ideas as well as internal ideas,” and in some cases go as far as seeing “piracy” as a marketing tool, according to Henry Chesbrough, author of Open Innovation and the newly published Open Business. Chesbrough is one of three keynote speakers, and is Executive Director of the Centre of Open Innovation at the Institute of Management, Innovation and Organisation Management of Technology Programme, University of California, Berkeley.
John Kao, Chairman and CEO of Kao and Co., and author of Innovation Nation, will detail in his keynote talk why innovation “is about new ways of doing and seeing things as much as it is about the breakthrough idea,” and what those new perspectives and practices need to be.
Joseph Goodman, William Ayer Professor, Emeritus at Stanford University and party in numerous photonics start up companies, will round out the slate of keynote speakers. Goodman will offer insights on the process of transferring university innovation to industry.
Afternoon sessions will begin with a presentation by Marc Stanley, Director of NIST’s Technology Innovation Program (TIP). He will illustrate the importance of innovation and TIP in technical areas such as solar, lighting, biophotonics, and others, and in addressing the nation’s critical needs.
Break-out sessions will focus on the role of technological innovation in three rapidly expanding markets. Topics and speakers include: Solar Technology, Biophotonics, next generation of lighting: LED or OLED
Speakers in a session on “Paths to Funding” will offer guidance on working with multinational corporations in converting advanced research into high value business opportunities, the DoE Solar Programme, driving innovation through industry partnerships, and growth-stage financing for equipment manufacturers in the renewables sector.
The summit is intended to meet the needs of CEOs, CTOs, CFOs, and technology managers looking for new, effective ways to accelerate innovation. SPIE annually presents more than 25 technical forums and exhibitions connecting optics and photonics researchers and developers. The Photonics Innovation Summit is unique in speaking directly to the needs of senior executives on one of the key themes in business today and a cornerstone of the American economy: innovation.
“Firms can and should use external ideas as well as internal ideas,” and in some cases go as far as seeing “piracy” as a marketing tool, according to Henry Chesbrough, author of Open Innovation and the newly published Open Business. Chesbrough is one of three keynote speakers, and is Executive Director of the Centre of Open Innovation at the Institute of Management, Innovation and Organisation Management of Technology Programme, University of California, Berkeley.
John Kao, Chairman and CEO of Kao and Co., and author of Innovation Nation, will detail in his keynote talk why innovation “is about new ways of doing and seeing things as much as it is about the breakthrough idea,” and what those new perspectives and practices need to be.
Joseph Goodman, William Ayer Professor, Emeritus at Stanford University and party in numerous photonics start up companies, will round out the slate of keynote speakers. Goodman will offer insights on the process of transferring university innovation to industry.
Afternoon sessions will begin with a presentation by Marc Stanley, Director of NIST’s Technology Innovation Program (TIP). He will illustrate the importance of innovation and TIP in technical areas such as solar, lighting, biophotonics, and others, and in addressing the nation’s critical needs.
Break-out sessions will focus on the role of technological innovation in three rapidly expanding markets. Topics and speakers include: Solar Technology, Biophotonics, next generation of lighting: LED or OLED
Speakers in a session on “Paths to Funding” will offer guidance on working with multinational corporations in converting advanced research into high value business opportunities, the DoE Solar Programme, driving innovation through industry partnerships, and growth-stage financing for equipment manufacturers in the renewables sector.
