The document discusses H-STAR, a research program at Stanford University that focuses on how people use technology and how technology affects lives. H-STAR seeks partnerships with universities, research organizations, and governments to fund research projects, exchange visiting researchers, and provide resources to partner institutions. Current H-STAR partnerships include universities in Finland, Denmark, Sweden, and the Netherlands. Some example research projects explore video capture and analysis, spatial thinking and learning, and understanding regional innovation ecosystems.
Stanford's HSTAR Institute and Media X-led Innovation Ecosystems
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2. Research on people and technology — how people use
technology, how to better design technology to make it more
usable, how technology affects people’s lives, and the
innovative use of technologies in research, education, art,
business, commerce, entertainment, communication, security,
and other walks of life.
H-STAR seeks partnerships with university
consortia, regional development organizations,
government research labs, etc.
H-STAR Research Focus
Funded research in 2009-10: ca $20M
3. Focus on visiting researchers from partner universities, for periods up to
one year.
Shorter visits by Stanford researchers to partner institutions.
Visitors to Stanford provided with visiting scholar status, office space,
etc. Partnership agreement covers all Stanford fees and costs.
Basic annual cost: $50K for program membership, $50K for the first
visitor slot, $45K the second, $40K the third, etc. down to a $30K floor.
Currently, total visitor time at Stanford for each partner country is 36 to
48 person-months per year.
Funding to hire Stanford graduate students to work on projects.
Partner membership of Media X.
Tailored Partnerships with H-STAR
4. Current H-STAR Partnerships
Finnish university system - sponsored by Tekes
Danish university system - sponsored by DASTI
Swedish university system - sponsored by
VINNOVA
Netherlands – through Media X corporate partner
Pending: Estonian university system –
sponsored by Enterprise Estonia
8. LIFE Center
Learning in Informal and Formal Environments
A collaboration among Stanford University, SRI
International, and the University of Washington
$10 million, 10 years
The LIFE Center seeks to understand and advance formal
and informal learning through the exploration of
interdisciplinary theories and collaborative research.
9. The AAA lab studies understanding and the ways that
technology can facilitate its development.
The lab works at the intersection of cognitive science,
education, and computer science.
A theme throughout the research is how people’s facility
for spatial thinking can inform and influence processes
of learning, instruction, assessment, and problem
solving.
10. DIVER project: video capture,
exploration, and re-use
• Panoramic video capture
– Create and edit your own
video records
– Post them to the Web
• Related research about
– Video archiving and search
– Speech and drawing interfaces
for database searching
11. The Innovation Ecosystems Network (IEN) brings together an
international interdisciplinary team that seeks to develop and
diffuse novel data and tools for understanding the catalytic impact
of regional ICT experiments.
12. Innovation Ecosystems & Value Co-Creation
A dynamic innovation ecosystem is characterized by a continual realignment of synergistic relationships of people, knowledge, and resources that promote
harmonious growth of the system in agile responsiveness to changing internal and external forces.
Innovation Ecosystems refer to the inter-organizational, political, economic, environmental, and technological systems through which a milieu conducive to
business growth is catalyzed, sustained, and supported.
Value is co-created for the innovation ecosystem through events, impacts and coalitions/networks that emerge from a shared vision of the desired
transformations. Data-driven metrics measure, track and visualise the transformation, empowering interaction with feedback for the shared vision.
www.innovation-ecosystems.org
Innovation Ecosystems Transformation Framework
13. The Way We USED to Think About Organizations New Organizational Chart Based on Relationships
Relationship-Focused Co-Creation Infrastructure
(Visual) Social Network Analysis
“. . . allows investigators to gain new
insights into the patterning of social
connections, and it helps investigators to
communicate their results to others.“
(Freeman, 2009)
Infrastructure for Resource Flows
- - - Relationships
(Companies are interlocked through key
people – information flow, norms,
mental models.(Davis,1996)
15. Norwegian Tech-based Companies
Their Branch Offices, Financial Orgs, Directors
Strong proportion of Norwegian
companies are self-funded, have
branch offices, and executives
without published bios.
Investments are clustered
around a few companies.
A few executive level individuals
provide links between
companies.
A handful of companies
comprise the small clusters that
can be found.
Example view to IEN dataset in Gephi. Entities (companies, funding orgs) w/headquarters in Norway are selected. Nodes represent companies and their investors and
executives; edges indicate resource flows. The network layout is created with Force Atlas algorithm and nodes are inflated according to their degree, i.e. the number of
connections (connections with foreign entities are not visible).
16. International Relationships for
Value Co-Creation
Add international
companies, financing
orgs and individuals
linked to Norwegian
entities.
IEN Dataset, July 2010
17. Globalization of Innovation Ecosystems
Red=Norwegian
Black=International
IEN Dataset, July 2010
Norwegian tech-based companies
with financing are more likely to
have global relationships.
Norwegian tech-based companies
have access to global relationships
current board members, investors,
and key personnel.
Huge opportunities for international
relationships lie 2 degrees out from
Norwegian companies
ICT is important for global access.
