This document provides an introduction and overview for the course "European Entrepreneurship & Innovation" being offered at Stanford in Winter Quarter 2011. The course will explore entrepreneurship ecosystems in various European regions through a series of guest speaker sessions. The first session on January 3rd will feature speakers from European incubators located in Silicon Valley. Other planned sessions will cover topics like venture capital in France, super angels across Europe, and startups in Spain. The goal is to compare entrepreneurship systems in Europe and Silicon Valley.
Burton Lee Presentation at YES Execom Athens, 14-16 April 2011
"Lessons from Silicon Valley Promoting High-growth and Innovative Entrepreneurship in Europe"
European Entrepreneurship & Innovation @ Stanford - Course Introduction & Ove...Burton Lee
Course introduction and overview, Winter Quarter 2010, ME421, European Entrepreneurship & Innovation, Stanford Engineering School, Prof. Burton Lee, Program Director
Stanford and the Silicon Valley Ecosystem - Tom Byers - 2013 HBCU Innovation ...EpicenterUSA
Tom Byers presented "How the Silicon Valley Innovation Ecosystem Works: Stanford University's Contributions" on Thursday, October 31, 2013, during the UNCF HBCU Innovation Summit at Stanford University.
Burton Lee Presentation at YES Execom Athens, 14-16 April 2011
"Lessons from Silicon Valley Promoting High-growth and Innovative Entrepreneurship in Europe"
European Entrepreneurship & Innovation @ Stanford - Course Introduction & Ove...Burton Lee
Course introduction and overview, Winter Quarter 2010, ME421, European Entrepreneurship & Innovation, Stanford Engineering School, Prof. Burton Lee, Program Director
Stanford and the Silicon Valley Ecosystem - Tom Byers - 2013 HBCU Innovation ...EpicenterUSA
Tom Byers presented "How the Silicon Valley Innovation Ecosystem Works: Stanford University's Contributions" on Thursday, October 31, 2013, during the UNCF HBCU Innovation Summit at Stanford University.
How do we define an Engineer? What aspects of the profession makes becoming an engineer attractive? How does the perception of the Engineering profession differ within the participating countries and among different actors (students, companies, professional associations, parents, media, etc.)
RTO Innovation: Where are the enablers and who are the actorsDigital Capability
There is an ever increasing need in Australia for more innovative activity to maintain and ensure a strong Australian economy and society (PWC, 2013). Innovation can be defined as doing something differently to create value, whether that be economic, social or environmental (Innovation and Science Australia, 2017). The Australian Vocational and Education Training (VET) sector also plays a crucial role in supporting a healthy Australian economy.
Australian registered training organisations (RTOs) in the VET Sector, however, operate in a very volatile marketplace which requires them to adopt lean and edu-preneurial strategies to maintain and sustain their businesses.
The Australian Government’s National Innovation and Science Agenda (NISA) (Australian Government, 2015) recognises that a robust, resilient and efficiently functioning innovation, science and research system (ISR system) is needed to grow the Australian economy. This ISR system requires actors, enablers and innovation activity to support productive outputs and outcomes (Innovation and Science Australia, 2017). However, there is limited insight into to where these exist and who these are for Australian RTOs.
This research will use the Australian ISR System performance framework (Innovation and Science Australia, 2017) to analysis leading registered training organisation (RTOs) to determine where the enablers exist and what actors are needed to support innovative activity in Australian RTOs. Recommendations on how the Australian VET ISR System could be improved and further supported to enable more RTOs to capitalise on their innovative activity will also be provided.
Herbert Chen — How to Make the Dream Become True? Summit of Innovation Econom...Renata George
Summit of Innovation Economy Creators.
Herbert Chen.
Вице-президент Научного парка при Университете Цинхуа. Заместитель директора Центра развития Научного парка при Университете Цинхуа в Пекине. Директор Пекинского подразделения Международной ассоциации научных парков, IASP. Постоянный участник и спикер международных конференций по инновационному развитию.
Otaniemi Northern Europe's Biggest Hitech Hub. Home of Startup sauna, World HQ's of Rovio, Nokia, Kone, Fortum, Neste Oil. Local HQ's of Microsoft, SAP, HCL, Bayer. 800+ companies, 36,000 professionals, 5,000 researchers. 25 Research institutions. More than one new fundable startup per week.
The University Innovation Fellows are part of a national movement to ensure that students gain the necessary attitudes, skills and knowledge required for them to compete in the economy of the future. These student leaders from schools around the country work with their peers to catalyze even greater levels of innovation and entrepreneurship activity on their campuses.
The program is run by the National Center for Engineering Pathways to Innovation (Epicenter), funded by the National Science Foundation as a partnership between Stanford University and the National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance (NCIIA). University Innovation Fellows call on engineering students and their peers to dream, design and deliver innovations that solve real-world problems.
Learn more at the University Innovation Fellows website: http://dreamdesigndeliver.org.
Maximizing Research's Policy Impact: Engaging with Policy MakersWellesley Institute
This presentation provides insights on how to engage with policy makers.
Bob Gardner, Director of Policy
www.wellesleyinstitute.com
Follow us on twitter @wellesleyWI
The IoT Methodology aims to provide a loosely structured ecosystem of mutual value for all who participate, driven by sharing, collaboration, community and learning. An ecosystem made up of tools, design patterns, architecture references and guidelines to build IoT solutions.
In the spirit of the World Wide Web and Open Source communities across the globe, a new collaborative effort must be taken to make the Internet of Things a reality.
It’s alive, it grows, it expands, it has no end date or budget restriction.
How do we define an Engineer? What aspects of the profession makes becoming an engineer attractive? How does the perception of the Engineering profession differ within the participating countries and among different actors (students, companies, professional associations, parents, media, etc.)
RTO Innovation: Where are the enablers and who are the actorsDigital Capability
There is an ever increasing need in Australia for more innovative activity to maintain and ensure a strong Australian economy and society (PWC, 2013). Innovation can be defined as doing something differently to create value, whether that be economic, social or environmental (Innovation and Science Australia, 2017). The Australian Vocational and Education Training (VET) sector also plays a crucial role in supporting a healthy Australian economy.
Australian registered training organisations (RTOs) in the VET Sector, however, operate in a very volatile marketplace which requires them to adopt lean and edu-preneurial strategies to maintain and sustain their businesses.
The Australian Government’s National Innovation and Science Agenda (NISA) (Australian Government, 2015) recognises that a robust, resilient and efficiently functioning innovation, science and research system (ISR system) is needed to grow the Australian economy. This ISR system requires actors, enablers and innovation activity to support productive outputs and outcomes (Innovation and Science Australia, 2017). However, there is limited insight into to where these exist and who these are for Australian RTOs.
This research will use the Australian ISR System performance framework (Innovation and Science Australia, 2017) to analysis leading registered training organisation (RTOs) to determine where the enablers exist and what actors are needed to support innovative activity in Australian RTOs. Recommendations on how the Australian VET ISR System could be improved and further supported to enable more RTOs to capitalise on their innovative activity will also be provided.
Herbert Chen — How to Make the Dream Become True? Summit of Innovation Econom...Renata George
Summit of Innovation Economy Creators.
Herbert Chen.
Вице-президент Научного парка при Университете Цинхуа. Заместитель директора Центра развития Научного парка при Университете Цинхуа в Пекине. Директор Пекинского подразделения Международной ассоциации научных парков, IASP. Постоянный участник и спикер международных конференций по инновационному развитию.
Otaniemi Northern Europe's Biggest Hitech Hub. Home of Startup sauna, World HQ's of Rovio, Nokia, Kone, Fortum, Neste Oil. Local HQ's of Microsoft, SAP, HCL, Bayer. 800+ companies, 36,000 professionals, 5,000 researchers. 25 Research institutions. More than one new fundable startup per week.
The University Innovation Fellows are part of a national movement to ensure that students gain the necessary attitudes, skills and knowledge required for them to compete in the economy of the future. These student leaders from schools around the country work with their peers to catalyze even greater levels of innovation and entrepreneurship activity on their campuses.
The program is run by the National Center for Engineering Pathways to Innovation (Epicenter), funded by the National Science Foundation as a partnership between Stanford University and the National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance (NCIIA). University Innovation Fellows call on engineering students and their peers to dream, design and deliver innovations that solve real-world problems.
Learn more at the University Innovation Fellows website: http://dreamdesigndeliver.org.
Maximizing Research's Policy Impact: Engaging with Policy MakersWellesley Institute
This presentation provides insights on how to engage with policy makers.
Bob Gardner, Director of Policy
www.wellesleyinstitute.com
Follow us on twitter @wellesleyWI
The IoT Methodology aims to provide a loosely structured ecosystem of mutual value for all who participate, driven by sharing, collaboration, community and learning. An ecosystem made up of tools, design patterns, architecture references and guidelines to build IoT solutions.
In the spirit of the World Wide Web and Open Source communities across the globe, a new collaborative effort must be taken to make the Internet of Things a reality.
It’s alive, it grows, it expands, it has no end date or budget restriction.
By 2017 the Internet of Things market will be bigger than the PC, tablet and phone market combined. This report explains what the Internet of Things actually is and the impact it will have on social.
Five Stages of Social EntrepreneurshipYutakaTanabe
ISTR (International Society for Third-sector Research)
12th International Conference
Stockholm, Sweden
Ersta Skondal University College
F12 Theorizing on Social Enterprise
国際NPO学会(ISTR)第12回大会がスウェーデンのストックホルムにて2016年6月28日から7月1日にて開催されています。明日、自分の学会発表に使用するスライド資料をアップします。
IOT is connecting every physical object in the world using wireless technologies to track and control them from every where in the world...Every object is uniquely identified using ip addresses(IPv6)
It's not how you measure, it's what you measurefqwood
Countries throughout the world are looking to innovation (particularly derived from advances in science and engineering) not only for wealth creation and job growth but also to help solve the global grand challenges – in energy, food security, water supplies, climate change, environmental sustainability, social unrest and aging populations. And the debt crises in the US and the Euro zone have given an added urgency to the importance of understanding how
to build a supply chain of innovation and entrepreneurship that goes all the way from quality, curiosity-driven research to the development of innovative products and services.
Publicly supported research and research funding agencies are seen to play a key role in this supply chain. And much attention is being directed in many countries to designing ways to better harness the contributions made by this type of research to innovation. This comes at a time when Western governments in particular are questioning the sustainability of their investments in the research enterprise and looking for ways to maximise the impact of these investments. For some this has led to a preoccupation with measurement and an enhanced role of bibliometrics in the funding allocations process – sometimes with brutal consequences for researchers who have become disenfranchised as a result of the ‘concentration and selectivity’ drive.
In my presentation I will overview some of the pluses and minuses of bibliometrics as used for judging research performance for funding purposes. Attention will also be directed to recent initiatives such as STAR-METRICS in the US and the Lattes Platform in Brazil and the SIAMPI project coordinated by KNAW.
However, my main message is that governments first need to be clear about what it is they want to achieve from investing in research and to differentially support and measure research activity and outcomes based on these investment objectives. The European Research Area Board’s recent contribution to the Common Strategic Framework for Research and Innovation consultation provides important leadership in this quest.
Venturelab Twente softlanding and new business incubationjaapvantilburg
The University of Twente in The Netherlands has 30 years of experience in supporting new high-tech company support. The University has developed itself as an incubator with many support mechanisms. The pre-incubator facility VentureLab Twente is focussing on high-tech high growth and welcoming also softlanders. This was presented by Aard Groen and Jaap van Tilburg at NBIA's conference in Kansas in april 2009 using this slideshow.
Software Delivery At the Speed of AI: Inflectra Invests In AI-Powered QualityInflectra
In this insightful webinar, Inflectra explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming software development and testing. Discover how AI-powered tools are revolutionizing every stage of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), from design and prototyping to testing, deployment, and monitoring.
Learn about:
• The Future of Testing: How AI is shifting testing towards verification, analysis, and higher-level skills, while reducing repetitive tasks.
• Test Automation: How AI-powered test case generation, optimization, and self-healing tests are making testing more efficient and effective.
• Visual Testing: Explore the emerging capabilities of AI in visual testing and how it's set to revolutionize UI verification.
• Inflectra's AI Solutions: See demonstrations of Inflectra's cutting-edge AI tools like the ChatGPT plugin and Azure Open AI platform, designed to streamline your testing process.
Whether you're a developer, tester, or QA professional, this webinar will give you valuable insights into how AI is shaping the future of software delivery.
Connector Corner: Automate dynamic content and events by pushing a buttonDianaGray10
Here is something new! In our next Connector Corner webinar, we will demonstrate how you can use a single workflow to:
Create a campaign using Mailchimp with merge tags/fields
Send an interactive Slack channel message (using buttons)
Have the message received by managers and peers along with a test email for review
But there’s more:
In a second workflow supporting the same use case, you’ll see:
Your campaign sent to target colleagues for approval
If the “Approve” button is clicked, a Jira/Zendesk ticket is created for the marketing design team
But—if the “Reject” button is pushed, colleagues will be alerted via Slack message
Join us to learn more about this new, human-in-the-loop capability, brought to you by Integration Service connectors.
And...
Speakers:
Akshay Agnihotri, Product Manager
Charlie Greenberg, Host
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
Are you looking to streamline your workflows and boost your projects’ efficiency? Do you find yourself searching for ways to add flexibility and control over your FME workflows? If so, you’re in the right place.
Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part “Essentials of Automation” series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
Here’s what you’ll gain:
- Essentials of FME Parameters: Understand the pivotal role of parameters, including Reader/Writer, Transformer, User, and FME Flow categories. Discover how they are the key to unlocking automation and optimization within your workflows.
- Practical Applications in FME Form: Delve into key user parameter types including choice, connections, and file URLs. Allow users to control how a workflow runs, making your workflows more reusable. Learn to import values and deliver the best user experience for your workflows while enhancing accuracy.
- Optimization Strategies in FME Flow: Explore the creation and strategic deployment of parameters in FME Flow, including the use of deployment and geometry parameters, to maximize workflow efficiency.
- Pro Tips for Success: Gain insights on parameterizing connections and leveraging new features like Conditional Visibility for clarity and simplicity.
We’ll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
Search and Society: Reimagining Information Access for Radical FuturesBhaskar Mitra
The field of Information retrieval (IR) is currently undergoing a transformative shift, at least partly due to the emerging applications of generative AI to information access. In this talk, we will deliberate on the sociotechnical implications of generative AI for information access. We will argue that there is both a critical necessity and an exciting opportunity for the IR community to re-center our research agendas on societal needs while dismantling the artificial separation between the work on fairness, accountability, transparency, and ethics in IR and the rest of IR research. Instead of adopting a reactionary strategy of trying to mitigate potential social harms from emerging technologies, the community should aim to proactively set the research agenda for the kinds of systems we should build inspired by diverse explicitly stated sociotechnical imaginaries. The sociotechnical imaginaries that underpin the design and development of information access technologies needs to be explicitly articulated, and we need to develop theories of change in context of these diverse perspectives. Our guiding future imaginaries must be informed by other academic fields, such as democratic theory and critical theory, and should be co-developed with social science scholars, legal scholars, civil rights and social justice activists, and artists, among others.
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
Clients don’t know what they don’t know. What web solutions are right for them? How does WordPress come into the picture? How do you make sure you understand scope and timeline? What do you do if sometime changes?
All these questions and more will be explored as we talk about matching clients’ needs with what your agency offers without pulling teeth or pulling your hair out. Practical tips, and strategies for successful relationship building that leads to closing the deal.
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 3DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 3. In this session, we will cover desktop automation along with UI automation.
Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 3
Burton Lee - ME421 - Course Introduction Win 2011- Stanford - Jan 3 2011
1. European Entrepreneurship & Innovation
(ME 421)
Course Introduction
Winter Quarter 2011 (Year Three)
Dr. Burton H. Lee PhD MBA
Course Director, Lecturer
Department of Mechanical Engineering
burton.lee@stanford.edu
http://me421.stanford.edu
January 3 2011
2. Today’s Session
Jan 3 2011
• European Incubators in Silicon Valley
– Aldo Cocchiglia, CEO, M31 USA, Santa Clara (Italy/Silicon Valley)
• Panel Moderator
– Bjoern Herrmann, Partner & Founder, blackbox, Atherton (pan-European)
– Nicolai Wadstrom, CEO & Founder, Bootstrap Labs, SFO (Sweden)
– Peter Laanen, Chief Representative, “Holland in the Valley” Incubator, SFO
(Netherlands)
– Clement Alteresco, Manager, pariSoma Innovation Loft, SFO (France)
– Gioia Deucher, swissnex San Francisco, SFO (Switzerland)
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3. European Entrepreneurship &
Innovation Thought Leaders
Stanford Engineering ME421
Winter 2011
Map of Speaker & Institutional
Nationalities
4. Class Schedule
• Jan 3: European Incubators in Silicon Valley
• Jan 10: French Venture Capital and Entrepreneurship
• Jan 17: NO CLASS - Holiday
• Jan 24: European SuperAngels in Silicon Valley (Turkey, France)
• Jan 31: Entrepreneurs at the Edges of Europe (Greece, Norway)
• Feb 7: Startups in Spain and the Mediterranean (Basque Region, other)
• Feb 14: University Commercialization and Spinouts in Europe (Italy, Czech Rep)
• Feb 21: NO CLASS - Holiday
• Feb 28: Venture Capital & Startups in Eastern Europe (Estonia, Romania)
• Mar 7: Corporate Innovation and Research in Europe (TBD)
Session topics and speakers subject to change
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5. Course Scope
“Comparative Entrepreneurship & Innovation Systems”
Angel Investors
Institutions
& Markets
VC Funds
Incubators/
Accelerators
Entrepreneurs
& Startups
Foundations
+ Government:
R&D Labs Pan-EU
National
Universities Regions
Municipal
Corporations
Silicon Valley European
Innovation Ecosystem Innovation Ecosystem 5
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6. European Innovation Ecosystem
Idea Generation Talent Creation
Research & Development Entrepreneurship Education
Universities, Corporations, Natl labs
Immigration Policies
Product Innovation
Design, Development &
Management
Technology Transfer/
Commercialization
University / Lab TTOs
Legal &
Political Context New Company
Formation
Angel Investors Recycling of
Primary Focus of Entrepreneurial
Talent & Angel/VC
ME421 Program Venture Capital Investment Capital
Exit
M&A or IPO
Processes Simplified Schematic
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7. Why European Entrepreneurship +
Innovation @ Stanford ??
• Why Europe and Silicon Valley?
• A strong community of important entrepreneurs, investors, technology executives and researchers
in Silicon Valley
• Contributions are often neglected in Valley discussions about Asia and US
• An emerging innovation region and community
• Growing role in bringing new energy, environmental, water, information, medical devices and life sciences
technologies to the global market
• Substantial challenges in Europe to rapidly moving technical innovations developed in universities,
national laboratories and corporations into the marketplace
• Europe is increasingly looking to domestic entrepreneurship — and Silicon Valley — to accelerate
economic growth and build a new generation of innovative technology corporations
• European regions are taking the lead here in many cases – not well understood in the US
• Why Stanford?
• Complements and expands current School of Engineering teaching programs on Silicon Valley and
Asian high tech entrepreneurship
• Large community of European, Asian, overseas and US engineering & medical students, professors,
postdocs and staff with sustained interest in Europe
• Overseas Studies Program (OSP) centers in 6 European countries
• Berlin, Florence, Madrid, Moscow, Oxford, Paris – 250+ undergraduate students/year study in Europe !!
• “Comparative entrepreneurship and innovation systems” provides interesting new approach
• Extends dialogue about “pure” entrepreneurship into broader perspective around “innovation ecosystems”
• Strong interest at Stanford Engineering in expanding research collaborations, funding sources and
profile outside the US
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8. Course Overview and Goals
• Offered Winter 2011 ; Winter ‘10; Winter/Spring ‘09
• Companion to current Stanford SoE courses:
– Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders (ETL/STVP)
– Asian High Tech Entrepreneurship (US-Asia Center)
• Connect Overseas Studies students in Europe to Silicon
Valley upon return
• Western, Central and Eastern Europe
– Ireland to Russia
– Scandinavia to the Mediterranean
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9. Course Requirements
Registered Stanford Students Only
• Weekly attendance:
– Students must attend or watch 7 of 8 lectures
– Complete attendance sheets passed around in class
– Missed lectures can be made up with outside reading – must be
discussed and agreed upon in advance w Instructor
– No SCPD video streaming/recording or video archives this year
• End-of-Quarter Essay
– Write 2-3 page essay on what you learned, major
differences/similarities between entrepreneurship in Europe
and Silicon Valley
– Details to be announced later this quarter
• Feedback on Speakers and Course Content
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10. Industry Partners
GOLD Partner
M31 Italia/USA
Padova, Italy & Silicon Valley
SILVER Partner
South East Europe
Private Equity Association
Bucharest, Romania
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11. European Government Partners
2011
• Silver Partners
Lyon Region, France
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12. Other Partners and Organizations
• Supporting Organizations
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13. Year Two Highlights
Intelligent Buildings Startup
Yoga Systems, Estonia
New Venture Funds in Europe
Germany, Ireland and Spain
Europe in the Global Spanish Kings, Monks, Nuns &
Entrepreneurship Scene Explorers as Early Entrepreneurs
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University 2010
14. Year Two Highlights
Spinning Out Successful Startups
from Non-profit Research Institutes Semiconductor Startup/Incubator
VTT Finland INCIDE - Basque Region
Enterprise Software w University IP Clean Tech – Wave Power
Yseop - Lyon Region Wavebob, Ireland
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University 2010
15. Building Innovation Bridges between Silicon Valley & Europe
EC/GABA/Stanford ME
Thu May 13 2010
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University 2010
16. Visit of Irish University Presidents
Stanford Engineering Design Group
March 15 2010
Trinity College, University College
Dublin, University College Cork, NUI
Galway, University of Limerick
ME310/ME317 Discussions w Profs.
Larry Leifer, Kurt Beiter, Ken Waldron
d.School Visit w
Prof. Bernie Roth
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University 2010
17. Irish Innovation Taskforce
Appointed Member by Prime Minister Brian Cowen
July 2009 – March 2010
Clean Tech – Wave Power
Wavebob, Ireland
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18. Special Event/Lunch @ Stanford
For Stanford PhD Students and Post-docs + Faculty
Tues Feb 23 2010
• Research Trends in the EU: Opportunities for EU - US Collaboration
– 12 noon – 2pm, Stanford Faculty Club, Gold Lounge
• Speakers
– Mr. Laurent Bochereau, Head of Science, Technology and Education, Delegation of the
European Union, Washington D.C.
– Mr. Jack Metthey, Ad Interim Director of the European Research Council (ERC)
• Buffet Lunch will be served
RSVP Required!! delegation-usa-era@ec.europa.eu Space-Available Basis only !!
• Organizers:
• The Delegation of the European Union, EURAXESS Links USA & Stanford Engin.
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19. Year One Highlights
Corporate Venturing in European Multinationals
Sten Tamkivi Roche, SAP, Siemens, DSM, Virgin Fund
Head, Skype Estonia
Prof. Alberto Sangiovanni Vincentelli Uli Fricke Dr. Sven Schade
UC Berkeley EECS Triangle Ventures, Germany European Commission
Co-Founder, Cadence
Board Member, EVCA DG Enterprise & Industry
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20. Online Communities
• Join us @ LinkedIn, Facebook & Twitter !!
– LinkedIn members: 3150+
– Facebook members: 2050+
– Twitter: europreneurs
– Intended to facilitate professional, student and
faculty networking outside of class
– Open to the Public in Europe and US at no charge
– Students should join at least one of these
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21. Teaching Team
• Dr. Burton H Lee PhD MBA
– Mechanical Engineering
• Prof. Larry Leifer,
– Mechanical Engineering
– Director, Center for Design Research (CDR)
• Prof. Elisabeth Pate-Cornell,
– Chair, Management Science & Engineering Dept.
• Website: me421.stanford.edu
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22. Next Week’s Session
Jan 10 2011
• French Venture Capital & Entrepreneurship
– Jean-Louis Gassee; General Partner, Allegis Capital
– Loic Lemeur, CEO, Seesmic; Founder, LeWeb
• Region Introduction
– Lyon Region - France:
• Stephane Barbier, Aderly/OnlyLyon Agency
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23. Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders (ETL)
Wed January 12
• Wendy Kopp - CEO & Founder, Teach for America
– Wednesdays, 4:30 – 5:30 pm, NVIDIA Auditorium, Jen-
Hsun Huang Engineering Building
– Website: etl.stanford.edu
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24. Today’s Session
Jan 3 2011
• European Incubators in Silicon Valley
– Aldo Cocchiglia, CEO, M31 USA, Santa Clara (Italy/Silicon Valley)
• Panel Moderator
– Bjoern Herrmann, Partner & Founder, blackbox, Atherton (pan-European)
– Nicolai Wadstrom, CEO & Founder, Bootstrap Labs, SFO (Sweden)
– Peter Laanen, Chief Representative, “Holland in the Valley” Incubator, SFO
(Netherlands)
– Clement Alteresco, Manager, pariSoma Innovation Loft, SFO (France)
– Gioia Deucher, swissnex San Francisco, SFO (Switzerland)
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25. European Incubators in Silicon Valley
Jan 3 2011
• Other European Incubators in Silicon Valley/NorCal:
– Irish Innovation Center, San Jose (www.irishic.com) [ Invited ]
– Silicon Valley Pad, Menlo Park (Denmark) (www.siliconvalleypad.com)
– US Market Access Center, San Jose (www.usmarketaccess.com)
– StepOne, San Francisco (Spain) (www.stepone.com)
– Opinno, Pier 38, San Francisco (Spain) (www.opinno.com)
– Plug and Play Tech Center, Sunnyvale, CA (plugandplaytechcenter.com)
– Austria, Belgium, Estonia, Barcelona, Finland, Czech Republic and several other
European countries, regions and cities
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26. Today’s Discussion
Jan 3 2011
• European Incubators in Silicon Valley
• Key themes:
– Goals and Objectives
– Business Models – Private vs Government?
– Sourcing Dealflow from Europe
– Accomplishments to Date
– Benefits to the European innovation system
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