Thursday, February 16, 2012

Topics In Open Innovation Speaker Series Presents: Keld Laursen of Copenhagen Business School

Monday, February 27, 2012, 2PM - 4 PM, Sutardja Dai Hall, Room 250 (map
 
 Keld Laursen is a Professor of the Economics and Management of Innovation at the Copenhagen Business School. Dr. Laursen received his MSc. in Science and Technology Policy from SPRU at the University of Sussex in 1994. Following in 1995, he received his MA in Economics from Aalborg University. Dr. Laursen then earned his PhD at the IKE Group (also Aalborg University), in 1998. Since October 1998, he has been working at the Department of Innovation and Organizational Economics at the Copenhagen Business School.  

To learn more about Dr. Laursen, visit http://www.druid.dk/laursen and see him at the next Topics In Open Innovation Speaker Series.

The Topics In Open Innovation Speaker Series is a weekly series intended to provide both academic and managerial perspectives on open innovation and related subjects. Admission to the speaker series is free to students, alumni, faculty, and the University of California community.

The official Spring 2012 Topics In Open Innovation Speaker Series poster can be downloaded here: http://mot.berkeley.edu/SP12TIOIPoster.pdf.

Wednesday, February 8, 2012

Topics In Open Innovation Speaker Series Presents: Alph Bingham, Founder of InnoCentive

Monday, February 13, 2012, 2PM - 4 PM, Sutardja Dai Hall, Room 250 (map)

Dr. Bingham is a member of the Board and co-founder of InnoCentive, Inc. He has been a strong advocate of open innovation and founded InnoCentive, Inc., along with other ventures that create the advantages of open and networked organizational structures, including: YourEncore, Inc., Coalesix, Inc., Maaguzi, Inc., Indigo Biosystems, Seriosity, Chorus and Collaborative Drug Discovery, Inc.

He currently serves on the Board of Directors of Fast Track Systems, Inc., and Collaborative Drug Discovery, Inc.; the advisory boards of the Center for Collective Intelligence (MIT), Phase Forward, Inc., YourEncore, Inc. and Coalesix, Inc. and as a member of the board of trustees of the Bankinter Foundation in Madrid.

He has lectured extensively at both national and international events and serves as a Visiting Scholar at the National Center for Supercomputing Application at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana. He is also the former chairman of the Board of Editors of the Research Technology Management Journal. Dr. Bingham was the recipient of the Economist's Fourth Annual Innovation Summit "Business Process Award" for InnoCentive. He was also named as one of Project Management Institute's "Power 50" leaders in October 2005.

Dr. Bingham had over 25 years of experience with Eli Lilly and Company in pharmaceutical research and development, research acquisitions and collaborations, portfolio management and R&D strategic planning. Among others, he held positions as Managing Director of the Mont-Saint-Guibert Development Centre, executive director of project and portfolio management, vice-president of sourcing innovation, vice-president of e.Lilly and vice-president of R&D strategy.  During his career he was instrumental in creating and developing Eli Lilly's portfolio management process as well as establishing the divisions of Research Acquisitions, the Office of Alliance Management and e.Lilly, a unit for business innovation.

In April 2011, Alph and CEO of InnoCentive Dwayne Spradlin co-authored the groundbreaking book, The Open Innovation Marketplace, published by FT Press.  Dr. Bingham received a B.S. in chemistry from Brigham Young University and a Ph.D. in organic chemistry from Stanford University.

Read Alph's blog posts and be sure to see him at the upcoming Topics In Open Innovation Speaker Series.

The Topics In Open Innovation Speaker Series is a weekly series intended to provide both academic and managerial perspectives on open innovation and related subjects. Admission to the speaker series is free to students, alumni, faculty, and the University of California community.

The official Spring 2012 Topics In Open Innovation Speaker Series poster can be downloaded here: http://mot.berkeley.edu/SP12TIOIPoster.pdf.

Monday, January 30, 2012

Topics In Open Innovation Speaker Series Presents: John Roese, Vice President of R&D, Huawei

Monday, February 6, 2012, 2 PM - 4 PM, at Sutardja Dai Hall, 250 (map).

John Roese is the Vice President of Research and Development at Huawei. Huawei is a leading global information and communications technology (ICT) solutions provider. Their mission is to focus on our customers' market challenges and needs by providing excellent ICT solutions and services in order to consistently create maximum value for our customers. Huawei wants to enrich life through communication. To learn more about Huawei, visit www.huawei.com

The Topics In Open Innovation Speaker Series is a weekly series intended to provide both academic and managerial perspectives on open innovation and related subjects. Admission to the speaker series is free to students, alumni, faculty, and the University of California community.

The official Spring 2012 Topics In Open Innovation Speaker Series poster can be downloaded here: http://mot.berkeley.edu/SP12TIOIPoster.pdf.

Friday, January 27, 2012

Topics In Open Innovation Speaker Series Presents: Vicki Gonzalez, Found of Nidus Partnership

Monday, January 30, 2012, 2 PM - 4 PM, at Sutardja Dai Hall, 250 (map).

Vicki Gonzalez is a founding member and managing partner of Nidus Investment Partners bringing more than 25 years of executive management experience in the plant and life science market.  She brings the experience of starting businesses from both within large corporations as well as independently, providing unique insight into how to deliver results to Nidus Corporate Partners. To learn more about Vicki Gonzalez visit: http://niduspartners.com. And be sure not to miss her talk at next the Topics in Open Innovation Speaker Series next week Monday.

The Topics In Open Innovation Speaker Series is a weekly series intended to provide both academic and managerial perspectives on open innovation and related subjects. Admission to the speaker series is free to students, alumni, faculty, and the University of California community.

The official Spring 2012 Topics In Open Innovation Speaker Series poster can be downloaded here: http://mot.berkeley.edu/SP12TIOIPoster.pdf.

Friday, January 20, 2012

Topics In Open Innovation Speaker Series Presents: Professor Kevin Boudreau of London Business School, UK

Monday, January 23, 2012, 2 PM - 4 PM, at Sutardja Dai Hall, 250 (map).

Professor Kevin Boudreau's area of expertise is strategy and entrepreneurship. Professor Boudreau focuses on questions at the intersection of innovation, competition and organization. His work is heavily empirical and quantitative, including the econometric analysis of large naturally-occurring data sets and field experiments. While focusing on a range of novel approaches to organizing, Professor Boudreau's applied work tends to build on and make contributions to a range of longstanding issues in the economics and management of innovation (e.g., contracting, governance, intellectual property, industrial organization, heterogeneity of innovators and innovation approaches.) If you would like to learn more about Professor Kevin Boudreau's research and review his CV, visit http://www.kevinboudreau.com. Be sure not miss him at the Spring 2012 Topics In Open Innovation Speaker Series.

The Topics In Open Innovation Speaker Series is a weekly series intended to provide both academic and managerial perspectives on open innovation and related subjects. Admission to the speaker series is free to students, alumni, faculty, and the University of California community.

The official Spring 2012 Topics In Open Innovation Speaker Series poster can be downloaded here: http://mot.berkeley.edu/SP12TIOIPoster.pdf.

Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Spring 2012 TOPICS IN OPEN INNOVATION Speaker Series Schedule


Mondays, 2 PM - 4 PM at Sutardja Dai Hall 250 (map)

The Spring 2012 Open Innovation Speaker Series is a weekly series intended to provide both academic and managerial perspectives on open innovation and related subjects. Admission to the speaker series is free to students, alumni, faculty, and friends of the University of California community.

January 23, 2012
Kevin Boudreau
Professor, London Business School, UK

January 30, 2012
Vicki Gonzalez
Founder, Nidus Partnership

February 6, 2012
John Roese
Vice President of Research & Development, Huawei

February 13, 2012
Alph Bingham
Founder, InnoCentive

February 27, 2012
Keld Laursen
Professor, Copenhagen Business School

March 5, 2012
Dr. Steven Friend
President and Cofounder, Sage Bionetworks

March 12, 2012
Karim Lakhani
Professor, Harvard Business School

March 19, 2012
Wim Vanhaverbeke
Professor, ESADE, Barcelona, Spain

April 2, 2012
Mark Hatch
CEO,TechShop

April 9, 2012
Barbara Holzapfel
Senior Vice President of Portfolio Marketing, SAP Labs North America

April 16, 2012
Dr. Anurag Srivastava
CTO, Wipro

April 23, 2012
Ashish Chatterjee
Director Proctor & Gamble, Connect + Develop

April 30, 2012
John Jacobsen
Head of Engineering, quirky.com

Visit http://openinnovation.haas.berkeley.edu for complete program and schedule information.

The Speaker Series is sponsored by the Management of Technology Program. To learn more about the Management of Technology Program, visit http://mot.berkeley.edu.

Wednesday, December 14, 2011

A New Spring MOT Class - The Lean Launchpad

Announcing Steve Blank's Spring 2012 The Lean Launchpad (ENG 290.1/EWMBA 295T.1).

Learn about the experience that turns hackers, hustlers and designers into entrepreneurs. It is one of the most influential classes in entrepreneurship education - Steve Blank's The Lean Launchpad. Put "Steve Blank Lean Launchpad" into your favorite search engine and read the success stories.

Learn how you can develop your technical idea into a real company. Within ten weeks, your team will learn the fundamentals of how to build a startup, with lectures from a teaching team that has built companies and now funds them. More important than the lectures, you will learn by getting out of the classroom and talking to customers and partners. This class will have you work harder then you have ever done before.

Read more of the course description and FAQs on the class website: https://sites.google.com/site/mba295f1/

The class is on Monday nights, 6:00 PM - 9:30 PM, starting January 23, 2012. Class enrollment is limited to 31 students - 16 Haas EWMBA students and 15 College of Engineering Graduate Students. In order to participate, you must apply as a team and be accepted. Team applications are due on Friday, January 13, 2012, by 11:59:59PM. Only teams that submit applications will be called in for the final yes/no interview to be conducted during week of January 16, 2012.

Here is how to apply:
The Lean Launchpad is taught by Steve Blank entrepreneur/lecturer at Berkeley-Haas and Stanford. Steve Blank is a serial entrepreneur and has been a founder or early employee at 8 startups, including 4 resulting in successful IPOs. For the past 10 years he's been teaching entrepreneurship to UC Berkeley Haas School of Business students. The San Jose Mercury News has called him one of the 10 influencers in Silicon Valley.