STVP Newsletter: Spring 2009
Welcome to the Stanford Technology Ventures Program (STVP)
Newsletter. What you'll find in this issue:
Save the Dates <#SaveTheDates>
Awards and Announcements <#Awards>
New Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders Podcasts <#Podcasts>
Entrepreneurship Week Recap <#eWeek>
STVP Research Spotlight <#Research>
<http://www.stanford.edu/group/stvp/cgi-bin/lists/lt.php?id=N04NU1cOAQ5FAQQCRAADAwAB>
ACCEL Roundtables on Entrepreneurship Education
<http://www.stanford.edu/group/stvp/cgi-bin/lists/lt.php?id=N04NU1cOAQ5FAQQCRAADAwAB>
: STVP is proud to host four annual conferences for entrepreneurship
educators. They are designed to stimulate communication and
collaboration between business, science, and engineering faculty who
teach high-technology entrepreneurship in universities around the
world.Register now!
REE USA
<http://www.stanford.edu/group/stvp/cgi-bin/lists/lt.php?id=N04NU1cOAQBFAQQCRAADAwAB>
in tandem with the AlwaysOn & STVP Summit: Stanford University*
July 28 - 31, 2009
REE EUROPE
<http://www.stanford.edu/group/stvp/cgi-bin/lists/lt.php?id=N04NU1cOBghFAQQCRAADAwAB>
: University of Oslo, Norway
September 9 - 11, 2009
REE ASIA
<http://www.stanford.edu/group/stvp/cgi-bin/lists/lt.php?id=N04NU1cOBgpFAQQCRAADAwAB>
: Chinese University of Hong Kong
October 21 - 23, 2009
Call For Papers
<http://www.stanford.edu/group/stvp/cgi-bin/lists/lt.php?id=N04NU1cOBgxFAQQCRAADAwAB>
REE LATIN AMERICA
<http://www.stanford.edu/group/stvp/cgi-bin/lists/lt.php?id=N04NU1cOBg5FAQQCRAADAwAB>
: Universidad del Desarrollo, Chile
November 25 - 27, 2009
*REE USA participants will be given a deep discount for the AlwaysOn
Summit. This event will be followed by a half-day REE faculty program.
AlwaysOn and STVP Summit at Stanford
<http://www.stanford.edu/group/stvp/cgi-bin/lists/lt.php?id=N04NU1cOBgBFAQQCRAADAwAB>
, July 28-30, Stanford University Campus: A two-and-a-half day
executive gathering that highlights the significant economic,
political and commercial trends affecting the global technology
industries.
West Coast Research Symposium, September 10-12, Seattle: The
Stanford Technology Ventures Program co-sponsors this event with
University of Washington, University of Southern California,
University of Oregon, and University of California-Irvine.
Stanford Global Innovation Tournament, November: In conjunction with
Global Entrepreneurship Week
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(Nov 16-22), STVP will run an exciting, “Apprentice-style”
competition in which students from around the world have just a few
days to address a creative challenge. Registration will open in May;
details to come.
<http://www.stanford.edu/group/stvp/cgi-bin/lists/lt.php?id=N04NU1cOBwpFAQQCRAADAwAB>
STVP Executive Director, Tina Seelig, has a new book, What I Wish I
Knew When I Was 20
<http://www.stanford.edu/group/stvp/cgi-bin/lists/lt.php?id=N04NU1cOBwpFAQQCRAADAwAB>
(HarperCollins) which will be available on April 14. It is filled
with stories from her classes on creativity and entrepreneurship at
Stanford, as well as stories about successful entrepreneurs and
innovators from around the world. She demonstrates that, by tapping
into your creativity and having a healthy disregard for the
impossible, you can turn most problems into opportunities.
STVP Faculty Co-Director, Tom Byers, recently led a panel discussion
on entrepreneurship at the Summit on the National Academy of
Engineering (NAE) Grand Challenges. This event drew leading
engineering, science, humanities and social science scholars from
across the nation to talk about what it will take to solve some of the
world’s most pressing problems. Watch panelists discuss
<http://www.stanford.edu/group/stvp/cgi-bin/lists/lt.php?id=N04NU1cOBwxFAQQCRAADAwAB>
the crucial role that entrepreneurship will play.
Assistant Professor Riitta Katila has been appointed to the
Editorial Board of Administrative Science Quarterly.
Ph.D. student Emily Cox has received a 2009 National Science
Foundation Dissertation Improvement Grant to support her research on
innovation and investors in the Medical Device industry. The Ewing
Marion Kauffman Foundation has also awarded her a 2009 Kauffman
Dissertation Fellowship for her work, "What Type of Investor is Best?
Funding Innovation in Young Firms." Fifteen fellowships in the amount
of $20,000 each were awarded to current Ph.D. students who are engaged
in the study of entrepreneurship at U.S. universities. The fellowships
were presented at the Allied Social Science Associations' annual
meeting in San Francisco on Jan. 3, 2009.
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Podcasts and video clips of Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders lectures
from Winter Quarter are now available on the Entrepreneurship Corner
<http://www.stanford.edu/group/stvp/cgi-bin/lists/lt.php?id=N04NU1cOBwBFAQQCRAADAwAB>
website.
Speakers include Tom Siebel
<http://www.stanford.edu/group/stvp/cgi-bin/lists/lt.php?id=N04NU1cOBAhFAQQCRAADAwAB>
, Chairman, First Virtual Group, and Founder/CEO, Siebel Systems; Tim
Draper
<http://www.stanford.edu/group/stvp/cgi-bin/lists/lt.php?id=N04NU1cOBApFAQQCRAADAwAB>
, Founder and a Managing Director of Draper Fisher Jurvetson; Teresa
Briggs
<http://www.stanford.edu/group/stvp/cgi-bin/lists/lt.php?id=N04NU1cOBAxFAQQCRAADAwAB>
, Managing Partner, Deloitte, Silicon Valley; Hugh Martin
<http://www.stanford.edu/group/stvp/cgi-bin/lists/lt.php?id=N04NU1cOBA5FAQQCRAADAwAB>
, Chairman and CEO, Pacific Biosciences; and others.
If you’d like to attend in person, all events are free and open to
the public. Visit the series website
<http://www.stanford.edu/group/stvp/cgi-bin/lists/lt.php?id=N04NU1cOBABFAQQCRAADAwAB>
for the Spring lineup and other details.
Video clips, podcasts and presentation copies
<http://www.stanford.edu/group/stvp/cgi-bin/lists/lt.php?id=N04NU1cOBQhFAQQCRAADAwAB>
are available.
<http://www.stanford.edu/group/stvp/cgi-bin/lists/lt.php?id=N04NU1cOBQpFAQQCRAADAwAB>
During February 18-25, Stanford welcomed more than 2,000 students,
alumni and visitors from across the United States and elsewhere in the
world to Entrepreneurship Week 2009 at Stanford
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. They enjoyed a series of presentations, workshops, networking
receptions, a job fair, a VC-Student speed dating pitchfest, and a
variety of other events. The enthusiasm was contagious.
Speakers included Stanford President John Hennessy talking about
entrepreneurial leadership; thought leaders such as Tim Draper and
Eric Benhamou; and representatives from companies like Apple, Nokia,
Cisco, Raytheon, Genentech and Logitech, among others.
Entrepreneurship Week is a sampler platter of entrepreneurship
activities and organizations on campus. It is hosted by the Stanford
Entrepreneurship Network
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, and is generously sponsored by Deloitte
<http://www.stanford.edu/group/stvp/cgi-bin/lists/lt.php?id=N04NU1cOBQ5FAQQCRAADAwAB>
. Stay tuned for dates for Entrepreneurship Week in February, 2010.
view abstracts
<http://www.stanford.edu/group/stvp/cgi-bin/lists/lt.php?id=N04NU1cOBQBFAQQCRAADAwAB>
for other studies and learn more. Contact Riitta Katila
<mailto:
rkatila@stanford.edu>
for additional information.
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entrepreneurship education and creating scholarly research on
technology-based firms that, in turn, provides new insights for students,
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