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Innovation: The Innovation Economy: R&D and a Crisis

2009-09-02T07:12:16.905Z

Speakers:
Josephine M. Cheng, IBM Fellow & Vice President, IBM Almaden Research Center
Judy Estrin, CEO, JLABS
Rick Rashid, Senior Vice President, Research, Microsoft
Sue Siegel, Partner, Mohr Davidow Ventures

Moderator:
Michael Mandel, Chief Economist, BusinessWeek

A healthy economy is always driven by innovation—by big, new ideas. In todays economic crisis, a game-changing breakthrough couldnt come at a better time.

The big new ideas since the 1970s—such as the personal computer, networking, the Internet, and the Web—came from projects supported by government, corporate research and development funding, and venture capitalists. But over the past few years, hundreds of billions have been poured into biotech and IT, with no clear payoff as of yet. Now corporations are cutting back on R&D budgets, venture capitalists are turning cautious, and its not yet clear the role that government is prepared to play.

Has there been an innovation drought, or are the breakthroughs still to come? Will corporate support for R&D dwindle, and how will it affect our ability to innovate in Silicon Valley and in the US? Is the trend to conduct R&D outside the U.S., where it is less expensive, inevitable and the right thing to do? What is the role of government in stimulating R&D? And what will be the new technology that drives the next boom?

Come and hear some of the most distinguished industry insiders examine innovation and R&D today and tomorrow in Silicon Valley, the nation, and the world.

Informatics: Esther Dyson of EDVentures on Genetic Information: Extended Interview

2009-06-17T20:19:59.123Z

Esther Dyson, a catalyst-investor in numerous technologies, believes that knowing more about our own genetic makeup allows us to make better decisions about our lives and our health. That in turn will lead to a raft of new companies and products that will provide us with better information and recommendations tailored to our unique genetic makeup and physical characteristics.

Esther Dyson is a long-time catalyst of start-ups in information technology in the U.S. and other markets, including Russia. Since selling her company, EDventure Holdings, to CNET Networks in 2004, she has taken on newer challenges in private aviation and space as well as in health care (as a director of 23andMe, a consumer genetics company). Her IT investments have included Flickr and del.icio.us (both sold to Yahoo!), and Medstory (sold to Microsoft), as well as Meetup Inc., Eventful.com, Boxbe and Voxiva. She is also an active investor in air and space, with holdings in Space Adventures and Zero-G Corporation, as well as XCOR Aerospace, Constellation Services International, Coastal Technologies Group, Dopplr.com, Airship Ventures and Icon Aircraft. She was recently honored with the Aenne Burda Award for Creative Leadership at the DLD Conference in Munich.

Simulation: Caveman...University of Calgary

2009-02-28T20:06:13.521Z

This virtual reality simulator could help surgeons better understand human anatomy. As seen on Daily Planet on The Discovery Channel in Canada at University of Calgary, 27Jan09