SPRIE hosts Innovation Talent Roundtable

Image

Roundtable participants from Chile, China, Denmark, the Netherlands, Taiwan, and the United States.

From executive boardrooms to national capitols, leaders are debating the relative merits of contending models and strategies for attracting, developing, and empowering innovation talent--the people who drive economic growth and value creation through innovation.

 

On June 28, 2013, the Silicon Valley Project of the Stanford Program on Regions of Innovation and Entrepreneurship (SPRIE) convened a circle of over 50 policymakers, executives and Stanford community members from 12 countries for an interactive roundtable on innovation talent at the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

 

Image

Professor Baba Shiv sharing insights from the field of neuroeconomics in “The Rx for Innovation.”

The roundtable featured six sessions, giving participants the opportunity to explore various aspects of the topics, including learning about "Accelerating the Next Generation of Innovation Talent" from Cameron Teitelman, Founder and CEO of StartX, and Divya Nag, the Founder of StartX Med. Participants also learned about the role of neural structures and their implications for marketing, innovation, leadership and decision making from Baba Shiv, the Sanwa Bank, Limited Professor of Marketing at the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

 

• What are key data and trends for innovation talent in Silicon Valley?
• What strategies are places such as London, Taiwan and Israel employing to become hotbeds of innovation that attract innovation talent?
• How can companies successfully manage and empower their innovation talent? What best practices have been learned?
• What insights and implications into innovation talent can be gathered from recent research?
• How are universities innovating through programs such as Stanford's StartX and the d.school?

Image

Evan Wittenberg (center), the Senior Vice President of People at Box, speaking on optimizing the management of innovation talent with moderator Greg McKeown (right), CEO of THIS, Inc., and Kyung H. Yoon (left), the CEO of Talent Age Associates.

The panelists and speakers included professors, senior executives, and representatives from the diplomatic missions of Israel and the United Kingdom. In a panel moderated by Greg McKeown, CEO of THIS Inc., Evan Wittenberg, Senior Vice President of People at Box, and Kyung H. Yoon, CEO of Talent Age Associates, spoke about their experiences effectively hiring and managing innovation talent. One participant at the roundtable reflected that "it was quite a remarkable group of speakers and I was able to grasp many important insights that could be applied."

 

For more information, including the agenda and the slides from many of the presentations, please visit the event website.

 

SPRIE gratefully acknowledges the Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) as a partner and generous supporter.