SPRIE's Silicon Valley Project is focused on innovation talent, and more specifically on the development and management of innovation talent, as well as the policies that affect innovation talent. This brown bag seminar will feature two perspectives about innovation talent, giving attendees an idea of the situation in Korea and Sweden.

The brown bag seminar will begin with "Innovation Talent in Korea: Challenges and Responses" by Sunyang Chung, Ph.D., Professor of Technology Management; Dean of the William F. Miller School of MOT at Konkuk University; and Visiting Scholar at SPRIE. Dr. Chung will discuss the situation of innovation talent in Korea and the responses of the Korean government and Samsung.

Dr. Anne Lidgard, Director of the VINNOVA Silicon Valley Office, will then speak on "Swedish Policy for Attracting Innovation Talent." Sweden is a country with only 9 million people at the northern edge of Europe. There is a very high risk that global flows of talent will bypass Sweden in the future. Dr. Lidgard's talk will cover some policy actions taken over the past years to facilitate the attraction of foreign talent and also look at some of the effects.

After the presentations, attendees will have the opportunity to ask questions in a Q&A session.

Lunch will not be provided, but there will be sweet snacks for those attending.

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Dr. Chung

received his Ph.D. from the University of Stuttgart in Germany. He worked at the Fraunhofer-Institute for Systems and Innovation Research (FhG-ISI) in Karlsruhe, Germany. He has been a senior researcher at the Science and Technology Policy Institute (STEPI), under Korea's Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST).

In 2004, on the basis of his research work, Dr. Chung was selected as the youngest lifetime fellow of the Korean Academy of Science and Technology (KAST - Korea's equivalent of the National Academy of Sciences). Since March 1, 2008, he has worked as Director of KAST's Policy Research Center.

In 2008 he established the William F. Miller School of MOT (Management of Technology) at Seoul's Konkuk University. Dr. Chung currently serves as Dean of the Miller MOT School.

Anne Lidgard, Ph.D., has a background in corporate R&D at AT&T Bell Labs and at Ericsson. She has also spent many years working with small businesses in various positions, from Director of Sales to CEO to Partner at a venture catalyst company.

She joined VINNOVA, the Swedish Governmental Innovation Agency in January 2006, and has been part of the management team since May 2009. As of June 2012, she is Director of VINNOVA's Silicon Valley Office and a Visiting Scholar at Stanford University.