Next year's proposed cuts in federal funding for scientific research and development could be as high as 8 percent, seriously impacting research in agriculture, energy and medicine. CISAC Postdoctoral Fellow Robert Forrest outlines how cuts would "profoundly inhibit innovation and deal an astonishing blow to American exceptionalism."
The latest summer 2012 issue of Stanford Social Innovation Review highlights how REAP leverages its research and global partnerships to influence government policy.
Short biography in paragraph format with your name, organization/institution and area of work to be used for the conference pack, not longer than 200 words.
June 8, 2012
Headshot suitably large for printing (at least 350 pixels in both dimensions)
June 8, 2012
Draft Presentation
June 19, 2012
Final Presentation
9am, June 25, 2012
KEY QUESTIONS to be addressed
With the early phases of technologies, products and services now deployed, it is important to take stock. What is working (and what is not)? Why? How can feedback from designers, vendors, and—importantly—users be leveraged for future improvement in design and strategy? In the meantime, what new developments are coming on stream now that are ready to demo or be commercialized that may also significant impact for the next generation of smart green cities?
Topics for Focus: During the “Innovations for Smart Green City” Roundtable, speakers and discussions will focus on an array of questions, such as:
In the key application areas of buildings and transportation, what lessons have been learned through implementation of smart green products and services deployed to date?
What are critical bottlenecks for the development of smart green cities? How to overcome challenges, such as facilitating rapid learning, proving financial viability, or integrating innovations into complex systems?
What frameworks and tools can be used to better analyze and improve smart green cities?
Which cities around the globe have demonstrated effective smart and green innovations? Which are leading case studies that illustrate lessons on what is effective and scalable?
What government roles and policies have been effective? More specifically, what role do city representatives have in smart green innovation? What policies have been effective to support Smart and Green industries? What benefits does the government provide to different stakeholders such as developers, investors, entrepreneurs and citizens?
How is the landscape for smart and green shifting globally -- where are the hotspots or centers of knowledge and excellence?Who are some of the key innovators, labs, firms, and organizations pioneering the way?How can government, venture finance and other crucial parts of the ecosystem help accelerate the development and deployment of high impact innovations?
And what emerging Smart Green Innovations, firms, and entrepreneurs look promising for leading the next wave of change and even paradigm shift?
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Roundtable at Stanford
On June 26-27, the Stanford Program on Regions of Innovation and Entrepreneurship (SPRIE) hosted a circle of leaders from academia, industry, and the public sector who are driving the understanding and best practice for smart green cities to gather for a dynamic and interactive roundtable at the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University.
The aim was to convene a productive mix of researchers and experts for presentations and fruitful discussion on the challenges and opportunities at the intersection of information technologies and energy that can transform buildings and transportation on the urban scale.
Smart and Green
Innovations at the intersection of smart and green-- in technologies, products and services--are transforming how we work and live. Smart represents ubiquitous information and communication technology, driven by advances in computing, internet, cloud, and mobile. Green signals bringing clean tech to energy consumers to reduce carbon emissions and increase energy efficiency.
Buildings and Transportation in Cities
More than half of the world’s population now resides in cities, with urbanization projected to intensify in key areas, such as in China and Africa. In cities, buildings and transportation account for the largest proportion of energy use; together they also shape the quality of daily life and work.
Learning from Innovations Deployed or Ready to Demo
In these two key application areas, there has been a great deal of R&D, investment and experimentation, ranging from designs for whole new cities in Son
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gdo and Masdar to installations of services on mobile devices in Seoul and Barcelona. These advancements have been joined by innovations in public private partnerships, financial models, and policy instruments. Now that early phase innovations have been built, installed and tested by users, some products and services have proven to be successful. Others are less effective, economical or scalable than hoped; others are emerging as more disruptive and valuable than anticipated. What have we learned to date? What is on the horizon?
Key Questions
With the early phases of technologies, products and services now deployed, it is important to take stock. What is working (and what is not)? Why? How can feedback from researchers, designers, vendors, and—importantly—users be leveraged for future improvement in design and strategy? What new developments are ready to demo or be commercialized that may also significant impact the next generation of smart green cities?
During the “Smart Green Innovations” Roundtable, discussions focused on an array of questions, such as:
In the key application areas of buildings and transportation, what lessons have been learned through implementation of smart green products and services deployed to date?
What are critical bottlenecks for the development of smart green cities? How to overcome challenges, such as facilitating rapid learning, proving financial viability, or integrating innovations into complex systems?
What frameworks and tools can be used to better analyze and improve smart green cities?
Which cities around the globe have demonstrated effective smart and green innovations? Which are leading case studies that illustrate lessons on what is effective and scalable?
What government roles and policies have been effective? What partnerships—including those that are cross-discipline, cross-sector, cross-organization, or cross-border—are helping accelerate the development and deployment of high impact innovations that can shape smart green cities?
How is the landscape for smart and green shifting globally--where are the hotspots or centers of knowledge and excellence?
Who are some of the key innovators, labs, firms, and organizations pioneering the way? What technologies, products, services, and business models are driving the next generation of innovation?
What firms and entrepreneurs look promising for leading the next wave of change for smart green cities?
Emerging economies such as China and India have become “hotspots” of multinational R&D investments. As some observers have argued, some unique products/services are first developed in and for emerging markets, then subsequently introduced to advanced markets. This is named “reverse innovation” and proclaimed to bring great challenges for existing industrial dominators (Immelt, Govindarajan & Trimble, 2009). If true, what would be its impact on multinational global R&D strategies and organizations? What kind of capabilities and mechanism should be developed to respond this change?
Based on case studies in China, Dr. Liang will discuss three new types of multinationals’ R&D units abroad. All of them are host-country-based instead of home-country-based, which indicates the latest change of multinational global R&D distribution. Furthermore, the talk will also explore the global R&D strategy and innovation pattern of Chinese home-grown companies such as Huawei and ZTE, and the relationship between multinationals’ R&D relocation in China, as well as their implications on global innovation landscape.
About the speaker
Dr. LIANG Zheng is currently working at the MIT Industrial Performance Center (IPC) as the Fulbright Visiting Research Scholar. Presently he is carrying out research projects on multinationals’ global R&D network expansion and integration, as well as the internationalization of new industrial leaders from emerging economies. He serves as the associate professor of the School of Public Policy and Management, Tsinghua University, as well as the research fellow and assistant director of China Institute for Science & Technology Policy at Tsinghua University (CISTP), which is jointly established by Ministry of Science and Technology of China and Tsinghua University, mainly focusing on the studies of S&T policy and the national strategy of S&T development. Before joining Tsinghua University, Dr. Liang served as the associate professor of the International Business School in Nankai University. He got his doctor’s degree of economics at Nankai University (2003) and accomplished the senior executive training program on leadership at Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University (2010). The main areas of his research focus on globalization of R&D, IPRs and standardization and the National Innovation System. Dr. Liang has also participated in some of China’s key research projects such as the Strategic Research for National Medium and Long Term Science and Technology Development Program.
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LIANG, Zheng
Associate Professor, School of Public Policy and Management
Speaker
Tsinghua University
FSI Senior Fellow Emeritus and Director-Emeritus, Shorenstein APARC
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Henry S. Rowen was a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, a professor of public policy and management emeritus at Stanford University's Graduate School of Business, and a senior fellow emeritus of the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center (Shorenstein APARC). Rowen was an expert on international security, economic development, and high tech industries in the United States and Asia. His most current research focused on the rise of Asia in high technologies.
In 2004 and 2005, Rowen served on the Presidential Commission on the Intelligence of the United States Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction. From 2001 to 2004, he served on the Secretary of Defense Policy Advisory Board. Rowen was assistant secretary of defense for international security affairs in the U.S. Department of Defense from 1989 to 1991. He was also chairman of the National Intelligence Council from 1981 to 1983. Rowen served as president of the RAND Corporation from 1967 to 1972, and was assistant director of the U.S. Bureau of the Budget from 1965 to 1966.
Rowen most recently co-edited Greater China's Quest for Innovation (Shorenstein APARC, 2008). He also co-edited Making IT: The Rise of Asia in High Tech (Stanford University Press, 2006) and The Silicon Valley Edge: A Habitat for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (2000). Rowen's other books include Prospects for Peace in South Asia (edited with Rafiq Dossani) and Behind East Asian Growth: The Political and Social Foundations of Prosperity (1998). Among his articles are "The Short March: China's Road to Democracy," in National Interest (1996); "Inchon in the Desert: My Rejected Plan," in National Interest (1995); and "The Tide underneath the 'Third Wave,'" in Journal of Democracy (1995).
Born in Boston in 1925, Rowen earned a bachelors degree in industrial management from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1949 and a masters in economics from Oxford University in 1955.
Faculty Co-director Emeritus, SPRIE
Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution
Henry S. Rowen
Co-Director, SPRIE
Host
Stanford Graduate School of Business
The China Greentech Report 2012, released by the China Greentech Initiative (CGTI), is the third annual update of recent developments in the greentech sector in China. CGTI, founded in 2008, has rapidly grown to become the only Chinese-international collaboration platform of 100+ commercial and policy organizations, focused on identifying, developing and promoting green technology solutions in China. The Stanford Program on Regions of Innovation and Entrepreneurship (SPRIE) at the Stanford Graduate School of Business is the supporting organization of the initiative.
The China Greentech Report 2012 analyzes four key factors that characterise challenges and opportunities in China's greentech markets, including:
How China and global economic forces have impacted greentech growth
Aggressive government policies will continue to support greentech growth
Public awareness of urgent environmental problems is growing
China is going global to satisfy energy security needs and to meet emission reduction goals
Hany Nada is co-founder of GGV Capital and has worked as a long-term partner with more than 150 companies over the past decade to build companies that can succeed in today's global marketplace. He is a trusted resource to public and private company CEOs and management teams on global market development, customer introductions and M&A/IPO guidance across US and Asian markets. CEOs that have worked with Hany characterize him as their go-to advisor for both general direction and company growth strategies.
As a leading venture investor, Hany made his first investment in China in 2001, and has led the firm’s successful investments in athenahealth (NASDAQ: ATHN), Endeca (acquired by Oracle) Glu Mobile (NASDAQ: GLUU), Kintana (acquired by Mercury Interactive), Turbine (acquired by Time Warner) and Xfire (acquired by Viacom). Currently, he serves on the Board of Directors for Tudou, China’s leading video content provider, Vocera Communications, RootMusic, Glu Mobile, and Wild Tangent. In addition to actively making investments in the mobile and digital media sectors in the US and China, Hany is responsible for one of the industry’s most successful China/US investment teams as well as general oversight of the firm's funds.
Before entering the venture capital business, Hany spent ten years on Wall Street as a top-ranked research analyst at Piper Jaffray focusing on Internet software and infrastructure. Hany is a graduate of the University of Minnesota where he earned a B.S. in economics and a B.A. in political science.
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