Here are some ideas for student projects to help advance service science:

1. Service culture study
– as you know part of being T-shaped is academic discipline, industry sector, and regional culture diversity
– each student could take a major country in the world and research service culture for that nation
– for start-ups that want to go global understanding how service culture varies by big population nations could be of interest
top sixteen workforce populations are: China, India, US, Nigeria, Indonesia, Germany, Japan, etc.
do these countries have import-export surpluses? for goods, for service? what are cultural variations for scaling service innovations
how are hotel different in each country? how is transportation different?
2. Can students help build a semantic service science web with people in Romania?
http://sske.cloud.upb.ro/sskemw/index.php/SEM_-_Foundations_of_Service_Science
– contact theodor.borangiu@cimr@pub.ro and monica.dragoicea@acse.pub.ro
https://service-science.info/archives/2708
3. Grand challenge problems and crowdfunding
– Would the students be able to mobilize a national grand challenge competition
http://www.ieee.org/education_careers/education/university_programs/curriculum_resources/smarterplanetchallenge.html
– http://www.polygon.com/2013/2/9/3971464/eve-online-documentary-crowdsourcing

4. Service research centers
– what are the top service research centers around the world by country?
– who are top service researchers in each country?
– what is their top publication? in what journal? what conferences do they attend?

5. Service science related courses and programs
– what are the top service science related courses in the world?
– who teaches them?
– what is the syllabus?

6. What is the best interview format for 2-3 minute videos of service innovation pioneers?
– I am using iMovie on my MacBook Air
– how can we create a good format that has slides, video talking head, etc.
– we post these to http://www.issip.org

Hope some of these ideas are useful….