Expediting University Startups: A Step Toward Advancing America’s Prosperity

BY Joseph DeSimone http://www.kauffman.org/Expediting-University-Startups-A-Step-Toward-Advancing-America%E2%80%99s-Prosperity.aspx?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Opticast&utm_campaign=Ideas_At_Work_08_2010 universities are major employers of regions (especially great universities in great cities) universities often have science and technology parks, with business incubators universities often have medical centers and hospitals, or a life science complex university faculty highly prioritize education for their children, and so affiliated high schools and elementary schools are …

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Short Takes 27 Aug

Service Science Ontology (Italy) http://www.loa-cnr.it/Papers/FerrarioGuarinoFIS08Proceedings.pdf Service Science Ontology (Italy) Legal framework http://www.loa-cnr.it/Papers/FerrGuarFern.pdf Transportation (China) Bus Straddles Cars http://tinyurl.com/3angwlh Water (WW) Pepsi Pledge http://tinyurl.com/369m7et Water/Environment (WW) Tropi-Dry http://tropi-dry.eas.ualberta.ca/2_who.html Energy (WW) Cool Solar Highways http://www.flixxy.com/solar-highways.htm Energy (Germany) Improved Solar Cell Models http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/07/100719083044.htm Comm/ICT (Canada) Wireless Sensors http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/research/research-areas/database-systems/wireless-sensors Buildings (US) Green Homes http://tinyurl.com/38mtdfx Retail/Media & Entertainment (Canada) Serious …

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Short takes 21 August

European Association for REsearch on SERvices (EU) http://www.reser.net/ IBM #4 2010 Most Innovative Company (WW) http://www.businessweek.com/interactive_reports/innovative_companies_2010.html Smartest Scientist (CNN) http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2010/technology/1007/gallery.smartest_people_tech.fortune/41.html Transportation (US) MIT http://cee.mit.edu/graduate/mst Transportation (US) MIT http://web.mit.edu/its/research.html Transportation (US) MIT http://web.mit.edu/its/MITSIMLabOSnew.html Transportation (US) CMU http://www.heinz.cmu.edu/traffic21/about-traffic21/index.aspx Transportation (US) CMU http://www.heinz.cmu.edu/australia/news/news-detail/index.aspx?nid=1073 Transportation (US) NCSU http://www2.acs.ncsu.edu/reg_records/crs_cat/CE.html Transportation (US) UMichigan http://www.umtri.umich.edu/news.php Transportation (UK) Imperial http://www.geomatics.cv.imperial.ac.uk/html/research/its.asp Transportation (Belgium) UHasselt …

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Short takes 16 August

Food & Products (WW) IBM Smarter Food                                http://www.ibm.com/ibm/ideasfromibm/us/smartplanet/opinions/opinion_20081208.shtml Food & Products (US) Smart Clothes http://tinyurl.com/2duwrld Energy (US) http://www.pgsenergy.com/phone-seminar/E-101a/Fundamentals-Electric-Service-System/424 Energy (WW) Shale and Liquid Natural Gas Intro Course http://www.pmaconference.com/Shale-LNG-0810-PMA.PDF Energy (WW) IBM Rational Focal Point                                            http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/offers/lp/demos/summary/r-focalpointutil.html Comm/ICT (US) Silicon Valley Network http://www.aonetwork.com/ Comm/ICT (US) Future of Mobile Cloud http://tinyurl.com/35dr9rm Comm/ICT (US) Future of Augmented Reality http://tinyurl.com/2uekajb …

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Short takes

Service Science Transdisciplinary Framework (WW) Journal of Service Science (Pp. 8-9) http://www.sersci.com/magazine/v2n1_2/ Inventing the Future of Services (US) CMU Course http://tinyurl.com/2ak5na4 Mental Models of Time (WW) Thanks to Bob Lusch for pointer to  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3oIiH7BLmg Transportation (US) Driverless Cars http://www.kansascity.com/2010/08/02/2124104/driverless-cars-to-hit-the-streets.html Transportation (WW) RFID for Airports http://www.researchandmarkets.com/product/f3dc86/rfid_for_airports_and_airlines_20082018 Water/Environment (France) City Sensors http://www.lamontreverte.org/en/ Water/Climate (EU) Knowledge Community http://www.climate-kic-proposal.org/ …

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Short takes 10 August

Service Wave Conference (Belgium) http://servicewave.eu/2010/ Submit Service Wave Abstracts (WW) https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=sw20100 T-shaped Professionals (Singapore) http://tinyurl.com/385p56e Getting Hired Team Communication Skills (WW) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A42Tab_bu6A&feature=related SD Logic and Service Science  (IMM) http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.indmarman.2010.06.031 Submit Service Science Abstracts (WW) https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=srii11 Technology Services World (WW) http://www.technologyservicesworld.com/ Artifact-Centric Service Interoperation (EU)  http://www.acsi-project.eu/ Smarter Transportation (Australia) http://australia.betterplace.com/ Smarter Energy (Australia) http://www.energy.unimelb.edu.au/ Smarter Buildings …

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Short takes 7 August

Handbook of Service Science (Springer) http://tinyurl.com/3798ybl Service Science Progress and Directions (Spohrer) http://www.slideshare.net/spohrer/service-science-progress-and-directions-20100620 International Conference Exploring Service Science (Switzerland) http://iess.unige.ch/   http://www.slideshare.net/ServicesScience/iess-10-welcome Public Service Delivery (EU) COCKPIT  http://www.cockpit-project.eu/ Ecoblocks (WW) Harrison Fraker UCBerkeley  http://www.slideshare.net/geoff848/harrison-fraker-ecoblocks Grand Challenge Summit (US) USC http://www.naegrandchallengessummit2010.org/ Energy and Climate Change Network (Greece) http://www.kepa.uoa.gr/PROMITHEAS_general.htm Nano Progress (Lux Populi) Green Science and Tech Research  …

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Short takes week of 7/30

Call for papers SRII (WW) Service Research and Innovation Institute  www.thesrii.org Journal of International of Commerce, Economics, and Policy (WW) JICEP http://www.worldscinet.com/jicep/jicep.shtml International Conference (Thailand) Management of Engineering and Technology PICMET’10 http://www.picmet.org/new/Conferences/2010/ Technology and Information Management Program (US) UC Santa Cruz http://www.tim.ucsc.edu/ OECD Innovation Report (WW) Sustainable and greener growth http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/51/28/45326349.pdf US White House Innovation …

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