by KE
on February 14, 2013
New York: As a testament to the strength of emerging technology jobs in New York City, real estate magnate William C. Rudin says that the “Knowledge Economy,ˮ driven by young companies, will be the future of the city’s fortunes, not financial services.
BILL RUDIN
“We know New York resurgence over the past several years has contributed to our success,” Rudin said.
“Mayor Bloomberg’s investments, like the campus of Cornell on Roosevelt Island, and his support of the tech industry and knowledge economy has been very significant for our city.
The complete Real Estate Weekly article can be accessed here.
India: The “One Globe 2013: Uniting Knowledge Communities” conference was held in New Delhi, India on 7-8 February and the speakers talked extensively about the need to create a global knowledge economy with the mission to make university education more affordable.
The conference was hosted by Salwan Media, a South Asian business corporation holding a portfolio of interests in education, consumer and business information sector, and was attended by exemplary academicians, leaders and policymakers from around the globe.
According to Harjiv Singh, CEO, Salwan Media, “The three global trends that will help in realising the vision of a 21st century knowledge economy are: information, connectivity and urbanisation.”
More information about the conference can be found at One Globe 2013
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by KE
on February 10, 2013
… CEO Jeff Weiner upped the company’s long-term sex appeal with this statement: “One of the things that we’re increasingly focused on in 2013 is going to be the opportunity to support content marketing.”
Wait, what? What’s sexy about content marketing, you ask? Money — and potentially lots of it.
Here’s what happening: LinkedIn is ready to put on its big boy suit and become more than a second-tier social network where you go to add and maintain connections. Instead, LinkedIn wants to take its best assets — you, your 200 million peers, and the 2.4 million companies using the service — and connect them through one big knowledge exchange. Full CNET article
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by KE
on February 8, 2013
E-mail from Todd Park
US Chief Technology Officer
Office of Science and Technology Policy
The White House
Hello!
I’m thrilled to let you know that this morning, the White House announced Round 2 of the Presidential Innovation Fellows program – focused on nine exciting, high-impact projects. We will be accepting applications to be a Round 2 Fellow from today until March 17. Anyone interested in learning about the projects or applying should go to WhiteHouse.gov/InnovationFellows!
As you know, the Presidential Innovation Fellows program teams top innovators from the private sector, non-profits, and academia with top innovators in government to work collaboratively during focused 6-12 month “tours of duty” to develop solutions that can save lives, save taxpayer money, and fuel job creation.
We are incredibly proud of what the Round 1 Fellows have accomplished through their work on the Open Data Initiatives, MyUSA (formerly MyGov), RFP-EZ, Better Than Cash, and Blue Button for America projects, and can’t wait to see what the Round 2 class will do!
We would appreciate it enormously if you could both help raise awareness about Round 2 in general (#InnovateGov) and also encourage specific, talented individuals in your network to learn more and apply. The Presidential Innovation Fellows program offers a unique opportunity for incredibly gifted innovators to advance the public good and have an impact on a national scale. Any and all help you can provide helping us source an amazing, diverse, super-talented applicant pool would be profoundly appreciated.
Thank you again, and please reach out with any questions!
Todd
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by KE
on February 6, 2013
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by KE
on February 5, 2013
The transition to sustainable development through a new knowledge economy needs a totally new mission-based approach in India – according to the executive director at The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) Article
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by KE
on January 27, 2013
John Chavez is always on the hunt for the next big idea. Literally. The president of the New Mexico Angels and tax secretary to former governor Gary Johnson spends hours each month trolling the research labs of the University of New Mexico, visiting with scientists and their graduate assistants. John knows universities are fertile ground for raw technology with potentially lucrative commercial applications. …
John isn’t the only entrepreneur or investor vetting university research. Venture capitalists routinely walk the labs of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Stanford University. With those two universities hauling in a combined $142.9 million in licensing income in 2011, the VCs aren’t walking away empty handed.
So how does an entrepreneur gain access to the potentially fertile grounds of university research labs? Here are five suggestions: …
Do your homework. Once you’ve identified universities and researchers of interest, do some homework. All university tech transfer offices have websites that provide basic info. Then google the researchers you’d particularly like to connect with. A growing number of scientists, such as Dr. Brian Benicewicz, a polymer chemist at the University of South Carolina, have comprehensive websites. Benicewicz’s site chronicles his career at Celanese, Ethicon and Los Alamos National Lab; describes his current research and commercial ventures; and introduces his graduate assistants—also potential sources of big ideas.
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by KE
on January 25, 2013
Their curriculum devotes months to helping a company solve a current technological challenge. Their progress is supervised not just by an academic adviser, but also by an industry adviser. Their vast campus on Roosevelt Island, when it is built, will intersperse classrooms with office buildings, where high-tech companies can rent a suite and set up shop.
And when they showed up Monday for the very first day of classes at Cornell NYC Tech, the most ambitious institution of higher education to open in New York City in decades, students arrived not at some temporary structure on the edge of a construction site but to 20,000 square feet of donated space in the middle of Google’s $2 billion New York headquarters.
Cornell NYC Tech, a new graduate school focusing on applied science, is a bold experiment on many fronts: a major expansion for an august upstate school, a high-impact real estate venture for Roosevelt Island, an innovative collaboration with a foreign university, a new realm of influence for City Hall. But the most striking departure of all may be the relationship it sets forth between university and industry, one in which commerce and education are not just compatible, they are also all but indistinguishable. In this new framework, Cornell NYC Tech is not just a school, it is an “educational start-up,” students are “deliverables” and companies seeking access to those students or their professors can choose from a “suite of products” by which to get it. Rest of article
Dean Daniel Huttenlocher and Vice President Cathy S. Dove of Cornell NYC Tech, a graduate school that had its first classes on Monday.
Cornell NYC Tech’s temporary quarters, in donated space at Google’s Chelsea headquarters, are currently being redesigned.
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by KE
on January 24, 2013
OPINION: Ireland should strive for research excellence across all disciplines and face societal challenges, writes CONOR O’CARROLL
We have come through a period of unprecedented growth in research activity in Ireland. New funding agencies Science Foundation Ireland and the two research councils emerged between 1998 and 2006. The Higher Education Authority’s Programme for Research in Third-Level Institutions (PRTLI) brought about closer research collaboration across the higher education sector and supported the modernisation of our research infrastructure.
National policy was closely allied to the European target of an investment in research of 3 per cent of GDP. This was encapsulated in the 2004 document Building Ireland’s Knowledge Economy – the Irish Action Plan for Promoting Investment in RD to 2010. It presented a vision that by 2010 Ireland would be internationally renowned for the excellence of its research and be at the forefront in generating and using new knowledge for economic and social progress, within an innovation-driven culture. Rest
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by KE
on January 18, 2013
BURNABY, BRITISH COLUMBIA–(Marketwire – Jan. 15, 2013) – Canada’s university campuses, research centres and hospitals are receiving funding from the Government of Canada for advanced research infrastructure, helping them continue to compete in today’s global knowledge economy.
While visiting Simon Fraser University, the Honourable James Moore, Minister of Canadian Heritage and Official Languages and Member of Parliament for Port Moody-Westwood-Port Coquitlam, announced an investment of over $215 million by the Government of Canada through the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) for cutting-edge research infrastructure.
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