At least six people have been killed in two suicide bomb attacks at an Islamic university in Islamabad as the ground offensive in South Waziristan intensifies. Video courtesy of Reuters.
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Audience: My dream is to start a university someday. Hopefully as world class as Stanford, probably in India because that’s what I'm thinking right now. I probably cannot get a better person to answer this question for me than you. How would you advise me to go about it or anyone to go about it?...
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How do you think about innovation and entrepreneurial behavior in a big university that wants to try to address some of the biggest problems in the world. If we want to help solve issues like environmental sustainability, finding an environmentally appropriate way to generate energy for the futu...
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Yock focuses on cardio vascular disease, which is a very profound disease - it is the # 1 killer in the western world. About half of all Medtech companies have to deal with cardio vascular diseases, he says.
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Audience: I was wondering what efforts Stanford’s taking to create cross department synergies? So you mentioned that the importance of this in your talk and one thing that I've observed is that there may be certain parts of the university that are more segregated from other parts. And I'm curious...
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Hennessy explains that the Clark Center is important to the future of Stanford because it represents the growing importance of biology to the coming century. It is a radical organization for a university because it brings together faculty from a broad range of departments in an attempt t...
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Yock talks about the interface between the universities and the industry. He talks about the rich MedTech environment at Stanford and other universities.
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Using Play-Doh and the Apple iPod as examples, Robert Sutton, Co-Director of the Center for Work, Technology, and Organization at Stanford University, explains that often creativity is simply making new things out of old ones.
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Hennessy explians that the biotech and biomedical space are characterized by the importance of patents. Contrarily, patents are not crucial in intellectual property companies because there are often many comparable ways to do the same thing. Additionally, most IT companies spun out of ...
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