Innovation and Entrepreneurship for Scientists, Engineers and Researchers
Tue Sep 27, 08:30 - Wed Sep 28, 17:00
IBM Research
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**New Dates**Course Summary:
The goal of the short course is to bring universal entrepreneurship concepts and knowledge to students and faculty in the sciences and others interested in technical entrepreneurship and business development. The short course topics have been selected to address elements of business development that are ‘universal’: those that can be applied to any professional and business environment independent of nationality or the specific enterprise or product type. Other topics that are important in entrepreneurship are location specific (such as intellectual property, legal and regulatory issues, finance, taxes, etc.) and will be addressed by local experts in these important disciplines. The course will be hands-on, with presentations, breakouts, exercises, and workshop activities to both inform the audience and move them forward in their career and business endeavors.
Biography of presenter:
Dr. Douglas Arion is Donald D. Hedberg Distinguished Professor of Entrepreneurial Studies, Director of the Carthage Institute of Astronomy, and Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Carthage College. He founded the ScienceWorks technology entrepreneurship education program at Carthage in 1994, the first undergraduate program of its kind in the United States. He helped found the Center for Advanced Technology and Innovation and served as Senior Program Advisor. He serves on the US Joint Task Force on Undergraduate Physics Programs, which is recommending new standards for physics education to prepare graduates for 21st Century careers. He has organized conferences to promote entrepreneurship education with the American Physical Society, and the Industrial Physics Forums of the American Institute of Physics and International Center for Theoretical Physics.
Previously, at Science Applications International Corporation, he was Division Head and Assistant Vice President, and led the growth of the Applied Physics and Engineering Division by a factor of 10 in less than four years. He directed the design and construction of extensive experimental systems, including space-qualified optics and high precision structural measuring systems.
He is co-founder of Galileoscope LLC, which developed, manufactures, and distributes high quality low cost telescopes for science education and outreach. Galileoscope has supplied over 250 000 telescope kits to more than 100 countries, and was a selected as a worldwide cornerstone project of the 2009 International Year of Astronomy and 2015 International Year of Light.
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