New Lessons from Silicon Valley for Austrian Industry, Universities and Regions Dr. Burton Lee, Stanford University Wednesday, 1 June 2016, 6.00 pm
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About Burton Lee
About the lecture
Based in Silicon Valley, Dr. Burton Lee wears numerous hats that span academia, industry, government, technology, design and policy. As a member of the Stanford Engineering faculty, he lectures on European Entrepreneurship and Innovation, supported by more than a dozen European national and regional government partners over the past eight years. Lee is today considered one of Silicon Valley’s leading experts on the European entrepreneurship and innovation ecosystem, with extensive experience advising European corporations, universities, industry clusters, governments, investment funds, accelerators and techparks; coaching European startups; and developing new approaches to Europe’s innovation challenges.
Silicon Valley is often used as a model and benchmark for how European regional and national economies can transform themselves into centers of innovation and job creation. Often, these discussions make reference to the Valley’s culture of acceptance of failure, focus on disruptive innovations, and the role of leading founders such as Steve Jobs, for example. Are these however the only lessons that Austrian firms, universities and regions can draw from the experience of Northern California? This talk will address several of the ‘unspoken’ and less well known lessons of the Valley from the point of view of an expert based at the Stanford School of Engineering who has spent over 10 years researching and studying the European and Silicon Valley startup, research and innovation ecosystems and traditions.
Dr. Lee holds a PhD in Mechanical & Electrical Engineering (Stanford), an MBA in Finance (Cornell), and a Bachelors degree in Economics (Brown). He concurrently serves as Managing Director of Innovarium Ventures.
Dr. Burton Lee ʺNew Lessons from Silicon Valley for Austrian Industry, Universities and Regionsʺ language of lecture: English Wednesday, 1 June 2016, 6.00 pm, TU Graz, Ceremony Hall, Rechbauerstraße 12, first floor
Programme ▪ Welcome Address by Harald Kainz, Rector of Graz University of Technology ▪ Lecture by Burton Lee ▪ Questions and Discussion ▪ Buffet
RSVP to: ulla.lehrmayer@tugraz.at
This lecture is presented by the Styrian Entrepreneurship Platform (ST-E-P), a cooperation of Uni Graz and TU Graz.
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