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Organizing Doctoral efforts - Literature Review

January 5th, 2009 at 11:13 pm (Innovation, Doctorate of Business Administration, Literature Review)

So, in an effort to keep to my timeblocking and other efforts, I’ve decided to start with seriously exploring various journals, in order of their Aston Rankings.   A Ranking of 4 indicates the journal is world leading and highly influential, 3 indicates International Excellence.   My selection was influenced by my supervisor, who recommended that I spend some time identifying which tribe of academics I want to delve into.  I’ve added a couple because they publish work by Henry Chesbrough.

During the evenings, I’ll work through each journal on the list, combing for articles in the last 2-3 years published on my topics.   I’ll be tracking subject matter, authors and looking for general memes.

• Research Policy (Rank 4)
• California Management Review (Rank 4)
• Sloan Management Review (Rank 4)
• Harvard Business Review (Rank 4)
• Business History Review (Rank 3)
• Industrial and Corporate Change (Rank 2)
• Journal of Evolutionary Economics (Rank 1)

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Commercialization and Innovation in Egypt

October 4th, 2008 at 4:13 pm (Consulting)

I just returned from a wonderful trip to Egypt where I conducted a workshop on assessing technology innovations and creating roadmaps to commercialize them.  The research our of Cairo and Alexandria was very impressive.   We had a day to tour a bit and went down to Luxor.   Just amazing.   I’ve posted the photos over on Flickr.

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India Innovation

May 1st, 2007 at 9:07 am (Consulting, IC2, Innovation)

I just arrived home from the incredible city of Delhi, India where I participated as commercialization expert for The India Innovation Growth program. Lockheed Martin and the IC2 Institute of the University of Texas ran a week long commercialization training program, as part of a 2 year effort to foster innovations in India.

IC2 (Innovation, Creativity, and Capital) conducts such programs across the globe, and it was a joy and honor to work with them on this program. The innovators were incredibly collaborative and insightful.

We also had a few days for site seeing - I’ve posted some pictures on Flickr and will post more in the coming days. We saw some simply amazing sites built from as far back at 375 AD (The Iron Pillar) to the incredible Taj Mahal: http://www.flickr.com/photos/donna_k_kidwell

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Monterrey, Mexcio - enthusiam for commercialization

January 15th, 2007 at 1:39 pm (Consulting, MSSTC)

I just returned from Monterrey, Mexico where I spent the week working with inventors and startups from the state of Nuevo León gathered to work with the INVITE program. INVITE is a program sponsored by the Governor of Nuevo León to encourage business relationships between the states in Northern Mexico and Texas. 80 technologies were submitted to then program, and we arrived for a week of focused efforts on the top 20 techs.

I took on 5 wireless technologies - I was very impressed with their overall enthusiam and earnestness toward commercialization. Over the next month, I’ll be working on technology assessments for each. We’ll help them identify a path to market, and identify the best strategies for future business development.

It’s great work to do, for wonderful people, and it’s very exciting to be part of the economic growth of their area. I’ve posted a handful of photos taken with my Blackjack phone over on myspace.

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Build, therefore, your own world…

October 4th, 2006 at 11:08 am (Consulting)

“Build, therefore, your own world. As fast as you conform your life to the pure idea in your mind, that will unfold its great proportions. A correspondent revolution in things will attend the influx of the spirit.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Protected: James Truchard - Digital Regions Seminar

July 12th, 2006 at 12:44 pm (Consulting)

‘Services science’ emerges as new jobs ladder - Technology - International Herald Tribune

April 24th, 2006 at 4:29 pm (MSSTC)

‘Services science’ emerges as new jobs ladder - Technology - International Herald Tribune

How should Americans respond to the quickening pace of outsourcing and globalization?

The answer, according to a growing number of universities, corporations and government agencies, is in what is being called services science. The hybrid field seeks to use technology, management, mathematics and engineering expertise to improve the performance of service businesses like transportation, retailing and health care, as well as service functions like marketing, design or customer service that are also crucial in manufacturing industries.

Programs like the MSSTC are sprouting up across the country to address these concerns, each with a different focus. Some focus on a more traditional MBA with a focus on information services and business process. The MSSTC should have a strong focus on converting technological or scientific discovery into wealth generating businesses.

We’ll kick off the program later this week with a 4 day live-in here in Austin. I’ll post some first impressions as we go along.

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Back to school - Masters of Science in Science and Technology Commercialization

March 28th, 2006 at 11:17 am (MSSTC)

I’ve been accepted into a very exciting program at the University of Texas.  For the next year, I’ll be working on acquiring an MSSTC, a Masters in Science in Science and Technology Commercialization.  From their website:

The MSSTC degree hones general management and leadership skills, but the program is focused on science and technology commercialization, technology assessment, technology transfer, technology enterprises and intrepreneurship. The focus of MBA programs is on wealth management; the focus of the MSSTC program is on wealth creation.

I attended an information session last August, and was intrigued by a Masters that focused so clearly on entrepreneurial efforts.  The degree seeks to bridge the gap between science/tech/research and business strategy/marketing.   I’ll be attending classes every other Friday and Saturday for a year, and rather than a thesis, I’ll work on a commercialization project with a team of other students.

The program begins in May, giving me a month to secure financial aid and construct the framework for the consulting I’ll be doing while in school.  Stay tuned!

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Sports Social Networking

March 20th, 2006 at 2:54 pm (Social Networking)

Nike + Google = Sports Social Networking? (http://www.joga.com/)
From their help page:

Joga is an online community created by Google and Nike for anyone anywhere in the world who shares a love for soccer, the world’s most popular sport. Joga is about getting to know your fellow fans; creating games and clubs; accessing athletes from Nike; and enjoying video clips and photos (you can even upload your own). You can strengthen existing friendships and begin new ones, join a wide variety of communities for professional athletes and soccer teams, and even create your own to discuss soccer, exchange tips on the coolest moves, browse through various pitches worldwide, and plan your next game.

With Google’s technology (account management, Google Video and Orkut?) and Nike’s content, this could turn out to be one of the most compelling social networks out there. Well, if you are a soccer fan. It’s invite only, as was Orkut. Orkut was huge in Brazil - maybe Joga will leverage that as an inital base for memembership? Word has it that if this works, Nike will step out to other sports as well.

I can see great opportunity here for Fantasy Sports. Currently forums for fantasy sports are THE spot to go to get news, advice, or good smack talk. But the forums don’t integrate with fantasy sports teams. Forums may be offered by your league management software host (guys like myfantasyleague.com) but you still have to go someplace else for advice.

One might argue that’s a good thing - post for advice on beating your buddy someplace he’s less likely to see. But social networking sites have matured alot, and their is no reason you couldn’t come up with some interesting variations on fantasy sports communities.

Looks like Joga is for players, more so than fantasy. Sure could use something like that for my kids tee-ball, softball and flag football leagues! If you get an invite to Joga and don’t mind dropping me a note about what you think - I’d love to hear it.

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Nanotech Smileys

March 18th, 2006 at 8:32 pm (Nanotech)

I just read a post over at discover.com that completely made my day: Strands of DNA make Nano-Smiley. The following quote from Erik Winfree is just great:

“In a typical reaction, he can make about 50 billion Smiley faces. I think this is the most concentrated happiness ever created.”

Another site has better pictures of the smileys, snowflakes and an incredible map of the Western Hemisphere. If they can create nano-scale origami, it bodes very well for creating useful nano-structures and eventually nano-electronics.

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