November 14, 2008 • 2:25 pm
The New York Times on Nov 14th writes an article about Boston, titled “A Science Lover’s Kind of Town”. I found a few lines very interesting
WHEN you run an ice cream parlor down the street from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, you expect your customers to chat about stem cell research or trade theories about neutrinos between licks of burnt caramel
OR
the area’s dozens of universities and research labs have infused Boston with innovation. Faculty members at Harvard and M.I.T. alone have racked up 49 Nobel Prizes in the sciences
OR
The microwave, the safety razor, the instant camera and the video game were all invented in the Boston area
Boston, Cambridge, the Route 128 and increasingly the Route 495 belt are known locally as the Innovation Center of Metro Boston. However, the city seems to have lost out to Silicon Valley as the primary Innovation Center of America.
Why did that happen? and does that reflect what is really going on ? This remains a favorite conversation (atleast in Boston). Here are some recent conversations
Christopher Herot : Boston vs Silicon Valley
Scott Kirsner in The Boston Globe
Utrecht University : Divide to conquer? The Silicon Valley – Boston 128 case revisited (pdf document)
Filed under: Innovation, TiE , Boston, Silicon Valley
Leon Sandler brought this to my notice. The Emerging Technologies Panel at TiECON East 2007 (which I was the producer for) was covered by Computerworld on June 15th.
It was great putting the panel together with Leon Sandler acting as the moderator and Dave Vieau, Asa Kalavade and Amir Alexander Hasson on the panel. We had Keith Deussing of Ironhill sponsoring the panel. Thanks are due to all of them.
We started out with the objective that we wanted to talk about how emerging technologies can disrupt existing markets and create new ones – and I guess the Computerworld report picked that up cleanly.
It was such a pleasure to hear Dave, Asa and Amir talk not only about that but what their experiences were as they tried to monetize the opportunity and what problems they faced in doing so. In true TiE spirit, the panel was intended to give a flavor for the audience of what it takes to be an entrepreneur.
Leon’s straw poll right at the start indicated that about 80% of the audience members were already or wanted to be entrepreneurs. The panelists did a great job of talking to the audience’s interest as was also evident in the Q&A and the one-on-ones after the discussion.
Here is the story:
June 15, 2007 (Computerworld) — BOSTON — Emerging technologies, which can enable the creation of new products and services, can also disrupt existing markets and create new ones, according to participants in a panel discussion today at the TIECon East 2007 conference here.
Continue on to Computerworld………
Filed under: Innovation, TiE
TiECON East will be held in Boston from Jun 14-16th and you should attend. Use my name and code CMTC07 and save $50 from the registration fees. If you are or wish to be an entrepreneur you should know this:
1) TiE is the world’s largest non-profit for innovation
2) TiE members raise 5% of US venture capital;
3) TiE members have created over $250 Billion in value;
4) You can hear Ram Shriram (Board Member, Google); Deval Patrick (Governor of MA.); Reed Hundt (Board Member, Intel) and others talk/network for a fee thousands less than other conferences.
Register here: www.tieconeast.org
Filed under: Speaking Engagement, TiE
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