Maintaining Innovation

January 20, 2017 14:00

How can a deeper understanding of who innovates and how innovation is maintained provide more inclusive models for future discovery and economic growth?

Dimensions to be addressed:
- Debating the myth of the lone innovator
- Impact of the rise and decline of corporate R&D
- Basic science as the bedrock for innovation

This session will be livestreamed on TopLink and the Forum website.

Speakers:

Alice Gast

W. Patrick McCray

Professor of History, University of California, Santa Barbara

Joe Palca

Science Correspondent, NPR

L. Rafael Reif

President Emeritus, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Martin Stratmann

Andrew Thompson

Managing Director and Co-Founder, Spring Ridge Ventures