At least six people have been killed in two suicide bomb attacks at an Islamic university in Islamabad as the ground offensive in South Waziristan intensifies. Video courtesy of Reuters.
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Audience: My dream is to start a university someday. Hopefully as world class as Stanford, probably in India because that’s what I'm thinking right now. I probably cannot get a better person to answer this question for me than you. How would you advise me to go about it or anyone to go about it?...
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How do you think about innovation and entrepreneurial behavior in a big university that wants to try to address some of the biggest problems in the world. If we want to help solve issues like environmental sustainability, finding an environmentally appropriate way to generate energy for the futu...
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Audience: I was wondering what efforts Stanford’s taking to create cross department synergies? So you mentioned that the importance of this in your talk and one thing that I've observed is that there may be certain parts of the university that are more segregated from other parts. And I'm curious...
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Hennessy explains that the Clark Center is important to the future of Stanford because it represents the growing importance of biology to the coming century. It is a radical organization for a university because it brings together faculty from a broad range of departments in an attempt t...
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Yock focuses on cardio vascular disease, which is a very profound disease - it is the # 1 killer in the western world. About half of all Medtech companies have to deal with cardio vascular diseases, he says.
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Katherine Ku, Director of the Office of Technology Licensing (OTL) at Stanford University, talks about the mission of the OTL at Stanford. Their main philosophy is to do what’s best for the technology, and that doesn't always mean going for the top dollar.
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Ku believes technology licensing is not always about licensing products and making money. It’s also about fostering lasting relationships with companies and individuals. She talks about some of the interactions and relationships that Stanford University has with outside groups.
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Hennessy answers the question: How do you get people to stay at Stanford when there is so much opportunity in the business sphere? He remarks that companies are great things, but they are missing most of what makes a university so appealing to its employees: the freshness and excitement of the...
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More and more universities are starting to see faculty and students create start ups. However, sometimes a conflict of interest can arise. Ku discusses how her office handles these entrepreneurs and conflicts.
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