Meeting with Cynthia Wagner Weick

University of pacific, Stockton, California

The talk was gathering multiple datas from international sources to target what are the main focus to look at, to encourage and finance innovation; to make it successful in a country, and profitable in a world orientated point of view.
The crux is to understand that innovation is a notion in the middle of three main elements: science and engineering, markets and fundings.
Markets opportunities come from the fact that the world is facing currently numerous kinds of challenges as health, food, climate change, energy supply...
Problems arising from these issues can be solved progressively with the improvements the science is likely to bring with its new discoveries going faster and faster within the frame of NICT.
Then, funds are necessary to finance research, and to help new ideas to raise money for investing in new potential developments.
That is why companies, private investors as well as public authorities have all to encourage as much as possible at their level Research, by helping it to become concrete.
One of the main issues in the future would be the capacity of bringing as much patents as possible into application. The trend/expansion of a national economy is drastically linked to the number of patent applications it can issue.
Collaboration and co-authoring is a positive attitude considering the results of such a behavior.
Design has an important place as well to distinguish products and bring an innovation faster to markets.


DAVIER Paul-Etienne, Niamkey Diane
Specialised Master Innovation and Enterpreneurship
ESCP-EAP

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Rencontre avec Eric Benhamou

Nous rencontrerons tout d'abord Mr Eric Benhamou Lundi 14 Janvier 2008 dans un amphithéâtre de Stanford University. Mr Benhamou a été le fondateur et le CEO de la société 3com de 1990 à 2000. Il a aussi été CEO de la société Palm de 2001 à 2003. Il est actuellement à la tête d'un fonds d'investissement pour entreprises innovantes BGV.

 

En 1997, le Président Bill Clinton a chargé Mr Benhamou de faire en sorte que les USA restent toujours à la pointe de la haute technologie par rapport à la concurrence mondiale. En 1998, il a reçu le Prix du meilleur investisseur étranger par le Premier Ministre Israélien Benjamin Netanyahu.

 

Agé de 49 ans, Mr Benhamou possède toute une batterie de diplômes israéliens, américains, et français.

Meeting with Eric Benhamou

We will meet first with Mr Eric Benhamou on Monday, January 14th at 10 A.M. in an amphitheater at Stanford University.

 

Eric Benhamou is chairman and CEO of Benhamou Global Ventures, LLC. Benhamou Global Ventures, started in 2003, invests and plays an active role in innovative high tech firms throughout the world. Mr. Benhamou is also the chairman of the board of directors of 3Com Corporation and palmOne, Inc. He served as chief executive officer of Palm, Inc. from October 2001 until October 2003. Benhamou served as chief executive officer of 3Com Corporation from September 1990 until December 31, 2000. 

 

In 1997, former President Bill Clinton appointed Mr. Benhamou to the President's Information Technology Advisory Committee which advises the President on research and development focal points of federal programs to maintain United States leadership in advanced computing and communications technologies and their applications. In 1998, Mr. Benhamou was recognized by former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with the Foreign Investor Jubilee Award.

 

Mr. Benhamou, 49, holds honorary doctoral degrees from Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Widener University, Western Governors University and the University of South Carolina. He has a Master of Science degree from Stanford University's School of Engineering and a Diplôme d'Ingénieur from Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Arts et Métiers, Paris.

Introduction

Hello,

Welcome on the blog of the specialised master in Innovation and Entrepreneurship of the business school ESCP-EAP. Our master is dedicated to help students in the starting of their own company.

This year, we are a group of 23 students coming from various schools: management, engineering and chemistry.

The purpose of our 2 study trips is discovering Silicon Valleys of the world.

Our first trip will take place in the Silicon Valley of San Francisco at the beginning of January. We are going to meet famous investors, amazing companies and great entrepreneurs.

The second trip will take place in Israel Valley at the end of March. We are going to study how this country managed to reach the highest rate of start-ups per habitants worldwide.

We hope that you will enjoy our experience through this blog.