Educational Content on Innovation, Chemistry, and Jobs from ACS National Meetings

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Symposium Title	Presentations
Spring 2011
The Advantages of Working with a Diverse Workforce in Small Businesses	Johnny Mitchell: Scientific method: The entrepreneur solution Barbara Belmont: Carrying the torch: The successor generation's perspective of a woman-owned small chemical business Perry Catchings: Successes and challenges of building start-up companies in the chemical enterprise
Charles Lathrop Parsons Award: Symposium in Honor of Michael E. Strem: The Connections Between Science Education, Entrepreneurship, and Community Service	Daniel Nocera: Personalized energy (for 1 x 6 billion) Judith Giordan: How Strem Chemicals - and the vision of Mike Strem - saved my life The Honorable Grace F. Napolitano: Understanding our nation''s energy and water challenges: Where policy meets science Mike Strem: Award Address (Charles Lathrop Parsons sponsored by the ACS). Starting and running your own chemical company: The entrepreneurial experience William Carroll: Thoughts on Mike Strem, educator, entrepreneur and citizen Harry Gray Fuel from sunlight and water
Fall 2010
Chemistry and Policy: Solving Problems at the Interface	David Goldston: When science and Politics meet Jay Keasling: Engineering microbial metabolism for production of the anti-malarial drug artemisinin Joan Berkowitz: Better things for better living through chemistry Janan Hayes: Scientist, politician, policy maker: A historical perspective John Gavenonis: Federal public policy advocacy for chemists George Whitesides: Innovation and entrepreneurship in chemistry
Open Innovation: The New Paradigm for Competitive Advantage	Gene Slowinski: "Implementing Open Innovation; road warrior or road kill, it''s your choice" Martin Mascianica: Bringing Sustainability to Open Innovation Ronald Taylor: Manage your IP well to win the open innovation race Gabriel Eichler: InnoCentive's Open Innovation Rapid Adoption Methods and Practices (ONRAMP) Program Hanping Guan: Open Innovation for Long Term Projects Edward Yokley: Identifying Disruptive Opportunities in the Materials Marketplace: An Example from the Conformal Barrier Coatings Market Saul Kaplan: Do organizations continually need to explore, test and experiment with new business models, in the same way they do with new products and technologies today? Robin Rogers: Open innovation and the faculty entrepreneur: opportunities and perils
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