Lessons from Silicon Valley: Talk by Burton Lee

The Stanford professor and consultant to industry, universities and regional governments will share his unconventional insights about Silicon Valley on the subject of innovation at TU Graz on 1 June. Silicon Valley often serves today as a model and benchmark how regional and national economies in Europe can be transformed into innovation centres and generate new jobs. Reference is often made to a culture of failure in Silicon Valley as much as to breakthrough innovations, changing industries from scratch, or the role of leading founding personalities, such as Steve Jobs. Unconventional and previously unspoken. Burton Lee, a much sought-after consultant of European companies, industrial clusters, universities and regions, will look at the lessons to be learned from Silicon Valley which Austrian companies, universities and regions very rarely hear about. He'll track down previously unspoken, or at least less well-known, facts about the Valley. And he'll do this from the perspective of an expert from the Stanford School of Engineering who, for more than ten years, has dedicated himself to researching not only European and Californian start-up culture but also their respective traditions and ecosystems in research and innovation.