Entrepreneurial & Innovation Opportunities in MN
SUNDAY, September 28, 2014
6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
Marquette Place
1314 S. Marquette Ave
Minneapolis, MN 55403
Cost: $25 - pay at door
MIT Club of MN along with Harvard Club of MN is hosting an evening reception on Sept. 28th with Scott Stern, the David Sarnoff Professor of Management and Chair of the Technological Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Strategic Group at the MIT Sloan School of Management, and Sarah Jane Maxted, Research Manager, Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness at Harvard Business School. Within this event, we will discuss promotion of entrepreneurial and innovation opportunities in Minnesota. We look forward to seeing you in this event!
About Scott Stern
Scott SternScott Stern is the David Sarnoff Professor of Management and Chair of the Technological Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Strategic Management Group at the MIT Sloan School of Management.
Stern explores how innovation and entrepreneurship differ from more traditional economic activities, and the consequences of these differences for strategy and policy. His research in the economics of innovation and entrepreneurship focuses on entrepreneurial strategy, innovation-driven entrepreneurial ecosystems, and innovation policy and management. Recent studies include the impact of clusters on entrepreneurship, the role of institutions in shaping the accumulation of scientific and technical knowledge, and the drivers and consequences of entrepreneurial strategy.
He has worked widely with practitioners in bridging the gap between academic research and the practice of innovation and entrepreneurship. This includes advising start-ups and other growth firms in the area of entrepreneurial strategy, as well as working with governments and other stakeholders on policy issues related to competitiveness and regional performance. In recent years, Stern has developed a popular new MIT Sloan elective, Entrepreneurial Strategy, co-founded the MIT Regional Entrepreneurship Acceleration Program, advised the development of the Social Progress Index and served as the lead MIT investigator on the US Cluster Mapping Project.
Stern started his career at MIT, where he worked from 1995 to 2001. Before returning to MIT in 2009, he held positions as a professor at the Kellogg School of Management and as a Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution. Stern is the director and co-founder of the Innovation Policy Working Group at the National Bureau of Economic Research. In 2005, he was awarded the Kauffman Prize Medal for Distinguished Research in Entrepreneurship.
Stern holds a BA in economics from New York University and a PhD in economics from Stanford University.
About Sarah Jane Maxted
Sarah Jane MaxtedSarah Jane Maxted is a Research Manager at Harvard's Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness (ISC) focusing on clusters and regional economic growth. She has a diverse background in energy ranging from energy policy to clean energy technology commercialization to developing prizes and challenges. She has worked for both the private and public sector, and Federal and state levels, throughout her career.
Previously, she worked at Deloitte Consulting where she focused on the DOE and its' 17 National Laboratories. She focused on industrial partnerships, tech transfer, and innovation.
She also worked for the U.S. Department of Energy in the Office of the Secretary and in the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy. One of the programs she developed and ran was the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) National Clean Energy Business Plan Competition where hundreds of start-up companies have formed.
Before that, she worked for CGI (and CGIFederal), an IT consulting firm, where she specialized in the environmental service group as a business analyst.
Prior to that, she worked for now Secretary of State John Kerry (former Senator MA) under the senior policy adviser on environment and energy, and health care.
Originally from Colorado, she went to Duke University where she double majored in Energy Policy and Cultural Anthropology with a Minor in Dance. She has also spent significant time in Washington, D.C. working for President Obama’s Administration