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We Needed a Bigger Room – The Lean Educators Summit

Steve Blank

This one class launched the National Science Foundation I-Corps program, (designed to help turn our country’s best academic research into companies), the I-Corps @ the National Institute of Health, I-Corps @ the Department of Energy, I-Corps @ NSA, Hacking for Defense and Hacking for Diplomacy , Hacking for Cities and Hacking for Non-profits.

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Who Ever Thought? The Lean Educators Summit

Steve Blank

Customer Discovery and Lean Innovation in Academic Settings vs Non-Academic Settings such as incubators and accelerators. International: Success and Challenges of Lean Innovation and Customer Discovery in Europe and Asia [and South America? Australia?].

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Creating the Next Silicon Valley – The Chilean Experiment

Steve Blank

Chile has decided that it wants to be an innovation hub in South America. Universities ; including the business, design and engineering schools in the Catholic University of Chile who are hard at work teaching and encouraging their students to think big and to start companies. See below.).