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Suggested Citation:"Appendix A: Workshop Agenda." National Research Council. 2012. From Science to Business: Preparing Female Scientists and Engineers for Successful Transitions into Entrepreneurship: Summary of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13392.
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APPENDIX A

FROM SCIENCE TO BUSINESS: PREPARING FEMALE SCIENTISTS AND ENGINEERS FOR SUCCESSFUL TRANSITIONS INTO ENTREPRENEURSHIP

Workshop Agenda

August 31 – September 1, 2009
The National Academies
The Beckman Center
100 Academy
Irvine, CA 92617

August 31: Framing Issues and Strategies -- Where We Stand

9:00 am

Welcome and Introductions

Lilian Wu, Chair, Committee on Women in Science, Engineering, and Medicine, and Program Executive, Global University Programs, IBM

9:05 am

Study: Entrepreneurial Careers of Women

Chair: Susan Wessler, University of Georgia Foundation Chair, Biological Sciences, University of Georgia

Speaker: E. J. Reedy, Manager, Research and Policy, Kauffman Foundation

9:45 am

Panel I: From Bench to Business: Career Paths for Ph.D.s

Chair: Lydia Villa-Komaroff, Chief Scientific Officer, Cytonome/ST, LLC

Panelists: Laurel Smith-Doerr, Associate Professor of Sociology, Boston University; and Lydia Villa-Komaroff, Chief Scientific Officer, Cytonome/ST, LLC

10:45 am

Break

Suggested Citation:"Appendix A: Workshop Agenda." National Research Council. 2012. From Science to Business: Preparing Female Scientists and Engineers for Successful Transitions into Entrepreneurship: Summary of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13392.
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11:00 am

Keynote

Chair: Vivian Pinn, Director, Office of Research on Women’s Health, National Institutes of Health

Speaker: Susan Windham-Bannister, President and CEO, Massachusetts Life Science Center

12:00 pm

Lunch

1:30 pm

Panel II: Aspects of Leadership in Biotechnology Careers

Co-Chairs: Lydia Villa-Komaroff, Chief Scientific Officer, Cytonome/ST, LLC and Sheldon M. Schuster, President, Keck Graduate Institute of Applied Life Sciences

Panelists: Judy Heyboer, Human Resources Consultant, Former Senior Vice President, Genentech, Inc and Barbara Wallner, President and CEO, Chymic Therapeutics, Inc.

2:45 pm

Break

3:00 pm

Panel III: Education to Prepare for Entrepreneurial Careers

Chair: Sheldon M. Schuster, President, Keck Graduate Institute of Applied Life Sciences

Panelists: Michael Teitelbaum, Program Director, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation; Gail Naughton, Dean, College of Business, San Diego State University and Founder, Advance Tissue Science, Inc.; and, Jessica Townsend, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Olin College

4:30 pm

General Discussion and Wrap-Up

Allan Fisher, Vice President, Product Strategy & Development, Laureate Higher Education Group

5:30 pm

Adjournment

Suggested Citation:"Appendix A: Workshop Agenda." National Research Council. 2012. From Science to Business: Preparing Female Scientists and Engineers for Successful Transitions into Entrepreneurship: Summary of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13392.
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September 1: Moving Forward

9:00 am

Welcome and Summary of Day 1

Florence Bonner, Senior Vice President for Research and Compliance, Howard University

9:15 am

Studies on Entrepreneurship

Chair: Pardis Sabeti, Assistant Professor, Systems Biology, Harvard University

Speakers: Caroline Simard, Director of Research and Executive Programs, Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology, and Manwai (Candy) Ku, Researcher, Stanford University

10:00 am

Panel IV: Alternative Forms of Entrepreneurships in Sustainable Technologies: Intrapreneurship in Corporations and Government, Social Entrepreneurship, and Traditional Entrepreneurship

Co-Chairs: Alice Agogino, Roscoe and Elizabeth Hughes Professor of Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, and Allan Fisher, Vice President, Product Strategy & Development, Laureate Higher Education Group

Panelists: Sharon Nunes, Vice President, IBM Innovations; Maxine L. Savitz, General Manager for Technology Partnerships, Honeywell Inc. (retired); Judith Giordan, Senior Advisor, National Collegiate Innovators and Inventors Alliance; and, Lucinda Sanders, CEO and Co-founder, National Center for Women & Information Technology

11:30 am

Summary of the Conference: Findings and Themes

Lydia Villa-Komaroff, Chief Scientific Officer, Cytonome/ST, LLC

12:00 pm

Closing Luncheon

1:00 pm

Adjournment

Suggested Citation:"Appendix A: Workshop Agenda." National Research Council. 2012. From Science to Business: Preparing Female Scientists and Engineers for Successful Transitions into Entrepreneurship: Summary of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13392.
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Scientists, engineers, and medical professionals play a vital role in building the 21st- century science and technology enterprises that will create solutions and jobs critical to solving the large, complex, and interdisciplinary problems faced by society: problems in energy, sustainability, the environment, water, food, disease, and healthcare. As a growing percentage of the scientific and technological workforce, women need to participate fully not just in finding solutions to technical problems, but also in building the organizations responsible for the job creation that will bring these solutions to market and to bear on pressing issues. To accomplish this, it is important that more women in science and engineering become entrepreneurs in order to start new companies; create business units inside established organizations, mature companies, and the government; and/or function as social entrepreneurs focused on societal issues. Entrepreneurship represents a vital source of change in all facets of society, empowering individuals to seek opportunity where others see insurmountable problems.

From Science to Business: Preparing Female Scientists and Engineers for Successful Transitions into Entrepreneurship is the summary of an August 2009 workshop that assesses the current status of women undertaking entrepreneurial activity in technical fields, to better understand the nature of the barriers they encounter, and to identify what it takes for women scientists and engineers to succeed as entrepreneurs. This report focuses on women's career transitions from academic science and engineering to entrepreneurship, with a goal of identifying knowledge gaps in women's skills as well as experiences crucial to future success in business and critical for achieving leadership positions in entrepreneurial organizations.

From Science to Business makes the case that in addition to educating women scientists and engineers in rigorous problem solving, it is equally important to provide exposure and training to impart the skills that will enable more women to move from the role of expert to that of leader in dynamic new business enterprises. This book will be of interest to professionals in both academia and industry, graduate and post-graduate students, and organizations that advocate for a stronger economy.

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