Innovation Corps: A Review of a New National Science Foundation Program to Leverage Research Investments

Date: Monday, July 16, 2012 Time: 10:00 AM Location: 375 East Chicago Avenue Chicago IL 60611

The hearing will be held at Northwestern University Law School in Lincoln Hall, Levy Mayer Room 104 from 10 a.m. CDT to 12:00p.m. CDT

Witnesses

Dr. Thomas Peterson - Assistant Director, Directorate for Engineering, National Science Foundation

Mr. Steve Blank - Lecturer, Stanford University and the University of California at Berkeley

Mr. Neil Kane - President, Illinois Partners Executive Services, LLC

Dr. Gabriel Popescu - Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Dr. Andrew Mazar - Director, Program for Developmental Therapeutics and Entrepreneur-in-Residence Innovation and New Ventures Office, Northwestern University