Seattle Innovation Symposium

该奖项支持一个会议-西雅图创新研讨会-将发展如何重要的IT创新开发和传播的理解。其目的是找出加快技术吸收速度和加速新技术的生产性使用的方法。它将召集顶尖的研究人员（多学科学者，研究创新的博士生和公司创新者/企业家）分享他们的知识资产和经验，以确定有潜力成为数十亿美元细分市场的新兴技术，并探讨如何进一步开发这些有前途的技术，以满足市场需求和创造经济效益的替代组织结构。研讨会的主要目的是建立一个由学术界和公司创新者组成的多学科网络，使他们能够继续就所需的个别研究项目开展合作，以扩大创新知识库，并缩短新创新对经济产生积极影响所需的时间。

This award supports a conference - the Seattle Innovation Symposium -- that will develop an understanding of how important IT innovations are developed and disseminated. The object is to discover ways to increase the speed of technology absorption and accelerate productive use of the new technologies. It will convene leading researchers (multi-disciplinary academics, PhD students studying innovation, and company innovators/entrepreneurs) to share their intellectual assets and experiences in identifying the emerging technologies that have potential to turn into billion dollar market segments, and to explore alternative organizational structures on how these promising technologies can be further developed to meet market needs and create economic benefits.The broader impact of the symposium is to create a multi-disciplined network of academic and company innovators that can continue to work collaboratively on individual research projects required to extend the knowledge base on innovation and to shorten the time that it takes for new innovations to make a positive impact on the economy.