2020-07-15: Innovating in a Secret World (Srivastava)
Speaker: Dr. Tina P. Srivastava
Date: Wednesday, July 15, 2020
Presentation: Dr. Tina P. Srivastava is an innovator, entrepreneur, and technology expert, discussed innovation and national security, focusing on two key challenges: participation and secrecy. The participation challenge is about providing adequate incentives to potential innovators, and we will discuss challenges to incentivizing participants and how to overcome them. She detailed IP policies, innovation contests, and incentivizing employees within a company, so business leaders can learn how to incentivize their own employees, and also how they can open up the innovation process to enable broader diversity in innovation by applying open innovation strategies to overcome technology hurdles. The secrecy challenge is about technology innovation for national security where secrecy can be an obstacle which sometimes makes it hard to recruit and innovate. Through her excellent presentation she helped us navigate various contracting and legal channels. She even discussed government programs and policies related to technology innovation and government contracting
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We raffled off the book - Innovating in a Secret World: The Future of National Security and Global Leadership by Dr. Srivastava