Science media company Seed Media Group (SMG), US, has announced a partnership with The Council on Competitiveness to launch The State of Innovation, a comprehensive programme examining the relationship between science, technology and business and how their convergence can spark a new climate of innovation in America.
The event brings together the nation's leading CEOs, university presidents, inventors and researchers in Washington, DC on June 23 to address the role of cross-disciplinary collaboration, public policy, and scientific discovery in advancing innovation in US business.
Participants include Paola Antonelli, Senior Curator, Architecture and Design, Museum of Modern Art; Adam Bly, Founder, CEO and Editor-in-Chief, Seed Media Group; George Campbell Jr., President, The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art; Wayne Clough, Secretary, Smithsonian Institution; Tomás Díaz de la Rubia, Chief Research and Development Officer, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory; Charles O. Holliday Jr., Chairman of DuPont and the Council on Competitiveness; Ray O. Johnson, Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Lockheed Martin Corporation; Neri Oxman, Presidential Research Fellow, Design Computation, MIT; David E. Shaw, Chief Scientist, D. E. Shaw Research; and Senior Research Fellow, Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Columbia University; and Edward O. Wilson, Professor Emeritus, Harvard University.
