Global Innovation Forum: Silicon Valley


"Innovation and the Digital Generation"


Menlo Park, California    June 16th, 2011

Suggested Readings

Carlson, C. & Wilmot, W. (2006)
Innovation: The Five Disciplines for Creating What Customers Want, Crown Publishing Group.
Deslauriers, L., Schelew, E., Weiman, C. (2011)
"Improved Learning in a Large-Enrollment Physics Class", Science, Vol. 332, no. 6031, pp. 862-864. See Yahoo News.
Estrin, J. (2009)
Closing the Innovation Gap: Reigniting the Spark of Creativity in a Global Economy, McGraw-Hill.
Hohmann, L. (2007)
Innovation Games - Creating Breakthrough Products Through Collaborative Play, Addison-Wesley.
Hoover, E. (2009)
"The Millennial Muddle: How stereotyping students became a thriving industry and a bundle of contradictions", The Chronicle of Higher Education, October 11th, 2009.
IDEO (2010)
"Ideo: Your Company Needs Gen-Y Values (Really!)", Co.Design, September 14, 2010.
Orrell, L. (2009)
Millennials into Leadership: The Ultimate Guide for Gen Y's Aspiring to Be Effective, Respected, Young Leaders at Work, Intelligent Women Publishing.
Orrell, L. (2008)
Millenial Incorporated: The Big Business of Recruiting, Managing and Retaining the World's New Generation of Young Professionals, Intelligent Women Publishing.
Palfrey, J. & Gasser, U. (2008)
Born Digital: Understanding the First Generation of Digital Natives, Basic Books.
Pew Research Center (2010)
"The Millennials: Confident. Connected. Open to Change", Pew Research Center, February 24th, 2010.
Richtel, M. (2010)
"Growing Up Digital, Wired for Distraction", The New York Times, November 21st, 2011.
The Economist (2010)
"Technology and society: Is it really helpful to talk about a new generation of 'digital natives' who have grown up with the internet?", The Economist, March 4th, 2010.
Vranica, S. (2011)
"Kids Lend a Digital Hand", The Wall Street Journal, January 10th, 2011.

About

San José State University is one of 23 campuses of the California State University system. It is located in the city of San José, the heart of the Silicon Valley, about midway between San Francisco and the Monterey/Carmel area at the sunny southern end of San Francisco Bay. It has about 30,000 undergraduate and graduate students studying for 134 Bachelor's and Master's degrees with 110 concentrations.
The College of Business is accredited by the AACSB and enrolls about 5,000 students studying in 11 concentrations. The Sally and Donald Lucas Graduate School of Business offers nine Masters degrees including MBA's, Master of Science, and joint degree programs with other colleges.

Contact

ContactFor information about the conference, please contact:
E-mail: gif2011@sjsu.edu
Address:
Global Innovation Forum
College of Business, BT 250
San José State University
One Washington Square
San José, CA 95192-0244