On Tuesday, April 21, 2015 Dr. Tamara Carleton, lecturer at Stanford and CEO of the Innovation Leadership Board, gave a talk on
"The Silicon Valley Spirit", the mindset that leads to the creation of a large number of Silicon Valley companies every day.
Petra Höhn, Head of the Graduate School Rhein-Neckar opened the talk with a short introduction about the connection between the GSRN and the founder culture of Silicon Valley. If you are interested in their innovative certifications (CRM, Business Development and may more) you can check their coursework here.
Tamara Carleton gave a general introduction into the geographic location, historical background, entrepreneurial role models and companies from the Valley. Since the founding of HP in 1939 the Valley has generated more and more companies in a growing number of markets. At the same time the local universities Stanford and Berkeley were able to globalize their network, maintain and spread their idea of teaching.
According to Carleton, the major differences between other places and the Valley are the focus on the solution of problems and the open minded networking attitude connecting people from different backgrounds, companies and institutions.
If you want to learn more about the approach, especially for corporate innovation, the ILB has published an innovation-playbook. Another very interesting concept Tamara Carleton has developed is a mobile application called LeadXNow. It offers short introductions to topics of Product Management, Service Design, Engineering Foresight, Business Modelling, Design Sprints, and more.
