Innovation Journalism Emerging at Stanford April 5-7

Next week there is a cutting edge conference at Stanford that is free for journalism and innovation professionals to attend. Registration: http://scil.stanford.edu/InJo-2006/signup.fft. Vint Cerf, PodTech, Google, CNet, Tony Perkins, Ross Mayfield, Dan Gillmor, USVP’s Paul Mateucci, and other great folks like Harry McCracken, Michael Kanellos.

Innovation journalism is journalism dedicated to the coverage of innovation. Innovation is the leading driver of economic growth and the core activity of many leading industries. Innovation Journalism stretches across traditional newsbeats, such as business, technology and politics, reporting on innovation and innovation processes. The practice of Innovation Journalism involves identifying the key issues and key actors in the innovation systems, and reporting on how they interact. The reporting combines issues such as science and technology trends, science and R&D policies, intellectual property, investments, standardization, industrial production processes, marketing of new technologies, business models, politics, and more.

David Nordfors, Publisher and Editor, organized the event and if anyone is interested please come and join the discussion. The complete conference documentation is available at www.innovationjournalism.org

The conference has 31 presentations, each one followed by a panel discussion. There are 87 speakers and panellists. The main themes are: Innovation Journalism, Innovation Communication & Journalism, Innovation Journalism Initiatives Around the World, The Role of Journalism in Innovation Systems.

The list of speakers/panelists includes
Professional Journalists working for (USA:) Business 2.0, Center for Citizen Media, CNET News.com, Fortune, PodTech Networks, Red Herring, PC World, Reuters, San Francisco Chronicle, San Jose Mercury News, Spot-On, Technology Review, US News and World Report, Wall Street Journal, Wired Magazine, Common Sense Media, (in SWEDEN:) Affärsvärlden, Aftonbladet, Computer Sweden, Elektroniktidningen, Entreprenör, Göteborgsposten, Process Nordic, Rapidus (in FINLAND:) Helsingin Sanomat, Arvopaperi (UK:) BBC, (France:) Le Monde, (Spain:) El Pais, (Mexico:) Reforma, (Chile:) El Mercurio

Academic Researchers from Stanford University, Linköping University (Sweden), Royal Institute of Technology (Sweden), Tampere University (Finland), University of Jyväskylä (Finland), University of Helsinki (Finland), University of Hohenheim (Germany), Univeristy of Southern California (USA)

Innovation Experts from Stanford Center for Innovations in LearningI (SCIL), VINNOVA - Swedish Governmental Agency for Innovation Systems, Google, ICANN, SRI International, J E Austin Associates, Embassy of Sweden in Washington, The 451 Group, Vibacom (Slovenia), Fish & Richardson, Addison Marketing, International Knowledge Cluster of Basque Country (Spain), Mohr Davidow Ventures, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, GZ Group (Sweden), AlwaysOn Networks, Socialtext, PodTech Inc, US Venture Partners, Hoffman Agencies, Wallenberg Global Learning Network, Reuters Digital Vision Fellowships (Stanford), Media-X (Stanford), CSLI (Stanford), J E Austin Associates, TeliaSonera (Finland), TEKES - National Finnish Technology Agency, SITRA - Finnish Industry Fund, USAID

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