On Dec.14, 2011, Dr. Richard B. Dasher, director of “— ” of , visits NIIM, and gives a lecture on “Open Innovation and New Business Opportunity Projection”. Associate Professor Zheng Gang presides over the report.

Dr. Richard B. Dasher is director of Stanford — , executive director of and consulting professor of Department of Electronic Engineering of Stanford University. He devotes himself on research and consulting area of innovation and entrepreneurship. He is an excellent expert with abundant teaching and practice experience, and holds a unique perspective to success of .

At the beginning, Dr. Richard B. Dasher gives the definition of “innovation” by taking iPhone for example. Then he explains concrete form and measure gauge of open innovation according to data of OECD and NSF. He points that most of new enterprises of Silicon Valley gets merger and acquisition, and very few of them have been on the market; therefore, open innovation, to some degree, promotes success of entrepreneurship in .

Next, Dr. Richard B. Dasher talks about management and application of open innovation, and prospect the focus of development and direction of in short, interim and long term.

After the report, teachers and students show great interests and exchange ideas with Dr. Richard B. Dasher. He says he will revisit NIIM and ZJU. Prof. Wu Xiaobo, Deputy Executive Dean of of and Director of NIIM, develops friendly exchange with him after the seminar.

Reported by Liu Fang and translated by Lihua Wang.