Welcome to Celebrating Design for Innovation 2024

Date: Monday, October 21, 2024

Time: 12 noon to 2:45 pm

Location: Palmer House, 1 Bayard Lane, Princeton, NJ 08542

Objectives

Communicating DfI’s unique value proposition, community building and highlighting DFI projects and progress.

Description

Design for Innovation (DfI) is a grant-making program that enables faculty at Princeton, regardless of discipline, to have direct, real-world impact beyond the academy. The program stands out by advocating a rigorous, reflective and patient approach focused on maximizing enterprise value while enabling positive, long-term societal impact. Aligned with Princeton’s mission and strengths, DfI evaluates and shapes proposed interventions and ventures within a broad context, incorporating a humanistic perspective. This event showcases how the vibrant DfI community is deploying a diverse range of cutting-edge ideas in the service of humanity.

Agenda

Panel and presentation followed by happy hour and networking.

12 noon

Lunch and introductions

Solarium

12:15 pm

Remarks

Andrea Goldsmith, Dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science; Arthur LeGrand Doty Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

1 pm

Conversation/Fireside Chat - Academic Entrepreneurship: Realities and Aspirations

Parlor

The panel will discuss the motivations of academic entrepreneurs (faculty and researchers) – what sort of impact do they want to have? It will then discuss the key enablers of such impact, including the importance of educating entrepreneurs, and the right culture and infrastructure.

1:45 pm

How Design Can Fuel Innovation

Derek Lidow, Professor of Practice in the Keller Center

Parlor

2 pm

Networking

Parlor

2:45 pm

Event concludes


Join us for Innovation Forum

We hope to see you again tomorrow at 10:30 am in the Frist Campus Center for Innovation Forum, our annual competition and networking event that showcases Princeton University research with commercialization, cultural, or societal potential. Register now.