Roundtable Series on Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Public Policy
The roundtable series is an important means of furthering Silicon Flatirons' goal of elevating the debate around entrepreneurship, innovation, and public policy issues. We are fortunate to watch and participate as intelligent people from diverse backgrounds sit around one table considering multiple facets of controversial issues in these areas. Silicon Flatirons would like to thank local venture capitalist Brad Feld for a generous financial contribution to underwrite this roundtable series. Reports from each roundtable are available here.
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2009
Date Published: August 2009
On June 5, 2009, the Silicon Flatirons Center brought together academics, venture capitalists, lawyers and
entrepreneurs to discuss government implementation of Web 2.0 technologies. The discussion
addressed using Web 2.0 technologies to increase government transparency and efficiency, as well as to
facilitate citizen involvement in government decision-making. Turning to the institutional incentives that
drive government behavior and change, the group discussed how best to successfully implement these
technologies.
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On May 5, 2009, the Silicon Flatirons Center and the Information Technology & Innovation Foundation (ITIF) brought together leading ndividuals from the telecommuications industry, academia, and public interest community to discuss the state of broadband competition policy.
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Rapporteur: Christopher Achatz
Date Published: May 5, 2009
The Internet's open architecture has proved to be an engine of innovation. The traditional openness of the original TCP/IP protocol suite, however, is coming under pressure as broadband providers develop new network architectures that may, depending on how they are implemented, change the traditional model of "innovation without permission."1 Notably, the advent of the IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) has raised three questions addressed by the roundtable: (1) what is IMS and why should policymakers care about its development?; (2) what opportunities and threats do the rollout of IMS raise?; and (3) what policy concerns--related to innovation and competition--are implicated by those issues?
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Rapporteur: John Bergmayer
Date Published: January 22, 2009
On January 22, 2009, the Silicon Flatirons Center for Law, Technology, and Entrepreneurship held a roundtable discussion on social networking issues at the ATLAS Building on the University of Colorado campus in Boulder, Colorado. This roundtable brought together a diverse group of participants, ranging from academics to venture capitalists to practicing lawyers to entrepreneurs.
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Rapporteur: Jill Rennert
Date Published: January 7, 2009
Through creative innovation, opportunism and other entrepreneurial tools, "social entrepreneurship" ventures advance their social objectives. A prevailing concept of "social entrepreneurship"--for-profit ventures that interweave money-generating and social goals--is changing the traditional corporate landscape.
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2008
Rapporteur: Kaleb Sieh
Date Published: August 27, 2008
Despite private equity's record growth, signs of a slow down are surfacing. In this Roundtable, participants highlighted some of the current and systemic issues
facing the private equity industry.
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2007
Rapporteur: Kaleb Sieh
Date Published: October 2, 2007
As part of its strategic planning process, the University of Colorado at Boulder has begun exploring how to increase the propensity of faculty and students to engage in entrepreneurial activities. Nationwide, there are a few universities with a commitment to supporting entrepreneurship that can serve as examples. Notably, MIT and Stanford are two schools renowned for using the knowledge creation and invention that takes place on their campuses to create high quality companies. In contrast, many schools do not achieve such results, even with similar characteristics. This disparity raises the two questions addressed by the roundtable: (1) what separates a university that engages in this process effectively--i.e., the "Entrepreneurial University"--from the university that does not?; and (2) how can the University of Colorado- Boulder become an Entrepreneurial University?
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Rapporteur: Jill Van Matre
Date Published: April 20, 2007
On April 20, 2007, the University of Colorado School of Law's Silicon Flatirons Program hosted a roundtable entitled, Rethinking Software Patents. This roundtable is the second in the Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Public Policy Roundtable Series, co-sponsored by local venture capitalist Brad Feld, Managing Director of Foundry Group.
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Rapporteur: James Crowe
Date Published: February 26, 2007
On Monday, February 26, 2007, the Silicon Flatirons Program sponsored a roundtable discussion on the Unintended Consequences of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. Brad Feld, Managing Director of Foundry Group, co-sponsored the event and provided generous financial support. Attendees included some of the leading figures in the Front Range entrepreneurial community: over 20 discussants participated, including venture capitalists, businesspersons, lawyers, professors, and entrepreneurs.
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