June Monthly Meeting
What: Capturing Intellectual Property
When: Thursday, June 10, 2010 @ 5:30-7pm
Where: The WaterCooler
RSVP
You
asked, we listened. Join Kickstand June 10 for a meeting devoted to
'Capturing Intellectual Property.' It's a topic many of our members
have been asking for more information about, and was an issue discussed
among many IdaVation attendees. If you have an idea, even an inkling of an idea, you need to be here.
Featuring Bill Meade and Bob Sesek of Idaho-based BasicIP, an intellectual property consulting firm, June's meeting will be highly interactive and directed by you, the attendees. Bill and Bob have three topics they could address, and will leave it up to the attendees to choose one of the following at the start of the meeting. Take the jump to RSVP and see the three topics attendees will chose from.
INNOVATION IN THE NEWS
In praise of Boise: Why space really is the final frontier in the Internet age
"...Brain workers like to live near each other. It is easier to keep up
with the latest ideas if you keep bumping into other people who work in
the same field. As Alfred Marshall, an English economist, wrote in
1890: in industrial clusters “the mysteries of the trade become no
mystery, but are, as it were, in the air.” That is why geeks flock to
Silicon Valley and financiers converge on New York. But such clusters
can become victims of their own success. When a hotspot gets too hot,
it becomes expensive to live there, which spurs some brainy
people—especially those with children—to migrate to places that are not
quite so hot but more liveable..."
Forbes
The Knowledge Economy: America's Most Innovative Cities
"...For our ranking we started with the 100 largest metropolitan
statistical areas in the U.S. and used data from the U.S. Patent and
Trademark Office to determine number of patents per capita. Then we
combined it with venture capital investment per capita from the
National Venture Capital Association, along with those cities' ratios
of high-tech, science and "creative" jobs from ZoomProspector.com and Payscale.com..."
(No. 16 - Boise, Idaho)
Wall Street Journal
Montana, Oklahoma (& Idaho) Outdo usual Suspects in Entrepreneur Study
"...The most active states for entrepreneurial activity last year were Montana and Oklahoma, according to the Kauffman Index of Entrepreneurial Activity.
The annual study of new business creation found that the two states
had the highest entrepreneurial activity rates, with 470 per 100,000
adults creating businesses each month. The other states with the
highest rates were Arizona (460 per 100,000 adults), and Texas and
Idaho, both with 450 businesses started per 100,000 adults..." Gofi.sh Wins 2nd Annual Idaho Startup Weekend
SAVE THE DATE
What: Girls in Tech Boise Is 1 year old! What: Idaho Technology Council 1st Annual Golf Invitational & Celebration
Come celebrate the organization, and the rich and diverse tech community of the Boise Valley.
When: Thursday, June 24, 5:30pm
Where: Owyhee Plaza Patio
RSVP
When: June 22, tee off at noon
Where: Crane Creek Country Club
Cost: $86.70 for full day of golf and meals. Option to attend a post-golf reception at 5pm
RSVP for golf. Contact Jay Larsen at 208-388-3357 or jlarsen@idahotechcouncil.org to RSVP for reception
