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April 23, 2015
The Impact of Foundation Funded Research
Foundations often have a mission to provide far-reaching benefits to humanity by making grants that enable cutting-edge research possible. This research, when translated to real-world solutions, creates the exponential "impact" of improving lives for the future. Let's look at one example.
With funding from the W. M. Keck Foundation, researchers at Stanford University, led by principal investigator, Professor Shoucheng Zhang, and his colleagues, Yi Cui and David Goldhaber-Gordon, researched novel "topological insulator" materials where electrons move like automobiles on a highway, spatially separated into different lanes called “autobahn” interconnects, avoiding backscattering and the resulting heat dissipation. These findings could open the door to new computing devices in the future that do not dissipate heat.
We can see in the Visible Legacy Navigator timeline that in 2010 the S. C. Zhang Goup had established a track record of successful projects, and Dr. Zhang had just become the Co-director of the IBM-Stanford Center for Spintronics Science and Application Center. The insightful grant from the W. M. Keck Foundation 5 years ago contributed to the acceleration of innovation in the Zhang Lab and the development of high performance interconnects for integrated circuits.
Scientists win $1 million for physics research Stanford Report, 2010
Foundations contribute in well-thought-out ways to catalyze research of specific topics of their interest that yield innovations poised to deliver substantial social or environmental benefit. The "impact" of this grant-funded research is when the innovations are picked up by industry and brought to the world as solutions. By connecting the dots of repeated successes such as the W. M. Keck Foundation and Stanford University, Visible Legacy helps its users identify hotspots of innovation.
Shoucheng Zhang wins Franklin Medal in Physics
Footnote: Dr. Zhang was recently awarded the 2015 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Physics, one of the oldest and most prestigious science awards in the United States.
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We can see in the Visible Legacy Navigator timeline that in 2010 the S. C. Zhang Goup had established a track record of successful projects, and Dr. Zhang had just become the Co-director of the IBM-Stanford Center for Spintronics Science and Application Center. The insightful grant from the W. M. Keck Foundation 5 years ago contributed to the acceleration of innovation in the Zhang Lab and the development of high performance interconnects for integrated circuits.
Foundations contribute in well-thought-out ways to catalyze research of specific topics of their interest that yield innovations poised to deliver substantial social or environmental benefit. The "impact" of this grant-funded research is when the innovations are picked up by industry and brought to the world as solutions. By connecting the dots of repeated successes such as the W. M. Keck Foundation and Stanford University, Visible Legacy helps its users identify hotspots of innovation.
Footnote: Dr. Zhang was recently awarded the 2015 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Physics, one of the oldest and most prestigious science awards in the United States.
June 3, 2014
Visible Legacy Rolls Out Widgets to Speed Exploration and Discovery of University Innovations
Stanford University OTL TechFinder adds Visible Legacy widgets to help users explore breaking discoveries and find a fit faster
The "TechFinder" Technology Transfer Portal offered by the Stanford Office of Technology Licensing (OTL) now features embedded widgets from Visible Legacy. Designed to facilitate the transfer of research into solutions, the widgets visually map the connections between projects, researchers, patents and publications, empowering users to more quickly grasp the context of the innovations and expertise within Stanford’s $2 billion/year research ecosystem.
Read the full release at PR Web.
March 14, 2014
Green Buildings
I was sent an article from Forbes about Carbon Credits and government stimulus for weatherization because it (somewhat uniquely) contains a link directly to the Stanford OTL TechFinder, the portal that showcases new and interesting discoveries from Stanford. I was surprised and pleased to see that this innovation was from a team at Santa Clara University, and Stanford handles IP licensing for SCU. It is nice to see the Silicon Valley ecosystem working together to bring smart sensors to improve home thermal monitoring.
The important point in this post is to highlight a subtle but nice thing about widgets integrated into the TechFinder website (which we are now beta testing). The red tags in the "call out" pop up box perform a smart tag search within the TechFinder site. For example clicking "Building Efficiency", as shown above, will deliver you to a TechFinder page with three new innovtions including "Photonic panels for passive daytime cooling". Try it by going to the page and clicking the green box, then the tag.
Now this technology sounds very cool, so to speak, and is indeed worth a look. See the TechFinder page and read the Stanford Report linked below.
Stanford scientists develop new type of solar structure that cools buildings in full sunlight
A Stanford team has designed an entirely new form of cooling panel that works even when the sun is shining. Such a panel could vastly improve the daylight cooling of buildings, cars and other structures by radiating sunlight back into the chilly vacuum of space. Read the article at the Stanford Report.
Visit Stanford Fan Group in Visible Legacy Navigator.
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jump directly to TechFinder.
Now this technology sounds very cool, so to speak, and is indeed worth a look. See the TechFinder page and read the Stanford Report linked below.
A Stanford team has designed an entirely new form of cooling panel that works even when the sun is shining. Such a panel could vastly improve the daylight cooling of buildings, cars and other structures by radiating sunlight back into the chilly vacuum of space. Read the article at the Stanford Report.
Visit Stanford Fan Group in Visible Legacy Navigator.
February 14, 2014
Releasing new features in Visible Legacy Navigator beta 3
We've released a significant update to our Visible Legacy Navigator, beta 3. We've added the most-ask-for feature: search. We've also enhanced the tabs, brought back the detail page, enhanced the filter buttons and node-reduction intelligence that runs behind the scenes, improved the pop-up "call outs" and cleaned up the navigation. Look for the new yellow "got Nav" buttons which will center a topic of interest in the Navigator map. The browser back button will save your trail!
Features are described on the Navigator Help page, but the UI is fairly intuitive so try it out and send us feedback directly or through our Help Forum. There are upcoming user-features for both innovators and solution seekers, go ahead and sign up for a free registration to see what's new.
A thousand thanks to the team
It's amazing how inspiring a colorful wireframe and design enthusiasm can be. Our small team includes back end, front end, and content curation and can go amazingly rapidly from concept to reality. By being agile we aim to adapt and serve better the needs of our various user groups. Thanks to Tommy, Shane, Dave, Bill, Phyllis, Becky, Scott, Will, and to our beta users and Mary for great support and feedback.
It's amazing how inspiring a colorful wireframe and design enthusiasm can be. Our small team includes back end, front end, and content curation and can go amazingly rapidly from concept to reality. By being agile we aim to adapt and serve better the needs of our various user groups. Thanks to Tommy, Shane, Dave, Bill, Phyllis, Becky, Scott, Will, and to our beta users and Mary for great support and feedback.
January 17, 2014
Cross-discipline collaboration can happen spontaneously when the climate is right (for newts)
New drugs, for pain in this example, can take decades of research in fundamental molecular and biological research before even considering translation to human solutions. The labs of Stanford professors Justin Du Bois and Sandip Biswal are working on new treatments for locating and eliminating pain, a cross-discipline collaboration facilitated by California newts found on campus ... and BioX. The well-written Stanford News article by Amy Adams describes the interesting way this collaboration started, and look at the OTL project description ("docket") for related projects.
We're not sure which project Amy writes about, the journal article she quotes has not been picked up in the continuous VL mapping cycle. However I can tell from the timeline that the latest project is Novel compounds as modulators of voltage-gated sodium channels for pain treatment and biomolecular tools. This gets you close and you can read the description and applications of this new innovation, and find other innovations by keyword at the feature-rich Stanford Office of Technology Licensing "TechFinder" portal.
Note: In VL Navigator or the TechFinder widgets, look for other green-box projects and red diamond disclosures in the collaborative ecosystem to discover related innovations.
Stanford chemist joins with radiologists to locate source of pain – with help from newts
The News article summarizes, "In addition to being an example of what can happen when scientists from across campus work together, Du Bois and Biswal say the research specifically shows the role molecular scientists can play in solving biological problems. Du Bois is on the executive committee for the new Stanford Institute for Chemical Biology, which was formed specifically to encourage collaborations like this one." We recommend you read the full article here.
Note: In VL Navigator or the TechFinder widgets, look for other green-box projects and red diamond disclosures in the collaborative ecosystem to discover related innovations.
The News article summarizes, "In addition to being an example of what can happen when scientists from across campus work together, Du Bois and Biswal say the research specifically shows the role molecular scientists can play in solving biological problems. Du Bois is on the executive committee for the new Stanford Institute for Chemical Biology, which was formed specifically to encourage collaborations like this one." We recommend you read the full article here.
November 15, 2013
Nanotube Valley
Perhaps someday we'll call it carbon nanotube valley. The labs of Stanford professors Subhasish Mitra and H.-S. Philip Wong have built a turing machine out of carbon nanotubes, the same sort of breakthrough that the first Silicon Valley pioneers did with electrons in semiconductors. Read the article at the Stanford News but also look at the OTL project description ("docket") for related projects.
The described project is Field-Effect Transistor (CNFET), transparent electrodes and three-dimensional integration of CNFETs. You can read the description and applications of this new innovation, and find other innovations by keyword at the feature-rich Stanford Office of Technology Licensing "TechFinder" portal.
In VL Navigator or the TechFinder widgets, look for other green-box projects and red diamond disclosures in the collaborative ecosystem to discover related innovations.
A first: Stanford engineers build basic computer using carbon nanotubes
According to the Stanford Report (September 26, 2013), "Unprecedented feat points toward a new generation of energy-efficient electronics." We recommend you read the full article here.
In VL Navigator or the TechFinder widgets, look for other green-box projects and red diamond disclosures in the collaborative ecosystem to discover related innovations.
According to the Stanford Report (September 26, 2013), "Unprecedented feat points toward a new generation of energy-efficient electronics." We recommend you read the full article here.
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