The Stanford Way for Innovation and
International Graduate Education
Transatlantic Science Week 2011
Stanford Collaboration
Technology
Transfer
Education
Stanford
Research
Innovators in Education
Leland and Jane Stanford
Frederick Terman
Stanford Center for Professional Development
Extending the research and teaching of Stanford faculty through
multi-disciplinary graduate and professional education
online | at Stanford | at work
Stanford Center for Professional Development
Stanford University Curriculum and Research
Graduate
Programs
Professional/
Executive
Education
Meeting
theCertificates,
education
needs
Degrees,
Individual
Courses of engineers, technology
professionals, …managers,
and executives
to meet your education and schedule requirements
Areas of Study
Biomedical Informatics
Electrical Engineering
Chemical Engineering
Management Science and
Engineering
Civil and Environmental
Engineering
Computational & Mathematical
Engineering
Computer Science
Materials Science and
Engineering
Statistics
Multidisciplinary Programs
Advanced Project Management
Biodesign
Design Thinking
Entrepreneurship
Innovation
International Security
Product Creation and Innovative Manufacturing
Expanded Topics
School of Earth Sciences
Energy Resources
Environmental Earth Systems
Geological and Environmental Sciences
Geophysics
School of Humanities and Sciences
Applied Physics
Economics
Financial Mathematics
International Policy
Mathematics
Political Science
Science, Technology and Society
Sociology
Case Studies
• National University of Singapore
• Global Entrepreneurial Leadership
• Biotech Rotational Development Program
• Trans-Atlantic Program in Innovation
• Global Blended Education Model
National University of Singapore
Objective: expose young high potential students to the
innovative entrepreneurial culture of Silicon Valley
 Attend classes at Stanford while undertaking internships
at Silicon Valley companies
 Blend of courses online and at Stanford
 Stanford credit accepted by NUS for co-terminal degree
 More than 200 participants have been exposed to the
Silicon Valley ecosystem
 On-going support and growing community in Singapore
Global Entrepreneurial Leadership
Objective: Expose students to best-of-class lessons
from entrepreneurs and thought leaders in Sweden,
Singapore, and Silicon Valley.
 Teaching faculty located at KTH in Sweden and at
Stanford
 Project-based course work engaged multi-cultural
teams
 Each team comprised of students from each location
 Teams utilized online collaboration tools for all work,
communication, mid-term and final presentations
Biotech Rotational Development Program
Objective: Reduce “time to autonomy” for new hires
• Recruit high potential analysts into 2-year program
• 6-month operations assignments align with Stanford
graduate study toward a customized multi-disciplinary
certificate in Product Creation and Innovative
Manufacturing
• More than 100 analysts in 8 years
• Learned to work on diversified teams strengthening
communications across the organization
• Program graduates demonstrate higher level of
performance
Trans-Atlantic Program in Innovation
Objective: Prepare startups in a European
incubator to evolve their organizations, networks
and go-to-market strategies
 Innovation immersion program
 One week at Stanford concludes with proposal
presentations
 Intersession research and development work
with coaching/mentoring
 Concluding session in host country
Global Blended Education Model
Objective: Leadership and innovation program for 600
managers across world-wide locations in the US, Europe
and SE Asia.
• Pre-work: online and collaborative learning management
system
• Face-to-face meetings at international locations
• On-going interaction via learning management system
• Springboard for education technology innovation
– Fully integrated learning management system
– Content download to iDevices
Stanford/Norway Collaboration Model
Stanford Collaboration
Technology
Transfer
Education
Stanford
Research
Questions
scpd.stanford.edu
Points of Contact
Michelle Lucas
Graduate Program Manager
650 444-5328
malucas@stanford.edu
Carissa Little
Director, Professional
Programs
650 444-4829
carissa.little@stanford.edu
Joyce Rice
Director of Marketing
650 353-8055
joyce.rice@stanford.edu