The Greatest Innovations of All Time: Past, Present, and Future

(BUS 200)

This hands-on interactive course treats the current global crisis as a unique opportunity for breakthrough innovations. As it happened in the past, individuals, businesses, and societies that take advantage of such opportunities propel themselves to the next level of prosperity and growth. Our goal is to explore five areas essential to modern human endeavor: Energy, Transportation, Information and Communications,  Money and Commerce, and Health Services. Each session of the class will be dedicated to a specific opportunity domain and have two parts. First, we will look at long-term technology and business trends. We will analyze how people solved seemingly insurmountable problems before and understand how and why original recipes for success turned into recipes for disaster over time. Secondly, we will use brainstorming and other creativity techniques to come up with solutions to today's critical problems, identify short- and long-term business/technology opportunities, and outline potential paths for breakthrough innovations.

Eugene Shteyn, Director, Intellectual Property Licensing, Hewlett-Packard

Eugene Shteyn holds twenty-four US patents and is a named inventor on more than forty patents pending in software architecture, digital entertainment, Internet services, nanotechnology, and other areas. At Hewlett- Packard, Shteyn works on identifying potential markets for technology transfer and intellectual property licensing strategies. His expertise includes invention development, establishing standards alliances with major global companies, and guiding and motivating high-impact interdisciplinary teams. Much of his work is represented in high tech products and industry standards. Shteyn received degrees in mechanical engineering and computer science.