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SHIFTING THE PARADIGM: THE VALUE OF INNOVATION IN DRIVING ENTREPRENEURSHIP

• Innovation and entrepreneurship often go hand in hand

• Do we really understand these concepts?• How do these things apply to space

exploration and other hard-core scientifically driven domains?

• This talk will examine some of the key elements of innovation and entrepreneurship and show how new approaches to Data Science can help attain them

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• Organization, structure, direction and leadership amidst the chaos of the everyday• Seeing the potential of something

before it exists is an important quality• Objectives should be driven by strategic

decisions as well as tactical ones• Technology continues to rapidly change

our world – seeing the next big thing is becoming more important

• Entrepreneurs must deal in the abstraction of the possible, while creating the actual.

WHAT IS THE VALUE OF THE ENTREPRENEUR?

“Out of every one hundred [people], ten shouldn't even be there, eighty are just targets, nine are the real fighters, and we are lucky to have them, for they make the battle. Ah, but the one, one is a warrior, and he will bring the others back.”

―Heraclitus

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• Innovation is stretching one’s conceptual boundaries and embracing the art of the possible• Innovation thus provides the underlying conceptual

capital necessary to be entrepreneurial. • Innovation is about generating concepts and ideas that

at their very core are disruptive • Provide an upheaval of commonly accepted norms• Entrepreneurs take innovative concepts and use them to

produce new goods and services

INNOVATION AND THE ENTREPRENEUR

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INNOVATION, ENTREPRENEURS AND SPACE

• We continue to progress scientifically and technologically at an alarming rate• It is still important to embrace innovation to challenge our fundamental

scientific assumptions• We need to feed entrepreneurialism that attempts to put those

innovations into action In space travel new ideas are required for:

• Propulsion and energy – to extend farther into space• Communication devices for longer ranges• New navigation systems (and clocks)• Robotics and augmentation of the human body (blood loss, bone density,

muscle atrophy, etc.)• Newer & smaller data storage and retrieval devices

• Data science is a growing field that allows us to create and utilize new forms of data to solve complex scientific problems

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LESSONS FROM THE INTELLIGENCE DOMAIN

Real-World Data &

Knowledge Capture

Flexible UIs and Model Mgt.

Ontologies and Data Models

Large Scale Graph Stores

Users, Collaborations,

Curations

Similar to space exploration, the intelligence domain offers a glimpse into Data Science complexities:• Complex environments require

detailed analytics capture• Large-scale connectivity is needed

between data and real world facts• Reasoning is needed to infer missing

data and codify patterns• Situational awareness needs utilize

context - Spatial, Temporal, Cognitive and Social Context all matter

• Users need to collaborate over the same data simultaneously

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