Creative failure can be a precondition for future success, but it is hardly an accepted approach, particularly in Europe. What are the lessons that research institutions and enterprises can learn from a “culture of failure”? Would it be productive to deal more playfully with risks and wrong decisions?
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Curtis FRANK
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Senior Associate Dean for Faculty & Academic Affairs, W.M. Keck Senior Professor in Engineering, Stanford School of Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford | | | |
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James D. PLUMMER
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Frederick Emmons Terman Dean, School of Engineering; John M. Fluke Professor in Electrical Engineering; Courtesy Professor, Materials Science & Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford | | | |
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Friedrich B. PRINZ
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Finmeccanica Professor and Robert Bosch Chair of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford | | | |
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Buddy D. RATNER
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Professor of Bioengineering and Chemical Engineering and Michael L. & Myrna Darland Endowed Chair in Technology Commercialization, College of Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA | | | |
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Senior Associate Dean for Faculty & Academic Affairs, W.M. Keck Senior Professor in Engineering, Stanford School of Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford
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| | Academic Appointments: |
| | -Professor, Chemical Engineering |
| | -Professor (By courtesy), Materials Science and Engineering |
| | -Professor (By courtesy), Chemistry |
| | -Member, Bio-X |
Finmeccanica Professor and Robert Bosch Chair of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford
| | Co-Director, Stanford Integrated Machining; Chair, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering and Mechanical Engineering |
| | Design and prototyping of micro and nanoscale devices for energy and biology. His group studies transport phenomena across thin oxide layers and lipid bi-layers with the help of Atomic Force Microscopy combined with Impedance Spectroscopy. |
Professor of Bioengineering and Chemical Engineering and Michael L. & Myrna Darland Endowed Chair in Technology Commercialization, College of Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
| 1967 | B.S., Brooklyn College
| | Research Interests: |
| | Biointerface synthesis, modification and characterization |
| | Tissue engineering and regenerative medicine |
| | Synthesis and characterization of polymeric biomaterials |
| | Healing, inflammation |
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