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Kentucky Innovation: Commercializing 3D Scanning and Nanotechnologies

From visualization technologies to nano-templates, participants at the April 2009 Kentucky Innovation and Entrepreneurship Conference describe the technologies that they hope to commercialize.

iMedia Kentucky TV: Targeting Genetic Sources of Mental Illness

Speaking at the recent Innovation and Entrepreneurship Conference in Louisville, Kentucky, Dr. Mark Brennan talks very briefly about his work at SureGene targeting the genetic markers of mental illness. While many people in attendance raised their hands when he asked during his session if they knew someone with cancer, many more raised their hands when asked if they knew someone who had been diagnosed with a mental illness.

Robert L. King: Lowering the barrier between Discovery and Commerce

Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Education President Robert L. King talks about linking discovery and commerce during a break at the Kentucky Innovation and Entrepreneurship Conference in Louisville, Kentucky, April 7, 2009. Stay tuned. More such video will be posted on iMedia Kentucky in the next several days.

Serious games manufacture great experiences

In this brief iMedia Kentucky interview, game designer Jane McGonigal describes the explosion of opportunities in games designed and carried out in real life, not on-screen.

Like smokestacks of another age, such games signal the 21st production of another valuable resource, good experiences. Experience design is valuable to schools, manufacturing, health care, tourism and travel or any industry, really, where happy clients and customers are needed.

Collaborating via games can also help develop new scenarios and contribute in general to the knowing enterprise. And, finally, software derived from good game design, as she points out, is used in businesses to improve teamwork.

Jane McGonigal recently spoke a the 2008 IdeaFestival in Louisville, where she described alternate reality games as "happiness engines".

David Mohney describes the Curry Stone Prize and the importance of design

Describing the new annual $100,000 Curry Stone Prize for humanitarian design, David Mohney talks about how design can address some of the world's most pressing problems and proposes one really big idea along the way. If we live in an increasingly visual society, designers occupy a place of privilege not unlike the writers and mathematicians who followed the invention of the Gutenberg press, and whose ideas were instrumental in the flourishing of the age of reason and science.

The Curry Stone Prize was awarded for the first time in September, 2008 at the IdeaFestival.

Mohney is the former Dean of the College of Design at UK.

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Ben Keeton, Kentucky BioAlliance

In this short iMedia Kentucky clip, Ben Keeton of the Kentucky BioAlliance points out that the commonwealth is a leader in plant-based pharmaceuticals.

For a complete list of iMedia Kentucky videos, see our YouTube channel. His video also kicks off a new "focus on" section of the website, which, over the next couple of weeks, will link to biotech stories.

TV "Rising above the Gathering Storm"

Dale Fleury, who is a regional director for the National Math and Science Initiative, spoke to iMedia Kentucky recently about the need to raise the level of math and science education in the country.

Prior iMedia Kentucky videos:

• Nassim Nicholas Taleb, financial analyst and "Black Swan" author.
• Test Toob, a social networking site built around science experimentation.