BASIC Selects Winner of First BASIC Fellowship

SAN FRANCISCO, CA, Apr 07 (MARKET WIRE) --
The Bay Area Science and Innovation Consortium (BASIC) announced today
the winner of its first $50,000 BASIC Fellowship is Ms. Tamara Carleton,
a Doctoral Candidate in the School of Engineering at Stanford University.

Ms. Carleton's winning proposal was in response to a competitive RFP
issued by BASIC for the design of a Global Innovation Network. Dr. Robert
J. T. Morris, Vice President, Services Research, IBM, and Chairman
Emeritus of BASIC and the leader of the fellowship project stated,
"Innovation networks are becoming noticeably more global and
disaggregated. The objective of this BASIC Fellowship is to understand
this change and how the Bay Area might be able to better participate in
these changing networks. We are especially pleased that the proposal
developed by Ms. Carleton surpasses our original objectives and will help
drive action projects within BASIC."

BASIC Chairman Regis Kelly, speaking on behalf of the BASIC Board, said,
"This is an exciting step for BASIC. Through this fellowship award to
Tamara, we will be tapping into the innovative vision of one of the
region's future leaders in science and technology. She represents the
first of what we hope will be a long line of BASIC Fellows charting new
courses for increasing the region and the nation's leadership in
innovation."

When contacted with news of her selection, Ms. Carleton said, "I feel
incredibly honored to have been selected as the first BASIC Fellow by the
top leaders in Bay Area research and technology. This project offers an
extraordinary learning opportunity to investigate and define the future
role of the region in globally networked innovation."

Ms. Carleton describes her research agenda as being focused on industry
innovation, combining work in technology, long-range strategy, and
communication. Her doctoral thesis examines how technology innovators and
entrepreneurs develop, advance, and communicate radical visions of
technology. Her academic advisors for the BASIC project will be William
Cockayne, Ph.D., CEO and founder of Change Research, Inc. and leader of
the Stanford Center for Foresight and Innovation; and Professor Larry
Leifer, Ph.D., director of the Center for Design Research in the
Department of Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University.

In addition to Robert Morris, other BASIC Board directors sponsoring the
Fellowship are Mark F. Bregman Executive Vice President and CTO, Symantec
Corporation; and John Kao, President, Kao and Company. The project
sponsors and Regis B. Kelly, BASIC Chairman and Director of QB3, Arthur
Bienenstock, Special Assistant to the President for Federal Research
Policy, Stanford University, and R. Sean Randolph, President, Bay Area
Council Economic Institute, will serve as mentors to Ms. Carleton
throughout the project.

BASIC Board Director Dr. Arthur Bienenstock added a personal comment, "The
selection of Ms. Carleton as BASIC's first Fellow is of special
significance to me. I'm proud that a Stanford grad student was selected.
I'm pleased that BASIC is providing the opportunity for young people to
lead important regional research projects based on their individual
knowledge and training. And, as a long-time Stanford faculty member, I'm
enthused to be directly involved in a project which is a win for a grad
student, for BASIC, and for this university's broader mission of advancing
innovation through an industry-university collaborative action."

BASIC is an action-oriented collaboration of the region's major research
universities, national laboratories, independent research institutions,
and research and development-driven businesses dedicated to supporting
science related initiatives at the regional, state and federal levels and
advancing Bay Area innovation. BASIC action plan and Board of Directors
are on website: www.bayareabasic.org.

BASIC is a program of the Bay Area Council Economic Institute within the
501(c)3 Foundation of the Bay Area Council.

Contact:
Sally DiDomenico
BASIC Program Manager
(415) 946-8723

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