Wednesday, February 16, 2011. The Challenge of Discussing Innovation and Jobs. Sven Otto Littorin, Swedish entrepreneur in politics and business will be visiting the Stanford Center for Innovation and Communication until July 2011. Mr Littorin is interested in developing the link between innovation and jobs, and the interaction between creation of policy and public discussion, crossing the traditional verticals of government. The full bio of Mr Littorin is available on the Stanford InJo website.

IJ-8 The Eight Conference on Innovation Journalism is a venue for researchers from many disciplines and institutions to present work and ideas relating to the interplay of journalism, communication and innovation ecosystems. We are proud to present eight papers that have been selected trough international double blind peer review of full papers. The acceptance rate was 73 percent.

Stacie Chan is the Community Manager of Google News. Where she educates and engages with over 70,000 news publishers in over 180 countries. As the face of Google News, she attends numerous events around the US to present about Google News and other Google products journalists can use for more multi-dimensional storytelling. Formerly, Stacie was a multimedia journalist whose work appeared in The Wall Street Journal. S homepage, The Huffington Post. In 2010, Stacie launched Redwood City Patch.