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The Environmental Impact Initiative 2008 Annual Report summarizes the organization's programs and accomplishments from the past year. EII operates programs in education, public initiatives, and corporate sustainability to promote environmental stewardship and economic progress. A key success was their Go Green Schools initiative which helped Patterson Elementary in Naperville reduce cafeteria waste by 52% and implement other green practices like recycling and composting. EII also conducted research on using hybrid taxis in Chicago which could significantly improve air quality while saving operators money. Going forward, EII aims to continue implementing innovative environmental solutions and serving as a model for sustainable urban development.
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Scientific research in China has grown significantly in recent decades due to support from the Chinese government. The government has invested billions in research programs and developing universities as hubs for industry and academic collaboration. This has led to achievements like China sequencing the rice genome in 2002 at the Beijing Genomic Institute. The team of over 100 scientists published the draft genome sequence in Science, establishing China as a leader in genomic sequencing. Additionally, China is conducting extensive research on genetically modified plants for applications like increasing nutrition, crop hardiness, and producing vaccines and industrial chemicals. One breakthrough was the development of "Golden Rice" engineered to produce beta-carotene by researchers in Switzerland and China.
The document discusses MIT's relationships with industry through research funding and partnerships. It provides statistics on industry-sponsored research funding at MIT, which totaled $100.3 million or 16% of MIT's total research funding in FY2008. The document also outlines several programs that facilitate collaboration between MIT and industry, such as the Industrial Liaison Program, the Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation, and MIT's Technology Licensing Office. It discusses how these programs help transfer MIT technologies and ideas to the commercial sector.
1) Test and demonstration facilities at universities serve as a bridge between industry and academia by providing access to scientific knowledge, facilities, and innovation support.
2) DTU is among the top universities in the world for industry collaboration and innovation outputs like co-publications, spin-outs, inventions, and patent applications.
3) Scion DTU operates science parks at DTU campuses that house over 200 companies and 3,700 employees. It aims to support start-ups, corporate innovation, and cluster formation through access to university resources and facilities for testing and demonstration.
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Business model innovation can help spread clean technologies. This work uses the market for small-scale solar financing, in which firms build, own and maintain solar panels for end-customers, as an empirical example. These ventures (called solar service or third party solar financing ventures) have an intermediary role between solar panel manufacturers and end-customers, and have opened up new solar markets. In other burgeoning markets the business model is applied to new technologies. This research provides insights for new ventures seeking to use the business model, manufacturers looking to sell to similar markets, and policy-makers encouraging their growth.
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This document discusses collaboration between science and industry for innovation. It presents different sources of innovation, both internal and external. It also classifies innovations as incremental, radical, new to the company, or new to the world. The document addresses the challenges of collaboration between policy, science, and industry, known as the "triple helix." It analyzes how setting the right framework conditions through funding programs can encourage cooperation. Examples of successful collaborative R&D programs between academia and industry in Germany are provided. The document concludes that the program design is key to stimulating cooperation and provides recommendations.
The purpose of MEICON can be summarised as trying to help engineers create the greatest
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engineering’s common practice, targeted at its low-hanging fruit, rather than its extremes. Of
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The document proposes reinvesting the University of Colorado Foundation's assets in oil and natural gas into green companies to promote environmental sustainability. It recommends investments in several solar and clean technology companies, including First Solar, JinkoSolar, Juwi Solar, and Lucintech, which are startups or publicly traded companies developing technologies like solar panels, solar farms, and semi-transparent photovoltaic window coatings. The investments would support these companies' growth and leadership in developing renewable energy solutions.
The document discusses creating innovation-based growth in France through stronger partnerships between publicly funded research and private companies. It notes that while France invests heavily in research and has notable research achievements, only 1.25% of funding connects researchers and businesses. The Pierre-Gilles de Gennes Foundation aims to facilitate these connections by providing an administrative framework and seed funding for partnerships between its affiliated research institutions and companies. The Foundation hopes to establish a culture where industrial partners share challenges with academic researchers, helping innovations to emerge and be successfully developed.
Presentation I gave at the Future Grid Forum in Sydney on 18 March 2015. Introducing ARENA's view on the challenges with integrating renewable energy and grids, and ARENA's draft investment priorities.
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1. UNIVERSITA’ E INDUSTRIA IN US
Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli
Vincentelli
The Edgar L. and Harold H. Buttner Chair of EECS
University of California at Berkeley
Co-Founder, CTA and Member of the Board
Founder,
Cadence Design Systems
2. DISCLAIMER
• Le mie considerazioni si basano su osservazioni
personali maturate in 35 anni di permanenza a
Berkeley relative principalmente
– Alle relazioni Industria-Universita’ nella Silicon Valley (e
Universita’
nella regione di Boston)
– All’Ingegneria
6. Pasteur’s Quadrant
Considerations of Use?
NO YES
Pure Basic Use-Inspired
YES Research Basic Research
(Bohr) (Pasteur)
Quest for
Fundamental
Understanding
?
Pure Applied
NO Research
(Edison)
D. Stokes
9. Organizing for High-Impact R&D
Impact
Shared Vision: “The Moon Shot”
Sponsor Sponsor
Group Group
Project Project Project Project
10. The “Moon Shot” Approach
Use an overarching, long-range goal to organize and loosely
long-
direct the research
Usually application-driven
application-
Organize the effort as a loose confederation of tightly-knit
tightly-
sub-
sub-projects
Even if you don’t reach the moon, lots of good results will be
produced
11. The demise of great private research centers
Bell Labs Xerox PARC
12. Sea Change in Research Support
• Research support has been changing
• Support is shifting from Federal to Industrial / Private
• What are the implications?
• What are the innovative business models for above critical
mass research?
• How do we best adopt to the new landscape?
15. Industrial Support in %
including sub-awards
EECS: 48,763,000
Industry
7.109.000
15%
Industry Private
Private
11.213.000
23%
Individual All Else
All Else
28.751.000
59%
Individual
1.690.000
3%
COE EECS
Industry + Private + Individual = 26% Industry + Private + Individual = 41%
16.
17.
18. R&D Gap is in the Private Sector
R&D as% of GNL
Private Companies State and P.A.
Svezia
Giappone
Stati Uniti
)
Germania
Francia
Canada
UK
Italia
0 1 2 3 4
Fonte: Intesa Sanpaolo, Servizio Innovazione della Divisione Corporate su dati OECD 2005 - The Economist - August
,
2007
18
19. Great Works and Grand Challenges as an
organizing principle
“Use Inspired Basic Research” as a Framework
– Energy — e.g. Zero Energy Buildings
– Health— e.g. Curing malaria with synthetic biology
– Education — e.g. ICT for the developing world
20. Example of Grand Challenges
Challenges-Use Inspired
Research
•ARPA-E is a bold concept that will provide access to the
E
funding needed to bring the next generation of energy
technologies to fruition. Specifically ARPA-E aims to:
•Enhance our economic security by identifying technologies with the
Enhance
potential to reduce energy imports from foreign sources; reduce
energy-related greenhouse gas emissions; and improve efficiency
related
across the energy spectrum.
•Ensure we remain a technological leader in developing and deploying
Ensure
advanced energy technologies.
•ARPA-E will uniquely focus on high risk, high payoff concepts -
E
technologies promising true energy transformations.
Barack Obama and Steven Chu addresses
21. Energy Collaborative Research: Government,
Industry, University
Researchers at U.S. universities, led by Berkeley, Stanford University and
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are targeting the $2 billion in
Technology,
energy research funds contained in the House recovery bill. The research
dollars will produce jobs, reduce U.S. dependence on foreign oil and stem
the production of greenhouse gases, according to the Association of
American Universities, a group of 62 schools that conduct research.
,
Obama’s New Energy for America Plan, as explained on the White House
Web site, calls for creating five million jobs by spending $150 billion, over
10 years, “to catalyze private efforts to build a clean energy future.”
Two major energy initiatives were launched in 2007: the Energy Biosciences
Institute (EBI), a partnership of UC Berkeley, Berkeley Lab, and the
University of Illinois, funded by BP with $500 million over ten years; and
the Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI), a partnership of three national labs and
),
three research universities in the San Francisco Bay Area, funded by the
U.S. Department of Energy with $125 million over five years.
22. Industry and US Universities
• Pure local decisions based on accomplishments and feedback
from peers
• Ranking determines rigor in promotion criteria
• Ranking are essential
– To attract the best students world
world-wide
– To obtain grants and awards
– To have an impact
• Professors are promoted on the basis of their contributions in all
areas, including professional activities
• Reciprocal respect and attention to respective roles Industry
Industry-
Academia
• Unrestricted grants: “speed not patents”
• “Transfer of technology” through visiting professionals and
summer students
• Formation of new companies favored
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23. Implementing a Local Research
Laboratory
• There are many possible models
models—some Berkeley-located
examples for discussion:
– Cadence Berkeley Laboratories
– The Siemens Berkeley Technology
Technology-to-Business Center
– ST Microelectronics Berkeley Laboratory (transformed in UPEK
Start-up)
– Kawasaki Steel Corporation Berkeley Labs (transformed in
Comsilica Start-up)
– Ericcson Berkeley Laboratories
– Hughes Research Labs
– AT&T
– Intel Berkeley Labs
– Pirelli-Telecom Italia Berkeley Labs
Telecom
– GM Berkeley Labs
– Toyota Berkeley Labs
– UTC Berkeley Labs
24. How Can Industry Leverage University Research
• Place a small number of large bets and a larger number of
smaller ones
– In today’s IT world, the long-term impact of many research projects are
term
strongly influenced by an expensive commercial context
– Identify the key schools, the key faculty in specific areas, and make them
successful
• Employ an intellectual property policy that maximizes the impact
of the research and maximizes your access to results
– In information technology, that usually demands a very open (“public
domain”) approach!
– In other areas of research, e.g. biological sciences, a more restrictive
approach might be better—no one
no one-size-fits-all!
• Couple the research closely to your own business units
– “One-week-per-month” visitor approach
month”
– Build a small research laboratory adjacent to the University
– Invest in a local, independent technology incubator to obtain an “unfair
advantage.”