The document discusses the outcomes of a Space Coast Cluster Workshop focused on developing innovative strategies to activate economic clusters that enhance productivity through collaboration and open innovation. It emphasizes the importance of identifying regional assets and collaborative investments to facilitate connections among various sectors, exemplified by the Milwaukee Water Council and its related projects. Additionally, it outlines a framework for cluster development that includes workforce development, commercialization, supply chain networks, and research collaborations.

1. Space Coast Cluster Workshop
August 23, 2011

2. Outcomes for Today
What we hope to accomplish
✓Think in new ways about the clusters
✓Understand the power of open innovation
✓Experience how to develop a strategy

3. The Big Picture Prosperity
How clusters -- innovating
networks -- can transform Productivity
a regional economy
Innovation
Clusters
Assets

4. Clusters transform our civic economy
To make our entire economy more productive

5. Clusters can create shared value
Vital to our productivity

6. Two tasks
1) Identifying clusters and 2) Activating clusters
Identification:
What are our assets and
how are they connected?
Activation:
What is our strategy and
what are our priority
collaborative investments?

7. Clusters can find opportunities quickly
Example: Milwaukee Water Council

8. Milwaukee 7 Water Cluster
CH2MHILL
Private Sector
Public Sector Federal
• Engineering services
Joy
Bucyrus
Siemens GE
UNDP Government
DNR Veolia Great Lakes Water Advanced ITT
MMSD
• Water treatment equipment
Chemical Systems
• Water utilities
M7/GMC Miller Coors
• Ind. wastewater treatment
City of Utilities • Intake quality, output quality Pentair
Milwaukee • Energy consumption • Filtering & purification
Opportunities Procorp AquaSensors
Thermo Fisher
Scientific
Water Council Water User • Water reuse & softening
Sanitarie
• Phosphate & radium removal
Environmental • Wastewater treatment design
• Algae control (& exploitation)
Municipalities
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Removal of PCBs from lakes & rivers
Storm water containment, Treatment/
• Road salt Processing/ Badger Meter Flygt
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Ship’s ballast – policy/enforcement
Aquaculture Energy/Efficiency Softening Analysis/ • pumps
• Ethanol production efficiency • Water meters
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Lake Michigan contamination
Policy issues – metering/incentives • Tar sands water treatment Measuring/ • Meter reading systems
• Elimination of boiler scaling
• Increasing brewing efficiency Control
• Increased efficiency of water heating
• Speeding treatment for large volumes Pumps/ Valves/ Fall River
UW-Madison
• Increasing treatment efficiency
Components
Bioscience Processing/Treatment
• Carmen Aguilar – microbiology •Municipal wastewater treatment •Reverse Osmosis
• David Petering –metal metabolism –Storm water treatment •Softening
–Reduced use of chemicals
AO Smith
• Val Klump
•Ships ballast - treatment
• Tim Ehlinger – aquatic systems
Fluid Transport/ •Industrial wastewater treatment
–Farm manure, food processing waste, metals
•Treatment targets
–PCBs in sewer pieps
Civil & Ind. Engr.
• Burlage – PCR environmental
test –Utilizing sewer sludge –Desalinzation • Water heaters
•Residential Water Treatment –Radium in ground water
Marquette • Shangping Xu – safe drinking
water
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Li, Jin – pollutant transport modeling
Bravo, Hector – hydraulic modeling
–Residential water treatment, home filtration
–Residential Water softening without salt
–Pharmaceuticals
–Phosphate Consumer
• Christensen, Erik – pollutants in water
Detection
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Amano, Ryoichi - CFD
Pillia, Krisna – porous media modeling
Kevin Renken- mass transfer • Joe Aldstadt – analytical methods
Products
• Sobolvev – biproducts utilization • Peter Geissinger – detection
Monitoring/Detection
• Doug Cherkauer – groundwater hydrology • Alan Schwabacher– pharmaceuticals in water
• Jim Waples – water aging
• Water security Kohler
• Tom Consi – aquatic robots • Real time monitoring • Faucets
WATER Inst. • Tom Grundle - harbors
• Chen, Junhong – nano materials, sensors
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User detection systems
Real time sensing for life forms
• Materials, coatings, plating
• Casting technology
• Pharmaceuticals
Chem & Biosci Materials
• Rohatgi, Pradeep – adv. castings, lightweight, lead-free
• Aita, Carolyn – advanced coatings
School of Freshwater
UWM
• Gong, Sarah – polymer materials
Science
CEAS DOE
Physics Funds
Fluid Power
NSF Foundations
MSOE
Academic Institutions Rapid Proto Center
NIH DoD Interior
Partnerships
• Sponsored Research Proj.
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Shared equipment
Graduates Cluster Effects
EPA Greater
Milwaukee
USDA
• Workforce training • Shared resources/equipment
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Subcontractor/supplier
Extramural grant support • Collaborative grants
• Improved competitiveness
Foundation World Bank
• Philanthropic support
• Translational science NOAA/DOC International
© 2008, Brian D. Thompson, UWM Research Foundation
Partners Funding Agencies 10/6/08
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10. Beginnings on the Space Coast
Space Coast Energy Consortium

11. Strategic Doing accelerates trust
By moving people to action quickly

12. A core team leads the cluster
The team commits to principles of open innovation

13. Core Team
Privately led with civic
support
Commitment to
collaborative innovation
(creating shared value)
Rules on information
sharing, confidentiality,
governance emerge

14. Higher education anchors
Colleges and universities can anchor the cluster

15. Others align to the cluster
Development organizations align to advance the strategy agenda

16. Build strategy portfolios
Five types of collaborative investment support a cluster

17. Build strategy portfolios
Five types of collaborative investment support a cluster
Workforce Development
Networks Commercialization
Networks
Supply Chain Networks
Research Labs
Marketing and
Incubators Branding

18. Clusters can reach a take-off
Five types of collaborative investment support a cluster
Level of
Cluster Effectiveness
and Inflection Point
Open Innovation
Horizon 4
Agile strategy practiced
Horizon 3
Strategy emerges
Horizon 2
2
Open networks form
Horizon 1
Conversation and mindsets shift 1
Time