GOVERNMENT–INDUSTRY PARTNERSHIPS
PARTNERING AGAINST TERRORISM
SUMMARY OF A WORKSHOP
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Steering Committee for Government-Industry Partnerships for the Development of New Technologies*
Gordon Moore, Chair Chairman Emeritus, retired
Intel Corporation
M. Kathy Behrens Managing Director of Medical Technology
RS Investment Management and STEP Board
Michael Borrus Managing Director
The Petkevich Group, LLC
Iain M. Cockburn Professor of Finance and Economics
Boston University
Kenneth Flamm Dean Rusk Chair in International Affairs
LBJ School of Public Affairs University of Texas at Austin
James F. Gibbons Professor of Engineering
Stanford University
W. Clark McFadden Partner
Dewey Ballantine
Burton J. McMurtry General Partner
Technology Venture Investors
William J. Spencer, Vice-Chair Chairman Emeritus, retired
International SEMATECH and STEP Board
Mark B. Myers Visiting Professor of Management
The Wharton School University of Pennsylvania and STEP Board
Richard Nelson George Blumenthal Professor of International and Public Affairs
Columbia University
Edward E. Penhoet Chief Program Officer Science and Higher Education
Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation and STEP Board
Charles Trimble Chairman
U.S. GPS Industry Council
John P. Walker Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Axys Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Patrick Windham President,
Windham Consulting and
Lecturer,
Stanford University
Project Staff*
Charles W. Wessner Study Director
Alan Anderson Consultant
Tabitha M. Benney Program Associate
McAlister T. Clabaugh Program Associate
David E. Dierksheide Program Associate
Christopher S. Hayter Program Associate
Adam Korobow Program Officer
Sujai J. Shivakumar Program Officer
For the National Research Council (NRC), this project was overseen by the Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy (STEP), a standing board of the NRC established by the National Academies of Sciences and Engineering and the Institute of Medicine in 1991. The mandate of the STEP Board is to integrate understanding of scientific, technological, and economic elements in the formulation of national policies to promote the economic well-being of the United States. A distinctive characteristic of STEP’s approach is its frequent interactions with public and private-sector decision makers. STEP bridges the disciplines of business management, engineering, economics, and the social sciences to bring diverse expertise to bear on pressing public policy questions. The members of the STEP Board* and the NRC staff are listed below.
Dale Jorgenson, Chair
Frederic Eaton Abbe Professor of Economics
Harvard University
M. Kathy Behrens
Managing Director of Medical Technology
RS Investment Management
Bronwyn Hall
Professor of Economics
University of California at Berkeley
James Heckman
Henry Schultz Distinguished Service Professor of Economics
University of Chicago
Ralph Landau
Consulting Professor of Economics
Stanford University
Richard Levin
President
Yale University
William J. Spencer, Vice-Chair
Chairman Emeritus, retired
International SEMATECH
David T. Morgenthaler
Founding Partner
Morgenthaler
Mark B. Myers
Visiting Professor of Management
The Wharton School
University of Pennsylvania
Roger Noll
Morris M. Doyle Centennial Professor of Economics
Stanford University
Edward E. Penhoet
Chief Program Officer
Science and Higher Education
Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
William Raduchel
Chief Technology Officer
AOL Time Warner
Alan Wm. Wolff
Managing Partner
Dewey Ballantine
STEP Staff*
Stephen A. Merrill
Executive Director
Russell Moy
Senior Program Officer
Craig M. Schultz
Research Associate
Camille M. Collett
Program Associate
Christopher S. Hayter
Program Associate
David E. Dierksheide
Program Associate
Charles W. Wessner
Program Director
Sujai J. Shivakumar
Program Officer
Adam Korobow
Program Officer
McAlister T. Clabaugh
Program Associate
Tabitha M. Benney
Program Associate
National Research Council Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy
Sponsors
The National Research Council gratefully acknowledges the support of the following sponsors:
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Office of the Director, Defense Research & Engineering
National Science Foundation
U.S. Department of Energy
Optoelectronics Industry Development Association
Office of Naval Research
National Institutes of Health
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Sandia National Laboratories
Electric Power Research Institute
International Business Machines
Kulicke and Soffa Industries
Merck and Company
Milliken Industries
Motorola
Nortel
Procter and Gamble
Silicon Valley Group, Incorporated
Advanced Micro Devices
Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this publication are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the project sponsors.
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Contents
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Welcome |
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Introduction |
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Partnering to Meet the New Security Challenge |
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Partnering for Cyber Security and Infrastructure Protection |
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Capitalizing on the Nation’s Research Portfolio |
Best Practice Examples of Public-Private Partnerships |
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SEMATECH: Assessing the Contribution |
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Partnering for Progress: The Advanced Technology Program |
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University Research and the Market: The Carnegie Mellon Experience |
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Partnerships Against Bioterrorism |
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Partnering for Vaccines: The NIAID Perspective |
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Partnering for Counter Measures: The Private Research Perspective |
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Partnering for National Security |
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Overcoming Information Overload |
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New Technologies for New Threats |
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Security Challenges in an Open Economy |
Roundtable on Partnering for National Missions: Defense, Health and Energy |
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Preface
The National Academies has sought to bring the nation’s great strength in science and technology to bear on protecting the United States against terrorism. In a major 2002 report, Making the Nation Safer: The Role of Science and Technology in Countering Terrorism, the National Academies characterized the range of threats to the nation’s security and identified research agendas to strengthen areas of vulnerability. It also outlined policies needed to strengthen the government’s ability to draw on the nation’s capacities in science and technology for combating terrorism. Specifically, it noted that effective public-private partnerships must occur for the government and private sector to work together to enhance homeland security.1
In recent years public-private partnerships have played an increased role in developing new technologies both in the United States and abroad. To further our understanding of the motivations, operations, and policy challenges associated with public-private partnerships, the National Research Council’s Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy (STEP) launched in 1998 a major review of U.S. and foreign programs. This program-based analysis was led by Gordon Moore, Chairman Emeritus of Intel, and Bill Spencer, Chairman Emeritus of International SEMATECH. It was carried out by a distinguished multidisciplinary Steering Committee that included members from academia, high-technology industries, venture capital firms, and the realm of public policy. The Committee’s analysis—which included a significant (though necessarily limited) portion of the variety of cooperative activity that takes place between the government and
the private sector—focused on “best practices” among major U.S. partnerships as a way of drawing out positive guidance for future public policy.2
At its concluding conference on October 2, 2002, the National Research Council Committee on Government-Industry Partnerships drew together the findings of its four-year study on partnerships to explore how public-private partnerships can help make the nation safer against terrorism. The conference was well received. Subsequently, the Governing Board Executive Committee authorized the release of a summary report of the workshop. Accordingly, this report summarizes the proceedings of that conference, along with an introductory chapter that highlights key issues raised at the conference. These issues are central to the country’s ongoing efforts to develop new technologies and new approaches to meet the terrorist threat.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
On behalf of the National Academies, we express our appreciation and recognition for the insights, experiences, and perspectives of the conference participants. A number of individuals deserve recognition for their contributions to the preparation of this report. Foremost among these were Dr. Sujai Shivakumar and Alan Anderson, who played an instrumental role in the preparation of this report. Others to whom recognition is due include Christopher Hayter, David Dierksheide, Tabitha Benney, and McAlister Clabaugh. Without their collective efforts, amidst many other competing priorities, it would not have been possible to prepare this report.
NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL REVIEW
This report has been reviewed in draft form by individuals chosen for their diverse perspectives and technical expertise, in accordance with procedures approved by the NRC’s Report Review Committee. The purpose of this independent review is to provide candid and critical comments that will assist the institution in making its published report as sound as possible and to ensure that the report meets institutional standards for quality and objectivity. The review comments and draft manuscript remain confidential to protect the integrity of the process. We wish to thank the following individuals for their review of this report: F. M. Ross Armbrecht, Jr., President of the Industrial Research Institute, Howard Frank, Dean of the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University
of Maryland, Lewis S. Edelheit, Retired Senior Research & Technology Advisor, General Electric Company, and Christina Gabriel, Vice Provost and Chief Technology Officer, Carnegie Mellon University. Although the reviewers listed above have provided many constructive comments and suggestions, they were not asked to endorse the content of the report, nor did they see the final draft before its release. The review of this report was overseen by John White of the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, who was responsible for making certain that an independent examination of this report was carried out in accordance with institutional procedures and that all review comments were carefully considered. Responsibility for the final content of this report rests entirely with the author and the institution.
Charles W. Wessner