Government/Industry/Academic Relationships for Technology Development A Workshop Report (2005) / Chapter Skim
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5 National Science Foundation Relationships
5 National Science Foundation Relationships
Pages 49-60
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specific university and government issues surrounding innovation and technology development at research centers and by consortia and individuals. How can the technology community and the government find fresh means of cooperation?
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The federal government and its employees serve as that third party. NSF and Semiconductor Research Corporation jointly fund a partnership of four universities.
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Once the university owns an intellectual property, there are ways to use that ownership as the basis for Interacting with the private sector. A second lesson from programs at NSF's various cooperative centers concerns future equity.
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With six or seven faculty working on nothing more than how to make the components for data storage smaller, closer together, and faster, after 3 years a computer model helped Seagate Technology use reverse calculation to design a better chip. Seagate hired two graduate students who had just completed their degrees in the program, and after 6 months it had new technology on the market.
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And while it does not like funding to last for 10 or 12 years or more, OMB accepts the IUCRC concept. Someone else asked if Hurt believed there was any ideological bias against these types of collaborative centers on the part of the current administration.
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The devices and structures for these subsystems must, m turn, be built with special processes and materials. The center's work draws heavily on the semiconductor industry and its processes and requires access to a microfabrication facility (not a small budget item)
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Members choose the two papers of greatest Interest to them. In the past, papers on microfluidic valves and pumps, the synthesis of carbon nanotubes, biomimetic imaging sensors, and semiconductor-based fabrication processes for MEMS were of high Interest and quality.
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This is particularly convenient if a company has a visiting fellow on campus who performs equipment evaluation and develops process modules before the company imports processes Into its own fabrication facilities. Smaller companies use the microfabrication facility for early product development.
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Federal funds have an essential role to play in front-end investment industry is quite good at watching what is happening in the research and then funding follow-on ac6vides. Joint Question-and-Answer Period Moderator Newman began the Question-and-Answer Period by asking Huggins to elaborate on international involvement m the BSAC and on NSF's viewpoint and regulation of that involvement.
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Another attendee asked if industry money was used as a means of leveraging and demonstrating to a federal agency that cost-share funding was available. Huggins replied that after certain infrastructure costs had been deducted from the membership fees, the remainder of the money was unrestricted.
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There have been constructive discussions between NASA and NSF on potential collaboration between exploration systems research and technology at NASA and the NSF engineering directorate. In forging such relationships, NASA will have an eye on how business models affect collaboration.
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