Review of Physical Science Proposals to the State of Ohio's 2005 Wright Centers of Innovation Award Program Final Letter Report (2005) / Chapter Skim
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The management teams attending the review had been invited by the staff of the Ohio Department of Development (ODOD) and were identified by the ODOD as the top five of the original nine contenders for the Wright Centers awards on the basis of their proposals.
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The full committee reviewed and concurred with the conclusions and recommendations presented m this report. This report conveys the committee's assessment of the merits of these top five proposals in keeping with the committee's charge to assist the state of Ohio in making the Wright Centers program awards.
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WCI 05-10 Ohio BioProducts Innovation Center The Ohio BioProducts Innovation Center proposes to innovate and commercialize products through collaboration among Battelle Corporation, the Ohio State University, and industrial partners. The aim is to create high-value, bio-based products and solutions through the development of novel chemical synthesis, innovative process technologies, and unique germ plasmas that are required to convert vegetable oils, carbohydrates, and proteins to advanced polymeric materials, specialty coatings, adhesives, composites, performance additives, solvents, fuels, and lubricants.
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The organizational structure is consistent with the goals of the research and development phase of the program, but greater marketing influence/control will be needed m the future if comrnercializa60n goals are to be met. If the state of Ohio chooses to fund this proposal, the committee recommends that it address the following key issues with the management team during award negotiations: 4
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The relationship between the center and the federal laboratories needs to be elucidated to ensure that the center serves the best interests of the state of Ohio. WCI 05-04 Ohio ICE Center for Advanced Controls and Measurement Systems The proposal for the Ohio ICE Center for Advanced Controls and Measurement Systems, which is a collaboration of Cleveland State University, the University of Akron, the University of Dayton, Kent State University, and Case Western Reserve University, requests $10.
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only. Next, the committee offers evaluations of the proposals that competed for operatmg funds WCI 05-12 The Wright Center of innovation for Advanced Data Management and Analysis Funded by the state of Ohio at a level of $ 11.1 million m October 2003, the Wright Center of Innovation for Advanced Data Management and Analysis (WCI-ADMA)
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comprises top management representatives of the three types of collaborating institutions. Further, the board's commitment to the center is demonstrated by its quarterly meetings and by its review of WCI-ADMA's success metrics; these are updated in scorecard fashion m advance of each meeting The committee appreciates the challenges presented by the very fast cycle time m the R&D domains the center targets and by the changing market emphases it faces (as reflected, for instance, m the slowed pace of demand for product-level REID)
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Originally named the Power Partnership for Ohio, the Wright Fuel Cell Group was established m 2003 as a Wright Center of Innovation after receiving a capital funding award. Led by Case Western Reserve University, this center is a collaboration of five Ohio academic institutions, a broad coalition of industrial companies, and other nonprofit organizations.
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This concludes the committee's analysis of the five proposals that remained for consideration following the first round of proposal reviews reported on January 11, 2005. Some of the committee members have had the opportunity to serve this activity since its inception and have developed a good understanding of the Wright Centers program.
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These meetings would provide an opportunity for the staff and participants of existing Wright Centers to discuss and benchmark best practices, and for future proposal teams to integrate these best practices mto their plans. For some of the most difficult issues, cross-center working groups could be formed to develop a Wright Center "template," thus institutionalizing a solution across all centers (e.g., a Wright Center intellectual property framework that both industry and Ohio's universities fmd acceptable)
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Palmatier, Chair Committee for the Review of Physical Science Proposals to the State of Ohio's Wright Centers of innovation Fiscal Year (FY) 2005 Award Program cc: Peter Blair Elizabeth Panos Robin Schoen George Levin John Wendt Attachment: Committee Biosketches 11
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He served on the 2003 Wright Centers of hmovation NRC panel. Members Daniel Akins has been a professor of chemistry at the City College of New York since 1981, and director of the CUNY Center for Analysis of Structures and interfaces, which conducts research focused on nanomaterials and their uses, since 1988.
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The results of his work are used m a number of industrial environments. He has received numerous awards mcludmg the Georgia Tech Outstandmg Faculty Leadership award for the Development of Graduate Research Assistants m 2002 and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers Blackall Machine Tool and Gage Award in 2001.
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The result, implemented in over 120 countries, provided a competitive advantage and served as a lever for fully integrating the two cultures resulting from the merger of Ernst & Whinney and Arthur Young. More recently, as chief operating officer of Amrop, the largest mternational federation of executive search firms, he developed and implemented a strategic plan focusing on providing professional management to start-up companies and independent directors for privately held businesses.
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He has 40 years of experience m performing and managing basic and applied research m the physical sciences and advanced technologies associated with highpressure physics, energy conversion, advanced materials, directed energy technology, space environmental effects, and space power technology. He has published 158 papers in the open literature, edited or authored 5 books, and conducted and published the proceedings of 12 specialized workshops.
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at the Naval Postgraduate School before being appointed Superintendent of the Chemistry Division at the Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC. His professional research interests include nanoscience/nanotechnology, MEMS, non-linear optical spectroscopy, microwave properties of materials, molecular spectroscopy, microwave spectroscopy, and electron spin resonance.
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