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4 Building Effective Partnerships
4 Building Effective Partnerships
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And Mary Good, the Donaghey University Professor at the University of Arkansas, noted the relative lack of a national strategy in the United States compared with other countries and emphasized the potential of universities to step into the breach and support innovation within states and regions. THE ADVANCED RESEARCH PROJECTS AGENCY-ENERGY A prominent recommendation of the original 2005 Rising Above the Gathering Storm report was for the creation of an agency to foster "out-ofthe-box" energy research that industry cannot support due to its high risk.
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energy-related emissions, improve energy efficiency across all sectors of the U.S. economy, and ensure that the United States maintains its leadership in developing and deploying advanced energy technologies."1 The agency's mission is patterned on that of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, which was created during the Cold War to foster radical innovation in defense-related technologies.
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It will take at least 15 to 20 years to change energy technologies in the United States or globally in a major way. In the short term, ARPA-E is measuring success in terms of how many good people and projects it is supporting, whether small businesses have been created from universities, how much intellectual property has been created, and the amount of money the private sector is investing in the technologies that are emerging from the agency's efforts.
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This partnership contributed substantially to the growth of innovation in the United States and shaped important aspects of that platform. "This national innovation platform died, basically, around 1990," said Mote, for several reasons.
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They can serve as technology incubators, consultants for industry, venture accelerators, conveners of investor networks, and sources of education and training. "Universities are ideally positioned to provide innovation services for the global platform enterprise," said Mote, and "many universities in the United States are working in this direction." One example that he discussed is the University of Maryland-China Research Park.2 Because of their unique and irreplaceable assets, universities need to be central players in the global innovation system, Mote said.
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A particular asset in Germany is the system of Fraunhofer institutes, which are the product of government-university-industry partnerships focused on areas of applied research. These institutes run apprenticeship programs, Good noted, that could be a model for retraining programs in the United States.
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The incubators at the University of Wisconsin and elsewhere could act as models for other universities, "because, frankly, many of us don't run those very well." The United States needs to figure out how to do things differently than it has in the past, Good concluded. "If we're going to keep our small businesses afloat, we're going to have to figure out how to make these kinds of joint arrangements work."
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• he Role of Engaged Universities in Economic Transformation: A Re T gional Conference inspired by the National Academies Study, "Rising Above the Gathering Storm" was held October 15-16, 2007, in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
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