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Panel V: New Initiatives and Best Practices in Innovation
Panel V: New Initiatives and Best Practices in Innovation
Pages 120-135
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He said that he was participating at the conference both because "so much of the federal sector is very scientific in its endeavors," and because the GAO is both an evaluator of technological change and government responses to it. Disruptive technologies, he said, are becoming as important to the federal enterprise as they have been to industry and to society at large.
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Once confined to special designs for computer graphics, and difficult to program for other uses, today's GPUs are general-purpose parallel processors with support for a variety of functions, especially when hybridized with a general-process central processing unit, or CPU, the traditional processing hardware.47 Dr. Persons recalled giving a talk in 2010 when he discussed (what was then)
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"If we are going to find scalable zero-carbon-emission-based energy in the near term, it has to be nuclear. We do have the key issue of waste management, which this doesn't solve, but it brings tremendous potential as a disruptive technology."50 He said that research into genetic engineering is another area where technological disruption is likely.
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The first, completed in 2007, is the "GAO Cost Estimating and Assessment Guide: Best Practices for Developing and Managing Capital Program Costs." Also, the GAO had just released the "GAO Schedule Assessment Guide: Best Practices for Project Schedules," published in 2012. The GAO was in the process of writing a guide for technology insertion and risk management.
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"That is," he said, we don't want just better sequencing tools; we want tools that are completely new." Build trans-disciplinary teams and infrastructure to better understand and control cancer. He reviewed the OPSO's challenge from the point of view of the traditional "translation pipeline" -- the imaginary spectrum from basic research to concept and design, prototyping, feasibility, testing, clinical trials, and finally standard of care.
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Players of an online puzzle video game called Foldit were invited to try their hand at unlocking the protein structure.53 While the puzzle was available to play for a period of three weeks, players produced an accurate 3D model of the enzyme in just ten days.54 As exercise in bridging disciplines, the PS-OC invited a group of physical scientists who had never looked at cancer to team up with people who had spent their careers studying cancer. "An analogy is the blind men and the elephant," he said.
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"If President Lincoln didn't make it clear enough in 1862 when he signed the Morrill Act, our state legislature made it very clear in 2000 when they established economic development as the fourth mission of the University of Illinois. It truly is our mandate as a public research university to strengthen our state's economy."55 She said that she looks at the economic development portion of the mission "comprehensively." The university tries to enable research, transfer it into people's daily lives, incubate young companies that grow out of research, 55 According to the university's web site, "The University of Illinois is among the preeminent public universities of the nation and strives constantly to sustain and enhance its quality in teaching, research, public service and economic development." |
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The program introduces students with business skills to students with engineering and science skills and helps them combine skill sets and potentially find a commercial application. For example, the Tech Ventures Program in the UIC Liautaud Graduate School of Business enables students from the business school to partner with the tech transfer office, create a business plan, and try to identify a commercial application for new technologies.
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The research park has worked with 140 start-ups in the last 10 years, and in the last several years has helped to raise over $400 million in venture capital." Other programs within the research park that have contributed to this success include the Entrepreneurs-in-Residence program, which pairs serial entrepreneurs, VCs, or industry executives with early-stage companies. The entrepreneurs help the companies adapt to the commercial world -- to learn, for example, that the milestones that are useful in the lab are typically not the same as those that are useful in the world of venture capital or seed funding.
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She said that a next step would be to "bring some of the success we've seen in the research park and on our campus in central Illinois up to Chicago." One motivation is the increasing concentration of innovation in urban areas. EnterpriseWorks Chicago, a new incubator near the UIC campus, will open in spring 2013 not only for the U of I community but for the broader Chicagoland entrepreneurial community.
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This has changed in last 10 years, but in the late 1980s that's the way it was." "So I tried the university's tech transfer office (TTO) ," he continued.
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As a scientist that's what you crave: scholarship, trying to understand the unknown, bringing clarity. The most rewarding thing you can do is to discuss experiments and interact with the experimenters." However, when Pfizer bought Warner Lambert and ParkeDavis in 2000, during the clinical trials, the leadership of the new company decided that the Pfizer scientists should no longer talk to anybody outside the company about the project.
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So that's what I learned from Lyrica." BUILDING AN INSTITUTE FOR ENGINEERING INNOVATION AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO AND ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY Matthew Tirrell Institute for Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory Dr. Tirrell discussed innovation of a very different kind -- innovation at the institutional level.
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To begin an engineering program from scratch, in a non-traditional way, he said, the Institute would bypass the traditional departmental structure. "Our target size for the initial development phase is 25 faculty," he said, "so it would be crazy to create little sections with administrative boundaries." Instead, he said he would begin by imagining the kinds of skills needed to do engineering at the molecular level.
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Dr. Tirrell said that he had made explicit agreements with chemistry, physics, and biology programs for the short term, and would be advertising for students who could work for molecular engineering faculty.
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PROCEEDINGS 135 Dr. Fall asked whether universities were thinking about how best to collaborate with other sectors in the technology clusters.
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