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Strategies for Engagement of Non-Traditional Partners in the Research Enterprise: Proceedings of a Workshop - in Brief
Strategies for Engagement of Non-Traditional Partners in the Research Enterprise: Proceedings of a Workshop - in Brief
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held a workshop at the National Academy of Sciences on June 12–13, 2018. Through presentations and robust discussion periods, workshop participants explored the engagement models, goals, incentives, and risk tolerance of some non-traditional research partners and discussed how their efforts intersect with those of the federal government, universities, and industry.
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PHILANTHROPIC SUPPORT FOR SCIENCE AND INNOVATION The workshop resumed the next morning with a panel of representatives from five philanthropic partners of research, moderated by outgoing GUIRR industry co-chair Gordon England. In addition to the Simons Foundation, partners included the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Alfred P
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The foundation's 12 areas of strategic focus have different goals: for example, the goal within the portfolios related to polio and malaria is to eradicate these diseases, and other foundation goals include reducing the disease burden of pneumonia and reducing poverty within farming families through increased agricultural productivity. The Gates Foundation launched one of its most innovative funding mechanisms in 2005, known as the Grand Challenges.
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Its new Flatiron Institute supports computational sciences. Greenup focused on collaborations, which the foundation defines as efforts that bring together scientists across disciplines to address topics of fundamental scientific importance in which a significant new development has created a novel area for exploration in an established field.
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, a venture capital fund that invests in spin-out projects that emerge from universities and research labs. Kirsten Leute, senior vice president for university relations, explained its operations -- OUP partners with research organizations invest in early, middle, and late-stage spinouts; the institutions share in OUP's fund profits in return for assigning their participation rights.
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Other areas of potential partnerships relate to ocean plastics, autonomous marine data collection, risk management data integration, ocean information systems, and comprehensive mapping/characterization. Leonardi acknowledged that outreach is critical to facilitate a dialogue about common priorities and interests to formulate future focus areas for NOPP, and welcomed participants to learn more about how NOPP works with public and private groups and to consider NOPP as a potential venue for partnerships.
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One person noted that introducing new ideas will mean a culture change in many labs, especially those that are focused on national security. Another participant noted that Idaho National Laboratory and Battelle Foundation have a partnership, and that the University of Idaho and the State of Idaho have partnered on high computing and cybersecurity; both partnerships may merit consideration in relation to the DOE foundation proposal.
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REVIEWERS: To ensure that it meets institutional standards for quality and objectivity, this Proceedings of a Workshop -- in Brief was reviewed by Valerie Conn, Science Philanthropy Alliance and Maryrose Franko, Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Marilyn Baker, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, served as the review coordinator.
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