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Annex A
Ames White Paper on the Research Park
NASA has a bold new vision for the 21st century to partner with local communities, government, academia, private industry, and non-profit organizations. The goal is to establish a world-class, shared-use education and R&D campus featuring partnerships in astrobiology, information technology, aerospace, education, and commercialization.
“Not from NASA alone, not from Silicon Valley industry alone, and not from world-class universities alone will tomorrow's required innovations emerge. This will come from all of us working together and making the most of the special attributes each of us brings to the table. That is what we will do at Ames.”
—Daniel S. Goldin, Administrator, NASA
This is NASA's vision for a bold new way of doing business at Ames. This vision includes goals for collaboration, business incubation, and education.
NASA Research Park is one component of the 2,000-acre Ames Research Center. The Research Park site was transferred to NASA in 1994 from the Navy as a result of the Base Realignment and Closure Act. With its prime Silicon Valley location, prominent architecture, and availability of land, NASA Research Park will be an ideal place where NASA, its collaborative partners, and the public can come together to expand human understanding of the origins of life on Earth, promote advances in aerospace and aviation technology, and understand advances in technology though public displays, interactive exhibits, lectures, and school programs.
NASA plans to create a unique community of research scientists, students,
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and educators with a shared mission to advance human knowledge of space, the Earth, and society. A lively and vibrant community will attract industry. To support this community, NASA, directly or through its collaborative partners, will offer support services and programs such as child care, housing, retail goods, business support services, meeting spaces, overnight accommodations, and recreational opportunities. In addition, NASA will provide critical public safety services and other services typically furnished by municipal government.
In partnership with academia and industry, NASA will promote entrepreneurship and innovation at NASA Ames Research Park. By taking advantage of its proximity to leading entrepreneurs and heads of innovative organizations, NASA and its partners can support the development of business incubators focused on the high-technology and bio-technology industries. Linkages can be formed with business education programs to provide forums, seminars, executive lecture series, and other venues to facilitate the exchange of information and experience to solve real-world business problems related to technology innovation, technology commercialization, and technology management.
NASA seeks partners who are compatible with NASA's mission at Ames Research Center, possess the financial capacity and experience to implement their proposed occupancy, and accept NASA's minimum business terms. Prospective collaborative partners will be evaluated based on established criteria. Primary factors of importance are the degree of collaboration in support of NASA's and Ames' mission, the degree of educational and learning programs supporting NASA's mission, and partnerships fostering business incubation and technology transfer.
The activities of Ames Research Center are governed by the National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958 (42 U.S.C. § 2451 et set.) as well as other applicable laws. NASA has several available authorities under which partners can use and occupy buildings. Reuse of the buildings and new construction at NASA Research Park must be for purposes that are consistent with the National Aeronautics and Space Act. The Space Act has several provisions relating to agreements, including concession contracts, leases, cooperative agreements, and permits. NASA has authority to use a “Reimbursable Space Act Agreement” for certain building occupancy transactions involving non-federal entities. Reimbursable Space Act Agreements are based on cost recovery from on-site parties engaged in research relating to NASA's mission. NASA also utilizes the leasing authority granted to federal agencies under the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 to enter into “historic leases” for specific buildings.
NASA's management and governance responsibilities include providing overall management of NASA facilities and NASA Research Park; ensuring compliance with the Space Act and all other applicable federal laws, regulations, and NASA policies; establishing programmatic guidelines and goals and communicating these to existing and prospective partners; monitoring adherence to the development plan and approving any modifications to or amendments of the
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plan; providing technical assistance, particularly in science education, research program development and program management to existing and prospective partners; identifying and managing improvements to facilities and infrastructure; adopting and applying design and construction guidelines for historic and non-historic properties; and monitoring rehabilitation and construction activities of on-site partners.
NASA's primary financial goal for the NASA Research Park is to leverage existing federal appropriations to support the maximum level of research and development, education programming, and learning opportunities possible. To accomplish this goal, NASA seeks to obtain cost reimbursement from NASA partners, charge appropriate rent for historic properties in NASA Research Park to ensure the integrity of the historic district, and generate new funds for collaborative scientific research from new construction within NASA Research Park.
A Master Plan for the physical lay-out and characteristics has been completed and a financial feasibility analysis has been performed on the concept. The concept includes retention and enhancement of the existing historic district, construction of a new Astrobiology Laboratory, development of the California Air and Space Center in Hangar 1, construction of a Computer History Museum, incorporation of the California Center for Business of the Future, establishment of one or more university campuses, protection and expansion of natural and specie habitat, utilization of a new light rail station, and total build-out of approximately three million square feet of office, laboratory, retail, and institutional space.
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Annex B
Biographies of Contributors
David B. Audretsch
David B. Audretsch is the Ameritech Chair of Economic Development and Director of the Institute for Development Strategies at Indiana University. He is also a Research Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (London). He was at the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin fuer Sozialforschung in Berlin, Germany, which is a government-funded, research think tank between 1984 and 1997. Between 1989 and 1991 he served as Acting Director of the Institute. In 1991 he became the Research Professor. Audretsch's research has focused on the links between entrepreneurship, government policy, innovation, economic development, and global competitiveness. He has consulted with the World Bank, National Academy of Sciences, U.S. State Department, United States Federal Trade Commission, General Accounting Office and International Trade Commission, as well as the United Nations, Commission of the European Union, the European Parliament, the OECD, as well as numerous private corporations, state governments, and a number of European Governments. He is a member of the Advisory Board to a number of international research and policy institutes, including the Zentrum fuer Europaeisch Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW, Centre for Economic Research), Mannheim, Germany, the Hamburgisches Welt-Wirtschafts-Archiv (HWWA, Hamburg Institute of International Economics), and the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies (AICGS), Washington, D.C. His research has been published in over one hundred scholarly articles in the leading academic journals. He has published twenty-five books, including Innovation and Industry Evolution, with MIT Press. He is founder and editor of the
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premier journal on small business and economic development, Small Business Economics: An International Journal. He was awarded the 2001 International Award for Entrepreneurship and Small Business Research by the Swedish Foundation for Small Business Research.
Michael I. Luger
Michael Luger is a professor of public policy analysis, planning, and business at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH). He is the founding director of the university's Office of Economic Development. He previously was the Carl H. Pegg professor of planning and chairman of the Curriculum in Public Policy Analysis at UNC-CH. He taught previously in the economics departments at Duke University and has been a visiting faculty member at the University of Maryland and Wirtschaftsuniversitat Wien.
Dr. Luger's research is on topics in economic development, science and technology policy, infrastructure finance, and urban and regional economics. His most recent book, published in December 2000 by Rutgers University Press, is Red Tape and the Cost of New Residential Development. He is the guest editor of a forthcoming issue of the Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis, on information technology and regional development. He has written widely about the role of science parks and universities in economic policy, including the book, Technology in the Garden: Research Parks and Regional Economic Development. He has served as a consultant and advisor on science parks and other S&T development strategies to the EU, UNIDO, OECD, the World Bank, USAID, the governments of Japan, Korea, Thailand, Palestine, China, and others.
Professor Luger received his Ph.D. in economics and an M.C.P. (planning) from the University of California, Berkeley, and an M.P.A. (public and international affairs) and A.B. (architecture and planning) from Princeton University.
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Annex C
Participants List *
* Speakers are italicized
Duane Adams
Carnegie Mellon University
James Arnold
NASA Ames Research Center
David B. Audretsch
Indiana University
William Ballhaus
Lockheed Martin
Kathy Behrens
Robertson Stephens Investment Management
Jan Behrsin
University of California
Thomas Berndt
NASA Ames Research Center
William Berry
NASA Ames Research Center
Nancy Bingham
NASA Ames Research Center
Carolina Blake
NASA Ames Research Center
John Boyd
NASA Ames Research Center
Lewis Braxton
NASA Ames Research Center
Robert Caret
San Jose State University
McAlister Clabaugh
National Research Council
Jana Coleman
NASA Ames Research Center
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Elizabeth Downing
3D Technology Laboratories
Maylene Duenas
NASA Ames Research Center
Leroy Fletcher
NASA Ames Research Center
William Foster
Invisible Studios
Lori Garver
NASA Headquarters
James Gill
University of California at Santa Cruz
M.R.C. Greenwood
University of California at Santa Cruz
Anthony Gross
NASA Ames Research Center
Susan Hackwood
California Council on Science and Technology
Warren Hall
NASA Ames Research Center
Robert Hansen
NASA Ames Research Center
Marla Harrison
NASA Ames Research Center
Diana Hoyt
NASA Headquarters
Cliff Imprescia
NASA Ames Research Center
Robin Kennedy
NASA Ames Research Center
George Kidwell
NASA Ames Research Center
Stephanie Langhoff
NASA Ames Research Center
Vic Lebacz
NASA Ames Research Center
Zoe Lofgren
U.S. House of Representatives
Gilman G. Louie
In-Q-Tel
Michael I. Luger
University of North Carolina
Patrick Mantey
University of California at Santa Cruz
Michael Marlaire
NASA Ames Research Center
Connie Martinez
University of California at Santa Cruz
Sally Maudlin
NASA Ames Research Center
Henry McDonald
NASA Ames Research Center
Burton McMurtry
Technology Venture Investors
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Meredith Michaels
University of California at Santa Cruz
James Morris
Carnegie Mellon University
Thomas Moyles
NASA Ames Research Center
Mark Myers
Xerox Corporation
Robert Norwood
NASA Headquarters
Edward Penhoet
University of California at Berkeley and Chiron Corporation
Robert Rosen
NASA Ames Research Center
Allison Rosenberg
University of California
Ken Souza
NASA Ames Research Center
James Turner
House Science Committee
Thomas Vani
University of California at Santa Cruz
Samuel Venneri (via videoconference)
NASA Headquarters
Mark Weiss
Xerox Corporation
Charles Wessner
National Research Council
Robert Wilson
University of Texas at Austin
Patrick Windham
Stanford University and Windham Consulting
Steve Zornetzer
NASA Ames Research Center
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