A Review of the New Initiatives at the NASA Ames Research Center Summary of a Workshop (2001) / Chapter Skim
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II. Overview and Summary of the Workshop
II. Overview and Summary of the Workshop
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II OVERVIEW and SUMMARY OF THE WORKSHOP
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The park is to include shared research facilities and public-private cooperation in teaching and training with the goal of contributing to NASA's core missions of research, exploration, and discovery. An additional objective is to facilitate NASA's increased emphasis on commercializing technologies developed by agency scientists and engineers and contribute related national benefits such as higher computer dependability.
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. missions; the potential contribution of expanded educational facilities to meeting the pressing need for graduate and postgraduate training and research; the challenge of addressing effectively multiple and sometimes competing objectives; the local challenges to development, including a tight labor supply, high housing costs relative to the rest of the nation, and growing environmental constraints;2 · the opportunity for NASA and its partners to more fully capture the potential of current and future R&D investments; modified by · the inherent complexity of public-private technological transfer, especially for fast-paced commercial applications, compared with longer-term NASA mission-oriented research.
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Both the participants in the discussion and the commissioned analysis highlighted that the management challenge for Ames will be to accomplish the multiple objectives of this initiative, in collaboration with the industry and university partners as well as the state and local governments, while keeping in mind the need for clear goals and appropriate metrics to measure progress in this innovative undertaking. SUMMARY OF THE WORKSHOP Representative Zoe Lofgren, who serves on the Space Subcommittee of the House Science Committee, welcomed the participants to her district in Silicon Valley and underscored the importance of federal funding both to advance the nation's research agenda and to educate the next generation of scientists and engineers.
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Luger also enumerated advantages an Ames research park would have, including preexisting intellectual prominence, available and essentially cost-free real estate, access to the exceptional technological and financial resources of Silicon Valley, a historic relationship with Lockheed Martin, the support of the local communities, and the considerable intellectual and institutional resources of its academic partners, the University of California and Carnegie Mellon University. These are substantial assets and, as Professor Audretsch's paper argues, they distinguish the Ames initiatives from more traditional S&T parks.3 Public-Private R&D Partnerships The third panel described in more detail the goals and metrics for the park.
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Duane Adams and James Morris from Carnegie Mellon described their university's goals in forming partnerships with Ames, including collaborative research in robotics, information technology, software engineering, humancomputer systems, and "dependable computing," involving both students and faculty. Moderator Edward Penhoet emphasized the difficulty of forming truly collaborative partnerships, in the sense of sharing insights, diversity of expertise, and leadership.
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Turner also offered a word of caution, advising that Ames take special care to avoid the perception of "corporate favors." Charles Wessner suggested that the flexibility of the Space Act, and its legitimacy, should be kept in mind as the project goes forward and cautioned that the technological and perhaps political risk associated with equity investments or venture activities should be kept in mind. Success rates even for outstanding venture capital firms are not always high enough to meet Washington's admittedly ill-defined standards.
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