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KEYNOTE ADDRESS--Michael Crow
KEYNOTE ADDRESS--Michael Crow
Pages 39-46
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As president of Arizona State University, the nation's youngest major research institution, he expressed his intent to consider innovation clusters from the perspective of the research university as the keystone of the knowledge creation network driving discovery and innovation. Within this context, he interspersed summary overviews of selected elements of the reorganization of the institution he leads to be considered as representative of a case study in the facilitation of innovation.
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The commercialization of academic research is key to such efforts: One of the university's goals, he said, was to become the "central node of an integrative knowledge discovery and commercialization network." To advance the role of the university in both knowledge creation and the advancement of innovation networks critical to regional economic development, ASU has developed its own approach to innovation and commercialization, rather than following models developed elsewhere. "We found that all the things that were important in California and in other innovation clusters made sense," he said, "but could not be copied in Arizona.
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He characterized sprawling development there as a "huge energy footprint in a very complex natural ecosystem." In metropolitan Phoenix, he observed, the average nighttime temperature has risen more than 10 degrees Fahrenheit over the last 20 years. "It affects the ecosystem, it affects energy consumption rates, and it affects the quality of life." Accordingly, the university, the city, and the private sector have jointly agreed to reduce the carbon footprint of Phoenix to the lowest possible number, by whatever means necessary.
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The university welcomes input and support from the public sector, private sector, and philanthropic institutions. • Arizona State University Decision Theater.
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He proposed that one approach is to identify regional problems of national importance. For example, the federal government could help solve the ecological problems of the Everglades, which he called "a train wreck happening before our eyes," by assuming leadership for an effort that will require a massive coordination involving the public and private sectors.
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He framed investment in math and science education, for example, as an economic development opportunity. Speaking from his perspective as the president of a research university guiding the economic diversification of the economy in metropolitan Phoenix, he observed, "What I can say is that standard stuff seldom works.
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Dr. Crow replied, "Yes, absolutely." Samuel Leiken, senior director of policy studies for the Council on Competitiveness, commented that in the course of studying universities and regional development, he had visited SkySong,3 the innovation center Dr.
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