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PANEL IV: THE UNIVERSITY CONNECTION
PANEL IV: THE UNIVERSITY CONNECTION
Pages 93-104
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Proenza opened with a summation of the effort to optimize innovation in Akron, Ohio: "It's really about relevance, connectivity, and productivity -- making do with relatively little to come to significant outcomes." He began with a nighttime satellite photograph showing clusters of light around metropolitan areas that he said represented 87 percent of the nation's economic activity. These cluster also held 80 percent of the colleges and universities, he said, and illustrated an important feature of clustering: there were no visible boundaries between populated regions.
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It was founded as Buchtel College in 1870, in the same decade and city as four major tire companies." The college opened the first rubber chemistry program in 1909, and, along with the tire companies, developed what is today the "largest polymer program in the world." Akron also formed its own research foundation in 2001 to build on its historical record of research. "This record is very complex and comprehensive," he said.
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Summa Health System joined the university as a development partner, and the Knight Foundation provided critical seed money. To date, the effort has mobilized some $500 million, and confirmed results include 920 new jobs, 80 new housing units, $52 million in civic investments, and $300+ million in private investments.
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It had also become a convener, developer of applications, and anchor for clusters of innovation. He closed by endorsing five elements of a new university strategy, which he said were adapted from the Department of Commerce's report on Strengthening America's Communities: • Public purpose, tied to enhancing the health of regional economies.
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The SCRA hired Michael Porter to help produce a five-year plan for the clusters, and created another entity, the New Carolina Council on Competitiveness to focus specifically on those clusters. SC Launch focused on technology sectors that had good commercialization potential and some strength in the state -- primarily advanced materials and fibers, alternative energy, automotive technology, energy and chemicals, life sciences/ biotechnology, and related information technology and software.
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strengthens K-12 preparation FIGURE 5 The innovation ecosystem. SOURCE: David McNamara, Presentation at June 3, 2009, National Academies Symposium on "Growing Innovation Clusters for American Prosperity." The group received some seed funding and began to develop criteria for firms desiring to join the program.
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Of the 130 companies, 26 were in the engineering and chemicals sector, 27 in information technology, and 44 in life sciences, biotechnology, and biomedicine. The automotive cluster, he said, was small but successful and growing rapidly, with research facilities supported by BMW, Toyota, Timken, a motor sport center at Clemson, and a hydrogen fuel cell program.
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The state government is a partner in this process in several ways: • Government is a major investor in human capital, from elementary to doctoral levels. • It is the major provider of physical infrastructure, including roads, bridges, highways, ports, and local transit.
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4 These centers are (1) The California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences at UCSF, UCB and UCSC, The California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology, at UCSD and UCI, The California Nanosystems Institute at UCLA and UCSB, and the Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society at UCB, UCD, UCM, and UCSC.
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The second was to enhance California's competitive position as the world's leading biotech region. The funding had indeed built up the most robust stem cell program in the world, he said, attracting numerous scientists from within and outside the United States.
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Milbergs asked a question "about headhunting." Washington State had hired two global research leaders, in biofuels and nanophotonics, in hopes that they would attract federal funds, build partnerships, and help create emerging new industry clusters. He asked whether such recruitments have this potential.
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