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Session II: Leveraging Federal Programs and Investments for Hawaii
Session II: Leveraging Federal Programs and Investments for Hawaii
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Kilmer said, was to help manufacturers, especially small and medium-sized firms, improve their productivity and competitiveness, and to do this in a strategic way. The program was created in 1988 and has centers in all 50 states, including roughly 370 field offices.
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Helping to Think Strategically The MEP provides practical assistance to help manufacturers to address short-term needs, but it also emphasizes the strategic context of these needs. "Part of the problem we're facing in this country is that we're very short-term focused and reactionary.
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The HTDC works with a team of partners including the Department of Business, Economic Development and Tourism; the State of Hawaii Foreign Trade Zone #9; the Hawaii Center for Advanced Transportation Technologies; the Hawaii Strategic Development Corporation; and others. Moving Beyond Cost Reduction to Product Development This MEP-HTDC partnership emphasizes product development in the higher-tech areas.
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A decade ago, the program emphasis was on cost reduction; this had given way in the mid2000s to a focus on strategic management and growth -- making companies more competitive, managing growth, and spurring product development. This strategy, in turn, had evolved into efforts to exploit technology to foster innovation.
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We try to help them understand what's involved in that and get positioned for the complex demands of export." In the case of Wilco Machine and Fabrication, of Marlow, Oklahoma, which manufactures equipment for the energy industry, MEP had accompanied Wilco officials to visit potential clients in the Middle East and Brazil. After these visits, exports jumped from 8 percent of total revenue in 2008 to 51 percent by mid-2009.
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Kilmer said, the Interagency Network of Enterprise Assistance Providers, convened with the SBA, had man aged to bring together all 82 federal programs that focus on outreach and business assistance and also attracted 36 non-government programs as partners. "We've had such an impact," he concluded, "that we now have organizations outside the federal government that participate in that effort." DOD STRATEGIC TECHNOLOGY CAPABILITY THRUSTS: OPPORTUNITIES TO FUEL HAWAII'S INNOVATION ECONOMY Starnes Walker University of Hawaii Dr.
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That means we need to have the cyber domain well protected." He said also that "energy security is national security" and emphasized its importance in the view of Secretary Gates. In addition, alternative energy sources are increasingly important to the DoD as well, because the cost of delivering fuel to troops abroad is "approaching $200 to $300 a gallon." Another central area, Dr.
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And we must be able to do sophisticated network analysis of social and behavioral relationships.
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To help achieve this breadth of capabilities, he said the Naval Research Laboratory had invested $160 million a year in funding this area, and was able to leverage this through partner investments from industry and government organizations to produce a capital working fund of some $1.1 billion. "That's an engine of discovery," he said.
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Naval Postgraduate School Monterrey, California Vice Admiral Oliver, president of the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) , thanked President Greenwood and the National Academies for hosting a sympo sium on topics "not only important to the health and prosperity of Hawaii, but to the future of the nation." He introduced his talk by saying he would address three issues: the global challenges faced by the nation, a description of the Naval Postgraduate School, and several themes of education and research at the school that may be of common interest.
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military freedom of action and threaten its ability to project military power. These disturbing trends, Vice Admiral Oliver said, are especially apparent in the proliferation of advanced air defense systems, solid-fuel ballistic missiles, accurate anti-ship cruise missiles, and sophisticated under-water combat systems.
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"One thing that makes us unique," Vice Admiral Oliver said, "besides being a federal government organization, is that most of our research assistants are activeduty military men and women with recent combat experience -- in many cases motivated by their own experience to find solutions to problems they faced in the field and in the fleet. We also believe that the future of science and technology lies increasingly in collaboration among military operators, industries, civilian academia, and federal agencies.
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The NPS is a leader in CubeSat research and developed the orbital dispenser in widespread use today. Energy Goals for the Military Vice Admiral Oliver noted that energy research requires partnerships and multiple disciplines.
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His "real theme," however, would be transformation -- "because it's transformation that we're all seeking." Obviously, he said, the nation faces daunting current challenges, includ ing natural disasters, man-made disasters, a housing crisis, the decline of the auto and other manufacturing industries, budget restraints at all levels of gov ernment, and persistently high unemployment. And yet, he said, such chal lenges often bring new opportunities -- in this case, to advance the 21st century economy through collaboration, innovation, research and development, higher production with lower consumption, exports into the global market, and the advancements of rising new sectors, such as green technology and low-carbon industries.
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"They can fit within a political boundary or they can straddle political boundaries, whether those boundaries are counties or states." More broadly, he said, clusters are based on the presence of regional assets, including companies, educational institutions, suppliers and customers, federal, local, and state governments, foundations and other non-profit entities, venture capital firms, and financial institutions. Each of the various entities has a critical role in supporting the overall cluster, or ecosystem.
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makes a point of meeting twice a year with about 40 other countries to exchange information about economic practices. "And I could spend an hour just telling you how other countries, both large and small, are embracing clusters." He noted that the President's economic development policy was rooted in place-based and regional strategies, and that the America Competes Act 17 had described a key role for the EDA in supporting and funding regional clusters.
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"As we make strategic investments to support regional clusters," he said, "we build on a long tradition of best practices to spur regional prosperity. To be sure that the agency is supporting projects that are strategic for the 21st century, EDA supports new investment priorities: projects should be collaborative, demonstrate innovation, support public-private partnerships, push toward a clean-tech, sustainable economy, and promote global competitiveness.
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He pointed out that clusters in urban areas have different needs from those in rural areas, so that separate studies have been designed for each. For example, a regional innovation urban project will examine the unique challenges and opportunities of developing clusters in inner cities.
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"We think that's a tremendous opportunity for both our public and private sectors to reposition Hawaii vis-à-vis Asia, strengthen existing connections, and rebrand ourselves as a serious place to conduct business travel as well as to conduct busi ness." Finally, he said, Hawaii had now developed an "unprecedented partnership between the University, the federal government, and state government. That's something we used to have 20 or 30 years ago, and it had sort of frayed.
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