Research Teams and Partnerships Trends in the Chemical Sciences, Report of a Workshop (1999) / Chapter Skim
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7 What Industry Seeks from Federal Laboratories, and Examples of Collaborations
7 What Industry Seeks from Federal Laboratories, and Examples of Collaborations
Pages 85-96
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The Dow Chemical Company, formed in 1897, has had a long history of developing technology within the company as well as working with universities, national laboratories, and institutes external to the company. The Dow external technology organization today coordinates over 150 external research programs and a significantly larger number of external research agreements as well as participating in a number of business development and growth initiatives.
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With annual sales of more than $ 18 billion, Dow conducts its operations through 14 global businesses employing 39,000 people. The company has 123 manufacturing sites in 32 countries and supplies more than 3,500 products.
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WHAT INDUSTRY SEEKS FROM FEDERAL LABORATORIES AND EXAMPLES OF COLLABORATIONS TABLE 7.1 Operating Segments and Sales 87 Segment Businesses 1998 Sales (%) Chemicals Basic chemical products 13 Performance chemicals Specialty chemicals 14 Emulsion polymers Plastics Polyethylene 20 Polystyrene Polypropylene Insite technology_ Performance plastics Adhesives, sealants, and coatings 28 Engineering plastics Epoxy products and intermediates Fabricated products Polyurethanes Agricultural products Crop production; weed, insect, and plant disease management; 13 industrial and commercial pest management Hydrocarbons and energy Fuels and crude-oil-based raw materials 8 New businesses/unallocated Technology licensing; advanced materials for electronics; 4 industrial biotechnology; venture capital
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Cooperative research involves collaboration with universities and institutes; government-laboratory collaboration involves joint projects between government laboratories in the United States, Europe, and Asia and Dow Chemical Company. Government contract R&D includes the development of new contracts as well as the management of the $60 million in contracts currently under way.
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The final segment of our capability is the Intellectual Asset Management Technology Center. Although the management of intellectual assets is done within each business, this technology center provides best practices for all Dow businesses in intellectual asset management, as well as providing training and career management for those involved in this activity.
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~ his scientist was chosen not only for his scientific capabilities, but also his leadership and management capabilities and his ability to develop external collaborations. By being on site for several years, he built strong relationships as well as a thorough understanding of the capabilities of both Los Alamos and Sandia.
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Users Group, The Reactive Multiphase Flow Workshop held at Los Alamos in May 1995, the First Engineering Foundation Conference on CFD in Chemical Reaction Engineering held in San Diego in October 1996, and the DOE Office of Industrial Technologies (OIT) Roadmap Workshop on CFD held at the University of Maryland in October 1996 all demonstrated that a significant collaborative effort was required to address the onnortunities identified in the Vision 2020 document.
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When we start to form a relationship with a new institution, we try to identify these differentiated areas to begin projects in these areas. It is very important that federal laboratories, universities, and institutes clearly communicate what they consider their strengths to be and make it easier for collaborators to find their way through "organizational mazes." WHAT WE HAVE LEARNED In our work in developing external technology partnerships, we have found a series of elements that need to be present in order to have a successful project.
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It is often difficult for the federal laboratories to know where they should be developing expertise for the future. Better
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Key success factors include defining a project in which all partners' needs are met, having a project champion in each organization to facilitate progress, communicating continuously, and defining flexibility into the agreement so that it can change if necessary. A moderate effort to broaden options for ownership of intellectual property and involvement of federal laboratory employees as consultants could facilitate additional collaborations with industry.
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Because of the intellectual property issue, we have tended to stay away from areas of technology that are what I call sensitive within the company right now. So we might be working with the National Chemical Laboratory in Pune or we might be working with the Indian Institute of Chemical Technology on some specific projects of developing some new chemistry or some new catalysts.
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96 RESEARCH TEAMS AND PARTNERSHIPS: TRENDS IN THE CHEMICAL SCIENCES Hank Whalen, PQ Corporation: Are CRADAs increasing or decreasing with Dow? Henry Kohlbrand: Right now we may have one or two more CRADAs this year than we had a couple years ago.
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