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Suggested Citation:"APPENDIX A: AGENDA." National Research Council. 2011. Growing Innovation Clusters for American Prosperity: Summary of a Symposium. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/12926.
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AGENDA


GROWING INNOVATION CLUSTERS
FOR AMERICAN PROSPERITY

Organized in Cooperation with the Center for American Progress

3 June 2009
Lecture Room
National Academy of Science
2100 C Street, NW, Washington, DC

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8:45 AM Welcome
  Charles Wessner, The National Academies
 
8:50 AM Opening Remarks
Susan Crawford, National Economic Council, The White House
 
9:00 AM Keynote Address: The Role of Research Universities in the Formation of Regional Innovation Clusters: The Impact of Arizona State Universityon Metropolitan Phoenix
Michael Crow, Arizona State University
 
9:20 AM Panel I: Why Clusters Matter: Innovation Clusters and Economic Growth
Moderator: William P. Kittredge, Economic
Development Administration, Department of Commerce
Suggested Citation:"APPENDIX A: AGENDA." National Research Council. 2011. Growing Innovation Clusters for American Prosperity: Summary of a Symposium. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/12926.
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  Cluster Development: A Path to Growth
Maryann Feldman, University of North Carolina
 
  Stimulating Regional Economies
Andrew Reamer, The Brookings Institution
 
10:00 AM Coffee Break
 
10:15 AM Panel II: Regional Innovation Clusters: The Obama Administration’s Innovation Initiative
Moderator: Jean Toal Eisen, Department of Commerce
 
  The Geography of Innovation: The Federal Government and the Growth of Regional Innovation Clusters
Jonathan Sallet, Glover Park Group
 
  New York’s Nano Initiative
Pradeep Haldar, Energy and Environmental Technology Applications Center (E2TAC), Albany, New York
 
  The Technology Innovation Program: Connecting the Dots
Marc G. Stanley, National Institute of Standards and Technology
 
11:15 AM Coffee Break
 
11:30 AM Panel III: State and Regional Initiatives
Moderator: Ed Paisley, Center for American Progress
 
  Clusters Growing in Pennsylvania
Rebecca Bagley, Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development
Suggested Citation:"APPENDIX A: AGENDA." National Research Council. 2011. Growing Innovation Clusters for American Prosperity: Summary of a Symposium. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/12926.
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  Building and Branding Clusters: Lessons from Kansas and Philadelphia
Richard Bendis, Innovation America
 
  Virginia Industry Cluster Analysis
John Mathieson, SRI International
 
  The Washington State Innovation Economy
Egils Milbergs, Washington Economic Development Commission
 
12:45 PM Lunch
 
1:45 PM Luncheon Address
Karen Mills, Small Business Administration
 
2:00 PM Panel IV: The University Connection
Moderator: Robert Samors, Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities
 
  The Akron Model
Luis M. Proenza, The University of Akron
 
  The South Carolina Innovation Ecosystem
David McNamara, South Carolina Research Authority
 
  California Initiatives
Ed Penhoet, Alta Partners
 
3:00 PM Coffee Break
Suggested Citation:"APPENDIX A: AGENDA." National Research Council. 2011. Growing Innovation Clusters for American Prosperity: Summary of a Symposium. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/12926.
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3:15 PM Panel V: Filling the Gaps: The Role of Foundations
Moderator: Jim Turner, Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities
 
  How Innovation Clusters Are Reviving the Economies that “Urban Renewal” Destroyed
Christina Gabriel and Bomani Howze, The Heinz Endowments
 
  Building the Workforce and the Universities
George W. Bo-Linn, Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
 
4:00 PM Roundtable: Key Issues and Next Steps Forward
Moderator: Charles Wessner, The National Academies
 
 

Luis M. Proenza, The University of Akron

William P. Kittredge, Economic Development Administration, Department of Commerce

Jim Turner, Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities

R. Lee Cheatham, Washington Technology Center

 
5:00 PM Adjourn
Suggested Citation:"APPENDIX A: AGENDA." National Research Council. 2011. Growing Innovation Clusters for American Prosperity: Summary of a Symposium. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/12926.
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Responding to the challenges of fostering regional growth and employment in an increasingly competitive global economy, many U.S. states and regions have developed programs to attract and grow companies as well as attract the talent and resources necessary to develop innovation clusters. These state and regionally based initiatives have a broad range of goals and increasingly include significant resources, often with a sectoral focus and often in partnership with foundations and universities. These are being joined by recent initiatives to coordinate and concentrate investments from a variety of federal agencies that provide significant resources to develop regional centers of innovation, business incubators, and other strategies to encourage entrepreneurship and high-tech development. This has led to renewed interest in understanding the nature of innovation clusters and public policies associated with successful cluster development.

The Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy (STEP), conducted a symposium which brought together state and federal government officials, leading analysts, congressional staff, and other stakeholders to explore the role of clusters in promoting economic growth, the government's role in stimulating clusters, and the role of universities and foundations in their development.

Growing Innovation Clusters for American Prosperity captures the presentations and discussions of the 2009 STEP symposium on innovation clusters. It includes an overview highlighting key issues raised at the meeting and a summary of the meeting's presentations. This report has been prepared by the workshop rapporteur as a factual summary of what occurred at the workshop.

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