Reducing the Time from Basic Research to Innovation in the Chemical Sciences A Workshop Report to the Chemical Sciences Roundtable (2003) / Chapter Skim
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6. What Have We Learned from Hot Topics?
6. What Have We Learned from Hot Topics?
Pages 56-63
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To be robust, the energy difference between a 1 and a 0 should be about 20 to 50 kBT, and we wanted T to be room temperature. By simply considering a particle-in-a-box model for calculating energy level spacings, it 1James Heath is currently professor of chemistry at the University of California, Los Angeles, and director of the California NanoSystems Institute, formed by California Governor Grey Davis in December 2000.
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Nevertheless, nothing helps garner public and federal research support more than pointing to legitimate commercial products that have come out of government-funded research. This is understandable and as it should be, since there must be some level of payoff to the people who pay for it.
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In 2001, molecular electronics was also placed on the Roadmap, although as a far-term research goal. Recently, we have demonstrated patterning techniques that allow us to make memory circuits that are similar to the 64-bit memory we delivered to DARPA but at a density approaching 10~2/ cm2, which is, in fact, actually beyond where Stan and I had originally intended this project to go.
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An unusual aspect of our collaborative agreement is that both UCLA and HP retain full ownership privileges for intellectual property that is jointly developed, regardless of the relative effort each party has put forth. It is unusual that UCLA retains complete ownership privileges (as does HP)
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His goal was to build something known as the LA Tech Center, which was a research arm of a company known as CTI Molecular Imaging. CTI is a publicly traded $1.5 billion company that makes PET scanners and is very successful.
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Corporate research labs occasionally fund such projects, but the prospects for corporate involvement in long-term research projects have diminished greatly over the past decade. Other private funding, such as what is represented by venture capital firms, is also not appropriate for long-term, high-payoff projects.
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People are beginning to think about that very seriously. I am developing a research program on detection with Lee Hood of the Institute for Systems Biology and Mike Phelps from the UCLA molecular and medical pharmacology department, for which the idea is to go from molecules to patients.
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Consider this argument that we gave our chancellor: UCLA is third in the country in terms of bringing the university revenue, and our IP office still runs in the red, and it has never come close to running in the black. In fact, if you were to factor in the cost of replacing faculty who leave UC to form companies, our IP office is in really bad shape.
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