Revitalizing the University-Industry-Government Partnership: Creating New Opportunities for the 21st Century Proceedings of a Workshop–in Brief (2018) / Chapter Skim
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Revitalizing the University-Industry-Government Partnership: Creating New Opportunities for the 21st Century: Proceedings of a Workshop - in Brief
Revitalizing the University-Industry-Government Partnership: Creating New Opportunities for the 21st Century: Proceedings of a Workshop - in Brief
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OPENING REMARKS The convocation began with opening remarks from Neal Lane, former director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and senior fellow at the Rice University's Baker Institute. He welcomed the attendees as those who are deeply invested in the future of higher education and research in the U.S.
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, which recommended actions that Congress, state governments, research universities, and industry could take to maintain excellence in research and doctoral education. "During past eras of challenge," Duderstadt said, "our national leaders have acted decisively to create innovative partnerships to enable the nation's universities to enhance American security, prosperity, and public health." In closing, he noted, "It is a time of rapid and profound economic, social, and political transformation, all driven by growth, knowledge, and educated people.
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He noted that the research community has historically framed the argument on maximizing the nation's human capital and "not wasting the talent of large numbers of the population." However, it is more fundamental than that: "If we don't get really serious about diversifying the scientific research enterprise, we will soon discover that we cannot sustain that enterprise and we cannot pretend to be serving society if practitioners in the enterprise do not resemble the society." In conclusion, he urged scientists to learn from history to repair, revitalize, and reconstitute the universityindustry-government compact and address the important question of how to maintain progress toward democratization, which has been key to the nation's economic and social success so far. PANEL ONE: KEY STAKEHOLDERS IN THE PARTNERSHIP Panelists for the first discussion panel of the day were Celia Merzbacher, director of strategic and institutional planning at Oak Ridge National Laboratory; Jeannette Wing, director of the Data Science Institute at Columbia University and former corporate vice president of Microsoft Research; and Michael McPherson, chair of the Commission on the Future of Undergraduate Education at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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Referring to the conversation about improving the level of public understanding of science, Merzbacher said there is an opportunity to get more value out of NSF's requirement for broader impacts. McPherson asserted that communicating well is a developed skill noting that "communicating at extraordinarily effective levels to broad audiences requires real professionalism." Wing suggested that perhaps a requirement for tenure, in addition to crediting research portfolios, teaching portfolios, and service to professional communities, should include communication to the public about the broader impacts of one's research.
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We are putting our country at risk because of shortsighted thinking on this issue." In response to a question from BHEW Director Thomas Rudin about next steps, Lipinski commented that universities should enhance efforts to develop partnerships with industry. He offered programs such as the NSF Innovation Corps and the Small Business Innovation Research program as exemplars.
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scientists who very deliberately want to work in the context of problem solving, interdisciplinary content, and exposure to adjacencies." CLOSING PANEL: COMMENTS AND QUESTIONS FROM THE AUDIENCE A final panel comprised of Cauce, Leshin, Woolley, Lane, and Richard Miller, chair of BHEW and president of Olin College of Engineering, fielded audience questions and shared concluding thoughts and insights. Considerable time was spent discussing the urgent need to train scientists and university faculty to be more effective communicators of the importance of science and discovery research.
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Further, employers want to be asked about the future of work -- and what it will take to prepare students to contribute to the workforce of the future. Woolley stated that these conversations are missing important voices at the table -- beyond just university leaders, industry leaders, and government officials, including listening to the expectations and demands of students themselves.
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, University of Michigan; Ana Mari Cauce, University of Washington; Peter Henderson, University of Maryland Baltimore County; William (Brit) Kirwan, University System of Maryland; Neal Lane, Baker Institute and Rice University; Richard Miller, Olin College of Engineering and Chair of the National Academies Board on Higher Education and Workforce; Patrick Murray, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation; Cheryl A
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