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World Bank – Global Research Alliance

Workshop on Inclusive Innovation Technologies and Experiences

25-27 May 2011

Battelle and Inclusive Innovation

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Outline

• Battelle and Inclusive Innovation

• Key Areas of Innovation at Battelle

• Inclusive Innovation – Links, mission technologies and cross-cutting capabilities

• Importance of Policy and Standards

• Summary

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Battelle

To “benefit mankind through science”

• Founded in 1929 to do “creative and research work”; the “making of discoveries and inventions”; and the “education of men and women for employment”

• A US Non-profit charitable trust

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Our core purpose is translating scientific discovery to innovative applications

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Battelle Management of Major Labs

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National Renewable Energy Lab

Brookhaven

Idaho

$6.2 billion R&D volume23,000 staff31 scientific user facilities

BEST Center

Oak Ridge

ColumbusPacific Northwest

Lawrence LivermoreNBACCWest Jefferson

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Long term

Inexhaustible fusionpower

Capturing and sequestering CO2

Cleaner coal plants and engines

Biotech and materials processes for efficient industry

Smart, efficient electricity grid

High-yield,robust biofuel crops

Oil shale extraction

technology

Net-zeroenergyhouses

Sustainablenuclear reactors

and fuels

Closingthe

nuclearfuel cycle

Efficient vehicles and engines

Near term

Battelle-Managed Energy R&D Portfolio

Abundant, affordable energysupplies

More efficient energy use

Protectionof the environment

Nano materials foraffordable solar

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R&D 100 Awards

• Battelle and the national laboratories it manages for the U.S. Department of Energy won 25 of the prestigious 2010 R&D 100 Awards.

• R&D 100 Awards are given annually by R&D Magazine for the 100 most significant, newly introduced research and development advances in multiple disciplines. It is considered to be one of the marks of excellence and innovation in the R&D community.

Year Battelle R&D 100 Awards

2010 25

2009 26

2008 20

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Integrating Inclusive Innovation

• Integrating Inclusive Innovation offers the potential to expand the impact of laboratory innovations

• Understanding the markets that are the route to major societal impact is essential

– Not “technology push”

• Defining the innovation opportunities follows societal goals and market opportunities

• Building cross-cutting capabilities in-country broadens impact through innovation

• Coordination with policy and standards is often critical

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General Surveys of Innovation Can Point to

Opportunities for Leverage in Inclusive

Innovation -

Top Challenges over the Decade 2007 –

2017 (Battelle Survey)

1. Affordable Home-Based Health Care

2. Personalized Consumer Products

3. Convergence of Technology in the Home

4. Protecting the Environment and Natural Resources

5. Human Interfaces. Interfaces are the intermediaries between human and machine that allow us to more easily use technology

6. Nutritional Health

7. Mobile Energy

8. Micro-Security

9. The Renewed Infrastructure - new materials and new construction methods

10. Global Business Competition

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Today’s Discussion Focusing on

Selected Socio-Market Themes

• Agriculture

• Energy

• Environment

• Healthcare

• Information

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Agriculture – The Example of

Microbial Fertilizer

• Traditional chemical fertilizers

– expensive and becoming more expensive

– harsh on the soil, harming soil sustainability

– create effluent that is harmful to the environment creating toxic residue.

• Microbial fertilizers

– enhance the natural functions of plants for improved growth and disease resistance

– environmentally sustainable

– naturally occurring, not-genetically modified

– lower in cost

• Science can accelerate the shift from chemical to microbial

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Microbial Fertilizer - Endophytes

Popular: significant increase in root and shoot development of40-80 %

Positive effect after Inoculation with Endophyte Beta

Comparison with control

After 1 week (A) After 10 weeks(B）

• Endophytes - EndophyticBacteria are bacteria that reside within the living tissue of a plant with positive effect on the plant.

• Those bacteria promote plant growth, resistance to disease, tolerance to systemic drought and remediation of contaminants.

• Some endophytes are effective in a range of plants – broad spectrum

Control ControlE-Beta E-Beta

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Microbial Fertilizer – Genetic AnalysisResearch reveals functionality at genetic level confirming environmental

compatibility and lack of pathogenicity

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Energy - Distributed Energy

• Numerous innovations but the system is also critical

• Lower cost alternatives

• Systems improvements that enable innovation opportunities

• Alternative uses of resources

Biomass Solar Energy

Wind PowerSmart Grid

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Technology Innovation - Kerosene

to Solar

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System Innovation

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Biobased Materials

Innovation in Use

• To meet future

demand of chemicals

& materials, biobased

resources will

compliment the

existing petroleum

supplies.

• Currently, biobased

materials for product

use is very low (~2%).

• In the future this is

projected to be much

more significant

(~50%).

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Alternative Use of Biobased Materials

- Plasticizers

• PVC is one of the world’s most

common plastics.

• In its plasticized form, it is

readily found in the following

applications:

car interiors

wire insulation

vinyl flooring, carpeting

plumbing & construction

garden hoses

shower curtains

medical supplies

toys

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Environment

• Water treatment

– Oxidizers

– Membranes

– Light

• Recycling

– Construction materials

• Ferrateoxidation

– Potentially a single chemicalwater purification agent (oxidant/disinfectant/coagulant/flocculant/pH modifier)

– Effective against a wide range of water contaminants

Construction material from

household waste

Lower cost inorganic filter

effective for bacterial and viral

concentration

Examples

Ferric Hydroxide to

remove arsenic from

water - $2/yr

Low cost UV purification

of water with UV and

solar energy

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Health Care

Principal Activities

•National Children’s Study

•National Toxicology Program

•BrainGate

•Testing Drugs and Vaccines to Prevent and Treat Diseases

•Drug Delivery Devices

•Pulmonary Systems Biology

•HIV/STD Prevention and Managing Impact in HIV/AIDS Affected Children

•Maternity Practices in Infant Nutrition and Care

•Estimating the Capacity for National and State-Level Colorectal Cancer Screening

•Rapid Influenza Immunity Tests

•Public Health Emergency Preparedness

•Environmental exposure assessments

• Drug Delivery Devices– Design and development

of unique drug delivery devices

– Improving medication compliance, efficiency and effectiveness of drug delivery that results in improved patient health

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Information Technology

• The Internet enables immediate global diffusion of information and services

• The ubiquitous use of mobile phones enables reaching out to individuals at all societal levels

• Interoperability and language become challenges across borders

Examples

• Web-based, real-time, low cost telemedical diagnostic system designed to conduct automated eye screenings of large patient populations for blinding diseases

• Information Visualization to overcome language for greater interoperability – A picture is worth a thousand words.

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Inclusive Innovation – Cross-cutting

Capabilities

• Thin film processing and printing – Microfluidics - Diagnostics

– Solar PV

– Flexible electronics

• Membranes– Water purification

– Biofuels production

– Batteries

• Catalysts– Biomaterials processing

• Bioresources processing

Examples

• Thin photovoltaic film that could cover a battery and recharge it continuously

• Porous membrane for water purification

• Ultra-permeable carbon nanotube membrandesproviding ultra-fast water flow

• Oxide-based ionic conductors, for a wide range of applications, such as in fuel cells (electrolytes or electrodes), sensors, gas separations, catalysis, microbatteries, thermoelectric generators, and other solid-state ionics-based devices.

• Supercritical/Solid Catalyst (SSC) converts wastes with animal or vegetable fats, oils and greases into B100 ASTM-quality biodiesel.

• Chemical catalyst that converts a plant-based compound into the petroleum-based additive known as propylene glycol

• Clay-based nanocatalysts to facilitate the breakdown of refractory organics from unconventional sources – ethanol from cellulosic biomass

• Synergy of cool roof technologies when integrated into the overall retrofit roof assembly.

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Not “Over-the-Fence”

• Research-based innovations cannot be handed-off “over-the-fence” but instead require close partnership, cooperation and co-development to reach market viability.

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Supportive Policies and Standards

are Often Essential

• Industries in the areas of energy, environment, health, agriculture, construction, transportation and telecommunications are often substantially influenced by government policies and industrial standards

• Targeting societal goals as well as business goals often puts a company in the position of affecting the public well-being

• At times it is the regulations that are the main drivers of market growth.

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Most Successful DOE Energy Efficiency

Technologies Led by Ventures – Billions of

Dollars Saved in Energy Use

• Energy efficient fluorescent lighting ballasts

• Low emissivity windows

• Energy efficient refrigeration

In all cases, emerging venture

companies were the first

to advance the technology out

of the National Laboratories

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In Conclusion - Key Issues to

Achieve Sustainable Inclusive

Innovation Initiatives

• Partners are critical – Local business knowledge is essential to bring to market

• Maturation is needed – Research requires support for maturation to the market

• Business viability is essential – Business models are just as important as technology models

• Policy partnership is essential – Success in industries with societal mission requires matching policy