Dare To Discover

Daniel A. ReedVice President for Research and Economic DevelopmentUniversity Computational Science and Bioinformatics ChairComputer Science, Electrical Engineering & Computer Engineering, and Medicine

www.hpcdan.org

To give birth to an idea--to discover a great thought—an intellectual nugget, right under the dust of a field that many a brainplow had gone over before. … To do something, say something, see something, before anybody else--these are the things that confer a pleasure compared with which other pleasures are tame and commonplace, other ecstasies cheap and trivial.

The Innocents Abroad

Discovery!

Rapid, unrelenting globalization• Social, economic and technological disruption• Economic disintermediation and consumerization• Supply chain optimization and cost management

Mobile, global workforce• Freelancers follow the opportunities, often working remotely• Rising educational attainment needs• Global competition for the most talented and educated

Emerging economies in the East• Majority of middle class expansion is in China and India• Huge global debt saddling the U.S. and the EU• Slow and painful recovery from massive deleveraging

Rising natural resource competition• Emerging economies driving scarcity• Global environmental and economic impact

Faster, faster, faster …

U.S. research universities: punctuated equilibrium

GI Billof 1944

Science: The Endless Frontier1945-1950

Morrill Actof 1862

(land grantuniversities)

National DefenseEducation Act of 1958

Civil RightsAct of 1964

Quo Vadis?

State funding

Federal research funding

Tuition and Fees

Time

Reven

ue

fortitudine vincimus!

Industrial research

Knowledge creation and global reachLifelong education and skills refreshEconomic development and innovation

Global and regional competitivenessComplex problems collaboration & insightsNew partnerships with business

Public research universities: a new compact

Government Academia Industry

Federal research funding• Looking forward, probably flat• But, reallocation to match priorities

• Sequestration still looms• Multiple scenarios

Multiple institution collaborations• Faculty access• Facility and data sharing

Rising administrative research burdens• Faculty and institutions• Reporting, export control

Health care reform• Clinical and research interplay• Cost shifting and partnerships

Politicization of research• Federal and state scrutiny• Breakdown of bipartisan support

Facilities and research• Operating budgets and new starts• National prioritization

The unfunded, tenured professor• Increasingly common, with big

implications

Some research-specific themes

We (and others) are resource challenged• Resource limitations are an opportunity, not just a challenge

Creating more resources will require some philosophically new approaches• Taking some calculated risks and increasing our risk tolerance• Fostering broad perspectives about interdependencies and relationships

Dream big, not small (Burnham’s maxim)• Reward innovation and creativity at all levels

Recognize and reward novel thinking (Edison’s maxim)• Seek forgiveness, not permission

Integrate all available assets • Avoid silos and local optimizations, and share first

Strategy and culture

Strive to be “of the people, by the people, for the people”• Overcome perception and (sometimes) reality of isolation and elitism• Address pressing societal challenges and needs• Change our compact with the state and society

Doing so will pay enormous dividends• Politically, socially, economically and intellectually

Outreach and engagement practicalities• Statewide presence and accessibility• Museums in the digital age• Societal problems and cultural insights• Services and connections• Workforce needs and STEM• Entrepreneurship and enablement

Emerging themes

But albeit that he was a philosopher,Yet hadde he but little gold in coffer,But all that he might of his friendes hentOn bookes and on learning he it spent,And busily gan for the soules prayOf them that gave him wherewith to scholay.Of study took he most care and most heed.Not one word spoke he more than was need,And that was spoke in form and reverenceAnd short and quick and full of high sentence.Sounding in moral virtue was his speech,And gladly would he learn and gladly teach.

The Canterbury Tales, General Prologue

Gladly learn and gladly teach

Research enterprise writ large• Futures and envisioning meetings• Define, rather than respond to agendas

• Greater resource sharing• Reduce duplication in research cores

• Cluster hiring coupling• Regional, national & international

partnerships

End-to-end perspectives and agendas• Humanities, arts, policy• Science, technology, services• Envisioning and imaging

Everyone must “give to get”• The big questions drive change• Change creates capability and resources

Liberal arts• Illuminate the human condition• Connect to social issues and needs• Highlight societal relevance• Partner with foundations and others

Science and engineering• Diversify funding and scale• Enable applied and industrial research

Health affairs• Translational and personalized medicine• Cultural and economic shift• Informatics leverage

Emerging themes

Strategic communications• Branding and ROBs• Dare to Discover: The Hawkeye Way

• Media training, social media, multimedia• Collateral materials, spokespersons• Futures and envisioning conferences

Federal relations• Three levels of agenda influence• Respond, craft, define

• Brainstorming and ideation• Initiatives and single institution responses

• Faculty mentoring, agency watch• AAU, APLU, CIC, ASTRA, TFAI, CoC, …

Core facilities and sharing• Efficiency studies and coordination• Cost exposure and allocation

• Startup packages and sociology• Share first, locally, regionally, nationally …

Economic development• Coordinated strategy and ROB• University, area, state, region,

national/international• State/regional engagement and economic

dev• Rebalance shallow and deep IP foci• Examine entrepreneurship/licensing balance

• Industrial partnership and engagement• New value proposition and shared

understanding

Emerging themes

Universities• Education and ideation• Longer time scales

Business• Implementation and execution• Shorter time scales

Students are one bridge, but not enough• They carry ideas and enthusiasm

We need practical, engaged partnerships• Professional, intellectually bilingual staff• Appropriate reward metrics and mutual commitment• Translational R&D, applying new ideas to meet business challenges

Bridging university and business cultures

Embrace business sensibilities• Recognize the value of money, business cycles and timelines• Implement business metrics and processes• Educate faculty/staff/students appropriately• Distinguish economically valuable from intellectually interesting

Enhance technology transfer• Coordinate licensing/patents and entrepreneurship• Rebalance shallow and deep intellectual property development• Increase creation of rapidly commercializable intellectual property• Triage licensable technology lists and make assessable and connected• Recognize the value of grouped licenses and patent fences

Rethinking university economic development

Accelerate entrepreneurship• Encourage faculty/staff/student startups via culture and policy• Leverage incubation facilities and UI Research Park• Increase cross-fertilization across assets

Build applied R&D partnerships• Target real world business problems• Develop staff and trade secret protections• Support student internships and company evaluation of students

Take the engagement across the Creative Corridor and the state• Project skills, expertise and information• Partner with local, state and regional economic development organizations

 

Rethinking university economic development

Play a new game• Unique assets combined in innovative ways

Believe and be bold• Embrace change and act at transformative scale

Think globally, act locally• Success is not defined just by the borders of Iowa

Collaborate and share credit• Coordinated state, university and private partnerships

Building a 21st century Iowa economy

Remember, it’s for her

My commitment to the state• A new, more muscular engagement from the University of Iowa

My invitation and challenge• Let’s work together and dare mighty things

DisciplinaryInterdisciplinaryMultidisciplinary

Renaissance teams: consilience

Research administration• Sponsored Programs • Human Subjects• Animal Subjects• Conflict of Interest• Hazardous Materials

Economic development• UI Research Foundation• UI Research Park • JP Entrepreneurial Center

Outreach and engagement• Museums• Obermann Center for Advanced Studies• PPC• OSA• State Hygienic Laboratory

Research centers• CBB• CGRER• Consortium Substance Abuse• CHEEC• Scientific instrumentation

OVPR overview

FY 12 State funding - $19.2 MFY 12 Total Expenditures - $62MFTE – 452 employees

External funding: FY1970-FY2012

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American Recovery & Reinvestment Act (ARRA)

FY08 FY09 FY10 FY11 FY120

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$437

$5M$41M $33M $1.5M

M M M M M

Total awards by source FY12

Industry12%

Fndns.7%

StateAgencies

9%

Other Non-Federal6%DHHS, NIH

42%

DHHS, Other5%

Dept. of Education

5%NSF4%

NASA2%

Dept. of Defense

2%

OtherFederal

3%

Low in Department of Energy, National Science Foundation and Department of Defense

Sequestration: AAAS estimates

A regional comparison

48%

14%

12%

12%

7%

3%2%2% 1%1%0% 0%

Medicine ($209.1M)

Other Administrative Units ($59.1M)

Liberal Arts and Sciences ($52.7M)

Public Health ($51.1M)

Engineering ($30.8M)

Pharmacy ($12.5M)

Education ($7.9M)

Dentistry ($7.7M)

Graduate College ($3.5M)

Nursing ($2.3M)

Business ($.5M)

Law ($.25M)

Total awards by college: FY12

OVPR royalty revenue

2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015$0

$1,000,000

$2,000,000

$3,000,000

$4,000,000

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$6,000,000

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8,715,770 8,380,149

3,076,305

2,459,633

491,700 290,400 313,500

Fiscal Year

OVPR enrichment FY12: $2,990,964 Personnel Commitments

14%

VP Office Dis-cretionary

Commitments43%

AHI Discretionary 2%

BSI Start Up/Post Doc's3%

AHI Competitive7%

Digital Studio Public Humanities

1%

BS Funding Program9%

Social Sciences Funding Program

4%

Math & Physical Sciences Funding Program

3%

Public Engagement Grants1%

ICRU (Includes SROP contribution)

3%

eRA Project13%

Seed grants ($810,000)Name Purpose of the Funds Review Process Budget for FY13

Arts & Humanities Initiatives

(AHI)

Seed grant program to support the arts and

humanities

Research Development Office (RDO) with peer

review committees

$180,000

Biological and Life Sciences (BSFP)

Seed grant program to support biological and life

sciences

RDO & peer review committees

$240,000

Math and Physical Sciences (MPSFP)

Seed grant program to support math and physical

sciences

RDO & peer review committees

$120,000

Social Sciences (SSFP)

Seed grant program to support social sciences

RDO & peer review committees

$120,000

Undergraduate Research (ICRU)

Grant programs to support undergraduate research

Iowa Center for Research by Undergraduates with peer

review committees

$100,000

Digital Public Humanities Grants to encourage and support public digital humanities research,

scholarship and learning

RDO & peer review committees

$50,000

General education funded programsName Purpose of the Funds Review Process Budget for FY13

Biosciences Initiatives Funds (BSI)

Start up, BSFP & discretional funds

Biological & life sciences –CTSA

VPR Senior staff $580,248(* Note – Additional

$300,000 plus from patent & license revenues)

Bridging Funds Bridging funds for grant support salaries

VPR Senior StaffCost sharing is expected

389,850(~$300K in reserves)

Central Investment Fund for Research Enhancement

(Cifre)

Discretionary funds used to support research

VPR Senior staff $233,000

Core Research Facilities CMRF & Mass Spectrometry Annual Subvention Allocation

$461,344

Grad Assistant Support Salary, Fringe and tuition Funds are managed by the Graduate College

$25,310

Research Incentive Program 3.8% of the F & A recoveries returned to colleges/faculty

VP for Research in Conjunction with VP for Finance and Operations

1,863,864

Cost ShareMatching Funds

To meet required or strategic institutional investment at the

grant application stage

Mandatory –DSPStrategic – VPR Staff

$782,000

Discretionary programs supported by patent and license revenuesName Purpose of the Funds Review Process Budget for FY13

Arts & Humanities Initiatives

(AHI)

Discretionary research funds for Arts & Humanities

Book Subventions

VPR Senior Staff $70,000

Biosciences Initiatives Funds (BSI)

Start up, BSFP & discretional Funds

Biological and life sciences –CTSA

VPR Senior staff $300,000 plus

(* Note – Additional $580,248 from GEF)

Miscellaneous High Priority Request

High Priority Initiatives - Research Centers, Fellowships, retention packages, etc.

VPR Senior staff Average is $1M to $1.25 M annually

Support for economic development

Name Purpose of the Funds Review Process Budget for FY13

Regent’s Innovation Fund To support economic development initiatives

VPR senior staff and Iowa Centers for Enterprise

$1,050,000(one for one match is required)

Battelle Funds – Endowed Chairs

Endowment created by Battelle funds to recruit and retain entrepreneurial faculty (2005)

$2,000,000 invested in long term endowment in 2007

VPR senior staff Funds are available for 2 per year at $50K

Required match of $50K from College/Department

Technology Innovation Center & Research Park

Provides facilities and buildable land for start-up companies.

Special purpose appropriations.

$115,634

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