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Regional Innovation Clusters and Other Public/Private Partnerships

That Work

June 29, 2011

Kristina M. Johnson

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Outline

❐ NSF Engineering Research Centers (ERCs)

❐ Regional Innovation Clusters (RICs)

❐ DOE Xlerator SBIR Program

❐ Advanced Technology Program

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Linking Science and Technology

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more applied

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NSF/ERC for Optoelectronic Computing Systems Ctr.

❐ Mission Orientation ❐ Systems Focus ❐Educating a New Kind of Student ❐Active Participation of Industry ❐Ten Year Funding Horizon

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“Staying  Power”  …It  takes  a  decade  

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ATP  funding  

company  founded:  credit  card  round  

industrial    partnership   acquisi9on  

ATP  award  

VC  

movie  premier  

Company  X  

‘75   ‘80   ‘85   ‘90   ‘95   ‘00   ‘05   ‘10  

materials  discovery  

physics    discovery  

device    inven9on  

key  patent  issued  

angel  round  

university  laboratory  

Discovery to Commercialization: It takes “Staying Power”

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FY11: Supporting Science and Energy Innovation

Regional Innovation Hubs: $107 million

Energy Frontier Research Centers: $140 million

Advanced Research Projects Agency –

Energy: $300 million High risk, high payoff research

into potential energy game changers.

Multi-disciplinary team of scientists and engineers

focused on the major barriers to scaling energy systems

Small groups of researchers working at the forefront of

fundamental energy science.

Hubs in: •  Fuels from Sunlight •  Building Systems •  Nuclear Simulation & Modeling •  Batteries and Energy Storage

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Energy Regional Innovation Cluster

Buildings energy data book, 2007

Addressing energy efficiency in buildings: a national need

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e-RIC: Building Systems Hub

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Air-flow

Weather Thermal inertia

HVAC systems

On-site energy generation

Lighting Building materials

A Building OS

Behavior

Policy

Design

Economics

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•  nuclear

•  CCS

•  renewables

•  offsets

Small Business Innovation

Between 1993 and 2008, small businesses created 64% of all net new jobs, totaling 14.5 million new jobs—or > 2,600 jobs per day.

SBIR-nurtured firms consistently account for a 25% of all US R&D 100 Award winners. Small businesses create 13 more patents per employee than large firms.

Small businesses employ nearly 40% of the U.S. science and engineering workforce.

Small businesses create more than half of U.S. gross domestic product and export an average of $375 billion/yr.

Innovation

Talent

Jobs

Wealth

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Phase III Xlerator Program

GOAL: To accelerate near-term career-creation.

Phase III Funding Opportunity:

•  Total Funding $57M from ARRA & FY 2010 •  DOE made 33 awards •  Award sizes range from $250k to $3M

•  Mid-year Report: •  First Qtr. 13% job growth (careers) •  Estimated 5 yr. impact is 2.4X increase in jobs and

over $1bn in cumulative revenue •  Net estimated growth of 1400 careers

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Survey research and analysis performed by Alec Orban and Terry Bibbens of SBTC through surveying all 33 companies in DOE Xlerator Program, Dec 2010 to Jan 2011. Data shown is from 25 respondents.

SBTC is the leading small business high-tech trade association and is a Council of NSBA.

DOE Phase III Xlerator Program

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Tech Commercialization Fund

TCF created in FY08 to help move lab technologies to market More than 60 technologies sponsored at 8 labs

DOE Funding Helps Start-Up Companies through TCF

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TCF Success Story: Ampulse

TCF Funding - $675,000 Technology Area – Crystalline Silicon Thin Film PV Status – Pilot-scale manufacturing line ordered Virtual Company model – technical development

occurs at NREL through CRADA Series A funding secured – additional clean energy jobs created NREL/ORNL joint “bundled” technology – OS and EERE funded

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EERE Technology Commercialization Portal

♦ Web-based system providing public access to summaries of DOE lab technologies in EERE mission space.

♦ Designed for technology seekers (companies, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists) to identify and bundle energy technology.

♦ Contains more than 110 marketing summaries and almost 15,000 published US Patents/patents pending.

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Concluding Comments Different Technologies - different incubation periods

Focus on problems to solve, markets to address

Regional Innovation ecosystem development a focus of Startup America

Be proactive with state and federal representatives - connect the dots.

Sustaining Small Businesses

Durations of various innovation financing mechanisms.

Combinations of financing types possibly applicable to companies pursuing fundamental innovation.

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“Use-Inspired” R&D: Fuels From Sunlight

Hubs EFRCs ARPA-e

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