Academic

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Academic Industry Joint Partnership A
Partnership for Innovation and Economic Growth

• July 02, 2004

Sukant K. Mohapatra, Ph.D skmohapatra_at_ieee.org
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Agenda

• Three Corners of a Triangle Industry,
  Academics,
• and Government.
• Industry Academics Need and Scope of Joint
• Partnership
• Industry Collaboration, Benefits and
  Challenges
• Academics Collaboration, Benefits and
  Challenges
• A Small Step Forward A Thought from Orissa
• Perspective
• How NRO/OSA can Possibly Help

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Three Corners of a Triangle Industry, Academics,
and Government

• Industry
• Private Sector
• Public Sector
• Govt. Sector (e.g., Defense)
• Industrial Research Labs
• Ex Bell Labs, IBM Research, Sandia, RRL
• Academics
• Institutes and Universities Public and Private
• Government
• Enabler Policy (e.g. Intellectual Property
  Policy ..)
• Seed Capital Encouragement
• Ex NSF, NIH, Faraday Partnership, OST-UK, CFI -
  Canada

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Industry-AcademicsNeed and Scope of Partnership

• Todays World Why Partnership is Critical
• Innovation has driven economic growth and
  societal progress
• What is Innovation Successful exploitation of
  new ideas
• High Quality and Value Goods for Consumer
• Sustained and Improved Growth for Business
• Technology and scientific understanding is
  changing our world faster than ever
• Science and Technology providing new
  Opportunities for Business to Compete
• Todays expertise may be obsolete tomorrow
• Globalization and Cost competitiveness
• Areas and Scope of Partnership
• Collaborative Research and Technology Innovation
• Areas varies from IT Telecom Healthcare
  Agriculture Management ..
• Specific project and/or problem area
• Joint patent and marketing of a solution and/or
  innovation
• Knowledge Enterprise Zone Incubators
• Joint research and publication

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Industry-AcademicsNeed and Scope of Partnership

• Training
• Leverage institutes as training center for a
  specific product/application (e.g., Cicso
  certification program, Sun Java certification
  program ..) on royalty/fee basis
• Cost effectiveness and best use of
  teaching/training talent
• Industry staff training
• Academic faculty visit and student training
• Joint Exchange Program Faculty and Industry
  Personnel
• Cross fertilization of ideas
• Bring solution/innovation to real-word problems
• Joint use of RD Facility
• Cost effectiveness
• Potential Joint Product Development
• Computer Games (17 Billion worldwide market -
  2003)

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Industry Collaboration, Benefits and Challenges

• Collaborative Efforts
• Industry Partnered Grant Fund, Equipment,
  Workshops ..
• Industry Partnered Salary Award Investigators
  salary, Research chairs
• Industry Partnered Student Award Fellowship,
  Assistantship
• Industry Personnel Training at Academic
  Institute
• 3rd Party Training Programs Outsourced to
  Institutes
• Benefits
• Innovation
• Future and current workforce trained in industry
  specific products/applications
• Cost competitiveness
• Challenges
• Mindset Engineer vs. Scientists
• Faith in un-guided process of academic research
• Willingness to get involved

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Academic Collaboration, Benefits and Challenges

• Collaborative Efforts
• Product innovation
• Focus on solving real-world problems and issues
• Personnel Training beyond Academic Interest
• Specific Product/Application
• Management Skills, Psychology (e.g. team work,
  stress relieve techniques..)
• Offer Training Programs for Industry Specific
  Application to General Public
• Benefits
• Financial Stability Generate resources
• Faculty and students exposed to real-world
  problems
• Challenges
• Align themselves with industry priority Time
  constraints
• Conflict of interest, commitment and intellectual
  property

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A Small Step Forward A ThoughtOrissa
Perspectives

• The Imperative to Think Big, Start Small, Scale
  Fast
• Start with areas where there are minimal risk
  and high degree of success
• Industry Personnel Training based on focused
  need
• Training Center for Product/Application
  Training
• Build-up collaborative relationship and
  credibility
• Research projects from DST etc. Relatively
  easy, built up confidence and credibility
• Collaborative research publication
• Big Picture
• How NROs/OSA Possibly can Help
• Helping to foster partnership ideas and awareness
  via different forums
• Conference on Information Technology (CIT) and
  Other Symposia
• Industry exhibit part of the conference
• Panel discussion/liaison for joint partnership
• While visiting academic institute and/or
  industry on various seminar talks share the idea
  and encourage people
• NRO Cell Make support of Industry-Academic-Gove
  rnment Partnership as one of its charter

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Thank you