Industrial Innovation and Parnerships IIP

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Industrial Innovation and Partnerships
Kesh Narayanan Division Director
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Industrial Innovation and Partnerships
Division Director
Industry/University Cooperative Research Centers
Office of Industrial Innovation
Grant Opportunities for Academic Liaison
with Industry
Small Business Innovation Research
Partnerships for Innovation
Small Business Technology Transfer
American Competitiveness Initiative
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Discovery to Innovation

• Discovery University
• Innovation Path
• Students
• IP Licensing
• Start-ups
• STTR/SBIR

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Key Elements for Birth and Survival of Small
Businesses
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Startup Companies Formed by U.S. Universities,
2004
AUTM Survey 2006
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Industry/University Cooperative Research Centers
(I/UCRC)

• Center for Sensors and Actuators U. C.- Berkeley
  / Dust Networks - Wireless sensors called Smart
  Dust that can track troop movement or traffic
  density for example.

• Hayward, Calif., September 14, 2006 Dust
  Networks, (www.dustnetworks.com), one of the
  recipients of The Wall Street Journal's 2006
  Global Technology Innovation Awards.
• Chris Pister, Student-Faculty-Founder

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NSF SBIR/STTR Innovation Model
Unique to NSF
Phase IBThird-PartyInvestment
Private Sector or Non-SBIR Investment
Phase IIBThird-PartyInvestment
MATCH MAKER
STTR 150K
PHASE I Feasibility Research 100k/6 mos 150k/12
mos
PHASE III Product Development to Commercial Market
PHASE II Research towards Prototype 500k/24 mos
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Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR)Small
Business Technology Transfer (STTR)

• eSpin Technologies Partnered with Tennessee to
  move polymeric nanofiber research from a
  laboratory scale to a manufacturing facility.
  Filtration potential cuts across automotive,
  aerospace, healthcare and other industrial
  customers.

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Economic Impact
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Economic Impact
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Partnerships forDiscovery to Innovation

• Innovation Grant
• Translational Research
• University Industry GUIRR
• Centers and Small Businesses