Oak Ridge National Laboratory:

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Oak Ridge National LaboratoryThe Lab of the
South

• Presentation to
• Tennessee Valley Corridor Summit
• May 31, 2006 Chattanooga
• Presented by
• Tom Ballard
• Director Economic Development and Partnerships

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ORNL is DOEs Lab of the South
Idaho
Argonne
PacificNorthwest
National Energy Technology Lab
LawrenceBerkeley
Brookhaven
Oak Ridge
LawrenceLivermore
SavannahRiver
Sandia
National Renewable Energy Lab
Los Alamos
Battelle partner laboratories
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ORNL is DOEs Lab of the South
Idaho
Argonne
PacificNorthwest
National Energy Technology Lab
LawrenceBerkeley
Brookhaven
Oak Ridge
LawrenceLivermore
Sandia
National Renewable Energy Lab
Los Alamos
Battelle partner laboratories
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ORNL has embraced the footprint of the Southern
Growth Policies Board
SGPB States
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We are successful because of our strategic
partnerships with key local economic development
groups

• Organizations in the Oak Ridge/Knoxville area
  The Little R

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We have similar strategic partners around
Tennessee and the TVC

• Organizations around the state and the Tennessee
  Valley Corridor The Regular R

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Were cultivating strategic partners throughout
the South

• Organizations around the South The Big R"

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The Lab of the South concept connects ORNL to
the economic development priorities of SGPB states

• Starts with fully understanding technology-based
  economic development priorities, programs and
  strategies of each state.
• Identifies ways that ORNLs world leadership
  capabilities can support these individual state
  priorities.
• Finds ways to link state technology resources to
  ORNL expertise.
• Seeks opportunities to leverage individual state
  capabilities into regional alliances involving
  several states.

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The initial Lab of the South initiatives

• Southern Homeland Security Initiative (using the
  South as a test bed for new homeland security
  technologies and a region where cutting edge
  technologies are commercialized.)
• Southern Automotive RD Initiative (leveraging
  two decades of automotive manufacturing growth
  and the university-based RD centers that have
  emerged near these OEMs into a regional
  consortium to compete with Michigan. Involves at
  least three MEPs Kentucky, Mississippi and
  Tennessee.)
• Southern Information Technology Initiative
  (linking universities in the region to ORNLs
  National Leadership Computing Facility.)
• Southern Nanotechnology Initiative (building a
  Southern nanotechnology hot spot by leveraging
  the worlds greatest capabilities in neutron
  scattering and nano science at ORNL with the
  unique capabilities that exist at research
  institutions throughout the region.)

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The Lab of the South early initiatives

• Southern Homeland Security Initiative (using the
  South as a test bed for new homeland security
  technologies and a region where cutting edge
  technologies are commercialized.)
• Southern Automotive RD Initiative (leveraging
  two decades of automotive manufacturing growth
  and the university-based RD centers that have
  emerged near these OEMs into a regional
  consortium to compete with Michigan.)
• Southern Information Technology Initiative
  (linking universities in the region to ORNLs
  National Leadership Computing Facility.)
• Southern Nanotechnology Initiative (building a
  Southern nanotechnology hot spot by leveraging
  the worlds greatest capabilities in neutron
  scattering and nano science at ORNL with the
  unique capabilities that exist at research
  institutions throughout the region.)

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The Lab of the South concept applied to the
fledgling Southern Nano Initiative

• Funding SGPB to conduct a knowledge mapping and
  benchmarking study. (Completed)
• Initiating steps to implement the first major
  recommendation a Southern Nanotechnology
  Network. (Special meeting at SGPB annual meeting
  in New Orleans on June 5)
• Understanding state specific initiatives. (i.e.,
  attending the recent Oklahoma Nanotechnology
  Conference)
• Identifying key players and potential partners
  for the future, taking a long-term view.
• Working on state agendas, hopefully finding ways
  to link our capabilities to their priorities.
• Promoting proposals to use the CNMS.
• Working with SGPB and the TVC to host the
  Southern Nano Summit on October 10 in Oak
  Ridge. (To be announced next week)
• Launching a Nano Business Competition.
• Refining a hub and spoke concept first advanced
  at the Southern Technology Council meeting in Oak
  Ridge in April that leverages the regions
  assets.
• Doing everything possible to ensure that the
  nano revolution does no bypass the South as
  much as the info and bio did.