PSTP, 2013
Building KnowledgeBased Societies
Creative innovation & cultural
changes
• Discovery Serving Humanity
• Disseminating Knowledge
• Creating partnerships
-- with diverse, world-class partners
President Obama - January 2011
“The first step
in winning
the future is
encouraging
American
innovation.”
Waves of Innovation: Faster and Faster
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THERE ARE MORE OF US
WE CONSUME MORE ENERGY
WE LIVE LONGER
WE CONSUME MORE RESOURCES
Innovation Excellence in Perpetuity
Very high bar! - Universities are collaborative communities
Top-ranked School of Law
(4 IOM members, ex-chief counsel at FDA)
Engineering School – 10 Depts,
1st Business minor in U.S.
UVa Research Park
562 acres
3,000,000 sq. ft.
Morven programs
#1-ranked Commerce School
Top-ranked Business
School
&
Batten Inst. for
Entrepreneurial
Leadership
Medicine
Comprehensive Medical Center
Historic College of
Arts&Sciences,
linking to many
cross-school
programs
Realities connecting universities
to economic development
• Old models of economic development no longer sufficient
• Huge growth in R&D outsourcing by industry
• > ½ of US economic growth from innovation industries that
barely existed a decade ago (The Economist, April 2001)
• ¾ of new jobs are found in entrepreneurial companies
fueled by innovation – many from universities
“America’s research universities have
become the engine of the nation’s
prosperity. They are the key to the fate of
the global economy in the 21st century.”
- Jonathan Cole, The Economist, 2010
Developing Talent to Drive Global
Innovation
• Diversity of thought breeds better ideas.
Emphasize it! Realize what we don’t know.
- Share ideas freely – it builds stronger teams
- Associative thinking across fields accelerates
new designs
- Take time to talk and learn from diverse people
“No amount of savings and investment, no
policy of macroeconomic fine-tuning, no set
of tax and spending initiatives can generate
sustained economic growth unless it is
accompanied by the countless large and small
discoveries that are required to create more
value from a fixed set of natural resources.”
- economist Paul Romer
“There never was a great scientist who did
not make bold guesses, and there never
was a bold man whose guesses were not
sometimes wild.”
- J. Bronowski, in Science and Human Values
Traditional Thinking Can be Misleading …
Innovation Matters
Apple vs. Dell – Market Cap Over Time
$ Billions
$450
1997:
$400
$400 B
• Michael Dell: “If I ran Apple, I would shut it
down and give the money back to
shareholders.”
$350
iPad
• Steve Jobs returns to Apple as interim
CEO
$300
$250
iPhone
Apple
Dell
$200
iPod
iTunes
$150
$100
$50
$25 B
1/2/2012
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It’s difficult to “see the future”.
No one has a perfect crystal ball!
“There is practically no chance communication
space satellites will be used to provide better
telephone, telegraph, television or radio service
inside the United States.”
- T. Craven, FCC Commissioner, 1965
Virginia Introduces Statewide Innovation
Partnership with U.S. Department of Commerce
reCOVER Breathe House: 1st Place Design Award
Kay e Sante nan Ayiti
Open Innovation International Competition
General views of the Breathe House
Faculty and Technical Advisors Team
Anselmo Canfora (reCOVER Director)
Richard Guerrant (UVA medical doctor of infectious diseases)
Rebecca Dillingham (UVA medical doctor of infectious diseases)
Ewan Smith (Arup structural engineer)
Galen Staengl (mechanical engineer)
Michael Stoneking (architect)
Student Research and Design Team
Aja Bulla-Richards (SARC MArch Graduate student)
Sara Harper (SARC 4th year Undergraduate)
Sally Lee (SARC 4th year Undergraduate)
Nathan Parker (SARC 4th year Undergraduate)
Lauren Thompson (SARC 4th year Undergraduate)
ESPRIT project: Bio-Inspired Off-shore (BIOS) Wind System
Conventional
Morphing turbine with segmented blades
•
Morphing blades
transformative in
aerodynamic and centrifugal
tailoring;
•
Blade segmentation
transformative with respect
to manufacturing, stowability,
transport, repair and cost
ESPRIT project
-
theory and design efforts
underway
-
patent disclosure filed
-
build and test subscale
system Fall 2012
Goal: Reduce system size,
weight, and cost
by 25%
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Big Data is the focus of a major new
institute for large scale, complex data
analysis.
The unusual synergies present
at UVa, including
ethics, law, commerce and business,
humanities, social sciences, education, biomedical
research and health care, the sciences, and
engineering will enable the institute to develop,
facilitate, and coordinate differentiating education,
research, and services in Big Data.
Research Philosophy: Explore, Discover, Invent
“Every child is an
artist. The problem is
how to remain an
artist once
one grows up.”
Pablo Picasso
Why does Innovation matter?
Innovation penetrates all areas of work
• Artists fill the blank canvas
• Poets fill the blank page
• Physicists discover
– through innovation
– through innovation
– through innovation
Knowledge-based economies will provide for
freedom, peace, and societal health
Singapore
Washington, D.C.
Silicon Valley
Compression of time is
the greatest value.
Change in Culture …
An important aspect of
innovation Jefferson and the “U.S. metric
system”
Why is true innovation so hard to
recognize?
•
A revolution makes life permanently
different – people have trouble
imagining change
• Innovation is invisible, until it bursts
into view!
CHANGE
March 20, 2009 - 6 miles off of Tonga.
Is PSTP ready to lead discovery now?
“The flying machine which will really fly might
be evolved by the combined and continuous
efforts of mathematicians and mechanicians
in from one million to ten million years.”
- The New York Times, October 9, 1903
“We started assembly today.”
- Orville Wright's Diary, October 9, 1903