Welcome: GermanGerman-American
Fulbright Commission: Stifterverband
fϋr die Deutsche Wissenschaft
Institute of International Education (IIE)
Donald H. Sebastian, Ph.D.
Sr. Vice President of Research & Development
NJ Institute of Technology
Newark, NJ 07102
sebastian@njit.edu
Our Heritage
NJIT was founded in 1881 as
the Newark Technical School.
Sponsored by the city of Newark
with a matching grant from the
New Jersey state legislature, it
offered nonnon-degree training in
“Science, Mathematics, and
Drawing.”
Drawing.” EightyEighty-eight Newark
residents made up its first class.
Industry’s
Crucible
D. Sarnoff
T. Edison
A. Bell
Johnson Brothers
J. Rockefeller
G.W. Merck
J. Campbell
L. Baekeland
New Jersey’
Jersey’s Science & Technology University
9000 Matriculants
– 6 Colleges
– 65% Undergraduate, 35% Graduate
– Degree Programs: 36 BS, 41MS, 19 Ph.D.
Doctoral Research University
– $100M Tenth largest R&D funding among US Engineering
Intensive Universities
– 60 PhD Grads/ yr.
Distance Learning
– 20% of Student Body Enrolled
– Collaborative Ph.D.
Continuing & Professional Education
– 54,000 Trainees 19901990-2005
State’
State’s Most Successful Incubator System
– 90 Tenants; 85% 5yr Survival Rate
Office of PrePre-College Programs
– 4500 Elementary & Secondary Students per year
Community College Association
Statewide Manufacturing and Healthcare IT
Extension Centers
NJIT Educated 25% of the
State’s Engineers
Clusters of Innovation
A cluster, as defined by
Professor Michael E. Porter of
Harvard University, is a
geographic concentration of
competing and cooperating
companies, suppliers, service
providers, and associated
institutions.
Cluster Creation Categories
Creation of a New Industry
Transplantation from Elsewhere
Diversification into Technologically
related industries
Upgrading of mature industries
“UNIVERSITIES, INNOVATION, AND THE COMPETITIVENESS OF LOCAL ECONOMIES:
ECONOMIES: A Summary Report from the Local Innovation Systems Project—
Project—Phase I”
I”,
Richard K. Lester, Industrial Performance Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
“UNIVERSITIES, INNOVATION, AND THE COMPETITIVENESS OF LOCAL ECONOMIES: A Summary Report from the Local Innovation
Systems Project—Phase I”, Richard K. Lester, Industrial Performance Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Stokes Matrix
Quest for Fundamental
Knowledge
Innovation has many roots and the path to commercialization is not always linear
Pure Basic
Research
Use Inspired Basic
Research
Bohr
Pasteur
Yes
Self Indulgent
Pure Applied
Research
No
Edison
No
Yes
Practical Use
The erosion of
Pasteur Quadrant
entities threatens
the connectivity
between the
academic and
commercial sectors,
and places the
growth of each in
jeopardy.
Donald E. Stokes, Pasteur's
Quadrant: Basic Science and
Technological Innovation,
Washington, D.C.: Brookings
Institution Press, 1997.
Scholarship is the defining
characteristic of the Professoriate
Scholarship of Discovery
Scholarship of Integration
is generally what is understood as "research." It is
committed to developing new knowledge, and focuses on
is focused on developing perspectives on knowledge. It is
... serious, disciplined work that seeks to interpret, draw
the question, "What is to be known, what is yet to be found
together, and bring new insight to bear on original research
Scholarship of Application
Scholarship of Instruction
focuses on the questions, "How can knowledge be applied
to consequential problems? How can it be helpful to
individuals as well as institutions?
Pedagogical procedures must be carefully planned,
continuously examined, and relate directly to the subject
taught
Scholarly Approach: Clear Goals, Adequate Preparation, Appropriate
Appropriate
Methods, Significant Results, Effective Presentation, Reflective Critique
Boyer, Ernest L Scholarship Reconsidered: Priorities of the
Professoriate, The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of
Teaching, 1990
Research with Impact
Life and
Healthcare
Science & Eng.
Digital
Everyware
Sustainable
Systems
$100M Tenth largest R&D
expenditures among US
Engineering Intensive
Universities
R&D Connection Mechanisms
Applied Focus of Academic Research
Research Business Centers
Hosted Contract R&D and Extension Centers
Incubation & Commercialization Services
Life and Healthcare Science &
Engineering
NJ Health Information Technology Extension Center
Healthcare Innovation Center w/St. Barnabas
Lead for NJ health Information Network
NSF – Center for Structured Organic Composites
PPI – Pharma Hot Medical Extrusion
Coulter Fdn Stem Cell Commercialization
US DEd Rehabilitation Engineering
Research Center
Sustainable Systems
US DoE Building America Retrofit Alliance (BARA) to DuPont –
NJIT
USDoE Energy Innovation Hub at the Philadelphia Navy Yard
$129M/5yr
US DoE Solar Decathlon 2011 / China 2013
Apollo CdTe Solar Energy Research Center $2M/3 yr
City of Ningguo Building Integrated PV Center
Host North Jersey Transportation Planning Authority
CSR Intelligent Transportation Systems
Digital Everyware
Smart CampusTM project
NJ Business Force Business Emergency Ops Ctr
Picatinny Arsenal Perimeter Security Systems
Panasonic Product Innovation
AlcatelAlcatel-Lucent LTE Innovation Center
A Model For Application-oriented Research
The Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft develops products and processes right
up to commercial maturity. Individual solutions are sought in direct
contact with the customer. The key objective of the FraunhoferGesellschaft is to transform scientific expertise into applications of
practical utility.
Contract research in the service of industry and government
Contract research is the most important of all
Application-oriented basic research
Research alliances – cooperative and strategic
Know-how that serves industry
Training with a practical focus
Science in the service of industry
International patent applications
http://www.fraunhofer.de/EN/
NJIT Efforts to Rebuild Regional
Economy
Type IV: Upgrade Mature Industry: Healthcare
– Process Technology for Nano-systems & Personalized Dosage
– Healthcare Innovation Center / Healthcare IT Extension Center
Type III: Diversification of a Mature Industry:
Broadcast Entertainment
– Digital Media & Social Networking
Type II: Transplantation of an Existing Industry:
Solar Energy
– Cd-Te Thin Film Technology Center
Type I: Creation of New Industry: Stem Cell
– Newark Institute for Regenerative Medicine
Hollowing Out vs. Sustained Growth
At one end of the spectrum, local companies, recognizing the
importance to their own innovation processes of tapping into the
global network of knowledge and ideas, reach progressively
farther afield to do so, and eventually relocate these activities and
perhaps ultimately all of their operations out of the region
altogether.
At the other end of the spectrum, local companies seek to boost
their innovation performance by strengthening their ties with other
local firms and with local public research and educational
institutions. In this scenario the local economy emerges as a
center of new knowledge creation and application, attracting firms
from elsewhere, and stimulating the formation of new local
businesses.
Digital Everyware
Wireless Digital Signal Processing
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OFDM/MIMO systems, Prof. Barness, Prof. Haimovich, Elect. & Comp.
Comp. Eng.
Underwater Acoustic Communications, Prof. Abdi, Elect. & Comp. Eng.
Eng.
Software Systems Security
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Internet Traceback, Prof. Ansari, Elect. & Comp. Eng.
Steganography, Prof. Shi Elect. & Comp. Eng.
Computing Hardware & Sensor Systems
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Vertical Nanotube Transistors, Prof. Farrow, Physics
NanoNano-structured electronics, Prof. Tsybeskov, Elect. & Comp. Eng.
TeraHertz Imaging, Prof. Federici, Physics
NanoNano-scale Graphene, Prof. grebel, Elect. & Comp. Eng.
Applications Software
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Smart Campus, Prof. Jones, Information Systems
Emergency Response Systems, Prof. Chumer, Info. Systems
Face Recognition, Prof. Liu, Computer Science
Behavioral Biometrics, Prof. Recce, Information Systems
Life and Healthcare Sci. & Eng.
Improved Pharmaceutical Processes
– Nano-particulate Pharmaceutical Mfg., Prof. Dave, Chem. Eng.
– Hot Melt Extrusion, Prof. Gogos, Chem. Eng.
Bio-technological Systems
– Stem Cell Technologies, Prof. Arinzeh & Cho, Bio-Med. Eng.
– DNA Reactors, Prof. Farinas, Chemistry
Rehabilitation Engineering
– Assisted Stroke Recovery, Prof. Foulds, Prof. Adamovich, Bio-Med. Eng.
– Neuro-plasticity, Prof. Pfister , Bio-Med. Eng
– Design For Disability, Prof. Olsen, SOA
Medical Device Technology
– Nano-bio- fuel cell, Prof. Iqbal, Chemistry
– Hydrocephalus Shunt, Prof. Thomas, Physics
– Multi-spectral Medical Imaging, Prof. Dhawan, Elect. & Comp. Eng
Healthcare IT
– Medical Ontologies, Prof. Geller & Prof. Perl, Computer Sci.
– NJHITEC – Statewide HIT Extension Service, Prof. Sebastian
Sustainable Systems
Solar Energy
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Improved Silicon PV Manufacture, Prof. Ravindra, Physics
Next-Generation: Thin Film CdTe, Prof. Chin, Physics
Future-Tech: Nanotube Solar Arrays, Prof. Mitra, Chemistry
Sustainable Building Design
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Retrofit and Design Guidance, Deane Evans SOA
US DoE Solar Decathlon 2011, Prof. Richard Garber, SOA
Solar Physics
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Big Bear, Prof. Goode, Physics
Owens Valley Radio Observatory, Prof. Gary, Physics
Space Weather, Prof. Wang, Prof. Lanzerotti, Physics
Water Quality
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Membrane Separations, Prof. Sirkar, Chem. Eng.
Municipal Infrastructure, Prof. Marhaba, Civil Eng.
Transportation Systems
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Liberty Corridor, Transit Villages, B Hughey
Transportation Planning, Prof. Spasovic, Civil Eng.
Advanced Materials & Material Processing
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Alternative Feedstocks from bio-renewable sources, Prof. Jaffe BME
Nano-structures for energy storage, Profs. Tyson, Zhou, Sirenko, Pysics
NJIT Degree Programs: 36 BS, 41MS, 19 Ph.D.