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Why Industry Comes to Academia
• Academia’s Research Engine
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About MIT and its Industrial Liaison Program
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Why Strengthen Regional Competitiveness
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The Cambridge/Boston Innovation Ecosystem
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What is the Regional Competitiveness Program
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RCP Member Benefits and Member Services
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Expose management to leading-edge thinking, technology
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Gain insight from internationally-recognized experts
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Strengthen strategic decision-making:
– development of new products and processes
– implementation of innovative management practices
– achievement of effective growth strategies
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Create research synergies
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Recruit future company leaders
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US universities are estimated to perform $50.6 billion in R&D in 2009.
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Recent trend has been approx. 75% basic, 25% applied.
• Academia continues to perform more than half of the nation’s total basic research.
– Basic research drives new knowledge, innovation.
– Industry is weakening its concentration in support of basic research.
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Federal government continues to provide the majority of funding for academic R&D.
– Estimated federal share of academic R&D funding in 2009 is 60%.
– This represents a 0.6% increase from 2008.
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Estimated industry funding of academic R&D is $3.1 billion in 2009.
– This represents a 3.9% increase from 2008.
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Interest continues to grow in participating in collaborative research programs involving industry and universities.
– Industrial support accounts for the smallest share of academic R&D funding.
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Academic R&D will account for an estimated 13.2% of total R&D performed in 2009.
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Industry continues to decrease its support of basic research.
Source: Battelle 2009 Global R&D Funding Forecast
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On-Campus R&D: $718 million
DOD
9%
Other U.S. Gov't
19%
Foundation/Other Non-
Profits
18%
Industry Sponsored R&D
$116 million (16%)
OTHER
4%
Total Industry Support: $241.3 million
Industry Sponsored R&D — $116 million
Licensing — $75.7 million
Gifts — $45.6 million
HHS
32%
MIT Internal/Lincoln
Lab
Other — 9.3 million
Source: MIT Data Warehouse — FY09 Expenditures by Sponsor
(unaudited) 8/21/09
Source: OCR FY09 Industry Support
(unaudited as of 8/25/09)
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MIT researchers focus on discoveries of real practical impact, strong commercial value
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Vibrant patenting/licensing activity
– 501 new invention disclosures FY 2009
– $75.7 million total licensing revenue
– 131 patents filed, 67 licenses granted
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2009 Kauffman Foundation Entrepreneurship
Study
– 25,000+ companies founded by MIT alums
– 3.3+ million jobs
– $2 trillion in annual world sales
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708 companies provided R&D/gift support in FY
2008
– 30 companies funded $1M+
– 158 companies funded $100K - $1M
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72 MIT-related Nobel Prize winners
– Including 7 current faculty members
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5 schools, 33 departments/divisions/sections/other programs
– 57 interdisciplinary research units
Research Center
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MIT poses a complex challenge
– How to find the right experts?
– How to learn from the vast experience of the
Cambridge/Boston innovation ecosystem?
– How to identify the right programs and meet the right people?
– How to organize the right interactions?
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• The ILP is industry’s chief gateway and guide to MIT
ILP
MIT
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Provides expert counsel on building productive partnerships
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Develops customized, cost effective programs
– Assess, address strategic research needs
– Facilitate faculty, researcher interactions
– Monitor emerging technologies and innovative management practices
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Founded in 1948
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Largest program of its kind in the world
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Provides actively-managed, facilitated access to the rich resources at MIT for industry and other technology-based organizations
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Worldwide membership
– 31% N. America, 30% Asia, 32% Europe, 7% Other
– broad range of industrial sectors, both traditional and high-tech
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19 Industrial Liaison Officers*
– average 15 years of industry experience
– most with advanced degrees
*as of October 14, 2008
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An MIT-based professional who provides a highlyproductive interface to help initiate, integrate and manage the organization’s MIT interactions
– Knows the organizations’ people and business, and needs of stakeholders in the MIT relationship
– Knows MIT and its resources
– Helps interest MIT people in meeting with and working with the organization
– Provides an easy-to-use central point of access to MIT information and interactions for anyone in the organization
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• 195 of the world’s leading organizations partner with the Industrial Liaison
Program to advance research agendas at MIT (FY08)
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ILP member organizations account for approximately 31% of all corporate gifts and single-sponsored research expenditures at MIT
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Government and NGOs can now take advantage of the rich history and deep expertise of ILP to build and strengthen regional competitiveness
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Creates an environment that fosters innovation and encourages entrepreneurship and job creation
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Regional, economic, business, and trade development groups have long visited the Cambridge/Boston area to learn from the areas’ success
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Universities play a vial role in fostering, sustaining, and propagating the entrepreneurial and innovation-related activities of many such regional economies
• MIT is the epicenter of the east coast of the US’s innovation ecosystem
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Economic development visitors to the area wish to replicate the complex mix of new business creation and idea development to create meaningful clusters of competence that could stimulate further investment and job creation
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“Conservatively, if the active companies founded by MIT graduates formed an independent nation, their revenues would make that nation at least the seventeenth largest economy in the world. A less conservative direct extrapolation of the underlying survey data boosts the numbers to 25,800 currently active companies founded by MIT alumni that employ about
3.3 million people and generate annual sales of $2 trillion, producing the equivalent of the eleventh largest economy in the world.”
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• MIT’s culture is to push limits and take visionary risks
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Faculty, researchers, and students have applied these attributes to shape an environment that surrounds the university —
– Creation of new ventures
– Advancing revolutionary ideas
– Challenging convention
– Rejects the status quo
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Support provided by organizations and companies
— both within and around MIT — that grew up organically in the area through an ever-changing mix of:
– Established technology companies
– Research organizations
– Entrepreneurs
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Players include:
– Investors
– Service providers
– Regional trade associations
– Regional publications
– Entrepreneurship support organization
– State and local government initiatives
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Educational Institutions
— MIT, Harvard
University, Boston University, Boston College,
Northeastern University, Tufts University, Babson
College, Brandeis University, University of
Massachusetts, Worcester Polytechnic Institute…
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Corporate R&D Labs — Microsoft, Google,
Mitsubishi Electric, Novartis, Pfizer, Schlumberger,
Nokia…
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Regional Publications
— Mass High Tech, Boston
Business Journal, Xconomy, Innovation Economy
Column (Boston Globe)…
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Entrepreneurship Support
— TiE Boston, 128
Innovation Capital Group, Boston Entrepreneurs’
Network…
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Investors
— Venture capitalists, angel investors, private equity, corporate investor groups…
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State and local initiatives
— Life sciences cluster, robotics cluster, clean energy cluster, IT cluster…
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Regional trade associations
— Mass Technology
Leadership Council, Mass Software Council, Mass
Innovation and Technology Exchange, Mass IT
Collaboration Entrepreneurship Committee…
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Service providers — Law firms, marketing and publicity services, accountants and part-time CFOs,
HR, outsourced IT, traditional office space, incubators, consultants…
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MIT Organizations
— Deshpande Center for
Technological Innovation, Venture Mentoring
Service, MIT Entrepreneurship Center, MIT
Enterprise Forum, MIT Entrepreneurs Club…
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Modular, add-as-you-grow offices — Cambridge
Innovation Center, One Kendall Square, Regus…
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Competitions — MIT $100K Entrepreneurship
Competition, MIT Clean Energy Entrepreneurship
Prize, MIT IDEAS, X-Prize, MIT and Dow Materials
Engineering Contest…
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Addresses the needs of organizations charged with the implementation of regional development strategies that foster greater entrepreneurship and enhance innovation in their communities
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Introduces member organizations to elements of the
MIT/Cambridge-area ecosystem
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Delivers a series of intensive, interactive workshops focusing on best practices
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Leverages past successes to local geographies, and on ways for economic development groups to foster greater entrepreneurial activity
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Membership/fee-based program anchored by a continuing series of two highly interactive and pragmatic day-and-a-half-long workshops annually; one at MIT, and one hosted by a member organization in a different global location
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Focus on best practices to adapt the attributes of the Cambridge/Boston-area and other innovation ecosystems to your geography, with the goal to:
– Promote economic development
– Foster greater entrepreneurial activity
– Create rich regional clusters of competence
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Topics to be explored in detail include best practices, challenges, and alternative approaches of programs to:
– Promote entrepreneurship
– Attract contract and satellite corporate research centers
– Accelerate commercialization and knowledge dissemination activities
– Catalyze and sustain valued networking forums
– Enhance university-industry interactions
– Establish and run incubators
– Create new job opportunities and attract investment
– Attract regional and national development program participation and funding
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Hands-on and practical sessions
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Informative presentations
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Take-aways to include:
– New skills
– Valuable networking
– Unique intellectual experience
– Strengthened regional development activities
– Ability to evaluate resources and practices needed to drive appropriate regional innovative clusters
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Insights into best practices for regional development
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Hands-on experience identifying the resources and techniques needed to drive the development of appropriate regional clusters
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Internal team building and problem solving
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Continuous networking and relationship building with others in regional development
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Introductions to corporate executives who are members of the ILP program; many of these individuals are charged with the global sourcing of knowledge, investment in local geographies around the world, new technology acquisition, and R&D outsourcing
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Opportunities to bring back and develop ideas in a particular region, as well as share results and discuss questions at the next workshop
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November 17-19, 2009
– MIT Research and Development Conference
– Regional Competitiveness Workshop
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April 13-14, 2010
– MIT Information and Communications Conference
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Fall, 2010
– MIT Innovations in Management Conference
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Fall, 2010
– Regional Competitiveness Workshop
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IMPLEMENTING STRATEGIES Wednesday, November 18, 2009
12:40 pm R&D Conference Adjournment; Bagged Lunch
2:00 pm Welcome and Introduction
Karl Koster, Executive Director, MIT Office of Corporate Relations/Industrial Liaison Program
2:10 pm Opening Remarks and Program Overview
2:30 pm Government and Technology Transfer
Andre Porter, Executive Director
Massachusetts Office of Small Business and Entrepreneurship
3:10 pm Commentary: Miquel Barcelo, President, b_TEC, Barcelona Innovacio Tecnologica
3:20 pm Questions and Discussion
3:30 pm Entrepreneurial Support Networks
MIT Venture Mentoring Service - Sherwin Greenblatt, Director
4:10 pm Commentary: Don Duval, Vice President, MaRS
4:20 pm Questions and Discussion
4:30 pm MIT Enterprise Forum: Challenges in Translation to New Geographies
Luda Kopeikina, President and CEO, Noventra Corporation, MIT Enterprise Forum Board Member
5:10 pm Commentary: Antoinette Matthews, Director, MIT Enterprise Forum Global Office
5:20 pm Questions and Discussion
5:30 pm Adjournment
6:00 pm Networking Reception and Dinner
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IMPLEMENTING STRATEGIES Thursday, November 19, 2009
8:30 am Opening Day 2 - Karl Koster, Executive Director - MIT Office of Corporate Relations/Industrial Liaison Program
8:40 am Student Action
MIT $100K Competition Brian Cantwell and Sombit Mishra, Co-Managing Directors
9:20 am Commentary: Fiona Murray, Sarofim Family Career Development Associate Professor
Management of Technology, Innovation Entrepreneurship, MIT Sloan School of Management
9:30 am Questions and Discussion
9:40 am Educating Entrepreneurship
William Aulet, Senior Lecturer, Entrepreneur-in-Residence, MIT Entrepreneurship Center
10:20 am Commentary: Laura Dingwall, Senior Development Manager, Knowledge Economy Team
Highlands and Islands Enterprise, Scotland
10:30 am Questions and Discussion
10:40 am Break
11:00 am From Inventor to Executive to Regional Development Agent
GianCarlo Michellone, President, AREA Science Park, Trieste, Italy
11:40 pm Commentary: Kenan Shahin (tentative), President and Founder, TIAX
11:50 pm Questions and Discussion
12:00 pm Lunch
1:40 pm University/Industry Commercialization Activity
Leon Sandler, Executive Director,MIT Deshpande Center
2:20 pm Commentary: Marina Hatsopoulos, Principal, Windy Street
2:30 pm Questions and Discussion
2:40 pm Panel Discussion: Investor Networks: Creation, Care, and Feeding
Moderator: Desh Deshpande (tentative), Chairman of the Board of Directors, Sycamore Networks
Panelists: Lita Nelsen, Director, MIT Technology Licensing Office; Others TBA
3:40 pm Wrap up
Rodney Brooks, Panasonic Professor of Robotics, MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
Co-Founder, iRobot Corporation; Chairman and CTO, Heartland Robotics
4:30 pm Adjournment
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Calendar of MIT/Corporate Events
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Past Events Archive
– Digitized content from past ILP events
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ILP KnowledgeBase
– Explore emerging technologies
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Learn about relevant research
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Identify faculty members with appropriate expertise
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News Mosaic (Fall 2009)
– Recent developments within MIT's R&D community
– Potential, competitive impact of emerging technologies
– ILP insights on how best to access MIT expertise
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Content from Sloan Management Review and Technology
Review
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Access to the annual series of ILP conferences and events during the course of the year:
– MIT R&D Conference
– MIT Information and Communications Technology
Conference
– MIT Innovations in Management Conference
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Personal one-on-one meetings with MIT experts on:
– Regional development
– Entrepreneurship
– Innovation management
– Technology licensing
– Intellectual property
– University-industry interactions
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Discounts and passes to annual MIT events of relevance, such as:
– Technology Review Magazine’s Emerging Technologies
Conference at MIT
– Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation’s IdeaStream
Conference
– MIT Energy Conference
– MIT CIO Symposium
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Alerts to attend events such as:
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MIT $100K Entrepreneurship Conference
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MIT IDEAS Competition Awards Ceremony
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MIT ILP Members-only Website and Knowledgebase
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MIT ILP communications on news, inventions, innovations, etc.
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Benefit from actively-managed, facilitated access to the rich resources of the Cambridge/Boston-area innovation ecosystem
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Monitor and investigate new technology developments at MIT ILP conferences
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Expand organizational knowledge and business networks
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Implement regional development strategies that foster greater entrepreneurship and enhance innovation in the community
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