{"id":494982,"date":"2010-03-31T16:42:40","date_gmt":"2010-03-31T20:42:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.technologytransfertactics.com\/content\/?p=6227"},"modified":"2010-03-31T16:42:40","modified_gmt":"2010-03-31T20:42:40","slug":"feds-seek-input-on-commercialization-of-university-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/494982","title":{"rendered":"Feds seek input on commercialization of university research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and National Economic Council has released a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gpo.gov\/fdsys\/pkg\/FR-2010-03-25\/html\/2010-6606.htm\" >Request for Information on Commercialization of University Research<\/a>. The RFI comes on the heels of a previously announced innovation initiative by the Obama Administration to work with universities, companies, federal research labs, entrepreneurs, investors, and nonprofits to identify ways to increase the economic impact of federal investment in university R&amp;D and the innovations being fostered in federal and private proof-of-concept centers (POCC).<\/p>\n<p>The RFI asks specific questions in two broad categories. Part I addresses university research, promising practices, and successful models:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What are some promising practices and successful models for fostering commercialization and diffusion of university research? What is the evidence that these approaches are successful? How could these promising practices be more widely adopted?<\/li>\n<li>Some universities participate in regional innovation &#8220;ecosystems&#8221; with dense concentrations of venture and angel investors, experienced entrepreneurs and managers, and a mix of large and small firms. These universities also have faculty who have been involved in commercialization of research and entrepreneurship and can serve as mentors and role models to faculty or students. How can universities and their external partners expand their ability to commercialize research in the absence of these favorable conditions?<\/li>\n<li>What are appropriate metrics for evaluating the success or failure of initiatives to promote commercialization of university research?<\/li>\n<li>What changes in public policy and research funding should the Obama Administration consider that would promote commercialization of university research? How could existing programs be modified or augmented to encourage commercialization of university research?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Part II addresses the experience of POCCs:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What underlying conditions are necessary to enhance the success of a POCC? How can regions with less significant angel and VC investment cultures support POCCs and start-up business activity? Can current POCC successes transfer to other regions and universities? How important is active participation by a strong local business community in a POCC? How can federal agencies, research institutions, federal researchers, and the private sector work together to foster more successful POCCs that accelerate commercialization into the marketplace?<\/li>\n<li>What are examples of successful practices? What are the key ingredients responsible for this success? Is there any evidence that indicates POCCs are an effective mechanism to foster local or regional economic development and job creation? What lessons can be learned from other successful models such as technology-based economic development organizations that support POCCs? To what extent do interdisciplinary services (legal, accounting, business plan training) contribute to POCCs successes?<\/li>\n<li>How do you define the success of a POCC? What are the relevant inputs, outputs, outcomes, and impacts for success metrics? What is the time period needed to measure success as applied to different types of technologies? Would the appropriate success metrics for a POCC affiliated with a university be different than one affiliated with a federal research lab?<\/li>\n<li>How can R&amp;D assets supported by the federal government &#8212; such as a multi-agency, multidisciplinary database of supported research &#8212; be leveraged to support POCCs? How could such assistance also bolster state and local government programs? What other administrative policies\/practices should the Administration consider modifying, adopting or implementing to enhance the success prospects of POCCs, including streamlining reporting requirements?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Responses to the RFI are due by April 26, 2010, and must be delivered electronically as an attachment to an e-mail sent to <a href=\"mailto:NEC_General@who.eop.gov\">NEC_General@who.eop.gov<\/a> with the subject line &#8220;Commercialization of University Research.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Source:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gpo.gov\/fdsys\/pkg\/FR-2010-03-25\/html\/2010-6606.htm\" >www.GPO.gov<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and National Economic Council has released a Request for Information on Commercialization of University Research. The RFI comes on the heels of a previously announced innovation initiative by the Obama Administration to work with universities, companies, federal research labs, entrepreneurs, investors, and nonprofits to identify ways [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-494982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=494982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494982\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}