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AGENDA
FEDERAL LABORATORY CONSORTIUM MID-ATLANTIC 2005 REGIONAL
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Rocky Gap Resort, Cumberland,
MD September 13-15, 2005
Tuesday, September 13,
2005
2:00 –
5:00PM
Training
David Spevack,
“Obtaining a Marketable Invention Disclosure”
Paul Fritz, NAWC, “Patent
Licensing Agreements”
6:00 -
9:00
Registration
Reception sponsored by
the Maryland Technology Development Corporation
Wednesday, September 14,
2005
6:30 AM -
8:00 Registration and Continental Breakfast
7:30
–7:50 Introduction, Dr. J. Scott Deiter, NSWC
7:50 – 8:50 Panel
Session: Technology Transfer Strategic Planning, Agency View, John Emond, Chair, NASA, Frank Schowengerdt, NASA, Richard J. Brenner,
USDA, ARS, Terry Lynch, NIST
8:50 – 9:20 Office of Naval Research Investment Strategy, Lynn Torres, ONR
9:20 –
9:50 DTTOs: Turn Licensing Activity into T2 Agreements
Blake Sajonia and Christina Frain,
TRSG, Inc.
9:50 – 10:10 Break
10:10 – 11:40 Panel Session: Outreach: The
Challenge of Communication for Technology Transfer, Krishna
(Balki) Balakrishnan,
Chair, NIH, Janelle Turner, NASA, Tara Weaver-Missick,
USDA-ARS, Pam Porter, NSA
11:40 –
12:00 UTEK
Technology Transfer Services, Alon
Vogel, UTEK Corporation
12:00 –
1:30 PM Lunch
Luncheon
Presentation: NASA’s Vision and Impact, Dr. Roger Crouch,
Astronaut and Lead for Higher Education for NASA’s Exploration Systems
Mission Directorate and Senior Scientist for the International Space Station
1:30
–3:30 Panel Session: Technology Transfer
Capacity Building
Efforts
Developing Countries and its Impact on Global
Health & Agriculture, Chair: Dr.
Luis A. Salicrup, NIH, Eileen Herrera, Agricultural Research Service, USDA, Lenka Fedorkova, NIH, Sipho Mtsweni, Council for
Scientific Industrial Research, Scott
M. Smouse, National Energy Technology
Laboratory, Luis Salicrup,
NIH
3:30 –
3:50 Break
3:50 – 5:30 Panel
Session: Evolution of University Technology Commercialization: Lessons
for Federal Laboratory Technology Managers, Brian Darmody,
Chair, UMD, Carolyn E. Green, Health
Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, Jill
A. Tarzian Sorensen, Johns Hopkins University,
Frederick Provorny, Law School, UMD, Baltimore
5:30 –
6:00 Recovery Period
6:00 –
8:00 Dinner -- Hot Technologies Contest
Thursday, September 15,
2005
6:45 AM -
7:45 Breakfast
7:45 – 8:05 Accelerating
the Commercialization of Research Technologies at the University
of Illinois, Shalini Dewan, University of Illinois
8:05-8:25 Implementation
of a Royalty Compliance Program, Karen H. Wang and Judy Ann Byrd,
Intellectual Property Management & Finance
8:25-9:00 “Elevator Speech” Session, Chair: Steve Fritz, TEDCO
10 minutes - Anthony Breitzman,
1790 Analytics
5 minutes - Susan Evatt,
Ben Franklin Technology Partnership
5 minutes –
Joanne Brown, Smart
States
5 minutes - Margaret Brautigam, DTIC
10 minutes – Robert Barrett, WVHTC
9:00 –
9:30 Business Realities of Technology
Transition, Dan Pitkin, NIST
9:30 – 9:50 Educational
Partnership Agreement for Virginia Demonstration Project, Lorraine Flanders, Naval Surface
Warfare Center
9:50 –
10:10 Break
10:10 –
10:30 DOD Processes for Moving Technologies to First Responders
Susan Zelicoff,
FIRSTLINK, University
of Pittsburgh
10:30-12:00 Panel
Session: How States Leverage
Technology Transfer to Encourage Economic Development, Ronald W. Kaese,
Chair, TEDCO,
Jack Gido, PennTap, Joseph Allen, WVHTF, Dan Mills, CIT
12:00 – 1:30 PM Lunch -- Awards Presentations
1:30 – 2:30 Panel
Session: Government Inventor Ethics and Conflict of Interest Issues in
Commercializing Government Inventions, Chair: Terry Lynch, NIST, Patricia Lake, National Institute of
Diabetes and Diagnostic Kidney Disease, Richard J. Brenner, USDA, ARS
2:30 – 3:00 Court
Treatment of Technology Transfer and Licensing Issues, Richard Gilly,
Fish & Richardson
3:00 – 3:20 University/Government
Teams for Education Spinning Off a New Company, Lawrence Aronhime,
Johns Hopkins
University and Benjamin Gibbs, Baltimore Shipping
Technologies LLC.
3:20 –
4:20 Panel Session: Technology Transfer
Strategic Planning, Lab View,
John Emond, Chair, NASA, Laurie Arrants,
Institute of Neurological
Disorders & Stroke, NIH, Sharon
Borland, U.S. Army
Engineer Research and Development Center, Charles
Schlagel, Naval Medical Research
Center
4:20 –
4:25 Wrap Up, J. Scott Deiter, NSWC
AGENDA WITH ABSTRACTS
FEDERAL
LABORATORY CONSORTIUM MID-ATLANTIC REGIONAL MEETING
Rocky Gap
Resort, Cumberland, MD
September
13-15, 2005
Tuesday, September 13, 2005
2:00 – 5:00PM
Training
David Spevack,
“Obtaining a
Marketable Invention Disclosure”
Learn the critical mindset, issues and procedures
for making your inventions marketable.
Paul Fritz, Naval Air Warfare
Center, Aircraft
Division, “Patent Licensing Agreements”
This presentation describes the history, process
and procedure utilized in achieving success, including lessons learned in
introducing new and innovative methodologies, techniques, and approaches in
transferring federal laboratory technology to the private sector.
6:00 - 9:00
Registration
Reception sponsored by the Maryland
Technology Development Corporation
Wednesday, September 14, 2005
6:30 AM - 8:00
Registration and Continental Breakfast
7:30 –7:50
Introduction
Dr. J. Scott Deiter, Naval Surface
Warfare Center
at Indian Head, and
FLC Mid-Atlantic Regional
Coordinator
7:50 – 8:50
Panel Session: Technology Transfer Strategic
Planning, Agency View
Chair: John Emond,
Interagency Collaboration Coordinator, Innovative Partnership Program Office,
Exploration Systems Mission Directorate, NASA
Many federal agencies have “roadmaps” or other
strategic analyses that foster comprehensive planning and provide guidance on
the most effective near, mid and long term efforts for the agency to achieve
its goals, both mandated and internally derived. These goals take into
account changing national priorities, budget resources that wax and wane, and
emerging technologies. As federal agencies are also mandated to carry
out technology transfer, the process of disseminating research and technology
to external communities (academia, other government agencies, industry) as
well as making use of external community research and technology development
advances for agency objectives, underscores the importance of technology
transfer to also be viewed as proactive, not reactive,, with its own
strategic planning approaches. The two panels of federal agency
representatives will examine technology transfer from a viewpoint of
strategic planning, including near/mid/long term objective identification, metrics
development and analysis to measure progress against expectations.
- Frank Schowengerdt,
Director, Innovation Partnership Program Office, Exploration Systems Mission Directorate, NASA
NASA’s exploration mandate is
ambitious both in scope and in the resources required, to complete the
International Space Station, return to the Moon, and undertake human
exploration of Mars. This monumental
task will be achieved through a number of efforts including strategic
planning to attain and sustain support from key NASA stakeholders (Congress,
the Administration, professional societies, general public), and to ensure
the exploration journey is made affordable in part through leveraged
partnerships with academia, other government agencies, and the private
sector. This presentation will
highlight the role that strategic planning and partnership development plays
in supporting NASA’s mission goals while advancing the objectives of NASA’s
mission partners.
- Richard J. Brenner, Assistant Administrator of
ARS for Technology Transfer, USDA, Agricultural Research Service
The Agricultural Research Service
(ARS) conducts research on approximately 3,000 projects at over 100 locations
on 22 broad national programs. Many
research projects are conducted in cooperation with universities
(co-locations of ARS laboratories) and private sector corporations. ARS has been delegated authority by the
Secretary of Agriculture to administer the patenting program for ARS and the
patent license programs for all intramural research conducted by the U.S.
Department of Agriculture (USDA). ARS’s Office of Technology Transfer (OTT) has the
responsibility for protecting intellectual property, developing strategic
partnerships with outside organizations, and performing other appropriate
activities that effectively transfer ARS technologies to the
marketplace. Technology transfer is
complicated by a number of issues including low profit margins in
agriculture, globalization of companies and strong international competition,
controversies related to public acceptance of genetically modified foods as
safe, diminishing research resources for the public sector, and conflicting
policies reflected in regional (university) and national economic
mandates. This presentation will
highlight several components of the strategic planning for USDA technology
transfer focusing on (1) internal customer service to ARS scientists and
program managers, (2) broadening the technology transfer activities to
include other USDA agencies, (3) enhancing opportunities to serve other federal
agencies through development of biobased products
for economic security, (4) and new directions in strategic public / private
partnerships to enhance state and national economic development.
- Terry Lynch, Licensing/CRADA Officer, National
Institute
of Standards &
Technology
NIST is an unusual federal agency in
that its primary mission has always
been to support, and work closely with, U.S. industry. A direct
result of
the mission is that the planning, research, and transfer of NIST of
intramural science and technology take place in close collaboration with
U.S.
industry and standards organizations. Strategic planning for
technology transfer is not a stand alone activity to be rationalized with
other strategic planning activities, but is rather and automatic, integral
component of all Laboratory, division, group and individual strategic and
performance plans.
8:50 – 9:20
Office of
Naval Research Investment Strategy
Lynn Torres, Head, Industrial & Corporate
Programs Department, Office of Naval
Research
An
Overview of S&T and R&D Portfolio Opportunities at ONR
9:20 – 9:50
DTTOs: Turn Licensing Activity into T2 Agreements
Blake Sajonia,
President, and Christina Frain, VP Marketing,
TRSG, Inc.
Based on the concept of an Op Order, a Discrete Technology
Transfer Objective (DTTO) is a tool and a method that helps a tech
transfer team clearly define goals within day-to-day activities, and thereby
increase the odds of closing agreements. DTTOs are
easy to implement, simple to use, completely adaptable, and proven
effective. No special software is required. Learn how to add DTTOs to your office tool kit.
9:50 – 10:10
Break
10:10 – 11:40
Panel Session:
Outreach: The Challenge of Communication for Technology Transfer
Chair: Krishna (Balki) Balakrishnan, Marketing
Group Leader NIH Office of Technology Transfer
The federal government
has a wide diversity of agencies: in terms of mission, infrastructure and
human resource capabilities, size of agency (which includes the size of its
workforce), etc. Despite this wide variance in agency makeup and
objective, all agencies share some common goals. One of the most
consistent goals of federal agencies (in fact, a goal for organizations in
general) is to be responsive to the needs and concerns of its
stakeholders. For federal agencies, there are several stakeholders:
legislative and executive branches of government, professional associations
affiliated with a given agency’s mission, and the general public. The
outreach panel will discuss the importance of outreach to these stakeholder
communities in a time of shifting federal priorities, budget constraints,
technology/communication advances, and other factors that may aid or
challenge an agency’s efforts to communicate what the agency does, why it is
done, and how such efforts may benefit the stakeholder including benefits to
the general public.
- Janelle Turner, Outreach Coordinator,
Innovation Partnerships Program Office, NASA
- Tara Weaver-Missick, Director
of Marketing, USDA-ARS
Outreach & Communication:
Challenges in Technology Transfer.
This is an overview of the Agricultural Research Service technology
transfer marketing efforts, information management challenges, technology
alerts, changing priorities, branding and marketing tips.
- Pam Porter, Director, Office of Research and
Technology Applications, National Security Agency
Outreach:
The Challenge of Communications for Technology Transfer. This presentation covers NSA’s domestic technology transfer program, its mission,
challenges, education, communications and process for qualifying partners.
11:40 – 12:00
UTEK Technology Transfer
Services
Alon Vogel, J.D., Vice President, UTEK Corporation
UTEK facilitates the transfer of innovative technologies
from federal research laboratories and universities while allowing research
institutions to receive 100% of the royalties. Our unique process is
called U2B®. UTEK identifies and assists in the acquisition
of external technologies for clients, and is prepared to finance the
acquisition of such technologies on behalf of commercial clients in exchange
for their equity. UTEK leverages its relationships with hundreds of
research institutions worldwide to transfer proprietary technologies with
potential commercial applications to companies seeking product
differentiation resulting in a strategic marketplace advantage.
12:00 – 1:30 PM
Lunch
Luncheon Presentation: NASA’s Vision and Impact
Dr. Roger Crouch,
Astronaut and Lead for Higher Education for NASA’s Exploration Systems
Mission Directorate and Senior Scientist for the International Space Station
Dr. Roger Crouch will present NASA’s exploration
vision. He will also show how
technology drivers and requirements of robotic and human exploration goals
will have a bearing on technology development/terrestrial benefits on earth.
1:30 –3:30
Panel Session: Technology
Transfer Capacity
Building Efforts in
Developing Countries and its Impact on Global Health & Agriculture
Chair:
Dr. Luis A. Salicrup, Senior Advisor for International Activities, Office
of the Director/Office of Technology Transfer, NIH
Institutions in
developing countries are beginning to increasingly become more involved in
R&D and technology transfer activities of all types, including protection
of intellectual property, licensing,
public-private partnerships and economic development. However, the numbers of individuals located
in these countries with training in technology transfer remains low. A panel of speakers from U.S.
Government agencies and a non-profit organization will discuss
1. The training needs in developing countries, potential impact on
the U.S., and how organizations in the U.S. and abroad can assist in capacity
building efforts related to health & agriculture research &
technology, 2. Training programs & activities that are currently
underway, 3. Possible domestic programs/models that have replication
potential abroad, 4) Lessons learned and next steps.
- Eileen Herrera, International Affairs Specialist,
Agricultural Research Service, USDA
Look through this window
on ARS USDA activities in the international arena, including cooperative
international research, visits, correspondence, agreements, meetings and
other information on international activities. International partnerships in agricultural
research support capacity development in countries from Russia to Nigeria.
Building
Fellowships: This is a presentation of the AAAS Science & Technology
Policy Fellowship Program and how it is used in the NIH Office of Technology
Transfer to further international objectives.
- Sipho Mtsweni, Council for Scientific Industrial
Research
This is
a discussion of South
Africa’s Council for Science &
Industrial Research and its role in capacity building in 24 African
countries.
- Scott M. Smouse,
International Coordination Team Leader, National Energy Technology
Laboratory, DOE
International Energy &
Environmental Technology Transfer Activities:
A Remarkable History of Cooperation in India. For more than 20 years, DOE's
National Energy Technology Laboratory has worked collaboratively with the
U.S. Agency for International Development in India to showcase U.S. energy
and environmental technologies, products, and services to enable better use
of the country's indigenous coal and biomass resources and to demonstrate new
fossil energy technologies for clean, efficient power generation. This
successful relationship has strengthened the capabilities of a number of
governmental, private sector, and academic institutions within India to meet
the present and future challenges generating adequate electricity to sustain
the country's rapid economic development.
These achievements have been grounded in open cross-cultural communication,
mutually shared hard work, and a burning desire for success.
3:30 – 3:50
Break
3:50 – 5:30
Panel Session: Evolution of
University Technology Commercialization: Lessons for Federal Laboratory
Technology Managers
Chair: Brian Darmody, Associate VP of R&D
& Economic Development, U of Maryland
Since passage of the Bayh-Dole Act twenty-five years ago, universities have
reformed public laws, created new organizations, and developed
venture-related institutional strategies to better exploit university-owned
technology and broaden outreach to the private sector. Lessons from the
academic world, as well as parallel strategies for implementation by federal laboratories, will be examined.
- Carolyn E. Green, Director, Office of Enterprise Development, Health Sciences, University of Pittsburgh
- Jill A. Tarzian
Sorensen, Executive Director, Licensing & Technology Development, Johns Hopkins University
- Frederick Provorny,
Visiting Law School Professor, University of Maryland School of Law and
Director, Maryland Intellectual Property Legal Resource Center
The Maryland
Intellectual Property
Legal Resource
Center (“MIPLRC”) was established to
provide free intellectual property and business legal services to emerging
technology companies in Maryland
and those outside the state that wish to establish a presence here. Assisting Federal research facilities to
find commercial applications for their technologies and providing legal and
other professional assistance to those companies that wish to bring these
applications to market is crucial to the economic future of Maryland and other states. Located in technology incubators throughout
Maryland and affiliating with schools of business, engineering, and other
relevant disciplines, MIPLRC is seeking to create a model for
trans-disciplinary collaboration that can help Federal facilities identify
commercial opportunities, assess market potential, and work collaboratively
to assist licensees or spin-off companies to proceed in a strategic fashion
toward commercialization.
5:30 – 6:00
Recovery Period
6:00 – 8:00
Dinner
Hot Technologies Contest
Thursday, September 15, 2005
6:45 AM - 7:45
Continental Breakfast
7:45 – 8:05
Accelerating the
Commercialization of Research Technologies at the University of Illinois
Shalini Dewan, Technology
Commercialization and Transfer Specialist, National
Center for Supercomputing
Applications, University
of Illinois
Using both a recently launched web based technology
transfer tool and working in tandem with the Office of Technology Management,
researchers are accelerating their technologies into targeted Government
needs.
8:05-8:25
Implementation of a Royalty Compliance Program
Karen H. Wang, Sr. Vice
President and Judy Ann Byrd, Vice President, Intellectual Property Management
& Finance (IPM&F)
After the license
agreement is signed, how can you be certain that you’re organization is
collecting all the revenues its due? This presentation will outline the steps
to implement a royalty compliance program – from program creation to actual
implementation – that any size organization can adopt. Examples
of recent successes will also be discussed.
8:25-9:00
“Elevator Speech” Session
Chair: Steve Fritz, TEDCO:
the Maryland Technology Development Corporation
- 10 minutes
- 1790 Analytics
Anthony
Breitzman, Principal
and Director of Research. For many years, patent citation analysis has been used as
a quantitative tool for evaluation. In recent years, citation linkages
have been found to be useful in technology transfer and licensing.
At its most basic, citations can be used to find which patents within a
portfolio might be most attractive to other organizations, and which
organizations might be most interested in a group's technology. More
recently, 1790 Analytics has developed tools for more difficult problems
within the licensing community, such as: Which of my patents might be
useful outside of my core industry/technology? Are there potential licensees
that work in similar technologies, but do not directly cite my patents?
Who might be interested in licensing my recent technology, which has not yet
had an opportunity to be cited in later patents? This talk will discuss
the use of citation analysis, the 1790 N-Degree analysis technique, and a
number of interesting projects that have used citation analysis successfully
in technology transfer.
- 5 minutes
- Regional Partnerships for Technology Commercialization
Susan
Evatt, Senior Director, Technology Commercialization
Services, Ben Franklin Technology Partnership
An overview of the Ben Franklin
Technology Partners / Southeastern PA
approach to technology led economic development, with lessons learned and
examples of evolving regional partnerships for technology commercialization.
Unlike many traditional tech transfer models, BFTP's
approach is company-centric, focusing on company client relationship
development, needs assessment and identification of resources: capital and
expertise needed for growth. By developing resource
networks, the organization fosters dynamic relationships among
companies, institutional and private investors, research institutions and the
university community.
Joanne
Brown
- 5 minutes
- DDR&E's R&E Portal
Margaret
Brautigam, Technical
Information Specialist, DTIC
The DTIC R&E Portal is introduced
as and entryway to DOD's S&T business.
All DOD / DOD Contractors are invited to register for the R&E
Portal. All FLC members are to partner
with DDR&E.
- 10 minutes
– DoD TechMatch
Robert
Barrett, West Virginia High Technology Foundation
DoD TechMatch, a Department of Defense (DoD)
Partnership Intermediary, is a web-based information system designed to
provide business opportunities to anyone interested in working with the DoD. As a free service, users can register on DoD TechMatch where they select
keywords that match their areas of interest, along with the types of
information they wish to receive, such as opportunities from FedBizOpps and Grants.gov. Matching opportunities are
pushed to you every business day via e-mail, so you spend less time looking.
Small businesses can benefit from the Small Business Innovation
Research (SBIR) and the Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs,
both of which can be found on DoD TechMatch and pushed to you upon their release.
SBIR solicitations come out quarterly, and can be excellent funding
opportunities for small businesses. STTR solicitations are released
annually the first of February and are geared for small businesses who work
directly with researchers at universities and other research
institutions. Along with these business opportunities, you can find DoD patents available for licensing for use in the
commercial market. DoD TechMatch
provides a listing of R&D test facilities located at DoD
laboratories all across the country, as well as calendar events, success
stories and important resources and related links.
9:00 – 9:30
The Business Realities of Technology Transition
Dan Pitkin,
NIST Manufacturing Extension Partnership
The ultimate challenge to the entire technology
transition process is achieving business viability as demonstrated by market
acceptance and customer purchase and use of new products. The business
value proposition is the final determinant for successful transition of new
technologies, so early understanding and focus on this critical factor is
essential. PI's, ORTAs, T2 professionals,
Partnership Intermediaries, small manufacturers, and MEP field agents all
play key roles in transitioning technologies to new products for target
markets and customers, under business conditions that favor product
acceptance, sales growth and profitability throughout the value chain.
9:30 – 9:50
Educational Partnership Agreement for Virginia Demonstration
Project
Lorraine Flanders, Manager, Office of Research and
Technology Applications, Naval Surface
Warfare Center
Dahlgren Division
This program is between the Naval
Surface Warfare
Center, Dahlgren Division and Stafford County, Virginia
Schools. The Virginia Demonstration
Project is part of N-STAR (Naval Science and Technology for America’s
Readiness), a science and technology workforce development program that is
sponsored by the Office of Naval Research.
N-STAR aims to increase the number of students who earn university
degrees in science, mathematics, engineering, and technology. Believing that
interesting students in the study of these disciplines starts at an early
age, the Virginia Demonstration Project was begun in 2004 to give the
seventh-grade science and mathematics students in the Stafford County Public
Schools a supplementary experience focused on how science and mathematics are
used in the work which is being conducted at NSWC Dahlgren. The plan is to
expand this program into other counties and states in the coming years.
9:50 – 10:10
Break
10:10 – 10:30
DOD Processes for Moving Technologies to First
Responders
Susan Zelicoff,
FIRSTLINK, Department of Defense Center of Excellence for First Responders,
located at the University
of Pittsburgh
This presentation shows how FIRSTLINK supports PL
107-314 Title 14 on Homeland Security
10:30-12:00
Panel Session:
How States Leverage Technology Transfer to Encourage Economic
Development
Chair: Ronald W. Kaese, Senior Program Manager, Federal Lab Partnerships, TEDCO: the Maryland Technology Development Corporation Four states discuss their approach to
economic development through technology transfer from university and
government laboratories. The discussion will cover the roles of the
technology originator, the R&D organization, the entrepreneur, economic
development organizations, service providers, and the venture capital
investors.
- Jack Gido, Director,
Economic and Workforce Development, Pennsylvania State
University
This presentation will cover two Pennsylvania programs
that support the panel topic. Keystone
Innovation Zones are designed to encourage the Commonwealth’s research and
development efforts, technology commercialization, and entrepreneurship
through fostering collaboration between institutions of higher education,
economic development organizations, communities and businesses. Pennsylvania’s
Innovation Partnership is a consortium of economic development and business
assistance organizations that help companies secure federal funding to
develop and commercialize technology with an emphasis on SBIR/STTR
opportunities. The presentation will
describe these programs and give examples of their implementation.
- Joseph Allen, Vice President and General
Manager, Intellectual Property Management Group, West Virginia High Technology
Consortium
The state of West Virginia is struggling to diversify
its economy from its traditional reliance on extraction industries (coal,
steel, timber). The Intellectual Property
Management Group (IPMG) located in Wheeling, WV, which is a department of the
West Virginia High Technology Consortium Foundation, assists the Department
of Veterans Affairs, EPA, the Department of Homeland Security and others to
bring new technologies to market.
Passive methods of technology transfer do not work well in rural
states like West Virginia. This talk will present a more aggressive
approach for finding partner companies in “have not” states.
- Dan Mills, Vice President Regional Operations,
Center for Innovative Technologies
How Virginia Leverages Technology Transfer to
Encourage Economic Development: Presentation will review the Center for
Innovative Technology (CIT) field staff services to early stage technology businesses
and associated regional economic development projects. Past technology
transfers to clients will be outlined and present technology transfer methods
regarded as essential will be highlighted. FY05 economic impacts
resulting from this work will be noted.
- Ronald W. Kaese,
Senior Program Manager, Federal Lab Partnerships, TEDCO: the Maryland
Technology Development Corporation
The Maryland
Technology
The Maryland Technology Development
Corporation (TEDCO) was created by the Maryland State
legislature in 1998. TEDCO’s mission is to foster
the development of a technology economy throughout Maryland. TEDCO focuses on seed stage
companies working in collaboration with public labs in Maryland. Our flagship programs are the Maryland Technology
Development Fund (MTTF) and the University Technology Development Fund. TEDCO
also manages federal facility programs modeled after the MTTF. These programs
are tailored to meet each facility’s needs: NAVAIR Technology
Commercialization Initiative, Aberdeen Technology
Transfer Initiative, and Fort
Detrick
Technology Transfer Initiative. This
presentation provides overviews and performance metrics.
12:00 – 1:30 PM
Lunch
Awards
Presentations
1:30 – 2:30
Panel Session: Government Inventor Ethics and
Conflict of Interest Issues in Commercializing Government Inventions
Chair: Terry Lynch, Licensing/CRADA Officer, National Institute of Standards & Technology
This session will look at how
different agencies are addressing tech transfer -related ethical
issues. Panelists will address grass roots situations they have
encountered and how/if they were resolved. It is intended that the
session be highly interactive.
- Richard J. Brenner, Assistant Administrator,
Assistant Administrator of ARS for Technology Transfer, USDA,
Agricultural Research Service
Within the federal agriculture
research community, ethics issues have become increasingly complex over the
past several years. Recruitment of
scientists from industry and entrepreneurial startup firms associated with universities
has required a heightened vigilance and the need to develop a number of
approaches to remedy conflicts of interest.
Furthermore, many of the 100 ARS research sites are co-located at
universities and many of the federal scientists have adjunct faculty
status. Expectations of universities
vary, and in some instances create substantial ethical issues. This presentation will cover (1) examples
of issues and resolutions pertaining to existing IP portfolios of new federal
employees, (2) the processes used in ARS to evaluate conflicts of interest
for scientists engaged in CRADA research with examples of fully utilizing
research expertise while managing conflicts, and (3) the gray area between
technology transfer and consulting activities.
- Patricia
Lake, National Institute of Diabetes and Diagnostic Kidney Disease
2:30 – 3:00
Court Treatment of Technology Transfer and
Licensing Issues
Richard Gilly, Principal, Intellectual Property & Related
Litigation, Fish & Richardson
Technology transfer, licensing, and ownership
issues under the Bayh-Dole Act continue to be
resolved by the courts. What lessons can be drawn from recent
court decisions, and how can strategies and agreements be structured to avoid
disputes--or to increase the chances of a favorable resolution in the event
of a dispute?
3:00 – 3:20
University/Government Teams for Education Spinning
Off a New Company
Lawrence Aronhime, Carey Program
in Entrepreneurship and Management, Center for Leadership Education, Johns Hopkins
University and Benjamin Gibbs, Baltimore Shipping
Technologies LLC.
We describe the growing cooperation between the
Center for Leadership Education at the Johns Hopkins University and the
Office of Tech Transfer at the Naval Surface Warfare Center, Indian Head
Division. The purpose of these
interactions is to provide entrepreneurial opportunities for undergraduate
students while developing a framework whereby technologies emanating from
Indian Head may be commercialized. We
further describe the successful formation of Baltimore Shipping Technologies LLC by a
group of students, their successful application to license a technology from
Indian Head, and their subsequent attempts to commercialize the technology.
3:20 – 4:20
Panel Session: Technology Transfer Strategic Planning,
Lab View
Chair: John Emond,
Collaboration Coordinator, Innovative Partnership Program Office, Exploration
Systems Mission Directorate, NASA
This session will mirror the Strategic Planning Session
that started the program yesterday, except it will derive from the
perspective of the labs instead of the agency top-down view.
- Laurie Arrants,
Technology Development Administrator, Office of Science Director,
Institute of Neurological Disorders & Stroke, NIH
Strategic planning is not simply an
agency only, top down directional guide and resource allocation tool.
If done properly, the strategic plan is a tool for every level of an
organization to have input, to initiate and clarify directives, and to
reconcile objectives with resources.
The National Institute of Neurological
Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) is the primary
neuroscience Institute (Laboratory)
whose mission is to reduce the burden of neurological disease—a burden borne
by every age group and every segment of society worldwide. To
accomplish this goal the NINDS supports and conducts research, both basic and
clinical, on the normal and diseased nervous system, fosters the training of
investigators in the basic and clinical neurosciences, and seeks better
understanding, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of neurological
disorders.
The National Institutes of Health
(NIH) is an agency
comprised of 27 independent Institutes and Centers, most housed in the
Washington/Baltimore region. At the Agency level, the NIH Roadmap (http://nihroadmap.nih.gov/index.asp
) identifies the most compelling medical research opportunities in three main
areas: new pathways to discovery, research teams of the future, and re-engineering
the clinical research enterprise. The NIH Blueprint for Neuroscience Research
reinforces ongoing NIH efforts to increase collaborative research and
information-sharing among the 14 NIH Institutes and Centers that conduct or
support research on the brain and nervous system (www.neuroscience.nih.gov/ ).
A technology transfer program cannot
be all things to all people nor should it be today
what it was yesterday since the markets and politics change frequently.
So now is the time to put your strategic plan on paper, distribute it, live
by it, and keep it as a living document since “Forever is composed of Nows” ( Emily Dickinson).
- Sharon Borland, Office of Technology Transfer
and Outreach, U.S.
Army Cold Regions Research Laboratory, U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center
The Engineer
Research Development
Center of the US Army Corps
of Engineers was formed in 1999 to consolidate the command and support functions
of seven distinct laboratories scattered across four geographic sites. The
role of the ERDC Technology Transfer Office as it relates to the overall
USACE and ERDC strategic goals will be presented. The technology transfer
function was transformed in 2001 into a centralized function to support the
ERDC. This organization change has resulted in improved abilities to support
the ERDC strategic goals. In addition, the ERDC implements a technology
transfer plan that supports the Army and DOD strategies for technology
commercialization. I will highlight some successes of technology partnering
in support of agency strategic goals.
- Charles Schlagel,
Director, Office of Technology Transfer, Naval Medical Research
Center
The intent of Congress has essentially
remained the same for many years: through licensing and Cooperative
Research and Development Agreements (CRADAs)
industry can gain access to DoD technologies and
further develop them into commercial products from which economies of scale
can be realized, resulting in lower cost DoD
components for military applications. How well we as ORTAs do that depends, in large part, on how well we have
done our Strategic Planning. But, unless we have paid attention to the
long-range plans of our Headquarters and interpolated technology transfer
into their strategic plans, we are doomed to failure. This afternoon we
will discuss the interpolation of strategic planning at the lab with those of
our headquarter organizations.
4:20 – 4:25 Wrap
Up
Dr. J. Scott Deiter, Naval Surface
Warfare Center
Indian Head, & FLC Mid-Atlantic Regional Coordinator
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