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State S&T Policy and Economic Development: Strategies for Increasing Federal R&D Performance

State S&T Policy and Economic Development: Strategies for Increasing Federal R&D Performance. Presented by: Dan Berglund President & CEO SSTI. SSTI. Mission

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State S&T Policy and Economic Development: Strategies for Increasing Federal R&D Performance

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  1. State S&T Policy and Economic Development:Strategies for Increasing Federal R&D Performance Presented by: Dan Berglund President & CEO SSTI

  2. SSTI • Mission • Enhance initiatives, particularly those at the state level, that encourage economic growth through the application of science and technology • Advance cooperation in science and technology between the states and the federal government • Funders • Carnegie Corporation • MEP, EDA • More than 60 states & affiliates

  3. Elements for Tech Cluster • Intellectual infrastructure • Spillovers of knowledge • from universities • from informal networks • Physical infrastructure • Technically skilled workforce • Capital • Entrepreneurial culture • Quality of life

  4. Developing a Strategy • Must be tailored to state's unique/specific challenges • Research capacity, composition, and competencies • Attitudes toward federal contracting, partnering, info sharing, etc. • Support infrastructure capacity, strengths and limitations • Public/private financial support potential (particularly given budget environment) • Borrowing successful approaches elsewhere doesn't work unless you are addressing same challenges as those states -- key is to know why things work before copying

  5. Understanding the Challenges • Inventory who is receiving what from whom • Where is the money going? • Who is receiving it? • What is working? • Determine trends in support • Understand what is occurring at the federal level • Consider ATP, SBIR award data

  6. Understanding the Challenges (cont'd) • What aspects of the federal R&D process are strengths or weaknesses? • Strategy design should be influenced by these factors. • Proposal assistance efforts should be tailored to the trends in debriefings. Answers needed for: • number of proposals submitted • number of companies putting in proposals and who • types of proposals and to which agencies • success ratios • results of the debriefings -- critical! • contract negotiations and award timing • follow-on activities: • what happens with the R&D that is funded? • what happens with the R&D that isn't funded?

  7. Understanding the Challenges (cont'd) • Characterize state's industrial communities (by sector) • Openness to working with federal government? universities? each other? • Educational credentials and credibility • Knowledge of federal R&D procurement, politics, earmarks… • Technical and logistical sophistication

  8. Alternate Approaches Different issues warrant different approaches • Challenge: Awareness and proposal development in geographic areas with limited technological competence Model: Wyoming SBIR Initiative (Chris Busch) • Challenge: Proposal development assistance and federal R&D support with no/limited public financial supportModel: WISBIC • Challenge: Encouraging pursuit of federal R&D through monetary incentives Models: Proposal preparation grants in various states; CalTIP matching grants

  9. Alternate Approaches (cont’d) • Challenge: Overcoming distance, unfamiliarity with federal labs, agency personnelModels: Arizona DOC trips to labs, Maine SBIR field trips, Ohio’s Wright Lab/NASA days • Challenge: Fostering entrepreneurship Model: GA ATDC Faculty Commercialization Research Program, OK Tech. Commercialization Center • Challenge: Successful Phase II conversion or Phase III commercializationModel: Mentoring initiatives

  10. For More Information Dan Berglund State Science & Technology Institute 5015 Pine Creek Drive Westerville, OH 43081 614/901-1690 berglund@ssti.org To sign up for SSTI Weekly Digest and Funding Opportunities go to: http://www.ssti.org

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