Dare To Discover

1. Dare To Discover Daniel A. Reed Vice President for Research and Economic Development University Computational Science and Bioinformatics Chair Computer Science, Electrical Engineering & Computer Engineering, and Medicine www.hpcdan.org

2. Discovery! • To give birth to an idea--to discover a great thought—an intellectual nugget, right under the dust of a field that many a brainplow had gone over before. … To do something, say something, see something, before anybody else--these are the things that confer a pleasure compared with which other pleasures are tame and commonplace, other ecstasies cheap and trivial. • The Innocents Abroad

3. Faster, faster, faster … • Rapid, unrelenting globalization • Social, economic and technological disruption • Economic disintermediation and consumerization • Supply chain optimization and cost management • Mobile, global workforce • Freelancers follow the opportunities, often working remotely • Rising educational attainment needs • Global competition for the most talented and educated • Emerging economies in the East • Majority of middle class expansion is in China and India • Huge global debt saddling the U.S. and the EU • Slow and painful recovery from massive deleveraging • Rising natural resource competition • Emerging economies driving scarcity • Global environmental and economic impact

4. U.S. research universities: punctuated equilibrium Tuition and Fees Science: The Endless Frontier 1945-1950 National Defense Education Act of 1958 Federal research funding Quo Vadis? Industrial research Revenue State funding Time Civil Rights Act of 1964 GI Bill of 1944 Morrill Act of 1862 (land grant universities) fortitudinevincimus!

5. Public research universities: a new compact • Knowledge creation and global reach • Lifelong education and skills refresh • Economic development and innovation • Global and regional competitiveness • Complex problems collaboration & insights • New partnerships with business Academia Government Industry

6. Some research-specific themes • Federal research funding • Looking forward, probably flat • But, reallocation to match priorities • Sequestration still looms • Multiple scenarios • Multiple institution collaborations • Faculty access • Facility and data sharing • Rising administrative research burdens • Faculty and institutions • Reporting, export control • Health care reform • Clinical and research interplay • Cost shifting and partnerships • Politicization of research • Federal and state scrutiny • Breakdown of bipartisan support • Facilities and research • Operating budgets and new starts • National prioritization • The unfunded, tenured professor • Increasingly common, with big implications

7. Strategy and culture • We (and others) are resource challenged • Resource limitations are an opportunity, not just a challenge • Creating more resources will require some philosophically new approaches • Taking some calculated risks and increasing our risk tolerance • Fostering broad perspectives about interdependencies and relationships • Dream big, not small (Burnham’s maxim) • Reward innovation and creativity at all levels • Recognize and reward novel thinking (Edison’s maxim) • Seek forgiveness, not permission • Integrate all available assets • Avoid silos and local optimizations, and share first

8. Emerging themes • Strive to be “of the people, by the people, for the people” • Overcome perception and (sometimes) reality of isolation and elitism • Address pressing societal challenges and needs • Change our compact with the state and society • Doing so will pay enormous dividends • Politically, socially, economically and intellectually • Outreach and engagement practicalities • Statewide presence and accessibility • Museums in the digital age • Societal problems and cultural insights • Services and connections • Workforce needs and STEM • Entrepreneurship and enablement

9. Gladly learn and gladly teach • But albeit that he was a philosopher,Yet hadde he but little gold in coffer,But all that he might of his friendeshentOn bookes and on learning he it spent,And busily gan for the soules prayOf them that gave him wherewith to scholay.Of study took he most care and most heed.Not one word spoke he more than was need,And that was spoke in form and reverenceAnd short and quick and full of high sentence.Sounding in moral virtue was his speech,And gladly would he learn and gladly teach. • The Canterbury Tales, General Prologue

10. Emerging themes • Research enterprise writ large • Futures and envisioning meetings • Define, rather than respond to agendas • Greater resource sharing • Reduce duplication in research cores • Cluster hiring coupling • Regional, national & international partnerships • End-to-end perspectives and agendas • Humanities, arts, policy • Science, technology, services • Envisioning and imaging • Everyone must “give to get” • The big questions drive change • Change creates capability and resources • Liberal arts • Illuminate the human condition • Connect to social issues and needs • Highlight societal relevance • Partner with foundations and others • Science and engineering • Diversify funding and scale • Enable applied and industrial research • Health affairs • Translational and personalized medicine • Cultural and economic shift • Informatics leverage

11. Emerging themes • Strategic communications • Branding and ROBs • Dare to Discover: The Hawkeye Way • Media training, social media, multimedia • Collateral materials, spokespersons • Futures and envisioning conferences • Federal relations • Three levels of agenda influence • Respond, craft, define • Brainstorming and ideation • Initiatives and single institution responses • Faculty mentoring, agency watch • AAU, APLU, CIC, ASTRA, TFAI, CoC, … • Core facilities and sharing • Efficiency studies and coordination • Cost exposure and allocation • Startup packages and sociology • Share first, locally, regionally, nationally … • Economic development • Coordinated strategy and ROB • University, area, state, region, national/international • State/regional engagement and economic dev • Rebalance shallow and deep IP foci • Examine entrepreneurship/licensing balance • Industrial partnership and engagement • New value proposition and shared understanding

12. Bridging university and business cultures • Universities • Education and ideation • Longer time scales • Business • Implementation and execution • Shorter time scales • Students are one bridge, but not enough • They carry ideas and enthusiasm • We need practical, engaged partnerships • Professional, intellectually bilingual staff • Appropriate reward metrics and mutual commitment • Translational R&D, applying new ideas to meet business challenges

13. Rethinking university economic development • Embrace business sensibilities • Recognize the value of money, business cycles and timelines • Implement business metrics and processes • Educate faculty/staff/students appropriately • Distinguish economically valuable from intellectually interesting • Enhance technology transfer • Coordinate licensing/patents and entrepreneurship • Rebalance shallow and deep intellectual property development • Increase creation of rapidly commercializable intellectual property • Triage licensable technology lists and make assessable and connected • Recognize the value of grouped licenses and patent fences

14. Rethinking university economic development • Accelerate entrepreneurship • Encourage faculty/staff/student startups via culture and policy • Leverage incubation facilities and UI Research Park • Increase cross-fertilization across assets • Build applied R&D partnerships • Target real world business problems • Develop staff and trade secret protections • Support student internships and company evaluation of students • Take the engagement across the Creative Corridor and the state • Project skills, expertise and information • Partner with local, state and regional economic development organizations

15. Building a 21st century Iowa economy • Play a new game • Unique assets combined in innovative ways • Believe and be bold • Embrace change and act at transformative scale • Think globally, act locally • Success is not defined just by the borders of Iowa • Collaborate and share credit • Coordinated state, university and private partnerships My commitment to the state • A new, more muscular engagement from the University of Iowa My invitation and challenge • Let’s work together and dare mighty things Remember, it’s for her

16. Renaissance teams: consilience • Disciplinary • Interdisciplinary • Multidisciplinary

17. OVPR overview • Research administration • Sponsored Programs • Human Subjects • Animal Subjects • Conflict of Interest • Hazardous Materials • Economic development • UI Research Foundation • UI Research Park • JP Entrepreneurial Center • Outreach and engagement • Museums • Obermann Center for Advanced Studies • PPC • OSA • State Hygienic Laboratory • Research centers • CBB • CGRER • Consortium Substance Abuse • CHEEC • Scientific instrumentation • FY 12 State funding - $19.2 M • FY 12 Total Expenditures - $62M • FTE – 452 employees

18. External funding: FY1970-FY2012

19. American Recovery & Reinvestment Act (ARRA) $41M $33M $1.5M $5M M M M M M

20. Total awards by source FY12 Low in Department of Energy, National Science Foundation and Department of Defense

21. Sequestration: AAAS estimates

22. A regional comparison

23. Total awards by college: FY12

24. OVPR royalty revenue

25. OVPR enrichment FY12: $2,990,964

26. Seed grants ($810,000)

27. General education funded programs

28. Discretionary programs supported by patent and license revenues

29. Support for economic development

30. Discussion