Building Links between Academic Research and the Private Sector

AAAS Leadership Development Conference

September 21 - 23, 1997

Basin Harbor Club, Vergennes, Vermont (PHOTO)

AGENDA

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Sunday, September 21

(Lodge lobby)
11:30-1:00 Conference registration & check-in.

Welcome and Introduction

(Town Hall)

1:00 Welcome.

• Dr. Al Teich, Director, AAAS Directorate for Science and Policy Programs.
• Dr. Dan Dwyer, Project Director, Maine EPSCoR Program
• Dr. Chris Allen, Project Director, Vermont NSF EPSCoR Program (PHOTO)
• Mr. Jim Hoehn, Program Director, NSF EPSCoR Program

1:20 Introduction.

• Dr. J. Scott Hauger, AAAS Research Competitiveness Program, Conference Moderator
  

Session I. Enabling Faculty Entrepreneurship

(Town Hall)

1:30-2:45 Overcoming cultural barriers to academic - industrial collaboration.

• Dr. Denis Gray, Associate Professor of Psychology, North Carolina State University.
• Dr. Jeffrey Callahan, Director of the University of Rhode Island Ocean Technology Center.
• Dr. Robert W. Morton, Vice President, SAIC.

3:00-4:15 Overcoming administrative barriers to academic - industrial collaboration.

• Dr. Robert J. Swenson, Vice President for Research, Creativity and Technology Transfer, Montana State University

4:15-4:45 Check into lodge (Lodge main office)

4:45-6:00 Intellectual property issues and academic - industrial collaboration.

• Dr. Louis P. Berneman, Managing Director, University of Pennsylvania, Center for
  Technology Transfer.
• Dr. Kathleen A. Denis, Vice President, Technology Development, Allegheny Health,
  Education and Research Foundation.

Keynote

(Terrace room)
7:00 Dinner. Speaker.

• The Honorable Douglas Racine, Lt. Governor of the State of Vermont. (PHOTO)

9:00-11:00 (Optional) Informal entertainment at the Redmill.

Monday, September 22

7:00-8:30 Breakfast at convenience of participants (Main dining room).

Session II. Targeting Relationships with Small Business

A. Plenary session
(Town Hall)
8:30-9:00 Academic-industrial collaboration through the NSF Small Business Innovative Research Program (SBIR).

• Michael Crowley, National Science Foundation.

9:00-9:45 Setting the stage. Case of a Vermont partnership. Problems we have faced.

• Dr. Norm Alpert, CEO, Bio-Tek Instruments, Inc., Winooski, Vermont.

9:45-10:30 Setting the stage: Case of a Maine partnership. Problems we face.

• Miguel Ferrer-Roig, Vice-President, Aegis Corporation, Belfast, Maine. (PHOTO)

10:30 Break and snack (Sunporch). (PHOTO)

10:45-11:30 Funding University - Small Business Technology Development Partnerships

• Paul M. Kelly, President, Zero Stage Capital, Inc., Cambridge, Massachusetts

B. Breakout sessions (workshops):

1. Identifying or creating small business partners.
Co-chairs: Dr. John Evans, Dr. Jake Ward
AAAS staff liaison: Mr. Kei Koizumi
(Session 1 always meets in Palisades room)

2. Funding university-small business technology development partnerships.
Co-chairs: Dr. Christopher Allen, Dr. Terry Shehata
AAAS Staff liaison: Dr. Scott Hauger
(Session 2 always meets in Vermont room)

3. Establishing and operating collaborative academic-industrial R&D centers.
Co-chairs: Dr. Paul Huyffer, Dr. Dan Dwyer
AAAS Staff liaison: Dr. Robert Rich (PHOTO)
(Session 3 always meets in Boardroom)

11:30-12:15 First session for breakout groups.

12:15-1:30 Lunch (Terrace room) Speaker.

Topic: Conflict of interest issues in university small business partnerships.

• Dr. Mark S. Frankel, Director, Scientific Freedom Responsibility and Law Program, American Association for the Advancement of Science.

1:30-2:30 Second session for breakout groups.

2:30-6:30 Free.

Dinner at the convenience of participants between 5 p.m and 6:30 p.m (Redmill).

6:30-8:00 Third session for breakout groups.

8:00-10:00 (Optional) Informal entertainment at the Redmill.

Tuesday, September 23

7:00-9:00 Breakfast at participant convenience (Main dining room).

Session III.

Synthesis and Reporting
(Town Hall)
9:00-9:30 Group 1 report. Identifying or creating small business partners.

9:30-10:00 Group 2 report. Funding university-small business technology development partnerships.

10:15-10:45 Group 3 report. Establishing and operating collaborative academic-industrial R&D centers.

10:45-11:15 Break, snack and check-out time (Break on Sunporch; Check- out in main office)

11:15- 1:00 Vermont and Maine workshops (Ranger room): Charting directions for university links with the private small business sector**. Includes working lunch. Participants from other states are invited to meet with the Vermont or Maine delegations.

• Vermont Workshop. Dr. Chris Allen, Chair
• Maine Workshop. Dr. Dan Dwyer, Chair

1:00 - 2:00 Future directions for Building Links between Academic Research and the Private
Sector:

• Report of the Maine workshop.
• Report of the Vermont workshop.

2:00 Adjourn

** This is a joint session with the Vermont annual state EPSCoR meeting.