University research & economic development track at SSTI's 7th annual conference

国家科学技术研究所（SSTI）举行了一系列会议，目的是加强高等教育与国家、区域和地方以技术为基础的经济发展努力之间的伙伴关系。今年，第七届年会将于2003年10月在华盛顿西雅图举行。会议将有来自全国各地的联邦、州、学术和地方政策制定者以及与标准与税收政策制定、实施和评估相关的从业人员参加。许多州的领导人都认识到强大的大学在研究、创新和劳动力发展方面的重要作用，因为他们面临着当前州财政紧缩的挑战。面对这些挑战，必须在学术和研究机构、经济发展实践者和私营部门企业之间培养更具创新性的伙伴关系。是次会议为加强政府与大学及业界的伙伴关系，以及讨论鼓励科技经济发展和科技商业化的新策略，提供了一个绝佳的平台。作为会议的一部分，一个特别的“大学专题”将激发有关国家对大学投资和大学研究商业化的讨论。会议这一部分的目标是：1)提高对大学在建设技术型经济中所起重要作用的认识和支持；2)吸引更多的大学领导和研究管理人员参与，并与他们的州、地方和区域经济发展伙伴建立更牢固的工作关系；3)为大学提供一个论坛，讨论在提高大学技术商业化、建立研究型企业、鼓励教师创业和培养未来的领导者和工人方面共同面临的挑战和问题；4)促进州际和州内合作，以实现研究和经济发展的共同目标。

The State Science and Technology Institute (SSTI) has held a series of conferences with the goal of strengthening the partnership among higher education and state, regional and local technology-based economic development efforts. This year, the seventh annual conference will be held in Seattle Washington in October 2003. The conference will involve federal, state, academic and local policy makers and practitioners from across the country who are associated with S&T policy development, implementation and evaluation. Many state leaders are recognizing the important role of strong universities in research, innovation and workforce development as they face the challenges of current state fiscal constraints. As a result of these challenges, more innovative partnerships must be fostered among academic and research institutions, economic development practitioners and private sector businesses. This conference provides an excellent venue to forge stronger government-university-industry partnerships and discuss new strategies for encouraging tech-based economic development and technology commercialization. As part of the conference, a special "university track" will stimulate discussions about state investments in universities and commercialization of university research. The goals of this portion of the conference are to 1) increase recognition and support for the important roles universities play in building technology-based economies; 2) attract more university leadership and research administrators to participate and foster stronger working relationships with their state, local and regional economic development partners; 3) provide a forum for universities to discuss shared challenges and issues in increasing commercialization of university technology, building the research enterprise, encouraging faculty entrepreneurship and preparing tomorrow's leaders and workers; and 4) promote interstate and intrastate cooperation toward common goals for research and economic development.