PFI: Oregon Technology Entrepreneurship Consortium

这个创新伙伴关系（PFI）项目，俄勒冈州技术创业联盟（O-TEC），巩固了互补各方寻求刺激新的经济发展，协同整合俄勒冈州的研究型大学的能力，多学科研究生教育计划，技术转让和商业化的努力;以技术为导向的商业界;俄勒冈州纳米科学和微技术研究所（ONAMI）和太平洋西北国家实验室（PNNL）。 其总体目标是建立一个多边关系的基础设施，能够建立一支专业的劳动力队伍，加速技术商业化，创造成功的公司，作为整个国家经济发展的引擎。 O-TEC的驱动力和催化剂是技术创业计划（TEP），这是俄勒冈州大学（包括伦德奎斯特商学院，法学院，艺术与科学学院，技术转让办公室）和PNNL之间为期五年的合作。 该计划为商业，科学和法律专业的研究生提供UO和PNNL技术，并获得带薪暑期奖学金，以进行技术评估，市场评估，融资策略以及推出技术导向型企业的计划。 OTEC超越了TEP传统的技术推动模式，通过以下方式制定市场拉动战略：（1）通过O-TEC的SpinOut/SpinIn组件，学术科学家与俄勒冈州技术公司早期接触;（2）对有前途的早期大学技术提供概念验证赠款，需要资金证明可行性;及（3）种子阶段创业投资赠款，资助具商业潜力的O-TEC项目衍生出的衍生公司。 O-TEC的一个关键因素是与ONAMI的合作伙伴关系，ONAMI结合了俄勒冈州州立大学的微技术专业知识，俄勒冈州大学在纳米科学方面的优势，波特兰州立大学在纳米结构计量学方面的专业知识，以及PNNL的世界级研究设施和科学家。 O-TEC将充分利用这些优势，加速实现该州建立一个自我维持的技术风险投资体系的目标。拟议的合作伙伴关系的好处包括汇集俄勒冈州的智力资本，并有可能促进新的技术导向型企业;将该州定位为合作经济发展战略的领导者;示范从实验室到市场的经济上可行的路径;利用新的州税收抵免立法（SB-853）赋予O-TEC并确保其长期可行性;并建立大学，行业，州政府和国家研究实验室之间的合作的区域和国家模式。 总之，O-TEC将吸引必要的支持，使这些成功制度化，并为合作经济发展努力提供一个示范性的国家模式。（牵头机构）、俄勒冈州州立大学（OSU）和俄勒冈州纳米科学和微技术研究所（ONAMI）;国家实验室：太平洋西北国家实验室（PNNL）私营部门：Austin Capital Management、Hewlett-Packard、IBM、Intel、Tektronix、Electrical Geodesics公司(EGI)、Olympic Venture Partners和施瓦贝、威廉姆森怀亚特。

This Partnerships for Innovation (PFI) project, Oregon Technology Entrepreneurship Consortium (O-TEC), consolidates a diverse collection of complementary parties seeking to stimulate new economic development by synergistically integrating the capabilities of Oregon's research universities, multi-disciplinary graduate education programs, technology transfer and commercialization efforts; the technology-oriented business community; the Oregon Nanoscience and Microtechnologies Institute (ONAMI); and the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL). Its overarching objective is to create an infrastructure of multilateral relationships capable of building a professional workforce that accelerates technology commercialization to create successful companies that serve as the engines for economic development throughout the state. The driving force and catalyst for O-TEC is the Technology Entrepreneurship Program (TEP), a five-year-old collaboration between the University of Oregon (including the Lundquist College of Business, School of Law, College of Arts and Sciences, Office of Technology Transfer) and PNNL. This program provides graduate students in business, science, and law with access to UO and PNNL technologies and to paid summer fellowships to pursue technology evaluations, market assessments, financing strategies, and plans for the launch of technology-oriented businesses. OTEC moves beyond TEP's traditional technology-push paradigm to develop market-pull strategies through: (1) early engagement of academic scientists with Oregon technology corporations via O-TEC's SpinOut/SpinIn component; (2) Proof-of-Concept Grants to promising early-stage university generated technologies requiring funding to demonstrate viability; and (3) Seed-Stage Venture Investment Grants to launch spinout companies derived from O-TEC projects found to have exceptional commercial potential. A crucial element of O-TEC is a partnership with ONAMI, which combines Oregon State University's microtechnology expertise, University of Oregon's strengths in nanoscience, Portland State University's expertise in nanostructure metrology, and PNNL's world-class research facilities and scientists. O-TEC will leverage these attributes to accelerate progress toward the state's objective of establishing a self-sustaining technology venturing system.The benefits of the proposed Partnership include the pooling of intellectual capital residing throughout the state of Oregon with the potential to catalyze new technology-oriented businesses; positioning of the state to become a leader in collaborative economic development strategies; demonstration of an economically viable path from lab to market; capitalizing on new state tax credit legislation (SB-853) to endow O-TEC and assure its long-term viability; and building a regional and national model for collaboration between universities, industry, state government, and national research laboratories. In summary, O-TEC will attract the support necessary to institutionalize these successes and to offer an exemplary national model for collaborative economic development efforts.Partners: Partners include the University of Oregon-Eugene (lead institution), Oregon State University (OSU), and Oregon Nanoscience and Microtechnologies Institute (ONAMI); National Laboratory: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)(a DOE research laboratory); Private Sector: Austin Capital Management, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Intel, Tektronix, Electrical Geodesics, Inc.(EGI), Olympic Venture Partners, and Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt.