Leveraging Workshop: Catalyzing University-Industry Engagement to Promote the Nation's Competitiveness

这次研讨会的组织主题是：“通过加强大学-行业-政府的参与来增强国家的竞争力”。这笔赠款提供资金，用于主办一次研讨会，讨论如何规划、执行和报告一个以成果为导向的研讨会，该研讨会旨在评估当前的政府-大学-行业研究、开发和商业化参与模式，并确定值得考虑和测试的新方法。公共和私营部门的领导者早就认识到，战略性的工业/大学(I/U)研究合作对于促进一个国家的商业化组合及其整体经济竞争力和福祉至关重要。虽然几乎没有人质疑这一假设，即创意到创新的过程得到了健康的大学和行业关系的支持，但这种类型的战略性和高价值合作往往很难实施。为实现其目标，讲习班将围绕以下几个方面展开：活动前调查，了解需要解决的问题；介绍2012年10月GUIRR/UIDP讲习班的专题和调查结果/材料；审查联邦机构和国家科学基金会的具体作用；旨在促进合作的区域努力；确定正在进行的和拟议的试点/示范；以及建立新模式。研讨会将汇集一组有能力影响其组织变革的战略性思想领袖，并进行可能影响公司和大学(与政府合作)行为方式的试点、示范和实验。许多受邀者将有实施大胆方法的经验，并为对话提供一个中立的环境，这将有助于冷静地考虑这些试点并提出新的试点。美国国家科学院在研究影响大学与行业合作的问题方面发挥了关键作用。通过其政府-大学-产业研究圆桌会议，国家科学院定期召集来自学术界、企业、政府和非营利部门的思想领袖来研究这些问题，并创建了大学-产业示范伙伴关系，为解决影响部门之间高价值、高回报合作的问题提供孵化器。利用国家科学院、GUIRR和UIDP方案提供了一个高知名度的平台，用于启动国家试验，以促进这三个部门之间的共同创造。

The organizing theme for this Workshop is: "Strengthening the Nation's Competitiveness through Stronger University-Industry-Government Engagement". This grant provides funding to host a workshop on the planning for, execution of, and reporting on an outcomes-oriented workshop designed to evaluate the current government-university-industry research, development, and commercialization engagement model and identify new approaches worthy of consideration and testing. Leaders in the public and private sectors have long recognized that strategic Industry/University (I/U) research collaborations are critical to advancing a nation's commercialization portfolio, and its overall economic competitiveness and well-being. While few challenge this hypothesis that the idea-to-innovation process is bolstered by healthy university-industry relations, the type of strategic and high value collaborations are often difficult to implement. To achieve its objectives, the Workshop will be structured around: a pre-event survey that captures issues to be addressed; presentation on the topics and findings/materials from the October 2012 GUIRR/UIDP Workshop; examinations of what role federal agencies and NSF specifically play; regional efforts meant to spur collaboration; identification of on-going and proposed pilots/demonstrations; and building new models. The Workshop will bring together a strategic set of thought leaders who have the ability to affect change in their organizations and undertake pilots, demonstrations and experiments that can impact the way that companies and universities (in conjunction with government) act. Many of the invitees will have experience implementing bold approaches and providing a neutral environment for conversations will bolster efforts to dispassionately consider these pilots and propose new ones. The National Academies has been a critical player in examining issues affecting university-industry collaborations. Through its Government-University-Industry Research Roundtable, The National Academies regularly has convened thought leaders from academia, corporate, government and the non-profit sectors to examine these issues and created the University-Industry Demonstration Partnership to provide an incubator for addressing matters affecting high value, high return collaborations between the sectors. Using the National Academies GUIRR and UIDP programs provides a high visibility platform for launching national experiments to advance co-creation among the three sectors.