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

是次工作坊的主题是：“加强校企政合作，提升国家竞争力”。这项拨款将用于举办一个研讨会，讨论计划、执行和报告一个以结果为导向的研讨会，该研讨会旨在评估当前的政府-大学-工业研究、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人早就认识到，战略性的产学研合作对于推进一个国家的商业化组合、整体经济竞争力和福祉至关重要。虽然很少有人质疑这一假设，即从想法到创新的过程是由健康的大学-产业关系支持的，但这种类型的战略和高价值合作通常很难实施。为实现其目标，讲习班的结构将围绕以下方面进行：活动前的调查，收集待解决的问题；介绍2012年10月gurr /UIDP研讨会的主题和发现/材料；审查联邦机构和国家科学基金会具体发挥的作用；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；建立新的模型。研讨会将汇集一批具有战略意义的思想领袖，他们有能力影响其组织的变革，并开展能够影响公司和大学（与政府一起）行为方式的试点、示范和实验。许多被邀请的人都有实施大胆方法的经验，并提供一个中立的对话环境，这将有助于冷静地考虑这些试点项目，并提出新的试点项目。在研究影响大学与产业合作的问题方面，美国国家科学院一直扮演着关键角色。通过政府-大学-产业研究圆桌会议，美国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了一个孵化器。利用国家科学院的GUIRR和UIDP项目为开展国家实验提供了一个高可见度的平台，以促进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.