PFI: Oregon Technology Entrepreneurship Consortium

这个名为俄勒冈州科技创业联盟(O-TEC)的创新伙伴关系(PFI)项目，整合了寻求通过协同整合俄勒冈州研究型大学、多学科研究生教育项目、技术转让和商业化努力、以技术为导向的企业界、俄勒冈州纳米科学和微技术研究所(ONAMI)以及太平洋西北国家实验室(PNNL)的能力来刺激新经济发展的各种互补各方。它的总体目标是创建一个多边关系的基础设施，能够建设一支专业的劳动力队伍，加速技术商业化，创建成功的公司，作为全州经济发展的引擎。O-TEC的推动力和催化剂是技术创业计划(TEP)，这是俄勒冈大学(包括伦德奎斯特商学院、法学院、文理学院、技术转移办公室)和PNNL之间长达五年的合作。该项目为商业、科学和法律专业的研究生提供接触UO和PNNL技术的机会，并获得带薪暑期奖学金，以进行技术评估、市场评估、融资战略和启动以技术为导向的企业的计划。OTEC超越了TEP的传统技术推动模式，通过以下方式制定市场拉动战略：(1)通过O-TEC的衍生/SpinIn组件，让学术科学家及早与俄勒冈州的科技公司接触；(2)向前景看好的早期大学产生的技术提供概念验证补助金，这些技术需要资金来证明其可行性；以及(3)种子期风险投资赠款，以创办衍生自O-TEC项目的衍生公司，这些项目被发现具有非凡的商业潜力。O-TEC的一个关键要素是与ONAMI的合作，后者结合了俄勒冈州立大学的微技术专业知识、俄勒冈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将利用这些属性加快实现该州建立自给自足的技术创业系统的目标的进展。拟议的合作伙伴关系的好处包括汇集俄勒冈州各地的智力资本，有可能促进新的以技术为导向的业务；将该州定位为协作型经济发展战略的领导者；展示从实验室到市场的经济可行路径；利用新的州税收抵免立法(SB-853)为O-TEC提供资金并确保其长期生存；以及建立大学、行业、州政府和国家研究实验室之间的区域和国家合作模式。合作伙伴：包括俄勒冈大学尤金分校(牵头机构)、俄勒冈州立大学(OSU)和俄勒冈纳米科学与微技术研究所(ONAMI)；国家实验室：太平洋西北国家实验室(PNNL)(能源部研究实验室)；私营部门：奥斯汀资本管理公司、惠普、IBM、英特尔、Tektronix、Electric Geodesics，Inc.(EGI)、奥林匹克风险投资公司和Schwabe，Williamson&Amp；Wyatt。

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.