Fall 1997 Forum Program

Trends in Industrial Innovation: Industry Perspectives and Policy Implications
November 20-21, 1997
Washington, D.C.

Thursday, November 20

Plenary Session
The Federal Role in Industry Innovation Policy
Lewis Branscomb, Aetna Professor of Public Policy and Corporate Management Emeritus, Harvard University

Plenary Session
New Forces in Industrial Innovation
Selby Wellman, Senior Vice President of Corporate Marketing and General Manager of the InterWorks Business Unit, Cisco Systems Inc.

Concurrent Sessions

Global Trends in Innovation
This session reviewed national and international statistics collected by government agencies, trade associations and others on trends in R&D expenditures. New issues that affect the usefulness of traditional statistics on multinational enterprises and outsourcing of innovation were addressed, as was the problem of collecting reliable data to study these trends.

Alden S. Bean, Director, Center for Innovation Management Studies, Lehigh University
John Jankowski, Director, R&D Statistics Program, National Science Foundation
Charles Larson*, Executive Director, Industrial Research Institute Inc.
Dirk Pilat, Senior Economist, Directorate for Science, Technology and Industry, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
Albert H. Teich, Director, Science and Policy Programs, American Association for the Advancement of Science

Industry Maximizing Innovation Through Government and Industrial Partnerships
Partnerships between members of specific industries or between industry and national labs offer unique opportunities for enhancing the innovation process. Case studies focused on the ingredients for successful partnerships between industries and involving government in today’s business environment.

Terry E. Bibbens, Entrepreneur in Residence, Office of Advocacy, U.S. Small Business Administration
Albert N. Link, Department of Economics, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Gregory Tassey*, Senior Economist, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Deborah Wince-Smith, Senior Fellow, Council on Competitiveness

Synergy Between Process and Product: Balancing Growth and Environmental Needs
In some industries, environmental objectives and the ability to comply with regulations can be accomplished via fundamental process changes. This session reviewed recent experiences from several industries.

Darryl Banks, Senior Associate, World Resources Institute
Richard Florida*, director, Center for Economic Development, Carnegie Mellon University
Robert J. Shimp, Associate Director, Worldwide Environmental Quality, The Procter & Gamble Company
Claire Sink, Senior Technology Policy Advisor, Office of Science and Technology, U. S. Department of Energy

Case Studies in Industry Innovation
This session featured a variety of contributed presentations relating to the forum topic.

Who Innovates in Industry: New National Data on Publishing and Patenting Behavior of Scientists and Engineers
Carlos E. Kruytbosch, Senior Policy Analyst, National Science Foundation

Government’s Response to the Competitiveness Problem
James Gover, IEEE Fellow, Sandia National Laboratories; Paul Huray, Former Senior Policy Analyst, President’s Office of Science and Technology Policy; Elias Carayannis, The George Washington University

The SEMATECH-Sandia National Laboratories Partnership: A Case Study
Elias Carayannis, The George Washington University, James Gover, IEEE Fellow, Sandia National Laboratories

The Ceramic Processing Characterization Consortium: An Experiment in Government-Industry Cooperation
Stephen W. Freiman and George Y. Onoda, Jr., Ceramics Division, NIST

The Financial Undertow of Accelerating Technical Advance in U.S. Industry
Donald A. Hicks, University of Texas at Dallas

Tele-Cybernetics: A Proper Political Partnership with Government in Maximizing Industrial Innovation
Danielle Mihram, University of Southern California and G. Arthur Mihram

Factors in Military Technological Innovation: The B-52 Development Program
Mark D. Mandeles, The J. de Bloch Group

Research Universities Responding to a Changing Economy
Many industries are shortening R&D time horizons and more tightly integrating R&D activities into operations. What are the implications of such trends on academic research agendas, what steps are universities taking to accommodate such changes in teaching and research programs, and what is the role of industry in nurturing young scientists?

George Bugliarello*, Chancellor, Polytechnic University
Robert P. Morgan, NAE Fellow/Senior Analyst, National Academy of Engineering
Kumar Patel, Vice Chancellor for Research, University of California at Los Angeles

Implications of Globalization on Innovation Processes
Foreign direct investment (FDI) in research and technology development is increasing, both in the U.S. and abroad. This session examined the implications of recent trends in FDI and in the explosive growth of multinational enterprises on industrial innovation and competitiveness.

Benedicte Callan*, consultant, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (formerly Fellow for Political Economy, Council on Foreign Relations)
Paul Doremus, Senior Analyst, Technology Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce
Proctor Reid, Associate Director, Program Office, National Academy of Engineering
Michael G. Snyder, Director, Pacific Rim Initiative, American Association for the Advancement of Science

State and National Strategies for Promoting Innovation and Stimulating Economic Development
Much of the burden of relating industrial innovation to economic growth falls to the states. What is the role of government in promoting innovation in industries? What policy mechanisms have and have not worked. This session explored the role state legislatures have played in stimulating innovation-based economic growth.

Mark Lang, Executive Director, Northeast Tier, Ben Franklin Technology Center
Walter H. Plosila*, vice president for public technology management, Battelle Memorial Institute(formerly Executive Director, North Carolina Alliance for Competitive Technologies)
Robert G. Templin Jr. , President, Virginia’s Center for Innovative Technology

Private Financing of Discovery and Innovation
This panel explored the current and future role of private capital in financing discovery and movement of technical knowledge to market--from "garage to initial public offering". Entrepreneurs and venturists, "angels," and leaders of investment houses shared their experiences and their perspectives.

Mark Edwards, Managing Director, Recombinant Capital
William R. Hambrecht, Chairman, Hambrecht & Quist, Inc.
Allison A. Rosenberg*, Associate Executive Director, Government-University-Industry Research Roundtable, National Academy of Sciences
Jeffrey E. Sohl, Center for Venture Research, University of New Hampshire

Plenary Session
The Globalization of Research and Development in a Knowledge-Based Economy
Claudine Simson, Vice President for Global External Research and Intellectual Property, Nortel

Friday, November 21

Plenary Session
Industry-University Innovation Engines
William A. Wulf, President, National Academy of Engineering

Concurrent Sessions

Industry Partnerships with Academia: Optimizing the Innovation Process
Case studies contrasted successes and failures in recent industry-academia partnerships and focused on the ingredients for successful partnerships in today’s business environment, including business relationships and intellectual property issues.

John T. Preston, President and CEO, Quantum Energy Technologies
Raymond Seltzer, Vice President, Research Additives Division, Ciba Specialty Chemicals Corp.
Robert M. White*, University Professor, Carnegie Mellon University

The 105th Congress Research and Development Agenda
This session will studied the current congressional agenda for R&D and identify key perspectives in Congress with respect to federal expenditures, tax and trade policy, and other areas that affect innovation in industry.

Ben Cooper*, Executive Director, Association of Oil Pipelines
Frank Cushing, Staff Director, Subcommittee on VA, HUD, and Independent Agencies, Senate Committee on Appropriations
Peter Lyons, Science Advisor, Senator Peter Domenici (R-NM)
Tom Weimer, Staff Director, Subcommittee on Basic Research, Committee on Science, U.S. House of Representatives

unable to attend
Alex Flint, Majority Staff, Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development, Senate Committee on Appropriations
David Garman, Majority Professional Staff, Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, United States Senate

The Evolution of Research and Development within Specific Industries
Strategies for integrating R&D into the company’s broader strategic planning efforts vary from industry to industry. Case studies from several different industries explored these issues.

Rita Colwell*, President, University of Maryland Biotechnology Center
Stephen Gehl, Director, Strategic Synthesis, Electric Power Research Institute
William James, Manager, R&D Coordination and Planning, Procter & Gamble Company
Robert Marlay, Director, Office of Science and Technology Policy, U.S. Department of Energy

Changing Innovation Processes
As part of broader decentralization strategies, many companies are seeking ways to procure innovation more efficiently from sources outside their own R&D departments. This session explored experiences from a variety of industries.

Robert A. Frosch*, President, Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society
Kathleen Kingscott, Public Policy Director, Science and Technology, IBM Corporation
Andrew Odlyzko, Head, Mathematics and Cryptography Research division, AT&T Bell Labs
Philip M. Smith, (presenter) and Michael McGeary, partners, McGeary & Smith

Concurrent Sessions

Industrial Innovation: The Role of Federal Policy
How do Clinton administration policy missions relate to corporate missions in today’s industry? What is the government’s responsibility in maintaining the innovation process? Experts reviewed the current portfolio of tax, trade and other policies, how they stimulate innovation-driven economic growth and whether or not they will succeed.

Claude Barfield*, Senior Fellow, American Enterprise Institute
William Bonvillian, Legislative Director for Senator Joseph I. Lieberman (D-Conn.)
Tom Kalil, Director of Science and Technology, National Economic Council, Executive Office of the President
Graham Mitchell, former Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy, U.S. Department of Commerce

Successful Innovation Strategies in Small and Medium-sized Companies
Many small and medium-sized companies maintain R&D activities that are tightly integrated with operations functions and, hence, are often omitted from reported statistics. Case studies explored distinguishing characteristics of science and technology innovation in such companies.

Kenneth Driessen, Chairman and CEO, MRJ Technology Solutions, Inc.
John W. Holaday, President and CEO, Entremed, Inc.
Harvey Kushner*, President, Kushner Management Planning Corp.
Walter H. Plosila, Executive Director, North Carolina Alliance for Competitive Technologies (NC ACTs)

The Future of National Laboratories
What roles can the national laboratories assume in a post cold war world? This session chronicled recent experiences and explore future scenarios for the labs with a special focus on the potential for industry partnerships.

Dan Hartley*, Vice President, Laboratory Development, Sandia National Laboratories
Peter Lyons, Science Advisor, Senator Peter Domenici (R-NM)
Alexander MacLachlan, Senior Vice President (retired), DuPont
Richard K. Quisenberry, Executive Director, Amtex Partnership
Frank Treppe, Chief Operations Officer, Fraunhofer USA

McGovern Science & Society Lecture
Science and Technology: Foundation for Economic Growth
John H. Gibbons, Assistant to the President for Science and Technology, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy

Plenary Session
U.S. House of Representatives Science Policy Study
The Honorable Vernon J. Ehlers (R-MI), Vice Chair U.S. House of Representatives Science Committee

Plenary Session
Trends in Industrial Innovation: Closing Remarks
Robert Frosch, President, Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society