Appendix B
Workshop Agenda
Industry-University Research Collaborations: Opportunities, Expectations, and Impediments
November 28-30, 1995
Duke University
Durham, North Carolina
Industrial Research Institute and the Government-University-Industry Research Roundtable and the Council on Competitiveness
The number of research partnerships between universities and companies is increasing rapidly in response to the growth of knowledge, our quickly evolving marketplaces, and the limited growth in funding. Yet, partnerships remain experiments and are raising many practical as well as policy-related questions.
Forty-one percent of the Nation's fastest growing companies have partnerships with colleges and universities—and boast productivity rates 59 percent higher than their peers without such relationships. However, of those companies that use college and university resources, about half say barriers limit their partnership's effectiveness . . .
Source: Coopers & Lybrand (1995)
This workshop agenda will concentrate both on the important and urgent needs of companies and universities resulting from recent and increasing economic pressures, and on those collaborative approaches that can attain the objectives of both entities.
Workshop Schedule
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1995 |
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5:00 pm |
Networking Reception |
Center Room |
5:55 |
Introductory Statements |
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Jean Bonney, Director, External Research Program, Digital Equipment |
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Welcoming Address |
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Charles E. Putman, Sr. Vice President of Research Administration, Duke University |
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Keynote Addresses |
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Ralph Snyderman, Chancellor of Health Affairs, Duke University Medical Center |
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University-Industry Partnerships in Biomedical Research & Development |
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C. William Gear, President, NEC Research Institute, Inc. |
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Academic and Industrial Research: Can we find a common path? |
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7:30 |
Buffet Dinner |
Center Room |
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1995 |
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7:15 am |
Continental Breakfast |
Ambassador Allen |
7:55 |
General Session - Welcome from Moderator Charles Hamner, President, North Carolina Biotechnology Center |
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8:05 |
Case Presentation - Hoechst-Celanese-Rutgers University-North Carolina State University-University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill |
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9:15 |
Break |
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9:30 |
Case Presentation - Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Laboratory |
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10:45 |
Case Presentation - Cabot Corporation-Pennsylvania State University-Pennsylvania-Ben Franklin Partnership |
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Noon |
Group Lunch and Speaker |
Center Room |
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Richard L. Thornburgh, former Governor of Pennsylvania |
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Partnerships in Science & Technology: New Paths to Prosperity |
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1:25 pm |
General Session |
Ambassador Allen |
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Case Presentation - University of Rochester Center for Electronic Imaging Systems |
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2:45 |
Break |
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3:00 |
Break-Out Sessions - (see lists for each breakout group and room) |
As Posted |
6:30 |
Reception/Dinner and Speaker |
Center Room |
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Denis Gray, Associate Professor of Psychology, North Carolina State University |
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Peter Marinos, Duke University |
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NSF-sponsored Cooperative Research Centers: a successful model |
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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1995 |
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7:15 am |
Breakfast |
Center Room |
7:55 |
Break-Out Sessions - (see lists for each breakout group and room) |
As Posted |
10:00 |
Break |
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10:15 |
Break-Out Reports |
Center Room |
11:30 |
Wrap-up Report - J. Peter Bingham, President, Philips Laboratories |
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12:30 pm |
Adjourn |
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