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Panel V: Clustering Around the Lab - Best Practices in Federal Laboratory Commercialization
Panel V: Clustering Around the Lab - Best Practices in Federal Laboratory Commercialization
Pages 101-113
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SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES AS A CATALYST FOR REGIONAL GROWH J Stephen Rottler Sandia National Laboratories Over the past five years, Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, New Mexico, has expanded its mission well beyond national security, said Dr.
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Rottler noted. But bio-fuels and bio-defense relate to its broader national security mission.
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Sandia also engages in programs to contribute to development of New M exico's economy. They include the Sandia Science and Technology Park; a small- business assistance program in collaboration with the state of New Mexico and Los Alamos National Laboratory; an "open campus" in Livermore, California, dedicated to green energy and transportation; and a program called Entrepreneurial Separation to Transfer Technology.
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It authorizes the Department of Commerce to offer $7.5 million in competitive grants for feasibility studies for development and construction of new science parks and expansion of existing ones. It also provides construction loan guarantees of up to 80 percent, with a maximum loan of $50 million per project.
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Plans are to renovate the launch complex to support NASA's future exploration programs, as well as commercial space operations. The budget also provides funding to use the International Space Station as a national laboratory for researchers and for technology development.
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"Of all the NASA Centers, KSC has the highest percentage of executed licenses compared to patents issued for the last five years," he noted. Prominent examples of the NASA Innovative Partnerships Program are: · Lunar Analog Field Demo of ISRU46 Lunar Prospecting.
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Having an Exploration Park adjacent to the Kennedy Space Center draws on research that NASA is already doing and makes profitable use of excess facilities as the space center makes a transition from the Space Shuttle program to the future. "It is the right time for this to happen," he said.
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The lab also had contracts with companies such as UniSolar, First Solar, and Sun Power "that now are the difference between the United States being a follower and being a leader in the world in terms of technology in photovoltaics," he said. Without that leadership, "we would have nothing in PV module manufacturing." Currently, Chinese-made crystal silicon photo voltaic products "are wiping the slate clean worldwide because of their low-cost advantage." The only reason the United States enjoys any edge in photovoltaics is technology that NREL helped nurture, he said.
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Cabana of the Kennedy Space Center sees himself as "a steward of a critical resource for our future, and I want to make sure that it is maintained so that we have the ability to explore." Even though the International Space Station has only been functioning as a national laboratory for a year, when three more crew members were added, it already is making social contributions.
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109-58) contained several provisions to promote technology transfer and commercialization by federal laboratories, including establishment of a technology transfer coordinator at the Department of Energy, a working group of laboratory directors, an energy commercialization fund, a technology infrastructure program, and a small-business assistance program.
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"It's about building relationships to help you think about creative opportunities, like we did with New Mexico." "It wasn't like we walked up to our state legislature and said, `Hey, how about a tax credit of $4.8 million for two national laboratories that are fully funded by the federal government.' They had to see this was going to provide a positive return to the state." Audience member Mary Ann Hammond of Business Oregon, the state of Oregon's economic development agency, commented that the state would like to expand its work with the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)
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She asked whether national labs should be required to make development part of their mandate.
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Legislators are very concerned now about the recession and creating jobs. Federal labs should show them how many jobs science parks create, he said, and bills should be attached to a larger legislative package, "as long as they are not extravagant."
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