By National Research Council, Policy and Global Affairs, Technology, and Economic Policy Board on Science, Committee on Competing in the 21st Century: Best Practice in State and Regional Innovation Initiatives, Charles W. Wessner
Responding to the demanding situations of fostering neighborhood development and employment in an more and more aggressive international economic climate, many U.S. states and areas have built courses to draw and develop businesses in addition to allure the expertise and assets essential to improve nearby innovation clusters. those country and locally established projects have a huge diversity of targets and more and more contain higher assets commitments, usually with a sectoral concentration and infrequently in partnership with foundations and universities. fresh experiences, even though, have mentioned that a lot of those efforts lack the dimensions and the regular dedication wanted for achievement. This has brought on new projects to coordinate and focus investments from numerous federal companies to improve examine parks, enterprise incubators, and different suggestions to inspire entrepreneurships and high-tech improvement within the nation's areas. knowing the character of innovation clusters and public regulations linked to winning cluster improvement is consequently of present relevance.
Clustering for twenty first Century Prosperity identifies most sensible practices with reference to pursuits, buildings, tools, modes of operation, synergies throughout inner most and public courses, investment mechanisms and degrees, and evaluate efforts. The committee, lower than the Board on technological know-how, know-how, and fiscal coverage (STEP) is reviewing chosen country and neighborhood efforts to capitalize on federal and country investments in components of serious nationwide wishes. This overview contains either efforts to reinforce present industries in addition to particular know-how concentration parts comparable to nanotechnology, stem cells, and complex power so that it will greater comprehend software targets, demanding situations, and accomplishments.
As a part of this learn, the committee is convening a sequence of public workshops and symposia concerning liable neighborhood, nation, and federal officers and different stakeholders. Drawing from discussions at those symposia, fact-finding conferences, and commissioned analyses of latest kingdom and nearby courses and know-how concentration parts, the committee will as a consequence produce a last document with findings and proposals fascinated with classes, matters, and possibilities for complementary U.S. rules created through those country and local initiatives.
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So is investment in new R&D facilities. The National Cancer Institute recently announced it will build a headquarters at Johns Hopkins’ campus in Montgomery County, Maryland. Ultimately, Mr. Melissaratos contended, investment in university research remains the most powerful catalyst for creating new businesses and industries and achieving economic growth. West Virginia’s Mix of Models West Virginia University (WVU) is developing three complementary approaches to growing innovation clusters, President James Clements explained in his presentation.
That compares to an average of four per year for the previous decade. Licensing revenue is rising steadily. So is investment in new R&D facilities. The National Cancer Institute recently announced it will build a headquarters at Johns Hopkins’ campus in Montgomery County, Maryland. Ultimately, Mr. Melissaratos contended, investment in university research remains the most powerful catalyst for creating new businesses and industries and achieving economic growth. West Virginia’s Mix of Models West Virginia University (WVU) is developing three complementary approaches to growing innovation clusters, President James Clements explained in his presentation.
West Virginia has a history of more than 40 years in technologies used to identify individuals through distinguishing biological traits,55 Dr. Clements noted, and WVU has had a research partnership with the Federal Bureau of Investigation for more than a decade. Interest by law enforcement surged after the 2001 terrorist attacks. WVU established one of the nation’s first degree-granting programs in biometrics. Morgantown then became home to CITeR,56 a National Science Foundation center that serves as a hub for identification technology research conducted around the country.