The University of Alabama

Center for Community-Based Partnerships

Public Research University Strategies for Enhancing Regional Innovation:

Building the tool kit

CICEP Summer Meeting

June 17-19, 2008

Sedona, Arizona

 

Chairman Michael M. Crow and the commission’s Executive Committee invite you to the NASULGC Commission on Innovation, Competitiveness and Economic Prosperity (CICEP) summer meeting to be held on June 17-19, 2008 in Sedona, Arizona. 

 

“Public Research University Strategies for Enhancing Regional Innovation:

Building the tool kit"

 

Participating faculty, staff, administrators, business and government leaders will examine the role of public higher education in local, regional and national competitiveness and innovation.   We encourage you to inform your colleagues whose responsibilities touch any of these areas of this important gathering.

 

CICEP (formerly the Commission on Technology Transfer, COTT) has expanded its agenda considerably -- embarking on a two year strategy to develop a “tool kit” of strategies and techniques to appropriately measure and characterize university contributions to innovation. 

 

The summer meeting will continue this effort which began at the NASULGC Annual Meeting in November 2007. The opening session will include a review of the Commission’s progress to date and discussion of the remaining work plan. Sessions that follow will include an in-depth discussion of methodologies that institutions could employ to measure and document their contributions to innovation, why industries locate in certain areas, and how public universities respond to projected workforce needs in particular regions or industries.

 

The conference will continue the Commission’s examination of successful entrepreneurship programs for students and faculty and specific ways in which campuses can partner with state and local government to attract and retain companies and industries, with perspectives from both inside and outside the universities. 

 

We encourage you to register early as the meeting is conceived as working sessions, limited to about 100 people. Registration and hotel information will be forward to you shortly and will be made available on the NASULGC web site www.nasulgc.org 

Preliminary Agenda

 

Tuesday, June 17

 

2:00-5:00 pm    Meeting Registration

 

5:00-7:00 pm  

Session:          WELCOME RECEPTION/OPENING SESSION

                       Where we are. Where we are going.

                       A Review of CICEP activities to date and overview of two 

                       year work plan

Presenters:      Michael Crow, Chairman, CICEP and

                       President, Arizona State University

                       Executive Committee members

 

*** DINNER ON YOUR OWN ***

Wednesday, June 18

8:30 am – 5:30 pm

 

Session:           Defining Innovation Ecologies

                       Continuation of discussion of the evolving role of universities 

                       in  their innovation environment with a focus on what factors drive 

                       industry to particular locations

Presenters:      TBD

 

Session:           Developing Credible Measures of University Contributions to

                       Economic Impact and Regional Innovation Ecologies

                       Presentation and discussion of metric development efforts with a    

                       focus on the experiences of institutions that have attempted to employ

                       particular metric(s)

Moderator:      Dennis Hoffman, University Economist,  Arizona State University

Presenters:      TBD

 

*** Working Lunch – Roundtable Discussions ***

Continuation of discussion of CICEP agenda, toolkit, themes, etc at individual tables.

 

Session:          The Role of Universities in Business Retention

                      Discussion of the role universities can and should play in

                      local/regional/statewide effort to retain innovative companies and

                      industry

Presenters:     Betsy Hoffman, Executive Vice President and Provost, Iowa State

                      University

Others:          TBD

 

Wednesday, June 18

8:30 am – 5:30 pm

(cont.)

 

Session:       Meeting Workforce Needs

                   Presentation/discussion of universities’ role in workforce skills

                   development for both highly skilled and not so highly skilled workers;

                   discussion of how states/regions measure and assess workforce needs

                   and how universities help to address those needs.

Presenters:  TBD

Session:      Entrepreneurship

                  Examples of successful entrepreneurship programs for students and

                   faculty.

Presenters:  Sharon Ballard, President/CEO, EnableVentures, Inc

Others:       TBD

 

*** DINNER ***

Thursday, June 19

8:30 am – 11:00 am

 

Session:     Working Group Breakouts

Breakout sessions will follow-up on each of the preceding presentation sessions.  Each break-out will assess the state of metrics and benchmarks for its respective area and propose next steps to further develop necessary elements of a tool kit to measure universities’ contribution to regional innovation.  The meeting will conclude with reports by each working group.