# Presentation: 585230

## Industrial Innovation

**and**
**Partnerships**

**Kesh Narayanan**
**Division Director**

## IIP Strategic Direction

_**Vision**_
- To be the pre-eminent federal resource driving the expansion of our **nation’s innovation capacity by stimulating partnerships** among industry, academe, investors, government and other stakeholders.
_**Mission**_
- IIP will enhance our nation’s economic competitiveness by catalyzing the **transformation of discovery into societal benefits** through stimulating partnerships and promoting learning environments for innovators.

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## Industrial Innovation and Partnerships

**Cooperative**
**Research Centers**

**Partnerships **
**for Innovation**

**Grant Opportunities**
**for Academic**
**Liaison with**
**Industry**

**Office of **
**Industrial**
**Innovation**

**Industrial Innovation and Partnerships**

**Small Business**
**Innovation**
**Research**

**Small Business**
**Technology**
**Transfer**

**Division Director**

**American**
**Competitiveness**
**Initiative**

**Notes:**
The Industrial Innovation and Partnerships Division is positioned to contribute to Innovation through Partnerships. There are four clusters aligned to connect the academic institutions with large industry, small business, state government, community colleges and schools.
The IUCRC covers the breadth of engineering. We also have strong connection with the CISE directorate.
GOALI program originated with the Engineering Directorate and continues to provide incentives for academic grantees to partner with the industry.
PFI is the youngest program in here that we manage for the whole NSF.
The OII houses both SBIR and STTR that we manage for NSF. Sister agencies as well as the small business community continue to recognize the key role we play as the originator of SBIR and the only one to offer broad technology topics.
We believe we are positioned strategically to contribute to the ACI as I will illustrate with examples next.

## Industry/University Cooperative Research Centers (I/UCRC)

**Center for Sensors and Actuators U. C.- Berkeley / Dust Networks -  **Wireless sensors called “Smart Dust” that can track troop movement or traffic density for example.

- Hayward, Calif., – September 14, 2006 **– Dust Networks**, (_[www.dustnetworks.com](http://www.dustnetworks.com/)__), one of the recipients of The Wall Street Journal's 2006 Global Technology Innovation Awards._
- Chris Pister, Student-Faculty-Founder

**Notes:**
The IUCRC at UC-Berkeley is a leader in MEMS technology that has created ‘Smart Dust’. This 1 mm3 sensor has both defense and civil applications. Most of the sensor space is in battery and solar cell. The heart of the device with a laser and CCD camera is much smaller.
The IUCRC center has spawned a small business Dust Networks that was a recipient of WSJ Global Technology Innovation award.

## Grant Opportunities for Academic Liaison with Industry (GOALI)

**Penn State University / Neenah, Wheland, & Navistar Foundries** - an advanced oxidation* process for foundries that enhances “green sand” performance in the casting process and diminishes air emissions.

- *SonoperoxoneTM  combines O3, H2O2 and high-powered acoustics to generate advanced oxidants in the water used by a foundry

**Notes:**
Foundries needed to control VOC from green sand metal casting to meet environmental regulations. The industry developed a process of pumping oxidants in to water that seemed to work but didn’t know why. The Penn State GOALI project showed that more VOC were adsorbed as a result of increased pore volume. They were able to further increase the efficiency by adding underwater plasma treatment of water. This clearly has implications on American Foundry’s competitiveness.

## Partnerships for Innovation (PFI)

**Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU) / Concrete Industry Management** –Expand to Arizona State University, California State University–Chico, and New Jersey Institute of Technology. Develop on-line courses, establish a “state-of-the art” laboratory, leverage NSF funding with concrete industry patrons* to produce qualified graduates for the very large construction industry.

- *Concrete Industry leaders are pledging $1M annually for the next 4-5 years for each of the partner universities.

**Notes:**
MTSU was a leader in producing baccalaureate students majoring in concrete with minor in business. PFI is expanding that to 3 other universities with a pledge from the concrete industry to contribute $1M for each of the universities in the next 4 to 5 years. This would increase the supply of workforce to the very large construction industry.

## Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR)Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR)

**eSpin Technologies –** Partnered with Tennessee to move polymeric nanofiber research from a laboratory scale to a manufacturing facility. Filtration potential cuts across automotive, aerospace, healthcare and other industrial customers.

**Notes:**
eSpin is a SBIR grantee in the emerging nanomanufacturing technology. They leveraged assistance from the state of Tennessee to build a manufacturing facility. You can see the size of nanofibers in a mat compared to the human hair. Filtration is the target application. Here is the relative size of blood cell and the fiber mat that could lead to applications in healthcare. However, initial entry will be in the automotive and aerospace as early adopters.

## Economic Impact

## Economic Impact

## Innovation Research Topics

- Biotech
- Synthetic biology
- Electronics
- Quantum Dots
- Robotics in Manufacturing
- Information Technology
- Broadband Enabled Technologies
- Collaboration Tools
- Emerging Opportunities