Keynote Address Summary Special thanks to WPSX for converting and hosting the audio and video files. John Cummins, assistant chancellor, University of California, Berkeley Partnerships among business, government and academe are increasingly fashionable and effective.
Partnerships are essential for discovery and innovation to take place.
Increasing complexity of processes, products and problems demands a diversity of talent and perspectives. Partnerships and their members need to innovate and need to recreate themselves in light of changing circumstances. We must encourage flexibility, creativity and agility. Partnerships will be innovation-driven. Information technology has changed our lives and our institutions.