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News & Intelligence. . . . . . '. . . 1-3

Washington Digest. . . . . . . . . .4-7

To the Editor-Faculty Culture. .7

Technology-Based EconomicDevelopment in New York. . . . 8-9

Recent Reading. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Innovators. . . . . . . . . . . . . . ./0-11

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Technology AccessClassifieds. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .22-23

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Interview with DOE'sAlexander MacLachlan. . . . . . .24

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What does the Republican majority want?ScienceCommittee ChainnanRep. Walkerhosts showcases on Capitol Hill of federaltechnologies put to good use, then cuts thefundsand organizationsthat makethe trans-fers possible. . . Now the Republicans havesucceeded in eliminating one of the new-est, most effective offices in the federalgovernment. In a typical symbolic act, theyspecifically targeted and succeeded in ter-minating the jobs ofjust seventeen peoplein theOffice of Technology Partnerships,headed by the redoubtable AlexanderMacLachlan, the dean of U.S. industrialresearch throughhislong serviceatDuPont,and including Roger Lewis, who hasbrought common sense and a welcomesense of humor to the federal tech transfer

processsincethosenow-gloriousdayswhentheRepublicanscontroUedtheWhiteHouse(but not the Congress).

Regular readers know we've alwaysdoubted that the CRADA path truly led totechnology transfer nirvana, but at the veryleast they have helped break down culturalbarriers between labs and industry, for thebenefit of both.

Partly as a result of this office's efforts,the number ofCRADAs signed at DOEhas rocketed to over 1,500, with the part-ner companies contributing as much as$150 million in cash to the labs. Overall,the corporate contributions to these jointresearch projects averaged 57% of the totalcost of $1.5 billion. In other words, the freemarket (are you listening, market fans?)freely chose to spend money to help thegovernment solve public problems, in ex-change for help solving industrial prob-

lems. (And, of course, in CRADAs, no

federal money is paid to these companies.)The good news is that since the Con-

gress did not roll back Stevenson- Wydler,tech transfer will continue, and the Depart-ment should be able to re-seat most if not

all of the staff in the program areas. See ourinterview with Dr. MacLachlan on p. 24.

Remember the good old sober days on thestock market this spring when the expertssaidNetscape's opening price of28, doubleits planned price, was too high-and then itsoared all the way to a ridiculous 58 on itsfiTStday?As wewrite,Netscape has passed170, pulling all other Internet stocks withit. For instance, CMG Information Ser-vices (CMGI), which funded the Lycosspinofffrom Carnegie Mellon this spring,and had traded as low as 10within the year,has touched 90 on.news itmay sell a pieceof I.ycos directly to the public.

Initial public offerings overall are boom-ing again, especially in the fourth quar-ter--certainly where the Web connectionis explicit. More surprising, perhaps, is theboomlet in biotech. After the blows of thelast two years (talk of reforming medicalcare, followed by that string of highly pub-licized clinical trial failures of biotechdrugs), the trend has been partnershipwith big pharma companies-up from152 last year to 246 this year, according toErnst & Young.

The Wall StreetJournal took front pagenotice of the buying spree of the big threeSwiss pharmas, who now have at least 100agreements with U.S. biotech companiesamong them, as well as investments inseveral U.S. venture funds. Naturally, withall this corporate interest, stock prices arebeginning to rebound. . .

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. And it helps that the Food & DrugAdministration has finally begun to easeoff on some burdensome regulations, whichwill save cash-strapped biotech fIrms mil-lions. Under new pressure from Sen. NancyKassebaum (R-Kan.) whose far-reaching billto set approval timetables is still on track, theFDA has agreed to begin treating biotechdrugs and their manufacturers much closer tothe way it treats other pharmaceuticals.Biotech fIrms will no longer need speciallicenses for their manufacturing facilities,nor will each batch of drugs have to beinspected individually. Various paperworkforms will be consolidated, journal articlesthat mention (but don't stress) non-approveduses can be distributed, and the FDA will nolonger review promotional labeling. . . Still,over 90% of 1,311 biotech fIrms surveyed bythe Biotechnology Industry Organization haveno products on the market. . .ACCESS: http://www.fda.gov, http://www.bio.org

How did tiny Fonar win a $110 million MRIpatent infringement verdict from mightyGeneral Electric recently? Our legal corre-spondent Linda Hopkins asked Fonar attor-ney Ronald Schutz of Robins, Kaplan, Millerand Ciresi. One factor: Schutz trained him-

self thorougWy on all the computer and pro-jection systems used in the courtroom, andoutperformed the GE attorneys, who some-times fumbled. Being able to bring up docu-ments, higWight important pictures or sen-tences and move from one machine to an-

other smootWy, convinced the jury, at a sub-conscious level, Schutz says, that Fonar wasthe more sophisticated of the two companies,and therefore more likely to have inventedthe disputed technology.

By the way, do you know how Fonaruncovered the potential infringement in therust place? Staff noticed performance claimsidentical to Fonar's in GE sales literature and

trade show displays.

Promega is trying to get the support of uni-versities in its lawsuit with Roche over

PCR. A letter from the president of the com-pany to the presidents of universities includesa Roche document released in court thatnames researchers from 40 universities that

"directly infringe" the Roche PCR patents.

The Promega letter claims that if Rochewins, research on patented technologieswill cease at the universities.

In a speech in Pittsburgh this fall, LesterThurow, thecolorfulandcontroversialecono-mist from MIT, addressed the issue of thefederal role in researchand developmentbylooking at the value of the dollar over time.Given that big companies now set the valueof a dollarat zeroeight years into the future,they need to keep their R&D payback per-iods relatively short. In fact, he said,one ofthe rust things new IBM Chairman LouisGerstnerdidwasto cancelallR&D activitiesthat had payback periods longer than sixyears.

The Alternative Agricultural Research andCommercialization (AARC) Center, anindependent agency of the U.S. Dept. ofAgriculture, has invested $50,000 inBioenergy, Inc., of St. Paul, MN.

Bioenergy was formed to commercializeDr. John Foker's ribose research at the Uni-

versity of Minnesota. Ribose, a sugar thatoccurs naturally in the body, can be derivedfrom com and beets. It is a building block ofadenosine triphosphate (ATP) and has beenshown to play a part in shortening recoverytime from heart attacks and open heart sur-gery. The university licensed the technologyto Bioenergy in 1988. Congress formedAARC in 1990 to invest capital in rums thatare developing industrial products based onagricultural, forestry and animal by-productsand to attract and leverage private capital inthose rums. The investment in Bioenergywas AARC's rust biomedical investment.

Bioenergy has attracted research fundingfrom the Minnesota Com Research and Pro-

motion Council and the Minnesota Agricul-tural Utilization Research Inst. (MAURI). Ina joint research project with the Hormel Inst.of Austin, MN, the company is developingproduction methods for ribose. (See TechExpress News, 8-14-95.)ACCESS: Toby Kimball, Bioenergy,612/647-9370; Ron Buckh~t, AARCCenter, 202/690-1624.

TheSemiconductor Research Corporation(SRC), a consortium of 60 semiconductorcompaniesandgovernmentagencies,hasan-nouncedan increase in membership fees to

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help its university research programs growby 30 percent over the next three years.

The North Carolina-based consortium's

action was in response to a study conductedby the Semiconductor Industry Association(SIA) that showed a research need of ap-proximately $770 million. The study calcu-lated government and industry ~pending atabout $270 million-a research gap of$500million that threatens the U.S. semiconduc-

tor industry's global competitiveness. Thegoal to increase university semiconductorresearch funding, based on the SIA study,was put at $150 million, to be reached overthe next several years.

SRC currently funds precompetitive re-search at 50 institutions across North America.

Many universities, however, are unhappywith highly restrictive, and apparently non-negotiable, intellectual property rights termsin SRC' s standard contract. The SRC embeds

royalty-free, world-wide, non-exclusive rightson everything, with the right to sublicenseany and all rights to members, and requiresseparate signatures from every investigatorinvolved.

Even worse, it also includes language thatsays the university will not assert any back-ground rights against any of the memberswhich would prevent use of the technologydeveloped from the contract. The language issuch that any IP, licensed ornot, which wouldbe needed, is fair game. It is not even re-stricted to the principal investigator's group.The universities that have signed these agree-ments are apparently hoping nothing sub-stantive emerges from the research. Butdoesn't that make SRC's policies counter-productive?ACCESS: Larry W. Sumney, president &CEO, SRC, 919/541-9400.

. . . .A Cincinnati Enquirer reporter is citing theauthority of the Indiana Freedom ofInforma-tion Act as he asks universities for detailedinformation on the status of inventions

funded by the NIH, and if the university isinvolved in any lawsuits. . .

The Licensing Executives Society (U.S. &Canada) Board of Trustees, trying valiantlyto drag their members into the nineties (the1990s), voted to establish a web site througha contract with Knowledge Express DataSystems, after KEDS demonstrated a work-

ing prototype and updated it overnight duringthe recent annual meeting. The site will havea public portion open to all, which will helppublicize the Society (the third purpose in itsnew strategic plan), and a private, password-protected area for members only.

Assuming LES and KEDS succeed innegotiating terms, access will be free for theapproximately 3,900 members (just 44% law-yers), and KEDS will even provide free cop-ies of a World Wide Web browser, if needed.Online Committee co-chair Brian 0 'Riordan

writes that the current dial-up access willcontinue only until "the advantages of theWeb Site become clear." The site includes

archives of the journal of the Society (LESNouvelles), technology needs of membercompanies, and an enhanced directory ofmembers, listing their interests. The proto-type is open, but under construction.ACCESS: http://www.keds.com/les/

President Clinton awarded national medals

for achievement in science and technologyto individuals and companies in recognitionof significant contributions to the nation'sscience and technology base. At the cer-emony, members of the administration railedagainst plans in the Congress to cut R&Dfunding.

"This [science and technology] is a keyfeature of the President's economic strategyas we plan for a red-hot economy in the 21stcentury," said presidential spokesman MikeMcCurry. '

Economic advisor Laura Tyson said, "Weare concerned that the actions in the congres-sional budget resolutions threaten a 50-year,bi-partisan consensus on supporting federalinvestment in science and technology. Underthe guise of balancing the budget, the Repub-lican proposals would have us cut-cut by athird in real terms, federal support on tech-nology. We really think it is exactly thewrong time to cut investment in R&D. Ourmajor competitors around the world are in-vesting more in R&D, not less."

Said science advisor John Gibbons: "What

we know is wrong is the allegation that if thegovernment goes down, the private sectorwill go up. There is absolutely no evidence ofthat anywhere in the world."

The individual recipients of the NationalMedal of Science are: Thomas Cech, Univ.of Colorado, for genetics discoveries; HansDehelmt, Univ. of Washington, for workwith subatomic particles; Peter Goldreich,

California Inst. of Technology, for work inastrophysics; Isabella Karle, U.S. Dept. ofthe Navy, Naval Research Lab, for work oncrystal structures; Louis Nirenberg, NewYork Univ., for achievements in mathemat-ics; Roger N. Shephard, Stanford Univ., forwork on perception in humans; HermannHaus, Massachusetts Inst. of Technology,for research on quantum electronics and forteaching; Alexander Rich, MassachusettsInst. of Technology, for work in genetics.

The recipients of the National Medal ofScience and Technology are: The team ofPraveen Chaudhari, IBM's Thomas J.Watson Research Ctr., Jerome J. Cuomo,formerly with ffiM, and Richard Gambino,for their work on optical storage technology;Edward McCracken, Chairman and ChiefExecutive Officer, Silicon Graphics, for workin 3-D computing and supercomputing; JohnPepper, Chairman and CEO, Procter &Gamble, for applying advanced technologiesto consumer products; Livio D. DeSimone,Chairman and CEO, 3M, for many innova-tions that were successfully commercializedand for aggressive international expansion ofthe company; Sam Williams, Chairman andCEO, Williams International Corp., for in-ventions, innovations, and entrepreneurshipin small gas turbine technology; AlejandroZaffaroni, ALZA Corp., for pioneering workin drug discovery and the pharmaceuticalindustry.ACCESS: OSTP, Rick Borchelt, 202/456-6018. . . . .Armstrong World Industries' BuildingProducts Operation in Lancaster, PA, andCorning Telecommunications ProductsDivision in Corning, NY are the 1995winners of theMalcolm Baldrige NationalQuality Award. . . . ."A comprehensive science and technol-ogy agreement by 1997" is one of thecommitments made by President Clintonand European Commission PresidentJacques Santer at their recent summitmeet-ing in Madrid. I don't know what it means,either.ACCESS: Ella Krucoff, European Union,202/862-9540. .

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I t is well known that members of Congress, while profferingeach other the gentlemanly courtesies of parliamentary proce-

dure, are rude to witnesses and other outsiders. Take, for example,Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-Calif., Chairman of the House En-ergy and Environment Committee, who became peeved at criti-cism from Vice President Albert Gore on a hearing he held toexamine the validity of the science behind federal policies andmandates.Thecongressman shotoff apolite letter to Gore invitinghim to testify at a hearing on global climate change, along with atesty press release to the media entitled: "Making His Own WordsRing True?" The press release highlighted some of Gore's "con-troversial pronouncements on global warming and ozone, includ-ing a prediction of a future in which children would have to hidefrom the sun when out at play. Thankfully, Gore's ozone emer-gency never materialized," the press release said. The Vice Presi-dent did not testify.

W bile Congress hammers away at technology funding, theCommerce Department's National Institute of Standards

and Technology has added 17projects to the list of grantees. Thecost-shared funding goes to programs aimed at helping smallmanufacturers adopt technologies that will reduce or elimi-nate pollution. The awards were given in conjunction with theagency's Manufacturing Extension Partnership and the Environ-mental Protection agency. Funding from NIST and EPA for theprojects total $6.1 million.

Eleven of the awards went to projects that integrate environ-mental services into Manufacturing Extension Centers, five wentto projects that help develop environmentally related technicalassistance tools and techniques, and one went to a pilot for anational industry-specific pollution prevention and environmen-tal compliance information center.ACCESS:NIST, Jan Kosko, 301/975-2767

P resident Clinton has vowed to veto legislation that wouldabolish the Department of Commerce. So far, however, he

hasn't gotten thechance, sincethe Congress chose not to includeCommerce dismantling language in its budget resolution bill,as it had planned. Congressional advocates of scrapping theagency-the most vocal of whom is Sen. Spencer Abraham, R-Mich.-have indicated that they hope to attach language to otherlegislation, or even pursue it as a separate bill. In the meantime,however, the Senate agreed to fund the controversial Ad-vanced Technology Program at $25.3 million while the Housedid not fund the program at all.

Also headed for a veto was the Defense Department FY 96funding bill, which, ironically, includes $195 million in fund-ing for another administration favorite, the Technology Rein-vestment Program. The House had zeroed out this program, butthe Senatehad approved it at $238 million.The defense legislation

also includes $39 million for Sematech, the government-privatesemiconductor consortium which had earlier announced that thiswas to be the last year it would ask for federal funding, a $50million cut from the administration's request.

Clinton signed the defense legislation reluctantly because itincreases defense spending by $7 billion over his request.

Other bills have gotten the President's signature, includinga DOE funding measure with major cuts. President Clintonsigned the Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act of1996, a measure which reverses a trend towards equalizing theratio of defense and non-defense R&D.

In signing the legislation, President Clinton said: "While thebill does not fully fund my budget requests in a number ofprograms, the bill provides important funding for many majorprograms in these agencies."

This measure, HR 1905, provides funding for energy supply,research and development programs at $2.7 billion, $600 millionless than the previo'usyear. It alsoprovides $6.1 billion for cleanupof DOE facilities, funding for nuclear weapon stockpile steward-ship, and money for upgrading DOE science facilities. However,it also cuts funding for non-defense research at the DOE whileincreasing money available for weapons programs.

Also part of the measure was a directive to shut down theDOE's Office of Technology Partnerships, which had a budgetrequest of $3.1 million. (For more information, see the articles on ~pages I and 24.)

Among the hardest hit were solar and renewable energy pro-grams, which were funded at $275 million, $113 million less thanFY 95 and $148 million below the administration's request. Alsohit were fusion research, funded at $244 mjllion-a $129 millioncut over the FY 95 amount-and nuclear energy R&D, funded at$231 million-a $62 million cut.

Funding for weapons R&D, on the other ~and, got a $230million boost over FY 95 to $3.4 billion, including $150 millionfor defense programs technology transfer and the $6.1 billion forcleanup of the hazardous by-products of weapons production atDOE facilities.

Also signed by Clinton is Sl1l1, a bill to provide enhancedprotection for biotechnology process patents. The bill updatescurrent patent law to provide protection that will help U.S. biotechcompanies as they develop new products. Process patents protectthe discoveries used to produce commercial quantities of newproducts and enhance new processes. By extending patent protec-tion to these areas, breakthroughs by U.S. companies areprotectedfrom imitation by foreign competitors, especially the Japanese.

T he controversial effort to harmonize the U.S. patent systemwith those of other countries seemed to die down after

attentionturned away from issues related to the recent GAIT

treaty, but a recent hearing in the House Judiciary Committee's "-'"subcommittee on Courts and Intellectual Property shows that theissue is still very much alive.

Two bills were discussed that addressed the issue. One, DR

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359, introduced by Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-CA, would set apatent term of 17years from the date of grant or 20 years fromthe date of filing, whichever is longer. The other is HR 1733,introduced by Rep. Carlos Moorhead, R-CA, who is chainnanof the subcommittee with jurisdiction over the issue. HR 1733requires publication of patent applications after 18 monthsand would maintain the term of a patent at 20 years from thefiling date, but would allow for extension if the applicationexperienced delays that were the fault of the Patent Office.

The publishing of patent applications after 18 months is sup-posed to head off the problem of "submarine" patents, whichsurface sometimes after decades of delay and threaten to destroythe companies using a technology. The argument against publish-ing, however, is that it tips competitors (especially foreign) totechnology and invitesopposition. (Ofcourse, U.S. entrepreneursand companies would have the same opportunity.)ACCESS: Rep. Carlos Moorhead, 202/225-4176; Rep. DanaRohrabacher, R-CA, 202/225-2415.

Legislation introduced by Rep. Connie Morella, R-MD, chair-man of the Science Committee's subcommittee on Technol-

ogy, would strengthen and encourage the culture of tech transferby making it easier for companies to take advantage of govern-ment resources. The bill, HR 2196, The National TechnologyTransfer and Advancement Act, was recently marked up bythe House Science Committee. The bill would allow companiesto choose between exclusive or non-exclusive licenses to tech-nologies invented by lab personnel. The bill also would encour-age lab employees to get involved in trying to commercialize thetechnologies they develop by granting them the first $2,000 inroyalties each year, and up to 15percent of additional royalties inany year. The companion to this legislation is S1164, introducedby Sen. John Rockefeller, D-WVA.ACCESS:Rep. Connie Morella, 202/225-5341.

Even as Congress is directing the Department of Energy to tonedown its technology development and civilian R&D activi-

ties, the agency has continued to pursue programs and partner-ships. Most recently, the DOE announced an Industries of theFuture initiative in conjunction with the Cast Metals Coali-tion, to help the industry improve energy efficiency and cutpollution. The coalition consists of the American Foundrymens'

Society, the North American Die Casting Association and theSteel Founders' Society of America.

DOE also signed a five-year memorandum of understand-ing with the Agriculture Department to collaborate on agricul-tural research, with the goal of improving thecompetitiveness andenergy efficiency of the nation's agricultural industries. Scientistsfrom both agencies will be participating in the effort.ACCESS: DOE, 202/586-5575.

A report by the Congressional Research Service that looks attechnology policy options for the Republican-dominated

congress, has offered a distinctly conservative list of choices forlawmakers. The report is entitled "Exploring Alternative Modelsof Federal Support for Research and Development." Given thecurrent trend of moving civilian R&D dollars moving towardsbasic research and keeping all federally funded projects in linewith agency missions, the report offered four approaches to R&Dthe government could take. These include: 1) Funding defenseR&D with federal money and using tax and trade initiatives tostimulate private R&D; 2) Funding only those areas consideredessential to national security, such as defense, space, and publichealth; 3) Cut current R&D by 50 percent and sell off governmentR&D assets; and 4) Support non-defense basic research.

While these options reflect the range of priorities among thecongressional leadership, none of them reflects the perspective ofthe Clinton Administration, which maintains that investments inR&D are crucial to the country's overall-economic well-being.ACCESS: Congressional Research Service reports are availableonly~by request from members of Congress. Contact your localmember of Congress for more infonnation.

Even though it may be falling on deaf ears, the President'sCouncil of Economic Advisors released a report to Congress

that details the way in which investments in research and develop-ment help the nation's economy. "Investments in research anddevelopment are key to increasing productivity, accounting forhalf or more of the growth in output per person," the report said.It was released at a meeting with Presidential Science AdvisorJohn Gibbons, Assistant to the President for Economic PolicyLaura Tyson, Senate Minority Leader Thomas Daschle, D-SD,and other key senators.

The report was accompanied by a personal letter from Presi-dent Clinton to several Democratic Congressional leaders, placingR&D under the umbrella of national needs specified for protectionin the temporary budget resolution: "We cannot let standCongres-sional budget proposals that cut federal spending on non-defenseresearch and development, including both basic and appliedresearch, by a third over the next seven years (as calculated by theAmerican Association for the Advancement of Science)and gut oreliminate critical technology programs that are enhancing

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America's ability to compete and win in the global marketplace."Entitled "Supporting Research and Development to Promote

Economy Growth: The Federal Government's Role," the reportsays that every federal dollar spent on R&D adds more than adollar of R&D into the economy and brings social rates of returnnear 50 percent.

Trying to counter congressional efforts to cut R&D and tech-nology development programs, the report noted that federal in-vestments stimulate private R&D expenditures, and that cuts infederal research will mean declines in private sector R&D. And itnoted that one of the US's greatest competitors, Japan, expects todouble its R&D spending by the year 2000.ACCESS:Council cifEconomic Advisors, 202/395-5084.

F or those who continue to be interested in the collected wisdom

of bi-partisan scholarship on technology policy issues, thereare three ways to get back issues of Office of Technology Assess-ment reports: 1) Write the Superintendent of Documents, PO Box371594, Pittsburgh, PA 15250 or call at 202/512-1800 fax 202/512-2250; 2) Contact the National Technical Information Service,

which sells government documel)ts and information at 703/487-4650; 3) Contact the OTA web site at http://www.ota.gov.

T he president should present to Congress a comprehensive,integrated annual federal science and technology budget that

discusses areas of increased and reduced emphasis, says a newreport by an all-star committee from the National Academycomplex. This FS&T budget should be considered as a whole atthe beginning of the congressional budget process before it isdivided among the appropriations subcommittees. "This can bedone without new legislation or reorganization of the congres-sional committee structure," noted committee chairman FrankPress of the Carnegie Institute. Requested by the (then-Demo-cratic) Senate Appropriations Committee in October 1994, thereport says such a process would allow trade-offs to be madeacross agencies,programs, and research institutions, freeing fundsfor new initiatives by reducing or ending projects that havebecome a lower priority or for which there are better alternatives.

Expert panels should make international comparisons andrecommend new directions, restructuring, or reduction of excesscapacity, all with an eye to maintaining U.S. pre-eminence incritical technologies. For fields in which the nation is not pre-eminent, the United States should stay even with world's best sothat it is "poised to pounce" if scientific developments suddenlyincrease a field's importance.

The first step, thecommittee said, isfor the federal government

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to calculate more accurately its funding for science and technol-ogy. Federal R&D expenditures currently are reported as beingmore than $70 billion annually. However, the committee saysalmost half is spent on activities-such as establishing productionlines and developing operational systems for new aircraft andweapons systems'-that do not involve the creation of new knowl-edge or technologies. Leaving them out provides the true FS&Tbudget of $35 billion to $40 billion.

Preference should be given to funding projects and peoplerather than institutions, therebypromoting thequality and flexibil-ity of research.

Competitive merit review should be the basis for allocatingfunds, wherever possible, since it has been largely responsible forthe remarkable quality, productivity, and originality of U.S. sci-ence and technology to date.

R&D capacity should remain associated with the agencieswhose missions require it.The resulting pluralism of agencies andresearch institutions fosters creativity, cross-fertilization, andflexibility. The committee noted that its integrated process withdiverse, competitive funding would outperform the proposedDepartment of Science.

Academic research generally should receive priority for fund-ing. Although the committee stopped short of presuming thatuniversity-based research is always of higher quality than thatconducted elsewhere, ithas three distinctive advantages that arguefor giving it preference. First, it allows agencies the flexibility toeasily shift funding when priorities change. Second, it providesquality control through grant competition and rigorous peer re-view. Finally, by linking research to education, funding R&Dprojects at colleges and universities reaps the added benefit ofsimultaneously supporting the training of !he nation's succeedinggenerations of scientists and engineers.

The federal government should encourage, but not directlyfund, private-sector technology development, with two (gaping)exceptions: in pursuit of thegovernment's own missions-such asweapons development or space flight---or where governmentparticipation is essential for the development of new enabling, orbroadly applicable, technologies.

Existing federal laboratories, which now account for the larg-est share-nearly 40 percent---of the FS&T budget, should un-dergo renewed scrutiny, with the possibility of redirecting oreliminating resources when mission requirements have dimin-ished or if external reviewers deem them less effective than otheralternatives.ACCESS:"Allocating Federal Funds For Science And Technol-ogy" is available from the National Academy Press, tel. 202/334-3313 or 1-800/624-6242, for $27.00 (prepaid) plus shippingcharges of $4.00 for the first copy and $.50 each additional; http://www.nas.edu/nap/online/.

A survey by the Industrial Research Institute of 151 of its tmember companies shows a planned increase of 6% for

R&D, the highest increase since 1990. Increased competition,profits and cash flows fueled the plans for greater spending. The

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continued from previous page Globalization ofIndustrial Research and Development" examinesthe nature and scope of nearly $15 billion of foreign R&Dinvestment in the United States. Against a backdrop of the slowrise in domestic U.S. industrial R&D, the report details the morethan doubling offoreign investment in U.S. R&D and thedoublingof U.S. investment in R&D abroad. (More than half the invest-ments by U.S. affiliates are in five countries-Germany, UnitedKingdom, Canada, France and Japan.) The report shows howcomplex and sophisticated thecurrent global R&D situation is andconcludes that the U.S. can benefit from the current trends, ifproperly managed.ACCESS:Technology Administration, Department of Commerce,202/482-3037. .

report, "R&DTrendsForecast for 1996," also looked at the impactof the research and experimentation tax credit on corporate will-ingness to invest in R&D. It found that just 17percent of respon-dents said the tax credit had a moderate or strong influence oninvestment,and 28percent said itwas somewhat influential, while55 percent said the tax credit had no impact on their planning.ACCESS:Industrial Research Institute, Margaret Grucza, 202/776-0755.

Areport recently released by the Department of Commerce'sbeleaguered Office of Technology Policy, entitled "The

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Letter to the Editor

Afterreading "Conference Report: Ven-ture Creation At Research Universities -New Concepts" (November 1995) I have afew comments to offer.

I would agree that the top leadership intheuniversitymust set adirection for entre-preneurial activities. However, the keyperson at any university is the departmentchair. Thechair controls the resources and,where I've worked, even approves or dis-approves outside activities. If the chairvalues these activities, encourages themand rewards them, then the faculty willrespond. Those individual faculty mem-bers [at State University of New York,Stony Brook] who were entrepreneurialhad a very difficult time if they were in adepartment that didnot value such activity,even if they were successful. The chair isthe key to changing the culture, whichchanges over a prolonged period of time-in the past, often ten years, but today prob-ably as low as five years. If you really wantthe institution to go in a different direction,then you have to be careful who you hire asdepartment chairs. (It's true that at myinstitution the department did not receive ashare of any royalties.)

Technology transfer professionals canbe rewarded through bonus or merit in-creases based upon their performance to-wards officegoals. But giving them apieceof the action, through either equity or com-mission, opens them up to considerableopportunity for conflict of interest. If theytruly wish to be part of the game they

should either leave the university and be-come part of a start-up company or venturegroup or create a separate venture entity onbehalf of the university.

The technology transfer office does justthat, transfer technology. But it also doesso in a manner that protects the universityand the inventor from liability, etc. Com-bining too many roles in one office can leadto trouble. I believe technology transferoffices should negotiate licenses with start-ups while other offices or entities actuallycreate the companies. There is a value in anarm's-length relationship.

There is room for many'university en-trepreneurial models. The key I believe isintegration of all parts of the economicdevelopment program and the avoidanceof duplication of effort. The university-based technology transfer office, high techincubator, tech park and research programall are pieces of a comprehensive eco-nomic development or entrepreneurial pro-gram.

One concept that I support is the bring-ing together of a group of research institu-tions, not necessarily all universities, in acombined technology transfer effort.Brookhaven National Laboratory, ColdSpringHarborLaboratoryand SUNYStonyBrook formed the Long Island ResearchInstitute to create companies, organize fo-cus groups, market technology, seek con-tract research funds, assist in the manage-ment of a new venture fund. The uniqueaspect of this is the notion of bundling like

technologies from one or a group of insti-tutions in a new start-up to provide thebasis for more than one product in the start-up, giving thecompany a greater chance ofsucceeding should one product fail.

A similar opportunity exists in theCapi-tal District of New York, to "bundle" tech-nologies from the University at Albany,RPI, Albany Medical College and theNYSDepartment of Health. While' th~e is nocontemplation of creating a "URI," thereis opportunity for collaboration and coop-eration in technology transfer tobenefit theeconomy of the Albany area.

Gene Schuler

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New York Discovers High Tech: Will High Tech FirmsGrow In New York? If They Do, Will They Stay?

How to grow a high tech economy, in a

region traditionally focused onfinance andreal estate as its engines of growth, was the

topic of a recent conference on "Technol-

ogy and Economic Development in the Tri-

State Region" organized by the New York

Academy of Sciences and the Federal Re-

serve Bank of New York and held at the

bank. The meeting augurs a shift in the

thinking of business and government lead-ers from New York, New Jersey and Con-necticut, concerned with economic devel-

opment, toward a strategy of growing new

firmsfrom the technical expertise residingin the region.

By Henry Etzkowitz

The real estate industry has a pragmaticinterest in encouraging a regional strategyto develop high-tech start-up ftnns. It is astrategy born of desperation as well ashope, a realization that a reviving ftnancialindustry will never again inhabit many ofthe buildings in lower Manhattan that madeWall Street a synonym for ftnance capitalaround the world.

Currently, one of these buildings, theformer headquarters of the defunct DrexelBurnham Lambert brokerage ftrm, is beingremodeled by the Rudin real estate ftnninto the New York Infonnation Technol-

ogy Center (lTC), offering extensivetelecom facilities and, for qualifying com-panies, tax abatements. The ITC is targetedat software and multi-media ftnns that have

outgrown their loftspace in SoHo or Brook-1yn' an analogue to other specialized build-ings in New York that provide a hub fortraditional industries such as garment andinterior design.

Should this experiment suceed, there isan estimated 35 million square feet of of-ftce space available for redevelopment inlower Manhattan. Certainly incubator fa-cilities do not have to be newly constructed,but can incubators be operated in buildingsexpected to generate much higher rentalsthan a typical start-up can afford? In Brazil,municipalities have recently taken to sub-sidizing incubator facilities. Of course, thelowest rent concept is the "virtual incuba-

tor," providing services to assist start-upftnns, but not a place to locate. Neverthe-less, many entrepreneurs feel that the op-portunity to interact with fellow ftnnfounders is one of the benefits of the incu-

bator as a physical place.

What is an Incubator?A conference moderator asked this en-

try-level question, an indicator that knowl-edge-based regional development is itselfin the incubation stage in the area. Tradi-tional strategies such as "improving thebusiness climate" by lowering or forgivingtaxes or attempting to recruit ftrms fromelsewhere still predominate in the tri-stateregion. The threat ofjob loss or prospect ofgain is large and immediate; focusing onhome-grown start-ups is long term andthus less salient. A typical example: a LongIsland start-up, having outgrown its exist-ing space, was not large enough to get theear of state officials and was easily wooedand won by Arizona.

Lorrence Green, President of WestburyDiagnostics, Inc. described his futile ef-fort, a few years ago, to interest NassauCounty officials in a proposal to develop ascience oriented business incubator to as-sist local scientist/entrepreneurs, who hadleft large corporations and were, ". . . at apoint in their lives, where they would nowlike to invest their money in their ownsmall innovative R&D companies, if theycould ftnd a low-keyed, low-cost struc-turedenvironment that would help get themstarted." As a ftrm founder, who had takenhis research group out of a downsizingcorporation, and an activist in local civicaffairs, Green felt he was treated courte-ously but not seriously by city officials.

WDI hasgrown past the incubatorstage,but there are many more "latent entrepre-neurs" with similarbackgrounds toGreen'swho, given a small measure of encourage-ment, would come forth to start companies.The experience of other regions such asNovo Fribourgo, Brazil (See TAR August,1995)suggests that availabliity oflow-costincubator space encourages individuals tofonn ftnns who might otherwise not havetaken the step.

Silicon AlleyThe New York metropolitan region

would seem to have all the ingredients tobecome a leading site of high-tech ftnnfonnation: major research universities,venture capital ftrms, intellectual propertylaw ftnns, important corporate and govern-mentresearch labs,culturalattractions,etc.,yet there's a relative lack. One hypothesis:thenecessarycross-cuttingnetworksamongftnancial resources, scientiftc talent andbusiness expertise are weak.

Mary Good, Undersecretary for Tech-nology, U.S.Dept.of Commerce,describedhow, at newly emerging high tech clustersshe has visited, such as Bozeman, Mon-tana, local university officials tookthe lead,bringing together government and busi-ness leaders (see also p. 9).

There is a variable rate of change in theculture of universities with respect to in-dustrial involvement. Mitch Gipson, Ex-ecutive Director of Columbia Univ. Medi-cal School's Audubon Industrial Park, re-ported that only senior faculty were in-clined to pursue the commercial implica-tions of their research at his facility. Incontrast, Roland Schmitt, President Emeri-tus ofRensselaerPolytechnicInstitute(RPI)pointed out that theRPI incubator attractedstudents andjunior faculty as well. RPI hasa long and ongoing history of industrialconnections. Columbia has only recentlyrevived a 19th century tradition that even-tually declined when a younger generationof chemists, oriented solely to basic re-search, displaced an older generation whoalso consulted. The current age differencesin industrially involved academics at thetwo schools likely reflects these differentacademic cultures: one actively encour-ages and rewards entrepreneurship; theother does not credit it toward degrees andpromotion. At Columbia, it is only safe tobecome entrepreneurial after tenure.

Growing knowledge-based companiesas an economic development strategy hasgone through several stages of gestation,such as recognition of the economic valueof research, followed by government sup-port of research in areas of national and

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J local interest. Finally, and most recently, itincludes the translation of govemment-supported research into economic uses,transcending the traditional role of indus-try as having the presumptive sole respon-sibility for this task. Increasingly, eco-nomic development is a joint academic-government-industry responsibility. Inter-

action among these institutional spheres isthe defining hallmark of the new era ofinnovation. In recognition of this reality,the conference recommended that its co-organizers, the New York Academy ofSciences and the Federal Reserve Bank ofNew York, take the lead in forming a tri-state organization to realize these goals.

ACCESS:Rodney Nichols, Director,New York Academy of Sciences, 212/838-0230, ext. 348, email:policy@nyas.orgACCESS:William Rudin, President,Rudin Management Inc., 212/404-2400,email: nyitc@55broadst.com. www:http://www.55broadst.com .

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~ "Benchmarking Best Practices for'fL..J University-Industry TechnologyTransfer: Working with Start-Up Compa-nies" is the latest study from the SouthernTechnology Council. Continuing to focuson benchmarking, but departing tempo-rarily from the statistical approach used intheir earlier report on university tech trans-fer, authorsLouTomatsky,PaulWaugamanand Linda Casson interviewed officials attwenty-oneschoolsin theSouthand aroundthe country for more subjective recom-mendations. The aim, as before, is to helpschools in the region focus on what theycan do to maximize the economic benefitof their research to their locale, state, or atleast, the South.

Somepoints that"made adifference" atsuccessful schools:goodtechnologymatch(throughhistoryor luck)with start-upcom-panyand regional needs;explicit economicdevelopment mission statement and goals;flexible personnel policies; business sup-port systems, such as incubators, ventureforums and the like (but not businessschools); proof-of-concept funding; fac-ulty culture; conflict of interest manage-ment, as opposed to prohibitions; and au-tonomous tech transfer office operations.ACCESS:Southern Technology Council,5001 South Miami Blvd., P.O. Box12293, Research Triangle Park, NC27709, voice 919/941-5145, fax 919/941-5594, e-mail: 19t@encore.ncren.net.

~ We flagged "Growing New Ven-'fL..J tures,CreatingNewJobs:Principles& Practices of Successful Business Incu-bation" for you before it was published,when it was previewed and used to orga-nize discussions at the National Business

Incubation Association Meeting in June.

RECENT READING

Now that we have the finished book inhand, we like it even more.

Authors Jana Matthews and Mark Ricebring their own credentials to the task,Matthews as Senior Fellow at the Centerfor Entrepreneurial Leadership at theKauffman Foundation, and Rice as direc-tor of the Center for Entrepreneurship ofNew Technological Ventures atRensselaerPolytechnic Institute. But they also inter-viewed many successful incubator leaders,and gave credit as contributing authors tofive in particular, looking not just for com-mon practices, but best practices. The con-tributing authors are Laura Kilcrease, whowas the founding director of the AustinTechnology Incubator, and now has a se-nior position at the IC2 Institute; SusanMatlock, head of the Birmingham Busi-ness Assistance Network; Robert Meeder,president, SPEDD; Julius Morgan, presi-dent, Milwaukee Enterprise Center; Rob-ert Sherwood, president, Center for Busi-ness Innovation, Kansas City.

They start with three principles: 1) Fo-cus the energy and resources of the incuba-tor on developing companies (job creation,urban renewal, etc. will follow); 2) Man-age the incubator as a business-minimizeoverhead, and aim for self-sustainability;3) Develop a sophisticated array of ser-vices appropriate to companies of differenttypes, at different stages of development.

From these the specific practices flow,illustrated with specific "dollars and sense"examples. For example, an incubatorpresi-dent (the term is deliberate, chosen to em-phasize the business nature of the enter-prise) should understand thecommon defi-ciencies of growing companies, such as thefocus on perfecting the invention to theexclusion of cash flow or sales. But subtle-

ties abound. Acompany withhigh negativecash flow may need immediate help find-ing a competent chief financial officer-and the capital to pay the appropriate sal-ary. However, a company with marginalbut positive cash flow might have the timefor the entrepreneur to learn the financialsidehimself, with assistance.Differentpro-grams and services are needed for eachcompany.

While this book won't prevent everywrong-headed attempt ("Let's see, whatcan we do with this vacant building. . . Iknow, let's put in an incubator!"), it goes along way towards explaining the differ-ence between the good ones and the rest.ACCESS:ISBN 1-56720-033-8, $29.95,154 pp., Quorum Books, an imprint ofGreenwood Publishing, Westport, CT, ororder from NBIA Publications, voice614/593-4331, fax 614/593-1996.

Montana State University, with11,000 students and $36 million in

grant funding, is the anchorof a newclusterof high-tech companies in Gallatin County,where a "mixture of beauty, charm, andscientific competence is proving potent,"according to a piece byGoldie Blumenstykin the Chronicle ofHigher Education (Dec.1, 1995, A42). The latest count is 45, em-ploying many recent graduates, and com-mercializing several MSU technologies.Other hooks: MSU has received more than$13 million in NSFEPSCoR funds over theyears, and at least $10 million in acknowl-edged federal "pork" to pay for expandingits Plant Growth Center. Several compa-nies also sponsor research at theuniversity.One said, "If we went to MIT with our$50,000, they would swallow it without ahiccup. Here it creates quite a stir." .

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~ D. Guy Burns, retired economic-#" development specialist at CornellUniversity, won a Lifetime AchievementAward from Cornell's Community andRural Development Institute (CaRDI). Hewas honored for his role in pioneeringCornell's industrial extension program(modeled after the agricultural prototype)linkingthe engineering college with manu-facturing finns, and for helping to createCornell's Center for Manufacturing Enter-prise.

CaRDI was established five years agoto build Cornell's capacity and visibility inthecommunityandruraldevelopmentfield.Directed by Paul Eberts, Cornell professorof rural sociology, it works to increaseattention to the needs of rural people andcommunities in New York and the nationby promoting research and policy analysison high priority issues.

"There is a lot of talk these days of thelack of relevance of academic research to

real life problems," said Mildred Warner,CaROl associatedirector. "The awards thisyear reflect a set of research and extensionprograms which bridge the gaps betweenresearch, policy and practice-these pro-grams andpeople workto improveall threeaspects. They have found ways to expandcollaborative relationships among scien-tific disciplines, while enhancing univer-sity and community partnerships."

An annual Innovator Award went to the

Participatory Action Research Network(PAR), sponsored by The Mario EinaudiCenter for International Studies, whichpositions the researcher as a collaboratorwith communities. The result: researchwhich is much more likely to be translatedinto action if the community is part of thedesign and implementation-not merely arecipient of the results.

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ACCESS: Cornell University NewsService, 840 Hanshaw Road Ithaca, NY14850, voice 607/255-4206, fax 607/257-6397, e-mail: cunewS@cornell.edu,http://www.news.comell.edu

., Esther Dyson (member of the Advi-sory Board of Technology Access)is the "1995 Netizen of the Year," accord-ing to GNN, the pioneering magazine ofthe World Wide Web.

Dyson is publisher of Release 1.0, amonthlysoftwareindustrynewsletterwhichhas been advancing netconsciousness forseveralyears,president ofEDventureHold-ings, and impresario of the exclusive an-nual industry conference, PC Forum. Sheis a limited partner of the Mayfield Soft-wareFund,chainnan of theElectronicFron-tier Foundation and a member of the U.S.National Infonnation Infrastructure Advi-sory Council (NIIAC). She is a member ofthe board of the Global Business Network,the advisory board of Perot Systems, andsits on the boards and executive commit-tees of the Santa Fe Institute and the Insti-tute of East West Studies, the advisoryboards for the Software Entrepreneurs Fo-rum (Silicon Valley) and the Poynter Insti-tute for Media Studies.

Dyson is also a founding member of theRussian Software Market Association anda member of the (U.S.) Software Publish-ers Association.

Dyson's recent publicationsinclude twoarticles in WIRED (an essay on intellectualproperty in cyberspace and an interviewwith Newt Gingrich), an essay on censor-ship in the New York Times Sunday Maga-zine, and an article on Eastern Europeancomputer entrepreneurs in the HarvardBusiness Review.

Dyson is a graduate of Harvard Univer-sity with a B.A. in economics. She spentfive years learning the dynamics of thecomputer and software business as a secu-rities analyst for New Court Securities andOppenheimer & Co. For three years Dysonwas a reporter for Forbes Magazine, whereshe says she gained most of her businesseducation. She was hired away by venturecapitalist Ben Rosen of Sevin Rosen tobecome the editor of Release 1.0 and even-

tually acquired it from him, as his spec-tacularly successful early investment in

Lotus and founding chairmanship ofCompaq became the source of potentialconflicts of interest.

The San Jose Mercury News SundayMagazine has recognized her as one of theSilicon Valley's 100 most influentialpeople. At the same time, Russia'sSoftmarket newspaper notes her as one ofthe 100most influential people in Russia'scomputer industry. It's also probably ofinterest that her mother is a distinguishedmathematician and her father is the astro-

physicist Freeman Dyson, long resident atthe Institute for Advanced Studies inPrinceton.

~ Dr. Alvin H. Sacks retired October-#" 1 from his position as Director ofTechnology Transfer at the Department ofVeterans Affairs Medical Center in PaloAlto, Calif.

Maurice LeBlanc assumes his func-

tion, as Head of the Design and Develop-ment Program, a new program which willincorporate technology transfer as one partof the process of the development andcommercialization of products for veter-ans with disabilities.ACCESS: Dr. Alvin H. Sacks, 415/948-0941.ACCESS: Maurice-LeBlanc, Head,Design and Development Program, VAPalo Alto Healthcare System, RehabR&D Center/153, 3801 Miranda Ave.,Palo Alto, CA 94304-1290, 415/493-5000 ext. 65313.

~ Eugene K. Schuler Jr. left the State-#" University of New York at StonyBrook in August, after three years as Asso-ciate Vice President Research and Tech-

nology Transfer, to create a high technol-ogy business incubator as part of theCenterfor Environmental Sciences and Technol-ogy Management (CESTM) at the StateUniversity of New York at Albany.

Construction of the 7,500 sq. ft. re-search facility is underway, with 1,200 sq.ft. devoted to the incubator, which is ex-pected to open March 1997.They are in theprocess of recruiting companies in tele-communications, computers, analyticalinstrumentation, air quality monitoring,semiconductors, new materials, and thin

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films and coatings as tenants.Schuler will also be responsible for the

planning and implementation of a secondincubator for the University, focused pre-dominantlyonbiotechnologyandbiomedi-cal engineering-related companies. Thatproject is expected to be about three timesthe size of the high-technology businessincubator.

ACCESS:Eugene K. Schuler Jr.,Manager, CESTM, Alumni House,University at Albany, 1400 WashingtonAve., Albany, NY 12222,518/442-3291,fax 518/442-5019, e-mail:EKS35@poppa.fab.albany.edu

~ Jack Simon,wholed GeneralMo-"#" tors and theentire U.S. auto industryinto collaborations with the federal labs,has now joined one, as vice president oftechnology transfer for the Idaho NationalEngineering Laboratory (INEL). Under itsnewcontractwithLockheed Martin,Simonreports that "INEL will be unique in theEnergy Department lab system" in havingthe freedom to innovate. The TechnologyExploitation Pilot Program will encouragestartups through its joint venture with cor-porate incubator Thermo Electron and ini-tiate other fresh approaches to solving thebusiness needs of various industries thathaven't done much with the labs-yet.

Simon took a leave of absence from

General Motors last year to take a positionin theLondonbranch of the Office of Naval

Research, exploring European and formerSoviet state dual-use opportunities. Hisrole at GM has been taken on by Nuno A.Vaz, Ph.D., program manager for govern-ment partnerships at GM's R&D Center.ACCESS:Jack Simon, voice 208/526-4430, fax 208/526-0876, e-mail:jgs@inel.gov.ACCESS:Nuno A. Vaz, Ph.D., ProgramManager, Government Partnerships,Research and Development Center,General Motors Corp., Bldg. 1-6, 30500Mound Rd., Box 9055, Warren, MI48090-9055, voice 810/966-0618, fax 810/947-0842,e-mail:NVAZ@CMSA.GMR.COM

~ PhillipA.Singerman,Ph.D.,Presi-"#" dentandChiefExecutiveOfficerof

the Ben Franklin Technology Center ofSoutheastemPennsylvania, wasnominatedby President Clinton to be Assistant Secre-tary of Commerce for Economic Develop-ment. The position oversees the 30-year-old Economic Development Administra-tion (EDA), which provides grants to stateand local governments for industrial parks,defense conversion, disasterrelief, revolv-ing loan funds and economic developmentplanning, with a current annual budget ofmore than $440 million.

A confirmation hearing washeld by theSenate Environment and Public WorksCommittee November 7. An official an-nouncement on the confirmation is ex-

pected later this month.The Ben Franklin Technology CenterJa

non-profit economic development corpo-ration, promotes regional economic com-petitiveness through business innovationand technology development. It is the larg-est formal source of seed capital for tech-nology start-up companies in the Philadel-phia area. Singerman has directed the Cen-ter since 1983.

Dr. Barry Stein, Senior Vice Presidentand ChiefOperatingOfficer,hasbeen askedto serve as Acting President during thetransition.

ACCESS: Ben Franklin TechnologyCenter of Southeastern Pennsylvania,University City Science Center, 3624Market Street, Philadelphia~PA 19104,215/382-0380, fax 215/382-0366."WiliiamT. Tucker, Ph.D left DNAPlant Technology in August and hasnow accepted a position as a LicensingManager at the Applied Biosystems Divi-sion of Perkin Elmer in Foster City. Billexplains: "Initially, my primary responsi-bility will be to develop and execute alicensing program for laboratories whichoffer PCR-based forensic and agriculturaldiagnostic services. Many challenges existin structuring a licensing program for thisrapidly growing field, and I am lookingforward to utilizing all my scientific andbusiness skills in meeting them."ACCESS:Perkin Elmer, AppliedBiosystems Division, 850 Lincoln CenterD., Foster City, CA 94404, voice 415/570-6667 (main switch), fax 415/638-6071, e-mail: wwtucker@aol.com. .

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Following is a wide-ranging list of impor-tant upcoming meetings. Please send your list-ings as far in advance as possible to Editor,Technology Access Report, 16Digital Dr., Ste.250, Novato, CA 94949; 800/733-1516; fax,415/883-6421;e-mail: editor@techaccess.com

II Recommended conferences (most de-scribed in Editor's Choice column inprior orforthcoming issues)

1996

JANUARY

_ 03-06 TheTriple Helix-University-Indus-~ try-Government Relations: A Laboratoryfor Knowledge-Based Economic Development(Dutch Academy of Engineering) Amsterdam,TheNetherlands,HenryEtzkowitz,212/939-7028or 914/251-6600, fax 212/666-0140 or 914/251-6603, e-mail: etzkow@brick.purchase.edu; LoetLeydesdorff, +31 20-5256598, fax +31 20-5256579, e-mail: loet@sara.nl

08-09 Negotiating Software License Agreements(Data-Tech Inst) Morristown, NJ 201/478-5400,fax 201/478-4418

08-09 Strategies for Identification of Novel Tar-gets for Drug Discovery (Cambridge Health Inst)San Diego, CA 617/630-1300, fax 617/630-1325,e-mail: chi@healthtech.com. World Wide Web:http://www.healthtech.com/conferences

11-12 Pharmaceutical & Biotech Licensing Sum-mit (Strategic Research Inst) Princeton, NJ 800/599-4950 (212/302-1800), fax 212/302-9850, e-mail sri-reg@mcimail.com

13-17 Natl Tooling & Machining Assn AnnualConvention (NTMA) Orlando, FL, NTMA, 9300Livingston Rd., Ft. Washington, MD 20744, fax301/248-7104

15-16 Fast Cycle Time: How to Align Purpose,Strategy & Structure for Faster Product Develop-ment (Caltech Industrial Relations Center) Pasa-dena, CA 818/395-4043, fax 818/795-7174

15.18 BioEast '96 (BioConferences Inti, Inc)Wash, DC 301/652-3072, fax 3011652-4951

_ 17.18 Innovation Now Conf (AEA, IEEE,~ Oregon, Mentor, etc.) Portland, OR, 503/244-9198, fax 503/362-6363, e-mail:jennifer_o'donnell@aeanet.org, URL: http//innovationNow.org/

17-19 Successfully Managing & Prioritizing R&DProjects (Manufacturing Inst, IIR) Sarasota, FL800/999-3123, fax 800/959-9644, e-mail:us002506@interramp.com

18-19 Developments in Equity Finance & Alter-native Investments (Professional Education Sys-tems,lnc) New York, NY,800/843-7763, fax 715/833-5216

CALENDAR

21-26 Arizona Economic Development Course(Univ of AZ & others) Tucson, AZ, Julie Howard,520/621-7899,520/621-7901, f¥ 520/621-7834

22-23 Bio/Pharm Partnering: Enhancing Busi-ness Development Through Licensing & Strate-gic Alliances (Barnett Inti Learning Grp) Arling-ton, VA 800/856-2556, fax 610/859-9031, 610/859-0250,610/859-0373

22-24 Commercializing Biopesticides: AppliedProducts & Transgenic Plants (Inti BusinessCommunications) Washington, DC 508/481-6400, fax 508/481-7911

24-26 Identifying Partnership Opportunities forEuro-Biotech Deals (Global Business Rsrch andErnst &Young LLP) San Francisco, CA800/868-7188,212/645-4226, fax 212/645-4490

_ 24-26 McMaster Business Conf: Manag-~ ing Intellectual Capital & Innovation (Inno-vation Research Ctr & the Students of the Michael

G. DeGroote School of Business, McMaster Univ)Hamilton, ON, Canada, National Business Conf,DeGroote School of Business, McMaster Univ,1280 Main St West, Hamilton, Ontario. L8S 4M4,905/525-9140, ext. 23962, fax 905/521-8995, e-mail: maconf96@mcmaster.ca

25-26 AntitrusVlnteliectual Property Claims inHigh Technology Markets (American Law Inst &American Bar Assn CCPE) San Francisco, CA '800/253-6397. fax 215/243-1664

25-26 Negotiating Software License Agreements(Data-Tech Inst) San Jose, CA 201/478-5400,fax 201/478-4418

27-02 February OE/LASE '96: Lasers and Inte-grated Optoelectronics (SPIE) San Jose, CA360/676-3290

27-02 February BiOS '96: Inti Symp on Bio-medical Optics (SPIE) San Jose, CA 360/676-3290

28-02 February Electronic Imaging: Science &Technology (SPIE & IS&T) San Jose, CA 360/676-3290

_ 30-31 Business & Technology Conf: Gal-~ vanizing Your BusinesslTechnology Con-nection (The Conference Board & US Dept. of

Commerce, Technology Administration) New ~York, NY, The Conference Board, PO Box 4026,Church St. Station, New York, NY 10261-4026,212/339-0345, fax 212/980-7014, e-mail:orders@conference-board.org

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31-02 February American Economic Develop-ment Council Washington Briefing (AEDC) Wash-ington, DC 708/692-9944, fax 708/696-2990, e-mail: aedc@interaccess.com

31-02 February AFTTE Winter Meeting: TheEffectiveTechnologyTransferExecutive(AFTTE)San Jose, CA, 800/678-6882

FEBRUARY

04-05 Business Seminar: Competitive Analysis(Chemical Mgmt & Resources Assn) Houston,TX, Mary Carrick, 718/876-8800, fax 718/720-4666

06-08 Display Works '96: 3rd Annual DisplayManufacturing Conf (SID, SEMI, USDC) SanJose, CA 415/940-6933

08-13 AAAS Annual Mtg & Science InnovationExhibition (AAAS) Baltimore, MD 202/326-6417,fax 202/289-4021

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10-15 Medical Imaging 1996 (SPIE) NewportBeach, CA 206/676-3290, fax 206/647-1445

_ 11.14 AUTM 1996 Ann Mtg (Assn of UnivIiI8 Technology Mgrs) Charleston, SC 203/845-9015, fax 203/847-1304, e-mail:autm@ix.netcom.com

12-14 1996 World Summit on Molecular T oxicol-

ogy (Inti Business Communications) Lake BuenaVista, FL 508/481-6400, fax 508/481-7911

13-15 Low-Calorie Food Product Development(Inst of Food Technologists) Orlando, FL, DeanDuxbury, 1FT, 312/782-8424, fax 312/782-8348

13-15 Networks Expo Boston '96 (Blenheim GrpUSA) Boston, MA 801/655-8024, fax 201/346-1602, e-mail: gdavida@blenheim.com

14-16 NewTechniques in Risk Assessment (IntiBusiness Communications) Lake Buena Vista,FL, IBC USA Conferences, Inc., 508/481-6400,fax 508/481-7911

20-23 EPM Mexico: Engineering/Production/Machinery, (Hannover Fairs USA, Inc.) MexicoCity, Mexico 609/987-1202, fax 609/987-0092

26.27 GLP in Field & Environmental Studies (IntiBusiness Communications) New Orleans, LA508/481-6400, fax 508/481-7911

26-27 Technology Partnering: New Challenges,New Opportunities (Federal Technology Report)Washington, DC 800/223-6180, 212/512-6410,fax 212/512-2723

26-28 Technology Forecasting Workshop (Tech-nology Futures, Inc) Austin, TX 800/835-3887,512/258-8898, fax 512/258-0087, e-mail:info@tfLcom

CALENDAR26-01 March Management of Innovation & T ech-nology (Caltech Industrial Relations Ctr) 818/395-4041, fax 818/795-7174

28 Gene Acres: Conf on Bioscience FacilityDesign & Constn (Bay Area Bioscience Ctr)Oakland, CA 510/874-1464, fax 510/874-1466

28-29 Inti Summit on Service to the Citizen,(Univ. of Colorado at Denver & others) Denver,CO, Carol Mundy 916/363-5000

II 29-02 March LES Winter Mtg: SourcingTechnology-The Rules Are Changing

(LES) Salt Lake City, UT 703/836-3106, fax 703/836-3107

MARCH

II 03-06 Spring Mtg Commercial Develop-ment Assn (CDA), Chicago, IL 202/775-

1849, fax 202/659-1699

04-05 Agricultural Biotechnology: UtilizingBiotech to Improve Agricultural Processes (IntiBusiness Communications) Santa Fe, NM 508/481-6400, fax 508/481-7911

05-07 5th Natl Agility Conf: Ramping Up--Becoming Agile by 2000 (Agility Forum) Boston,MA 800/9BE-AGILE, e-mail: conf96@agilenet.amef.lehigh.edu

10-14 4th Inti Conf on Nuclear Engineering(ASME) New Orleans, LA, Brian Bigalke, 212/705-7057, fax 212/705-7856, e-mail bigalkeb@asme.org

10015 IntiSymposium on Microlithography (SPIE& SEMI) Santa Clara, CA 800/483-9034 (360/676-3290), fax 360/647-1445, e-mail spie@spie.org

26-27 AAMI/FDA Inti Standards Conf (Assn forthe Advancement of Medical Instrumentation &

others) Washington, DC, Laura Duffy, 800/332-2264, ext. 260, fax 703/276-0793

25-27T echnology Forecasting Workshop (T ech-no logy Futures, Inc.) Austin, TX 800/835-3887(512/258-8898, fax 512/258-0087, e-mailtecfutr@mcimail.com

25-28 SAMPE Symp & Expo (SAMPE) Ana-heim, CA, Greg Guntle, 818/331-0616, ext. 610

_ 27-30 SCIP Annual Inti Conf & ExhibitIiI8 (Soc of Competitive Intelligence Profes-sionals) Arlington, VA 703/739-0696, fax 703/739-2524, e-mail scip@dc.infLnet, World WideWeb: http://www.scip.org

APRIL

11-12 Fast Cycle Time: How to Align Purpose,Strategy & Structure for Faster Product Develop-ment (Caltech Industrial Relations Center) Pasa-dena, CA 818/395-4043, fax 818/795-7174

11 15-19 Technology Transfer 1996 (LES)San Francisco, CA 703/836-3106, fax 703/

836-3107

18-19 Trademarks, Copyrights & Unfair Compe-tition for the General Practitioner (American LawInst & American Bar Assn CCPE) Chicago, IL800/253-6397, fax 215/243-1664

21-24 Symposium on Improved Oil Recovery:Transferring Technology to Continuously Im-prove Oil Recovery (Soc of Petroleum Engineers& DOE) Tulsa, OK, Richard Spears, 918/496-3434, Jana Smith, 918/337-4550, World WideWeb: http://www.bpo.gov

22-27 Hannover Fair '96: Partner USA - Qualityand Innovation (Hannover Fairs USA, Inc.)Hannover,Germany 609/987-1202,fax 609/987-0092

28-01 May EMA '96: Creating the Future (Elec-tronic Messaging Assn) Anaheim, CA 703/524-5550, fax 703/524-5558, e-mail: meet@ema.org,World Wide Web: http://www.ema.org/ema

MAY

II 02-04 Licensing Executives Society Sum-mer Mtg (LES), Asheville, NC, 703/836-

3106, fax 703/836-3107

05-08 Annual Meeting: Review & Forecast(Chemical Mgmt & Resources Assn) Philadel-phia, PA Mary Carrick, 718/876-8800, fax 718/720-4666

06-08 BioPharm Conf & Exhibition (AdvanstarExpositions) Boston, MA, Denise Madden, ConfMgr, 541/984-5335

12-17 SID '96: Inti Symposium Seminar & Exhi-bition (Society for Information Display) San Di-ego, CA, Jay Morreale, Conf Coordinator, Pali-sades Inst for Research Servs, 201 Varick St.,Ste.1006, New York, NY 10014, 212/620-3371,fax 212/620-3379, e-mail: jmorreal@newyork.palisades.org

13-14 1st International Symp on Plasma Pro-cess-Induced Damage (N Calif Chapter, Ameri-can Vacuum Soc) San Jose, CA 408/737-0767

11 13-17 Technology Transfer 1996 (LES)New York, NY 703/836-3106, fax 703/836-

3107

14-17 Technical And Business Exhibition/Sym-posium: Creating Partnerships for EconomicGrowth (Huntsville Assn of Technical Societies)Huntsville, AL 205/837-4347, fax 205/837-4275,e-mail: hats@iquest.com. World Wide Web: http:!liquest.com/-hats/tabes.htm

II 22.25 10th Natl Conf on Business Incuba-

tion (NBIA) New Orleans, LA 614/593-4331, fax 614/593-1996

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The TechnologyAccess Marketplace is con-venientlyarrangedfirst by industry or technol-

ogy grouping. Within each technology groupare technology opportunities,jeaturing inven-tions available for licensing and commercial-ization; then research, including CooperativeR&D Agreements; andfinally, completed techtransfers-licenses, startupsorotherdealsdone.Please let us know how you like the new for-ma1-<lnd send us your submissions.

ACCESS: Michael Kloess, Technology Ac-cess, 16 Digital Dr., Suite 250, Novato, CA94949-5760,800!733-1516(415/883-7691),fax415/883-6421, E-mail: tectrans@aol.com

Agriculture

& Veterinary

OPPORTUNITIES

Software to Improve DairyHerd ManagementDescription: A software tool for bovine dairyherd management.Advantages: The software allows a dairy herdmanager to detennine the effect of managementactions such as feed regime, environmentalconditions and breeding practices on milk pro-duction without the confounding effects of re-lated factors that affect a cow's individual milk

production. The tool allows the manager tooptimize the cost efficiency of milk productionfor a herd and provides an effective tool toanalyze the genetics of milk production.Applications: Dairy herd management, milkproduction.Status: U.S. patent applied for.ACCESS: Ref.No.:D-1345,R. Cahoon,CornellResearchFoundation,Inc.,Officeof Patents&

Subscrib'8rs:Tot.nd aut more

on any topic, call the Technolo{IY

Acce.. Hotll..., 800J7~1'16;OutSideN. Ameri~, 4151883--7600;Fax:415J883.;6421;hodlneOtecheccess.com

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Technology Marketing, 20 Thornwood Drive,Suite 105, Ithaca, NY 14850, 607/257-1081,fax 607/257-1015.

CRADAS . AWARDSSPONSORED RESEARCH

CRADA Aims to ReduceHerbicide Use

Partners: USDA's Agricultural Research Ser-vice & Patchen California, Inc., Los Gatos, CA.Research Goal:Todevelop asensor-controlled,intennittent spray technology to control weedsin row crop production systems. Weeds wouldbe detected by the characteristics of their re-flected light, and the herbicide wouldbe appliedonly to those areas.Funding: Not available.ACCESS: James E. Hanks, ARS, 601/686-5382.

Ecogen &Monsantoto Collaborate on Bt

TechnologyPartners: Ecogen, Inc., Langhorne, PA &Monsanto Co., St. Louis, MO.Research Goal: To develop Ecogen's Bacillusthuringiensis (Bt) technology for in-plant appli-cations. Bt is a naturally occurring microorgan-ism that produces proteins that are indigestibleby certain insects.Funding/Comment: Monsanto will make $5million in upfront payments for rights toEcogen's Bt gene library, $10 million for anequity stake in Ecogen and an additional $10million over a four-year research contract.Monsanto will have exclusive rights to in-plantapplications of the technology; Ecogen willretain rights to all other areas.ACCESS: ACCESS: Mary E. Paetzold, vicepresident & CFO, Ecogen, 215!757-1590.

CRADA to Study Ultra-sonic Insecticide FoggerPartners: Strauch & Sons, Bethesda, MD & theUS Department of Agriculture's AgriculturalResearch Service (ARS).Research Goal: To develop and test an ultra-sonic fogger to manage sweet potato whiteflieswith contact insecticides. Fogging with theseinsecticides generally does not reach the under-

sides of leaves where the whitefly feeds. TheCRADA will detennine if the ultrasonic foggercan deliver the insecticides effectively and willtest delivery of ARS-developed sugar ester in-secticides.Funding: Not available.ACCESS: Dr.AlvinM. Simmons,USDNARS,US Vegetable Laboratory, 803/556-0840, fax803!766-7013.

TECHTRANSFERS

Intl. Canine GeneticsObtains License to

Veterinary TechnologyTechnology: A test for relaxin, a polypeptidehonnone that is a specific marker of pregnancyin dogs.Licensors: New York University, the Univer-sity of Medicine and DentistryofNew Jersey, &the Cornell Research Foundation.Licensee: International Canine Genetics, Inc.,Malvern, PA.Agreement Type: Exclusive license and spon-sored research agreement.Terms/Comment: In addition to obtaining ex-clusive rights to thepatent, Intel'QationalCanineGenetics has agreed to co-develop a caninepregnancy test with each of the universities.There is currently no inexpensive, reliable testfor early canine pregnancy detection. Relaxinwas discovered in 1987by researchers from thethree universities.ACCESS: Paul A. Rosinack, president & CEO,or John R. Bauer, CFO, International CanineGenetics, 610-640-1244.

omputers &Communications

CRADAS .AWARDSSPONSORED RESEARCH

Holographic Storage Sub-ject of ARPA ProgramPartners: Stanford Univ., Carnegie-MellonUniv., GTE Corp., IBM-Almaden ResearchCenter. ffiM-Watson ResearchCenter,Eastman

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Kodak, Optitek, Rochester Photonics, RockwellInternational Science Center, SDL, Inc., theUniv. of Arizona, Univ. of Dayton ResearchInstitute & the DOE's Advanced Research

Projects Agency (ARPA).Research Goal: To develop holographic datastorage systems, which use lasers to store infor-mation on optical crystal.

Funding: The five-year Holographic Data Stor-age System (HDSS) program is for $32 million,split between ARPA and the participants.ACCESS: Michael Ross, IBM Almaden Re-

search Center, 408/927-1283, e-mail:mikeross@almaden.ibm.com

TECHTRANSFERS

Lycos Licenses Its SearchEngine & Catalog to CorelTechnology: The Lycos search engine and in-dexing technology.Licensor: Lycos, Inc., Marlborough, MALicensee: Corel Corp.Agreement Type: License agreement.Terms/Comment: Lycos's net search technol-ogy will be incorporated into Corel's new col-lection of Internet tools and utilities, calledInternet Mania. Lycos was formed in mid-1995byCMG@Venturesaroundtechnology licensedfrom Carnegie Mellon University. Lycos re-cently acquired Point Communications, a pub-lisherof a Web site review and rating guide, andincorporated several thousand of the reviewsinto its catalog. Lycos has categorized morethan nine million Web sites-approximately 90percent of the WorldWide Web. (For additionalLycos stories, see Technology Access Report,May and June, 1995.)ACCESS: Jerry Colonna, CMG@Ventures,516/466-7604; Lycos URL: http://www.1ycos.com; Tim Magwood, Corel, 613n28-0826,ext. 1164.

Bay Networks & 3ComSign Broad Cross-Licensing AgreementBay Networks and 3Com have resolved theirpending patent litigation and have signed across-licensing agreement that covers all pat-ents held by the companies in the field of datanetworks. In addition, all patents issued to thecompanies over the next five years will be

covered as well as the patents held by thecompanies' subsidiaries and any companies thateither Bay Networks or 3Com acquires.

Cross-royalty payments will not exceed atotal of $12 million by either company over fiveyears and will be,based on publicly reportedR&D expenses.ACCESS: Barbara Ewen, Bay Networks, 508/436-3449, WorldWide Web: http://www.baynetworks.com

ReadyCom AcquiresVoice Storage Patentsfrom Inventors

Technology: Voice storage technologies forwireless communication.Licensors: Richard Helferich and MartinSchwartz, of Minilec Service, Inc.Licensee: ReadyCom, Inc., Chapel Hill, NC.Agreement Type: Patent assignment and nonexclusive license.Terms/Comment: Helferich and Schwartz heldtwo patents to the technologies; one was as-signed to ReadyCom, and the second was li-censed to the company on a non-exclusive ba-sis. An exclusive license to the "ReadyTalker"trademark was also granted to ReadyCom. Thetechnologies will form the basis of a wirelesspocket voicemail service that will allow users toreceive and respond to voice messages from awireless handset.

ACCESS: Brian Kinahan, president,ReadyCom,919/968-8180.

Kodak Licenses Flat-

Panel Display Technologyto Pioneer

Technology: Organic Electroluminescent Dis-play, a thin, low power display device that hasexcellent brightness, viewability, and vividcol-ors under a variety of ambient lighting condi-tions.

Licensor: Eastman Kodak Co., Rochester, NY.Licensee: Pioneer Electronic Corp. of Japan.Agreement Type: Non-exclusive, royalty-bear-ing license.Terms/Comment: Pioneer can use the technol-ogy in a variety of flat panel display devices fornon-photographic applications that include au-diovisual equipment, communications systemsandotherelectronicsthatrequirea displaypanel..ACCESS: Charles S. Smith, Eastman Kodak,716n24-4513, fax 716n24-0964.

Cree Licenses Blue &

Green LED Technologiesto Siemens

Technology: Blue and green LEDsusing Cree'sgallium nitrideand siliconcarbide (G-SiC)tech-nology.Licensor: Cree Research, Durham, NC.Licensee: Siemens AG.Agreement Type: License, development andsupply agreement.Terms/Comment: Siemens will make licensefee payments to Cree for the blue and greenLED technologies. Cree will sellLED chips andsilicon carbide wafers to Siemens Optoelec-tronics.Cree issupplyingsuperbrightblue LEDsto Siemens; the companies will jointly developand manufacture LEDs using the G-SiC tech-nology. Blue and green LEDs may be used infull color displays, automotive indicators, fullcolor printers, facsimiles and solid state light-ing.ACCESS: Neal Hunter, president & CEO, CreeResearch, 919/361-5709, fax: 919/361-2358.

3DO & Matsushita in

Graphics TechnologyLicensing DealTechnology: 3DO's M2 64-bit graphics tech-nology for use in consumer and commercialproducts.Licensor: 3DO Co., Redwood City, CALicensee: Matsushita Electrical Industrial Co.,Ltd., Osaka, Japan.Agreement Type: Exclusive license and subli-cense rights.Terms/Comment: 3DO will receive a $100million license fee and additional royalty pay-ments. 3DO will also grant sublicense rightsthat allows Matsushita to partner with hardwareand software companies. Matsushita's rightsinclude products such as video games, CDs,

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Digital Video Disk (DVD) players, interactivetelevision set-top boxes, car navigation sys-tems, and kiosk hardware.ACCESS: Shernaz Daver, 415/261-2792 orDiane Hunt, 415/261-3214, both of 3DO.

OPPORTUNITIES

Thermal PhotolyticDestructor for Post-Combustion Dioxin Control

Description: Thermal photolytic destructor(TPD), a system which uses high energy, me-dium pressure mercury arc lamps operated attemperatures ranging from 3000 to 600°C, tocontrol dioxin emissions from combustionsources, such as incinerators.Advantages: Energy cost is modest, and incertain situations, the operating temperaturescan be achieved by energy recovery. The maincost is maintenance of the mercury arc lamps.The system is simple to install and operate.Applications: Downstream air pollution con-trol devices.Status: U.S. patent pending; available for li-cense.ACCESS: Lloyd Huff, Associate Director forTechnology Commercialization, University ofDayton, 300 College Park, Dayton, OH 45469-0102,513/229-3515, fax513/229-3433, e-mail:huff@udri.udayton.edu

CRADAS . AWARDSSPONSORED RESEARCH

Argonne & Amoco DevelopEnergy-Saving CeramicMaterial

Partners: Argonne National Laboratory &Amoco Corp.Research Goal: To develop a ceramic materialwhich selectively removes oxygen from airduring high-temperature processing.Funding: The DOE's Office of Fossil Energy,

theOfficeof EnergyResearchlLaboratory Tech-nology Transfer Program and Amoco jointlyfunded the three-year, $2.5 million program.Comment: The ceramic material has potentialapplications in converting natural gas to synthe-sis gas, a component of alternative fuels, fueladditives that reduce pollution and industrialchemicals. Other applications could help toreduce sulfurand nitrogen oxideemissions fromflue gases.ACCESS: Dave Baurac, Argonne, 708/252-5584; David Polk, Amoco, 312/856-5388.

CRADA to Develop NewOil Burner

Partners: Brookhaven National Laboratory &the New York State Energy Research and De-velopment Authority (NYSERDA).Research Goal: To develop a high-efficiency,low-emission oil burner for home heating.Funding: Not available.Comment: Low-pressure air transforms the fuelinto a fine spray for more efficient combustion.The burner is smaller than conventional burners

and will emit fewer pollutants such as nitrogendioxide and nitric oxide. The burner technologywas developed at Brookhaven and was exclu-sively licensed to NYSERDA; Heatwise, Inc., aRidge, NY company, has a sublicense and plansto commercialize the burner.ACCESS: Diane Greenberg or Mona S. Rowe,Brookhaven National Lab, 516/282-2345.

Combustion Research in

CRADA to DevelopRotorcam EnginePartners: Combustion Research Associates,Tuxedo Park, NY, The Ben Franklin Technol-ogy Center, Philadelphia, PA & The NavalSurface Warfare Systems-Carderock Division.Research Goal: To develop CombustionResearch's Rotorcam engine to incorporate thefollowing: using natural gas as fuel; deliveringpower on demand-adjusting the number ofcylinders in use according to powerneeded; andutilizing variable compression-adjusting theamount of fuel flowing into the combustionchambers.Funding: Not available.Comment: Combustion Research will have ac-

cess to the Naval Surface Warfare Systemsfacilities and its scientists and engineers. Pos-sible applications for the Rotorcam engine in-clude boats, cars, trucks, tractors and manufac-

turing pulley systems.ACCESS: James Cronin, president, Combus-tion Research Associates, 914/351-3345.

CRADA to Reduce

Pollution from Flue GasesPartners: Brookhaven National Laboratory,Consolidated Edison of NY, Babcock andWilcox Co., Barberton,OH &Condensing HeatExchanger Corp., Albany, NYResearch Goal: To design and develop a con-densing economizer to capture sulfur dioxides,particulates and heat energy from power plantflue gases.Funding: Not available.Comment: Brookhaven, ConEd and Babcockand Wilcox are collaborating on design workfor the technology. Babcock and Wilcox andCondensing HeatExchanger Corp.have formeda partnership to manufacture the economizer.ACCESS: Mona S. Rowe or Diane Greenberg,Brookhaven, 516/282-2345.

TECH TRANSFERS

CCGC andSTI-KPolymersto Develop RubberRecycling TechnologyTechnology: A rubber devulcanizing processwhich allows the conversion of rubber scrap(from tires, buffing dust and factory waste) to areplacement forvirgin rubber. The process usesa nontoxic chemical reactant to devulcanize the

scrap, which can be blended fresh compoundsand revulcanized byrubber manufacturers with-out addition of further compounding ingredi-ents.Licensor: STI-K America Polymers, Washing-ton, DC, the U.S. subsidiary ofSTI-K Polymersof Malaysia.Licensee: Custom Cryogenic Grinding Corp.,Simcoe, Ontario, Canada.Agreement Type: License agreement.Terms/Comment: CCGC gains use of thedevulcanizing process and has the right to sellthe devulcanized product. STI-K will providetechnical, marketing and research assistance.STI-K will take up to a 15percent equity stakein CCGC, contingent upon reaching certainsales targets of the devulcanized rubber prod-uct. Praxair, Inc., a CCGC liquid nitrogen sup-plier, will support funding of additional pro-cessing and R&D equipment.

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ACCESS: Daniel Heffernan, president & CEO,CCGC,519/426-5544.

PNL Licenses Non-Thermal Waste Treatment

to EOSystemsTechnology: Catalyzed electrochemical oxida-tion (CEO) process, in which electricity is ap-plied to an electrolyte solution in a closed sys-tem to destroy hazardous wastes, convertingthem into inert substances such as carbon diox-ide and water.Licensor: The DOE's Pacific Northwest Labo-ratory, Richland, WA.Lkensee: EOSystems, Inc., San Jose, CA.Agreement Type: Exclusive license.Terms/Comment: EOSystems has also com-mercially developed a mediated electrochemi-cal oxidation (MEO) process with LawrenceLivermore Natl. Lab. Both the CEO and MEO

processes take place in a closed-loop system,called a T-CELL, which is being developed byFluoroware, Inc., an EOSystems partner.ACCESS: Susan Bauer, PNL, 509/375-2561,e-mail:sLbauer@pnl.gov;Dr.FredCoppotelli,EOSystems, 408/437-9348, fax 408/437-9363.

Mark Four AcquiresLicense to Emissions

Control Technology

Technology: The CEM Catalyst, which is de-signed to be installed in the fuel line before fuelinjectors in internal combustion engines, reduc-ing hydrocarbon, nitrogen oxide and carbonmonoxide emissions.

Lkensor: The Founders, a group of 11 indi-viduals who acquired the technology fromRotello Technology and Marketing, Inc.Lkensee: Mark Four Resources, Inc.Agreement Type:Exclusive worldwide license.Terms/Comment: Mark Four paid approxi-mately $210 million in stock to the Foundersand assumed the 3.5 percent royalty rate pay-able to Rotello Technology. Mark Four has anoption to terminate the royalty and acquire thetechnology outright from Rotello for $15 mil-lion. Mark Four also acquired EPA Enterprisesand EPA Systems, the companies that held therights to the technology for Canada.ACCESS: Paul D. Mazza or Elio Trolio, EPAEnterprises, 800/661-9774.

OPPORTUNITIES

System for Wine Evaluationand LabelingDescription: VIN-TEST@is a visual and quan-titative guide to describe the characteristics oftable wine. Using a series of mathematical for-mulas, data from laboratory analysis of winescan be transformed and expressed as simplescales of 0 to 10 that describe wine characteris-tics such as sweetness, tartness, astringency andbody. The characteristics can be presentedgraphically on a bar chart or similar device.Advantages: Because the system is based onobjective laboratory measurements, it can pro-vide consumers with understandable, objectivereferencepoints for winecomparison andevalu-ation, and make wine more accessible to con-sumers. VIN-TEST@ is intended to comple-ment descriptions that currently appear on winelabels.ApplU:ations:Wine labeling, restaurant and barwine lists.Status: U.S. Patent No. 5,200,909; available forlicense.ACCESS: John P.Juergens, R.Ph., Ph.D., VIN-TEST Wine Evaluation Systems, 309 WishingTree Lane, Oxford, MS 38655, bol/232-5948,fax 601/232-5262, e-mail: phjuerg@cotton.vislab.olemiss.edu

TECHTRANSFERS

Pacific Asia Licenses FoodPackaging Technology toCahoon Farms

Technology: Maptek Fresh, a modified atmo-sphere packaging (MAP) technology that ex-tends the shelf life of fresh produce.Licensor: Pacific Asia Technologies, Inc,Vancouver, BC Canada.Lkensee: Cahoon Farms, Inc., Rochester, NY.Agreement Type: License agreement.Terms/Comment: Cahoon plans touse thepack-aging technology in marketing a line of fresh-cut, flavored apple slices. Maptek is also used tomaintain shelf life of salads and juices. Pacific

Asia also holds exclusive rights to another MAPtechnology called Tamfresh, which is used forwhole produce and cut flowers.ACCESS: R. W. Robinson, director & corpo-rate secretary, Pacific Asia Technologies, 604/322-0759, fax 604/322-0487.

OPPORTUNmES

Diagnosis and Treatmentof HPV Infections

Description: Scientists at the German CancerResearch Center (DKFZ) have discovered avariety of human papilloma virus (HPV) strainsand other molecular tools which permit thegrowth ofHPV in vitro from human specimens.DKFZ scientists have been able to characterizethe virus protein and antibodies directed againstthe known virus particles and have sequencedthe key portion of the HPV genome whichcharacterizes the specific HPV strain.Advantages: Rapid and accurate diagnosis ofHPV infection.ApplU:ations: These inventions will enable thedevelopment and use of methods to detect HPVinfection and treatment of diseases mediated byHPV infection via antibody detection and treat-ment. Use of the sequence information couldform the basis for developing an effective HPVvaccine.Status: German patents applied for; availablefor license.

ACCESS: Paul G. Waugaman, Sigma Technol-ogy, Inc., 1045 Bullard Court, Raleigh, NC27615, 919/850-0033, fax 919/850-0025, e-mail: 102045.1761@compuserve.com

Protein ConjugateCompounds for Therapyand Diagnosis

Description: Scientists at the German CancerResearch Center (DKFZ) have discovered tech-niques for binding small-molecule therapeuticcompounds with proteins to improve the cellu-

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lar uptake of the bound agent.Advantages: Thebindingtechniquesallowdosesof pharmacologically activecompounds-suchas chemotherapeutics-to be delivered beforesystemic toxicity prevents effective completionof the treatment.

Applications: Delivering cancerchemotherapeutics and photosensitive agentsto enhance X-ray,MRI, PET and other scanningtechniques for diagnosis.Status: German and other patents applied for;available for license.

ACCESS: Paul G. Waugaman, Sigma Technol-ogy, Inc., 1045 Bullard Court, Raleigh, NC27615,919/850-0033, fax 919/850-0025,e-mail: 102045.1761@compuserve.com

CRADAS '" AWARDS

SPONSORED RESEARCH

Cell Robotics Wins SBIR

for Laser-AssistedReproduction ResearchPartners: Cell Robotics International, Inc., Al-buquerque, NM & the NIH's National Instituteof Child Health and Human Development.Research Goal:To develop commercial instru-ments for laser-assisted reproduction biology.Funding: $79,251 for the SmallBusiness Inno-vation Research (SBIR) grant.Comment: Cell Robotics is also using itsLaserTweezers and LaserScissors technologiesfor cancer research and recently was awardedan SBIR grant from the National Cancer Insti-tute.ACCESS: Craig Rogers, Cell Robotics, 719/590-4900.

Alexion Wins ATP Grant

for XenotransplantationProgram

Partners: Alexion, Inc., New Haven, CT & theNational Institute of Standards and Technology(NIST).Research Goal: To develop genetically-engi-neered pig organs for human transplants with-out clinical rejection.Funding: $2million under theAdvanced Tech-nology Program (ATP).ACCESS: David Keiser, Alexion, 203/776-1790.

TECH TRANSFERS

Univ. of Florida LicensesDFO Technology toSunPharm

Technology: The manufacturing process fordesferrioxamine (DFO), the iron chelator drug,which is used to manage iron overload in pa-tients with congenital anemias. The processinvolves making DFO by chemical synthesis;the previous methods required isolating it frommicroorganisms.Licensor: The University of Florida ResearchFoundation, Inc.Licensee: SunPharm Corp., Jacksonville, FL.Agreement Type: Exclusive license.Terms/Comment: SunPharm paid a license feeand will pay royalties on sales of the drug. (Foradditional information on SunPharm, see TechExpress News, 3-6-95.)ACCESS: Stefan Borg, president & CEO,SunPharm, 904/296-3320.

Somatix Obtains License

to AA Vfor Gene Transferto the Heart

Technology: A method of gene transfer to heartmuscle using adeno-associated viral (AAV)vectors delivered by a catheter. The technologymay allow these vectors to be delivered tocardiac muscle cells and endothelial cells thatline blood vessels and the heart's chambers.Licensors: The Rockefeller University, EdwardB. Diethrich, M.D., of the Arizona Heart Insti-tute and Martin J. Kaplitt, M.D., of the NorthShore University Hospital, Manhasset, NY.Licensee: Somatix Therapy Corp., Alameda,CA.

Agreement Type: Worldwide exclusive license.Terms/Comment: Somatix will research genetherapy applications of AAV vector technologyforcongenital heart diseases, damage from heartattacks, heart failure and post-angioplasty scar-ring.ACCESS: Gregory Thayer, Somatix, 510/748-3025.

FUNDING

Genetronics & Pharma

Patch Form Drug DeliveryJoint Venture

Genetronics Biomedical, Ltd. & Pharma PatchpIc have formed PharmaTronics, a 50/50 jointventure between theirsubsidiaries, Genetronicsand PharmetrixlPP Holdings. Genetronics andPharma Patch have been collaborating ontransdermal drug delivery technology that usesan electrode patch.

The electrode patch, which will be devel-oped by PharmaTronics, uses pulsed electricalfields to provide the driving force for large-molecule drugs to penetrate the skin. The jointventure company will license the technology ona drug-by-drug basis. Licensing and milestonefees androyaltypaymentswillbepassed throughto the parent companies; PharmaTronics willconduct research and drug development.ACCESS: Lois J. Crandell or Linda Hull,Genetronics, 619/597-6006, fax,619/597-0119;Ken Howling, Pharma PatchpIc,416/364-00 12,fax 416/364-7636.

OPPORTUNITIES

Diffusion- WeightedMagneticResonance Imaging forFocal Brain Ischemia

Description: A software tool that allows rapidinterpretation of magnetic resonance images ofthe brain.

Advantages: Diffusion-weightedmagneticreso-nance imaging can demonstrate ischemic le-sions and demonstrate brain trauma rapidly andquantitatively. Researchers and physicianshavebeen limited in their ability to determine theextent of injury because vascular changes onstandard MRI scans produce findings that arerelatively non-specific.Applications: The software is being used toassess novel NMDA antagonists in stroke mod-els and may be a valuable tool for quantifying

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the efficacy of therapeutic agents.Status: U.S. patent pending; available for li-cense.ACCESS: Ref. No.: MC-108000, Skip Irving,vicepresident,CommercialDevelopment,Mas-sachusetts Biotechnology Research Institute,One Innovation Drive, Worcester, MA 01605,508/797-4200, fax: 508/831-3521.

CRADAS .AWARDSSPONSORED RESEARCH

Mission Support WinsSBIRfor Medical ImagingMaterial

Partners: MissionSupport, Inc.,Salt Lake City,UT & the DOE's Office of Energy Research.Research Goal: To adapt and improve cerium-activated lanthanum beryllate as a scintillatingmaterial for medical imaging applications. Thematerialwasoriginallydevelopedasa scintillatorfornuclearparticle detection in oilwell logging.By increasing the material's cerium content,light output will improve the spatial and energyresolution for medical imaging.Funding: The Phase I Small Business Innova-tion Research award is for $74, 765.ACCESS: David B. Merrill, Mission Support,801/773-7900.

TECHTRANSFERS

ImaRx LicensesUltrasound Contrast

Agent to DuPont MerckTechnology: MRX-115, an ultrasound contrastagent for cardiac and blood pool imaging.Licensor: ImaRx Pharmaceutical Corp., Tuc-son, AZ.Licensee: DuPont Merck.

Agreement Type: Exclusive license.Terms/Comment: ImaRx will receive upfront,milestoneand royaltypayments. DuPont Merckwill have exclusive rights inNorth America andLatin America for cardiology and radiologyapplications ofMRX-115, and rights to cardiol-ogy applications in the European Union. Rightsto radiologyapplications inthe European Unionand all rights in other regions of the world willremain with ImaRx.ACCESS: Thomas Fritz or Dr. Evan Unger,ImaRx,520/770-1259.

Materials &Manufacturing

OPPORTUNITIES

Fluor Daniel TechnologiesSeeks Investment

OpportunitiesFluor Daniel Technologies (PDT) is seeking toinvest in young companies in the areas of ad-vanced materials (ceramics, composites, metalsand plastics), advanced chemical, petrochemi-cal, industrial and manufacturing processes andhigh tech. PDT will function as a deal origina-tor, or as an investor in deals created and man-aged by others. The company is willing tosupply financing, in-kind professional servicesor business and technical staff. The minimuminvestment is $500,000, and the preferred rangeruns to $10 million.

Caveats: The technology must be capable ofgenerating self-sustaining revenues within 18-24 months of the investment and grow to aminimum $25million businesswithin fiveyears.The technology must exhibit a new design,application or feature; be protectab1e by inter-national IP laws; solve an important problem orbe a significant improvement over the currentart; and be technically feasible, cost-effectiveand transferable to a readily identifiable andsignificant end user market. PDT will not con-sider investments in basic R&D, real estate,health care or regulatory-driven or nontech-nology service businesses. .

ACCESS: RobertF. Muir, vice president, FluorDaniel Technologies, 3333 Michelson Drive,Irvine, CA 92730, 714/975-6160.

CRADAS .AWARDSSPONSORED RESEARCH

ATP AwardforRecyclable PolymersPartners: Amoco Corp., Naperville, IL,Fiberweb North America, Inc., Simpsonville,SC & the National Institute of Standards and

Technology (NIST).Research Goal: To design and developmetallocene catalysts for manufacturing low-cost, high-performance recyclable elastomeric

polymers.Funding:$lO million in Advanced TechnologyProgram funds.ACCESS: Michael Baum,NIST, 301/975-2763,e-mail: baum@micf.nist.gov

NSF Grant to Auto-Air

for Polymer CompositesDesign SoftwarePartners: Auto-Air Composites, Inc., Lansing,MI, Michigan State University & the NationalScience Foundation.

Research Goal: To develop advanced comput-ing tools to support the design process for con-verting metal assemblies into polymer compos-ites.Funding: The three-year grant is for $90,000.Comment: Auto-Air is a subsidiary of CadeIndustries of Lansing, MI.ACCESS: SA Mull or E.B. Stephens, CadeIndustries, 517/394-1333

TECH TRANSFERS

Lenox Licenses Plastic

Polymer Technology to PSITechnology: Lignin-based resins, which canreplace certain petrochemicals used in plasticsmanufacturing. Lenox developed a method toextract lignin from the waste black liquor ofkraft-type pulp mills.Licensor: Lenox Resources, Ltd., a subsidiaryof Lenox Polymers, Ltd., Port Huron, MI.Licensee: Polymer Systems, Inc. (PSI).Agreement Type: License agreement.Terms/Comment: PSI made a$loo,OOOupfrontpayment; the IO-year contract calls for PSI topay a minimum of $2.75 million in royalties asa percentage of sales. PSI will develop specificplastic polymers for areas that include automo-tive, marine, agricultural and aerospace. (Forfurther information on Lenox Polymers, seeTech Express News, 6-30-95.)ACCESS: Ken Kurple, president, Lenox Poly-mers, Ltd., 810/364-3774.

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OPPORTUNITIES

Pulsed Low Frequency EPRSpectrometer and Imager

Description: Electron ParamagneticResonance(EPR) spectroscopy imaging system, whichgenerates broadband pulses having an RF car-rier frequency that is not highly absorbed bybiological materials. The pulse generating sys-tem includes up and down chirp converters forfrequency modulating of a carrier frequencyand compression of the frequency modulatedpulse to form a broadband excitation pulse ofhigh energy.Applications: Could form the basis of a clinicalimaging device capable of high sensitivity tofree radical species in human patients.Status: U.S. Patent No. 5,387,867; available forlicense.ACCESS: John Fahner-Vihtelic, TechnologyLicensing Specialist, National Institutes ofHealth, 6011 Executive Blvd., Box 13,RockvilIe,MD20852-3804,301/496-7735,ext.285, fax 301/402-0220.

CRADAS . AWARDSSPONSORED RESEARCH

Motorola & Keithley toDevelop EnvironmentalMonitoring SystemsPartners: Motorola Semiconductor ProductsSector, Phoenix, AZ & Keithley Instruments,Inc., Cleveland, OH.Research Goal: To develop environmentalmonitoring systems using a combination ofchemical sensors and precision measurement

technology. Applications could include pollu-tion monitoring and process control feedback.Funding: Not available.ACCESS: John Skardon, Motorola, 602/244-6007,fax602/244-4201;PradipKamat,KeithleyInstruments, 216/498-2884.

CRADAS . AWARDSSPONSORED RESEARCH

Whittaker & CALSTART

to Develop LNGFueling NozzlePartners: Whittaker Controls, Inc., Simi Val-ley, CA, BDM-Oklahoma & CALSTART,Burbank, CA.Research Goal: To design and develop a con-sumer-safe fueling nozzle for liquid natural gas,which is stored at cryogenic temperatures.Funding: $277,900.Comment: CALSTART is a non-profit consor-tium formed under a partnership with the Ad-vanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) andBDM-Oklahoma. Whittaker will deliver a pro-totype of the nozzle to BDM-Oklahoma within12 months, using cryogenic fluid and systemtechnologies, advanced materials and manufac-turing capabilities that include insulation tech-nology derived from the space shuttle program.

The LNG nozzle is one of four CALSTART

projects underway with ARPA in the NaturalGas Vehicle R&D Program. Other parts of theprogram are aimed at developing a fuel storagechassis system, an ultra-high efficiency com-pressor, and high reliability leak detection.ACCESS: James B. Schultz, Whittaker, 805/526-5700, ext. 638, World Wide Web: http://www.whittaker.com .

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TAR: You mentioned your group's work in

improving the process. Can you give ussome specifics?

Maclachlan: We were able to cut thelengthof timethe averageCRADA takes tonegotiate last year, and it fell again from1994to 1995by 50%, so what used to takemany months now takes just two months.And that doesn't include th~ simplerCRADAs that the labs sign themselves,which may take only days.

I've been particularly pleased and actu-ally surprised at the results of our internalsurveys of customer satisfaction. We'renow seeing ratings on the various catego-ries well above 80% or even 85%-andthat's up from 40-50% on the same mea-sures just a year ago.

TAR: You also mentioned you had someloose ends?

Maclachlan: We still have problems in-teracting with small business. When a firmwants to pay a laboratory for some work,

our current rules require it to pay the entireamount in advance, since the governmentdoesn't want to worry about trying to col-lect on bad debts. We have some flexibilityfor small firms, but we think we can tinkerwith the regulations to get the departmentto behave in a more business-like manner.

We also assign a very heavy overheadburden of 25-30%, a relic of the way thegovernment does accounting. Congresshasgiven us temporary rights to waive it forsmall businesses, but we would like tomake it permanent.

TAR: Between the dismantling of youroffice and the cuts in specific CRADAfund-ing, do you think otherforms of technologytransfer will take up the slack, and what doyou project for future CRADA activity?

Maclachlan: Well, I certainly see adrop-off in CRADAs, but not as great as youmight think from looking at the fundingcuts, and I think other forms of cooperationwill increase, as long as they're extremelycarefully justified, because the private sec-

tor has seen the value in working with thelabs. In fact, we track what we call "incom-ing dollars," and they're increasing.

Total CRADA funding in 1995 wassomething like $290 million, and Congresscut it to $170 million or even $152 millionin 1996. But the cut is even worse than itlooks, because they're taking the funds wedidn't spend in 1995, so the actual moneyavailable is only $120 million.

But I'm projecting that the drop in ac-tual CRADAs won't be that bad. I believethat as the program areas appreciate thebenefits of collaborations, they will startusing some of their dollars to supportCRADAs. (Of course, while the CRADAmoney was available, they certainly al-ways used that first.) I'm telling the Secre-tary that the drop in CRADAs will be lessthan half what the dollar drop would sug-gest-more on the order of 25-30%.

In effect, what Congress has done issimply accelerate the process of redirect-ing us to focusing on the benefits to thedepartment's missions, which is not a badthing..

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3Com, 153DO Co., 15Advanced Research Projects Agency, 15AgriculturalResearch Service, 14Alexion, Inc., 18Allocating Federal Funds for Science and Technology, 6Altemative AgriculturalResearch &Commercialization

(MRC) Center, 1Amoco Corp., 16, 19Argonne National laboratory , 16Auto-AirComposites, 19Babcock &Wilcox Co., 16Bacillus thuringiensis, 14Baldrige, Malcolm National Quality Award winners, 3Bay Networks, 15Benchmarl<ingBest Practices for University-fndustry

Technology Transfer: Worl<ingwith Start-UpCompanies, 9

Bioenergy, Inc., 2biotechpartnerships with big pharma,Brookhaven National laboratory , 16Bums, D. Guy, 10business incubators, 8, 9Cahoon Farms, Inc., 17CALSTART, 20Cast Metals Coalition, 5Cell Robotics International, Inc., 18CEM Catalyst, 17ceramics, 16Chronicle of Higher Education, 9Cincinnati Enquirer and Indiana Freedom of

Information Act, 3CMG Information Services, 1condensing economizer to capture pollution from flue

gases, 16Condensing Heat Exchanger Corp., 16Congressional budget resolution bill, 4Congressional Research Service, 5Consolidated Edison of New York, 16Corel Corp., 15Comell U, 10, 14Cree Research, 15Custom Cryogenic Grinding Corp., 16dairy herd management, 14Dayton, U of, 16desferrioxamine (DFO), iron chelator drug, 18diffusion-weighted MRI, 18DuPont Merck, 19Dyson, Esther, 10Eastman Kodak Co., 15Ecogen, Inc., 14electrode patch for transdermal drug delivery, 18electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy

imaging, 20Energy, Department of, 1,4,5, 16, 17,24EOSystems, Inc., 17European Union - U.S. technology agreement, 3Exploring Affemative Models of Federal Support for

Research and Development, 5Florida, U of, 18Fluor Daniel Technologies, 19Fonar & GE MRI patent infringement suit, 2Food & Drug Administration (FDA), 2Genetronics, 18

German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), 17Growing New Ventures, Creating Nep! Jobs: Principles

& Practices of Successful Business Incubation, 9Helferich, Richard, 15holographic data storage systems, 14human papilloma virus diagnostics, 17ImaRx Pharmaceutical Corp., 19Industrial Research Institute, 6Industries of the Future initiative, 5International Canine Genetics, Inc., 14Keithley Instruments, Inc., 20laser-assisted reproduction, 18leBlanc, Maurice, 10

LEDs, 15legislation, FY 96, 4, 5Lenox Resources, ltd., 19licensing Executives Society web site, 3LNG fueling nozzle, 20low emission oil bumer, 16

Lycos, " 15Maclachlan, Alexander, " 24

Manufacturing Extension Partnership, 4Mark Four Resources, Inc., 17Massachusetts Biotechnology Research Institute, 19Matsushita Electrical Industrial Co., 15

Michigan State U., 19Mission Support, Inc., 19modified atmosphere packaging, 17Monsanto Co., 14Montana State U, 9Motorola Semiconductor Products, 20National Academy of Sciences, 6National Business Incubation Association, 9National Institute of Standards & Technology

(NIST), 4, 19National Institutes of Health, 20National Medals of Science and Technology, 3National Science Foundation, 19New York Information Technology Center (ITC), 8New York State and high-tech firms, 8New York State Energy Research & Development

Authority (NYSERDA), 16New York U., 14non-thermal waste treatment, 17Office of Technology Partnerships, '. 4, 24Office of Technology Policy reports, 6organic electroluminescent display, 15Pacific Asia Technologies, Inc., 17Pacific Northwest Laboratory , 17Participatory Action Research Network, 10patents, 4, 5Pharma Patch, ltd., 18PharmaTronics, 18Pioneer Electronic Corp., 15Polymer Systems, Inc.,. 19polymers, 19Promega & Roche PCR patent infringement suit, 2R&D Trends Forecast for 1996, 7ReadyCom, Inc., 15relaxin, pregnancy marker in dogs, 14Rohrabacher, Rep. Dana, 4rotorcam engine, 16rubber recycling, 16Sachs, Alvin H., 10Schuler, Eugene, 7, 10Schwartz, Martin, 15Semiconductor Research Corp., 2sensor-controlled crop spraying, 14Siemens A.G., 15Sigma Technology, Inc., 17, 18Simon, Jack, 11Singerman, Phillip A., 11Southern Technology Council, 9Stein, Barry, 11STI-K America Polymers, 16Strauch & Sons, 14SunPharm Corp., 18Supporting Research and Development to Promote

Economic Growth, 6The Globalization of Industrial Research and

Development, 7thermal photolytic destructor for dioxin control, 16Thurow, Lester and R&D payback periods, 2Tucker, William T., 11

U of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, 14ultrasonic insect fogger, 14ultrasound contrast agent, 19VIN-TEST Wine Evaluation Systems, 17Whittaker Controls, Inc., 20

xenotransplantation, 18

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Interview

Interview with Department ofEnergy's Alexander Maclachlan

Although SecretaryHazel 0' Leary hasbeen making good on her promise to cutthousands of jobs from the department,that wasn't good enough for Congress,which has made a point of targeting the17-person Office of Technology Partner-ships (see p. I). Alexande~ MacLachlan,whoformerly directed R&D for DuPontfor many years, was hailed as a brilliantchoice to bring industry's voice to gov-ernment when he joined the Energy De-partment as Deputy Undersecretary forTechnology Partnerships and EconomicCompetitiveness a year ago. While it ap-pears that president Clinton's originalgoal of leveragingten to twentypercent ofthe department's funding is out of reachfor themoment, MacLachlan is optimisticthat the idea of partnership will survive.

TAR: What exactly was Congress tryingto stop by directing that your relativelysmall office be closed?

Maclachlan: I haven't actually spokento the people who wrote the legislation,but as I understand it Congress is notsupportive of our work promoting tech-nology partnerships. Rather, if a collabo-rationmakes sense,insupportof anagencymission, then it should be handled by theprograms, or the programs and the labstogether-but in any case it doesn't needpromotion.

TAR: What were the promotional activi-

ties of your office?

Maclachlan: We dida lotof speaking toindustry groups, some publications, andwe conducted workshops in conjunctionwith the lab tech transfer offices to explainthe benefits of collaborations to industry,and learn their concerns.

We also reached out to small busi-

nesses, and although this activitywill stop,we believe their participation will self-sustain and continue to grow.

TAR: So what part of the activities of youroffice did Congress not target expressly?In other words, what activities will con-tinue?

Maclachlan: Working out processes tofacilitate partnerships, to make themquicker-that workload was droppingquickly anyway, as we had made a gooddeal of progress. We have a few looseends in that area to deal with, and thatwork will continue, through the R&DCouncil, which the labs and program ar-eas formed themselves to work throughcross-cutting issues.

We will continue to help improve thelab system's impact on the nation's re-search. My personal primary focus, onwhich I'll spend 90 if not 95% of my time,will be on R&D management, to fulfill theSecretary's commitment to cut costs, andto help the labs function as a system.

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