April 28, 2010 Albuquerque, NM The Only Government-wide Forum for Technology Transfer Town Hall Meeting Moderator: Rick Brenner USDA, Agricultural Research Service

April 28, 2010 Albuquerque, NM Rick Brenner  Assistant Administrator, USDA Agricultural Research Service (ARS)  Director, ARS Office of Technology Transfer (OTT, approx. 45 FTE with 1 SES and 10 GS-15s)  FLC Executive Board (Member-at-Large; )  Program Committee (national and Mid-Atlantic Region), Education and Training (E&T) Committee; State & Local Government Committee  USDA Agency Representative to FLC (28 agencies in USDA)  Recipient of FLC Technology Transfer Award (1989), ARS Technology Transfer Awards (2), ARS Outstanding Scientist of the Year Award (1997), Presidential Rank Award (2008)  20 years as ARS research scientist (Mexico, Florida), including 7 as Research Leader  B.S. Forestry (Univ. of IL), M.S. Medical Entomology (U of IL), Ph.D., Medical Entomology (Cornell) Town Hall Meeting

April 28, 2010 Albuquerque, NM A Review of Recent Town Hall Discussions … Town Hall Meeting Albuquerque, NM 2010… We’re crawling out of the recession… Formation of White House working groups is providing opportunity to shape science-based innovation from federal agencies for commercialization

April 28, 2010 Albuquerque, NM IAWGTT OSB OIE JOBS! WHIIP I and E Workgroup Many Initiatives Focused on Innovation Source: Paul Zielinski, NIST

April 28, 2010 Albuquerque, NM The Evolution of Opportunity to Shape New Models  September 2009: White House Innovation & Information Policy working group (WHIIP)  Visited agencies (Departments) to meet with Secretaries, describe Administration thoughts on innovation, gather commitment / ideas.  October 2009: Office of Innovation & Entrepreneurship created in Dept. of Commerce  NOFA pending: “I-6 Challenge Grants” ($6M)  December 2009: WHIIP replaced by 4 permanent working groups, including WH Innovation & Entrepreneurship Working Group (WH I&E)

April 28, 2010 Albuquerque, NM The Evolution of Opportunity to Shape New Models  WH Innovation & Entrepreneurship Working Group (WH I&E) (December 4, 2009)  Co-chaired by Ginger Lew, NEC, Aneesh Chopra, OSTP  Subgroups established with goal of identifying / producing deliverables by October 2010:  “Access to Capital”  “SBIR” (focus is on USG funds to others)  “Proof of Concept Center” (focusing on university T2)  What’s missing: perspective from the leadership of federal intramural technology transfer  “Federal Laboratory Technology Transfer” -- organizational (inaugural) meeting May 5, 2010

April 28, 2010 Albuquerque, NM Suggested Topics  the “Year of Research Commercialization” (Aneesh Chopra)  Let the next generation of technology transfer unfold this year – i.e., faster, more efficient  What can we do with existing authorization and existing appropriations?  How can federal labs, universities, private sector work together to achieve a new level of commercialization?  How can we spur entrepreneurial training?  What should we add to re-authorization of America Competes Act? Patent value determination: Approaches and valuable lessons learned to determine fair value on licensing patents

April 28, 2010 Albuquerque, NM Richard J. Brenner, Ph.D. Assistant Administrator USDA, Agricultural Research Service Office of Technology Transfer 5601 Sunnyside Ave Beltsville, MD (301) Business.htm Photo: Quiet Waters Park, Annapolis, MD (Joann Perkins) Town Hall Meeting