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Active Commercializationand What It Means for Education

Cliff ZintgraffPresident, Innology LLC

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Context – Innology LLC

Raising Talent, Technology & EntrepreneursSM

TechnologyCommercialization

K12Workforce

Raising Talent, Technology & EntrepreneursSM

TechnologyCommercialization

K12Workforce

Context – Innology LLC

The Workforce Ecosystem

Two-Year Colleges

Four-Year Colleges

Graduate ProgramsSummer

Programs

After SchoolPrograms

Assessment Services

Articulation Agreements

Policy

High Schools

Middle Schools

Magnet Schools

Academies

Cities

Counties

States

EconomicDevelopers

WorkforceBoards

INDUSTRY

Pressures on the Workforce Ecosystem

More Indian college graduates than U.S.

high school graduates

More English speakers in China than in the U.S.

“This is a story about the big public conversation the nation is not having about education … whether an entire generation of kids will fail to make the grade in the global economy because they can't think their way through abstract problems, work in teams, (and) distinguish good information from bad …” Time Magazine, December 2006 Quoting the New Commission on the Skills of the American Workforce

Houston Community College organizing to graduate 500 bio-

technicians

Houston stands up Robotics Education Support Center

Arlington organizing to recover manufacturing base with state grants

San Antonio Greater Chamber Survey indicates corporations hire IT graduates from outside

San Antonio

GLOBAL WARMING – WORKFORCE AND EDUCATION VERSION

“This is a story about the big public conversation the nation is not having about education … whether an entire generation of kids will fail to make the grade in the global economy because they can't think their way through abstract problems, work in teams, (and) distinguish good information from bad …”

Time Magazine, December 2006

Quoting the New Commission on the Skills of

the American Workforce

21st Century Jobs

SECONDARY SCHOOLS SAY

Is this what you needed?

HIGHER ED SAYS

I’m not sure we’re so well

aligned!

INDUSTRY SAYS

I’ve been telling you guys we

need teamwork skills!

21st Century Jobs We’re All

In This Together!

“The best employers the world overwill be looking for the most competent,

most creative and most innovative peopleon the face of the earth … not just for the top

professionals and managers, but up anddown the length and breadth of the

workforce.”

Tough Choices or Tough TimesWritten by the New Commission on theSkills of the American Workforce

We are going to talk about …

• The “Portugal” project• Commercialization

The “OK” kind The really good kind

• What it means for education• What it means

University Technology Enterprise Network

YourImpressionsof Portugal?

NiceKitty

Only European country where the growth of

creative jobs was negative for the period

1995-2000.

Creative Occupations as % of total employment:

13%

Current state is not good, BUT growth ispromising …

SUMMARY:

They don’t want to be left behind.

Partnership

1. Ministry of Science and Technology2. 15 Portuguese universities3. Technology transfer office4. Incubators and science parks5. Large Portuguese companies6. Corporate innovation leaders7. UT Austin, IC2 Institute8. Who’s missing?

UTEN Goals

1. Identify promising technologies in universities, science parks, companies

2. Help commercialize those technologies

3. Transfer best practices to sustain progress after we leave.

Strategy

Did you find a

place to land yet?

ARGH!Google Maps is down!!

Portuguese Portuguese Partners Partners

andand

ICIC22 Institute Institute

1PILOTPILOTTest & adaptTest & adaptfor Portugalfor Portugal

2Full scale Full scale

execution with execution with National National

CompetitionsCompetitions

UTEN Pilot Phase – “Think & Do”

UTEN Pilot Phase – “Think & Do”

Readiness AssessmentWhere YOU think you are

ScreenWhere WE think you are

MarketLookWhere the MARKET thinks

you are

Integrated

Portfolio &

History

UTEN Pilot Phase – “Think & Do”4242 Identified Identified

Screening Screening 1212 (5-8 hour process each) (5-8 hour process each)

MarketLooks on MarketLooks on ~3~3 (40 hour process each) (40 hour process each)

Potential wins are:Potential wins are:IP assistanceIP assistance

Development partnersDevelopment partnersR&D collaborationsR&D collaborations

Sales, direct and channelSales, direct and channelU.S. corporate presence – “soft landing”U.S. corporate presence – “soft landing”

ATI connection or admittanceATI connection or admittance

SixSix established companies with products or services established companies with products or services

TwoTwo early stage companies early stage companies

FourFour university IP for license or venture formations university IP for license or venture formations

One EnergyOne Energy

One BioOne Bio

Two MedicalTwo Medical

Three MicroelectronicsThree Microelectronics

One NanoOne Nano

One PackagingOne Packaging

Two SoftwareTwo Software

One TelecomOne Telecom

UTEN Pilot Phase – “Think & Do”

OK, this is great, but what’s it really like to

do this work?

Commercialization 101 LAB!

1. Three investors have C$100,000 total.2. You have two Portuguese technologies.3. 5 minutes – choose one.4. 15 minutes – analyze commercialization

potential.5. Seek out experts.6. Deliver elevator pitch.

C$4000 : US$1

Questions

1. How much did you know about commercialization before the lab?

2. After the lab?

What TECHNICAL skills were needed?

1. abc2. xyz3. …

What OTHER skills wereneeded?

1. abc2. xyz3. …

If you were the Czar of Education, how would you teach these things?

1. abc2. xyz3. …

Things we could talk about (but won’t)

1. Closing the achievement gaps2. The value of standardized testing3. The challenges of standardized testing4. Data-driven strategy5. Curriculum alignment6. Building broad partnerships7. Classroom management!

Huge questions we could ask (but won’t)

1. How much can we change inside out?2. Outside in?3. Will it take more money?

(SUGGESTED READING: Tough Choices or Tough Times, www.skillscommission.org)

Innovation – Full Circle

• In the early 1900s, we learned better than anyone in the world how to vertically integrate a task.

• Now we have learned better than anyone in the world how to vertically DISintegrate a task.

The Goal

Tough Choices or Tough Times, www.skillscommission.org

WHO do we need?

1. abc2. xyz3. …

WHO do we need?

1. Scientists2. Engineers3. Writers4. Artists5. Business people6. Who understand each other

WHAT do we need?

1. abc2. xyz3. …

WHAT do we need?

1. Research skills2. Communication skills3. Critical thinking skills4. Information synthesis ability5. Entrepreneurial spirit

HOW we get there

1. Rigor We must match the world’s rigor in math and science

2. Relevance For students For actual jobs

3. Reading and math in context We are out of alignment

4. Exploratory learning5. Working in teams

1.1. AwarenessAwareness

2.2. Comprehension Comprehension

3.3. ApplicationApplication

4.4. AnalysisAnalysis

5.5. Synthesis Synthesis

6.6. EvaluationEvaluation

Knowledge Taxonomy

Courtesy: Dr. Bill Daggett

Application Model

Courtesy: Dr. Bill Daggett

1.1. Knowledge in one disciplineKnowledge in one discipline

2. Application within discipline2. Application within discipline3. Application across 3. Application across

disciplinesdisciplines4. Application to real-world 4. Application to real-world

predictable situationspredictable situations5. Application to real-world 5. Application to real-world

unpredictable situationsunpredictable situations

Rigor & Relevance in a Nutshell

Courtesy: Dr. Bill Daggett

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Exploratory and Team-Based Learning funded by the Texas Workforce Commission …

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proportion of low income students graduating from college …”

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ActiveCommercializationand What It Means

for Education

Century Live !21st

Cliff ZintgraffPresident, Innology LLC

Analysis Summary

• Promising position to achieve enhanced innovation and economic competitiveness …

• … through the creation of wealth and jobs• Make more efficient use of the country’s

talent, science, and technology base• Industry, academia, and government (must)

more effectively collaborate• (More) effectively link to global market

opportunities.