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World Bank – Global Research Alliance
Workshop on Inclusive Innovation Technologies and Experiences
25-27 May 2011
Battelle and Inclusive Innovation
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Outline
• Battelle and Inclusive Innovation
• Key Areas of Innovation at Battelle
• Inclusive Innovation – Links, mission technologies and cross-cutting capabilities
• Importance of Policy and Standards
• Summary
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Battelle
To “benefit mankind through science”
• Founded in 1929 to do “creative and research work”; the “making of discoveries and inventions”; and the “education of men and women for employment”
• A US Non-profit charitable trust
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Our core purpose is translating scientific discovery to innovative applications
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Battelle Management of Major Labs
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National Renewable Energy Lab
Brookhaven
Idaho
$6.2 billion R&D volume23,000 staff31 scientific user facilities
BEST Center
Oak Ridge
ColumbusPacific Northwest
Lawrence LivermoreNBACCWest Jefferson
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Long term
Inexhaustible fusionpower
Capturing and sequestering CO2
Cleaner coal plants and engines
Biotech and materials processes for efficient industry
Smart, efficient electricity grid
High-yield,robust biofuel crops
Oil shale extraction
technology
Net-zeroenergyhouses
Sustainablenuclear reactors
and fuels
Closingthe
nuclearfuel cycle
Efficient vehicles and engines
Near term
Battelle-Managed Energy R&D Portfolio
Abundant, affordable energysupplies
More efficient energy use
Protectionof the environment
Nano materials foraffordable solar
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R&D 100 Awards
• Battelle and the national laboratories it manages for the U.S. Department of Energy won 25 of the prestigious 2010 R&D 100 Awards.
• R&D 100 Awards are given annually by R&D Magazine for the 100 most significant, newly introduced research and development advances in multiple disciplines. It is considered to be one of the marks of excellence and innovation in the R&D community.
Year Battelle R&D 100 Awards
2010 25
2009 26
2008 20
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Integrating Inclusive Innovation
• Integrating Inclusive Innovation offers the potential to expand the impact of laboratory innovations
• Understanding the markets that are the route to major societal impact is essential
– Not “technology push”
• Defining the innovation opportunities follows societal goals and market opportunities
• Building cross-cutting capabilities in-country broadens impact through innovation
• Coordination with policy and standards is often critical
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General Surveys of Innovation Can Point to
Opportunities for Leverage in Inclusive
Innovation -
Top Challenges over the Decade 2007 –
2017 (Battelle Survey)
1. Affordable Home-Based Health Care
2. Personalized Consumer Products
3. Convergence of Technology in the Home
4. Protecting the Environment and Natural Resources
5. Human Interfaces. Interfaces are the intermediaries between human and machine that allow us to more easily use technology
6. Nutritional Health
7. Mobile Energy
8. Micro-Security
9. The Renewed Infrastructure - new materials and new construction methods
10. Global Business Competition
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Today’s Discussion Focusing on
Selected Socio-Market Themes
• Agriculture
• Energy
• Environment
• Healthcare
• Information
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Agriculture – The Example of
Microbial Fertilizer
• Traditional chemical fertilizers
– expensive and becoming more expensive
– harsh on the soil, harming soil sustainability
– create effluent that is harmful to the environment creating toxic residue.
• Microbial fertilizers
– enhance the natural functions of plants for improved growth and disease resistance
– environmentally sustainable
– naturally occurring, not-genetically modified
– lower in cost
• Science can accelerate the shift from chemical to microbial
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Microbial Fertilizer - Endophytes
Popular: significant increase in root and shoot development of40-80 %
Positive effect after Inoculation with Endophyte Beta
Comparison with control
After 1 week (A) After 10 weeks(B)
• Endophytes - EndophyticBacteria are bacteria that reside within the living tissue of a plant with positive effect on the plant.
• Those bacteria promote plant growth, resistance to disease, tolerance to systemic drought and remediation of contaminants.
• Some endophytes are effective in a range of plants – broad spectrum
Control ControlE-Beta E-Beta
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Microbial Fertilizer – Genetic AnalysisResearch reveals functionality at genetic level confirming environmental
compatibility and lack of pathogenicity
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Energy - Distributed Energy
• Numerous innovations but the system is also critical
• Lower cost alternatives
• Systems improvements that enable innovation opportunities
• Alternative uses of resources
Biomass Solar Energy
Wind PowerSmart Grid
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Biobased Materials
Innovation in Use
• To meet future
demand of chemicals
& materials, biobased
resources will
compliment the
existing petroleum
supplies.
• Currently, biobased
materials for product
use is very low (~2%).
• In the future this is
projected to be much
more significant
(~50%).
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Alternative Use of Biobased Materials
- Plasticizers
• PVC is one of the world’s most
common plastics.
• In its plasticized form, it is
readily found in the following
applications:
car interiors
wire insulation
vinyl flooring, carpeting
plumbing & construction
garden hoses
shower curtains
medical supplies
toys
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Environment
• Water treatment
– Oxidizers
– Membranes
– Light
• Recycling
– Construction materials
• Ferrateoxidation
– Potentially a single chemicalwater purification agent (oxidant/disinfectant/coagulant/flocculant/pH modifier)
– Effective against a wide range of water contaminants
Construction material from
household waste
Lower cost inorganic filter
effective for bacterial and viral
concentration
Examples
Ferric Hydroxide to
remove arsenic from
water - $2/yr
Low cost UV purification
of water with UV and
solar energy
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Health Care
Principal Activities
•National Children’s Study
•National Toxicology Program
•BrainGate
•Testing Drugs and Vaccines to Prevent and Treat Diseases
•Drug Delivery Devices
•Pulmonary Systems Biology
•HIV/STD Prevention and Managing Impact in HIV/AIDS Affected Children
•Maternity Practices in Infant Nutrition and Care
•Estimating the Capacity for National and State-Level Colorectal Cancer Screening
•Rapid Influenza Immunity Tests
•Public Health Emergency Preparedness
•Environmental exposure assessments
• Drug Delivery Devices– Design and development
of unique drug delivery devices
– Improving medication compliance, efficiency and effectiveness of drug delivery that results in improved patient health
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Information Technology
• The Internet enables immediate global diffusion of information and services
• The ubiquitous use of mobile phones enables reaching out to individuals at all societal levels
• Interoperability and language become challenges across borders
Examples
• Web-based, real-time, low cost telemedical diagnostic system designed to conduct automated eye screenings of large patient populations for blinding diseases
• Information Visualization to overcome language for greater interoperability – A picture is worth a thousand words.
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Inclusive Innovation – Cross-cutting
Capabilities
• Thin film processing and printing – Microfluidics - Diagnostics
– Solar PV
– Flexible electronics
• Membranes– Water purification
– Biofuels production
– Batteries
• Catalysts– Biomaterials processing
• Bioresources processing
Examples
• Thin photovoltaic film that could cover a battery and recharge it continuously
• Porous membrane for water purification
• Ultra-permeable carbon nanotube membrandesproviding ultra-fast water flow
• Oxide-based ionic conductors, for a wide range of applications, such as in fuel cells (electrolytes or electrodes), sensors, gas separations, catalysis, microbatteries, thermoelectric generators, and other solid-state ionics-based devices.
• Supercritical/Solid Catalyst (SSC) converts wastes with animal or vegetable fats, oils and greases into B100 ASTM-quality biodiesel.
• Chemical catalyst that converts a plant-based compound into the petroleum-based additive known as propylene glycol
• Clay-based nanocatalysts to facilitate the breakdown of refractory organics from unconventional sources – ethanol from cellulosic biomass
• Synergy of cool roof technologies when integrated into the overall retrofit roof assembly.
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Not “Over-the-Fence”
• Research-based innovations cannot be handed-off “over-the-fence” but instead require close partnership, cooperation and co-development to reach market viability.
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Supportive Policies and Standards
are Often Essential
• Industries in the areas of energy, environment, health, agriculture, construction, transportation and telecommunications are often substantially influenced by government policies and industrial standards
• Targeting societal goals as well as business goals often puts a company in the position of affecting the public well-being
• At times it is the regulations that are the main drivers of market growth.
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Most Successful DOE Energy Efficiency
Technologies Led by Ventures – Billions of
Dollars Saved in Energy Use
• Energy efficient fluorescent lighting ballasts
• Low emissivity windows
• Energy efficient refrigeration
In all cases, emerging venture
companies were the first
to advance the technology out
of the National Laboratories
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In Conclusion - Key Issues to
Achieve Sustainable Inclusive
Innovation Initiatives
• Partners are critical – Local business knowledge is essential to bring to market
• Maturation is needed – Research requires support for maturation to the market
• Business viability is essential – Business models are just as important as technology models
• Policy partnership is essential – Success in industries with societal mission requires matching policy