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Innovation & Successful Partnerships Summit

Innovation & Successful Partnerships Summit. Wade Adams Director, Smalley Institute September 2, 2010. Rice University. • Independent & Private • 644 full-time faculty • 417 part-time and adjunct • 3279 undergraduates • 2277 graduate students

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Innovation & Successful Partnerships Summit

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  1. Innovation & Successful Partnerships Summit Wade Adams Director, Smalley Institute September 2, 2010

  2. Rice University •Independent & Private • 644 full-time faculty • 417 part-time and adjunct • 3279 undergraduates • 2277 graduate students Schools of Engineering, Natural Sciences, Humanities, Social Sciences, Business, Music, and Architecture 2

  3. Rice is a Very Innovative Place Invention Disclosures per $1M research* *FY 2008 preliminary AUTM stats 4

  4. Rice is #1 in Materials Science World-Wide 5

  5. There have been 40 Rice affiliated start-up companies over the past 9 years (top ten in start-ups/research $) Advanced Biosciences*- (Matsuda) Advanced Reality* - (Ruths- grad student) Applied NanoFluorescence- (Weisman) Aristan Medical - (Athanasiou) BetaBatt - (Engel)** BI02 Medical** BioCure* BioSonic – (Liebschner) Cambrios (affiliated company)- (Smalley) CNI (now Unidym)- (Smalley, Hauge, et al.) Desmogen*- (Mikos) Ensysce Biosciences- (Weisman, Wilson) Glycos Biotechnology- (Gonzalez) Houston Medical Robotics- (O’Malley) itRobotics- (Ghorbel)** LabNow LaserGen (BCM-Metzger; Rice-Curl) Mango Communication* Mass Specific Force- (Weyand) Molecular Electronics Corp* - (Tour) MTPE (Museums Teaching Planet Earth) (Reiff) Nano 3D Biosciences (Killian and Rafael) NanoComposites (Tour)** Nanopartz (Zubarev) NanoRidge (Barrera et al.) Nanospectra Biosciences (West and Halas)** NatCore (Barron) NewCyte (Barron) OrthoAccel** Oxane Materials (Barron) ProMedior (Gomer) Semmt** Smart Imaging Technology** Solterra (Wong) Somatogen* -(Olson) Stellarray** Trellis* (affiliated company)- (Gomer) Vanguard Solar – (Barron) Xilas Medical (affiliated company)- (Athanasiou) InView Tech – Bob Bridge (Baraniuk) Carbon Nanotechnologies Incorporated Nanospectra Biosciences * Inactive ** 9 have received funding from Texas Emerging Technology Fund

  6. Smalley Institute Vision We lead the world in solving humanity’s most pressing problems through the application of nanotechnology. 11

  7. Smalley Institute:Virtual Organization Across Rice – 1993 (1st in the world!) • FOCUS AREAS • Nano in Energy • NanoHealth • NanoMaterials for Aerospace • SWNT • NanoPhotonics • NanoElectronics • Social/Ethical/ Environmental/ Toxicological Issues • Nanoscience/ Nanoengineering • Nanoeducation Advocate Research External Interactions Support Faculty IP, Licensing & Start-ups Raise Funds Local - International Meetings Infrastructure Symposia Seminars Education Outreach Collaboration Nanotech Service 150+ faculty members 14 departments nano.rice.edu Wade Adams, Director Vicki Colvin, Co-Director Carlos Garcia, Director of Administration John Marsh, Director of Operations Valerie Moore, Development Coordinator Gloria Funderburg, SEA Operations Wendi Schoffstall, Coordinator Addy Saenz, Accounting Stephanie Biediger, Undergraduate Assistant 12

  8. 24/7 Lecture on Nanotechnology Ig Nobel Ceremony October 1, 2009 Harvard University Nanotechnology: Making Small Stuff Do Big Things And Then Selling Them!

  9. Professor Richard E. Smalley 1943 - 2005Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1996 25th Anniversary of Buckyball October 10-12, 2010 11-day project in Sept 1985 2-page paper in Nature - with - Robert F. Curl - and - Harold Kroto • Carbon-60 Molecule • A.K.A. • C-60 • Buckminster- • fullerene • Buckyball 15

  10. 25th Anniversary of the Buckyball DiscoverySunday, October 10 – Wednesday, October 13 Sunday Evening 10-10-10 Gala Monday Morning Nobel Research Team Members discuss the Fullerene Discovery and Future of Carbon Nanotechnology 16

  11. 25th Anniversary of the Buckyball DiscoverySunday, October 10 – Wednesday, October 13 Monday Evening Bucky ‘Ball’ Celebration Buckyball’s 25th Discovery Day Party Tuesday Keynote Lunch 17

  12. Roadblocks Vision without funding is hallucination. Da Hsuan Feng – UT Dallas Vision without hardware is delusion. Lockheed engineer 19

  13. From the age of Space to the age of Medicine 2nd Age of Space? Age of Energy? 20

  14. Will Energy, HP Fibers, or SPACE Motivate Kids to Science & Engineering? SWNT Armchair Quantum Wire Energy Conservation – SWNT ULW Vehicles The SWNT SPACE Elevator 21

  15. As SPACE motivated Rick Smalley (and me!) Troublemaker Visionary 22

  16. Class of2030

  17. BE A SCIENTIST -- SAVE THE WORLD

  18. BE AN ENGINEER -- SAVE THE WORLD

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