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Collaborative Opportunities with the RERC System

Collaborative Opportunities with the RERC System. Steve Bauer Director RERC on Technology Transfer. FLC Mid-Atlantic Regional Meeting Rocky Gap, MD September 19-21, 2006. Acknowledgement.

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Collaborative Opportunities with the RERC System

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  1. Collaborative Opportunities with the RERC System Steve Bauer Director RERC on Technology Transfer FLC Mid-Atlantic Regional Meeting Rocky Gap, MD September 19-21, 2006

  2. Acknowledgement This is a publication of the Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center on Technology Transfer, which is funded by the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research of the Department of Education under grant number H133E9800025. The opinions contained in this publication are those of the grantee and do not necessarily reflect those of the Department of Education.

  3. Overview • History • Opportunity • Plan

  4. RERC system • USDE/NIDRR • ~20 Rehabilitation Engineering Research Centers • 5 year cycles • ~$1M per year • Disability-related R&D • Must transfer technology • RERC on Technology Transfer

  5. Modest RERC-FLC history • 96-97 Demonstration Project • FLC Mid-Continent • MSOGS • 98-02 Demand Pull Projects • FLC Mid-Atlantic, Northeast, Southeast, Far West • FLC Locator Service, NASA Tech Briefs • Epileptic Seizure Monitor, PowerCheq™ Battery String Equalizer • 00-02 DTIC Access • 00-02 RERC… Federal Labs? • 00-06 Tech Watch Project • RERC on Communication Enhancement, FLC Southeast Region • CRADA • 05-06 World’s Best Technology • 05-06 CRADA • MEMS/Refreshable Braille, Sandia Labs • 06… SBIR • UD-Learning, NASA

  6. Dan Brand Pat Rodriguez Doug Blair Ed Linsenmeyer Dave Appler Rich Dimmick Ty Taylor Gary Jones Joe Lane Frank DeRuyter Jim Leahy Steve Bauer Bill Peterson Modest history...

  7. Wish list

  8. Will you • Transfer technologies perceived to be minnows or small fish? • Learn complex disability and trans-generational markets? • Learn diverse and specialized technologies that serve these markets? • Make time to understand AT industry segments? • Make time to develop and maintain AT manufacturer contacts?

  9. Will you… • Negotiate license agreements? • Write SBIR grant proposals to fund product development? • Determine product requirements? • Validate product designs? • Develop marketing strategies and literature? • Find sub-contractors, distributors…

  10. A rare breed

  11. Primary market research Secondary market research Screening and technology valuation SBIR development Disability markets Assistive technologies AT industries Networks Brokering Business plan development Marketing, Marketing Literature What we do Consumer DB, FG, expert interviews 10 Phase I, II SBIR proposals in 1+ year 6+ Industry Profiles ATIA, CSUN, MedTrade, AAA…

  12. Telecommunication Information Technology Access Mobile Wireless Communication Accessible Public Transportation Wheelchair Transportation Safety Communication Enhancement Hearing Enhancement Recreational Technologies Successful Aging Wheeled Mobility Prosthetics and Orthotics Technology for Land Mine Survivors Low Vision and Blindness Universal Design and the Built Environment Cognitive Impairments Workplace Accommodations Accessible Medical Instrumentation Spinal Cord Injury Children with Orthopedic Impairments Access to RERC system

  13. What we catch Fortune 500 Project

  14. Accenda Alimed Anthrotronix Automatic Sync Technologies Black & Decker Boundless Data Desk Dynamic Living First Wave Global Telesis 3 Henter Math Infogrip In Touch Graphics Kodak Koester Performance Research Lasco Bathware Maddak Med Graph Michelin Orbital Research Pass and Seymour PowerDesigners Sunrise Medical Tactile Graphics Walt Disney Company Whirlpool White-Rodgers Some of our partners

  15. The plan • Painless • Efficient, easy, visible • Sustainable • Small scale, no cost (sic) • Opportunistic • 20:80 rule • Address (legislative, agency, social) mandates • “Fair” to private sector contractors

  16. Nuts and bolts • Memorandum of understanding • Intellectual property • Neutral broker • Your agent • Explicit inter-agency collaboration? • Responsibilities and commitments ICDR…

  17. FLC side • Website link, locator service… • … • Technology referral • … • Follow up • Interest • Response… • Terms • Oversight, Evaluation T2RERC… T2RERC…

  18. Website, use locator service… Technology needs Demand based … Screen … Transfer Activities Oversight, Evaluation T2RERC side Industry Profiles, ATIA, F500… FLC FLC

  19. Questions? Thanks! John Eichelberger Mid-Atlantic Region, Federal Laboratory Consortium

  20. Contact Information • Stephen Bauer • Director, Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center on Technology Transfer • Email smbauer@buffalo.edu • Phone (716) 829-3141 x 117 • URL http://cosmos.buffalo.edu/t2rerc

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