Science, Technology & Innovation (STI) processes, data sources & timeline(a simple linear model focused on commercializing university research)

How do we identify & match technologies & IP to likely licensees?

How do we identify & accelerate promising

technologies & startups?

How do we incentivize more commercialization without

compromising our educational & land grant missions?

Strengthen engagement with intermediaries &

expand resources

Identify & track intermediaries &

resources

Innovation Ecosystem Modeling

Commercialization of Research & Ecosystem Modeling

Using Ecosystem Modeling for Research Portfolio Management

NCSGGerrit Knaap

Scott Dempwolf

HISP

RE

URSP

NSF

EDA

EFC

COEUS Sponsored Research in ARCH 2009 - 2015Image of interactive graph that allows visual queries of all nodes and relationships

Neo4j Graph database of COEUS records

Using Ecosystem Modeling for Research Portfolio Management

EDA

NSF

ISTC

St. Mary’s

EDA Grant

Grant Details

Howard County, MarylandFull Innovation Network & Innovation-Led Economic Development Strategies

Stem cell products group• Commercialization, acceleration,

entrepreneurial support• Business attraction• Assistance with market

development & positioning

Delivery devices groups, ECM group• Facilitate collaboration• For ECM - assist with niche market

development around wound care• Business attraction

Regenerative Medicine & Nutraceuticals groups• Develop ‘keystone companies’• Promote local sourcing to help build

cluster around keystones• Industry partnerships for workforce dev• FDI / Business expansion• Business attraction / supply chain

development• Corporate sponsored research relations

with universities

University groups (JHU, UMCP, UMB)• Follow-up leads for licensing (green ties)• Identify key labs (dense subgroups) and

evaluate for expansion / enhancement• Identify opportunities for faculty spin outs• Identify / accelerate potential student

startups that can be seeded in this cluster• Build long-term corporate sponsored

research relationships with keystone companies

Targeted Economic

Development Strategies

At the Cluster Level

Regenerative Medicine Cluster – Howard County, MDInnovation-Led Economic Development

Drill-down to Company Profiles• Click to follow link

Implications for Universities: visualizing labs and research partnerships

Identify key labs (dense subgroups) and evaluate for expansion / enhancement

Identify opportunities for faculty spin outs

Identify / accelerate potential student startups that can be seeded in emerging clusters

Link to Lab and researcher pages (click to follow)

University of Maryland, College Park

Research labs, research partnerships, and individual

researchers

Implications for Universities: Leads for licensing & collaboration

Leads for licensing & research collaboration (centered on UMCP; other universities shown only if they also have weak ties to target node)

Build long-term sponsored research relationships with keystone companies

Shared patent classification