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MCCETI Summit
Partnership: The Key to Success
Roundtable Discussions
Upton F-101
Building the New Science and Technology Strategic Intelligence
System
1. Your group has a new science and technology issue to address.
Please spend time defining the issue by identifying elements that
help understand it. (10 min)
- Need to know new technology issues and vehicle for deliverance.
- New technologies and need for them.
- Emerging Technologies dashboard and website for highlights
(Homepage).
- Information gathering - where to go?
- Local/State/International building references.
- Standard location to look for information.
- Shared, led to next steps.
- Snapshot of what is going on that day locally, state-wide
and globally.
- Share contacts from organizations with each other.
- Continuation of MCCETI Summit.
- Sources for funding - share information about who has solicitation
for proposals.
- Companies in different areas share skills needed.
- Need to inform legislators in Lansing.
- A precise technology vs. all technologies.
- How are we going to monitor trends in area?
- How to determine data points that we want to monitor.
- Grabbing it and bringing to dashboard.
- Strategic (flexible and adaptable), Adaptable (systems), Intelligence
(people, processes and technology).
2. What information/research related to this new science and
technology issue will be helpful and where might this be found?
(8 min)
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Source |
- Know what technology employers are now using
- Growth industries to technology
- Space program technologies
- Environmental scanning of industries (e.g., Wal-Mart)
- Funding and venture capital
- Current research at higher institutional and research
facilities
- What businesses are using what technologies?
- Providing information on what we are doing to industry
(exchanges going both directions) and revenue source.
- Sources of employment
Flow of education: K-12 to Community Colleges to Higher
Education- 4 year
- Scholarship information
$ Who goes from concept to completion fastest (best processes)
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- Professional journals
- Company websites
- Foreign trade journals
- Regional/National news
- State Organizations
- Biz information WSJ
- Personal contacts
- Magazines
- D.O.D.
- Government
- Blogs
- Library system
- Faculty
- Michigan Works agencies (trends city, county, state)
- Advisory groups
- Trade shows (networking)
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3. Identify challenges & opportunities related to this
new science and technology issue. (10 min)
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Opportunities |
- Proprietary process
- Timeliness (time to react, speed of development)
- Viable for 5 years
- Quantity of data
- Strategy needed - so may directions to go
- Cultural - different ages/ethnic groups
- Not a big motivation to share between institutions
- How do we educate community on upcoming changes and
nanotechnology
- K-12 partners
- Parents
- Employers
- High school counselors
- How do we break down walls to collaborate with others?
- Taking information to target people in high schools
- How do we reach folks? Marketing and budgeting
- Virtual delivery of course
- Matching program to industry
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- Need central intelligence officer
- Developmental stage
- Gathering interest of financiers/profit driven
- 250 mm people constant retraining
- Creation of knowledge management plan
- Safety (Homeland Security)
- Common shared database (partnerships and collaboration)
- If we share more, we get more done
- Building partnerships with media
- Identify a core group to champion
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4. Based upon what you know, brainstorm strategies to address
the challenges and take advantage of the opportunities related
to this new science and technology issue. (15 min)
- Centralized "database" or portal for information
available to all institutions.
- Depository to share thoughts.
- Call lists.
- Share own research.
- Analyzing the data helps.
- Strategic information matching important information between
partners/institution/world.
- Make it a vehicle for collaboration.
- Provide a "bulletin board" for users to ask questions/share
information.
- Identifying joint skill sets.
- Create a task force to perform technology/intelligence monitoring,
gathering, analysis and distribution of information.
- Monitor, gather, pass on, systems in place for analysis across
the state.
- Identify a means and a champion to gather information and
filter through it.
5. Select the 3 more important strategies. (5 min)
1. Create a task force to perform technology/intelligence monitoring,
gathering, analysis and distribution of information.
2. Make it a vehicle for collaboration.
3. Depository to share thoughts.
6. Select the most important strategy for immediate action.
(1 min)
Create a task force to provide technology/intelligence monitoring,
gathering, analysis and distribution of information.
7. It is the year 2010. Each participant in your group receives
a "hot-off-the-press" edition of World Today. The headline
is a success story related to the new science and technology issue.
Write the headline below. (2 min)
Jobs for Michigan Workers
Michigan Leads the World in Emerging Technology
China Announces Trade Deficit with Michigan
8. Identify ways that this new science and technology issue
discussion and recommended strategies can be pursued, continued
and the volunteers who are willing to assist. (5min)
Follow up meeting for people who are interested shortly after
the Summit.
Need special group?
Trends or Governor's Conference - some subset of MCCETI group
present a paper.
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