Below is the agenda for the upcoming Innovation Committee meeting. It seems to follow the script of prior meetings of that committee: Boosterism for the local campus and some more detailed information (micro-management?) concerning a patent tracking system.
SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON INNOVATION TRANSFER AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP
Date: April 6, 2023
Time: 10:00 a.m.
Location: Engineering Science Building, Santa Barbara Campus. Teleconference meeting conducted in accordance with California Government Code §§11133
Agenda – Open Session
Public Comment Period (30 minutes)
Action: Approval of the Minutes of the Meetings of January 27 and February 16, 2023
S1 Discussion: Increasing UC Santa Barbara’s Impact as an Engine of Innovation and Economic Activity on the Central Coast
UCSB serves more than 25,000 students, conferring over 6,000 degrees annually. Approximately half of the degrees conferred are in STEM fields which in 2021-22 included 36 percent firstgeneration students. The campus receives nearly $250 million in annual extramural funding awards and is home to innovative research faculty including six Nobel Prize winners. UCSB is the top public recipient of National Science Foundation Early CAREER Awards as a percentage of eligible faculty. In addition, UCSB is one of only 11 R-1 universities in the nation that is designated as an Hispanic Serving Institution.
S2 Discussion: Measuring the Economic and Societal Impacts of UC Innovation Transfer and Entrepreneurship
In May 2021, the Regents unanimously approved fourteen recommendations authored by the Regents Working Group on Innovation Transfer and Entrepreneurship aimed at optimizing the manner in which UC translates academic-based discoveries into real-world applications serving to uplift the human condition, as well as to monetize its vast portfolio of intellectual property assets. Recommendation #13 urged the University to expand how it defines, values, and measures success by going beyond counting transactional activities to assessing the following:
ECONOMIC IMPACT – Are UC’s licensed intellectual property, corporate sponsored research, and start-up companies leading to state and regional economic growth and development, including job creation, increased tax revenues, and new industry formation?
PUBLIC IMPACT – Is UC successfully translating laboratory-based research into the solutions the public seeks? From curing or preventing disease to growing food in more efficient ways to reversing human-caused climate change, UC must continue to strive to be a powerful engine for innovation, change, and societal good.
DIVERSITY, EQUITY, AND INCLUSION OUTCOMES – Is UC assessing the extent to which women, people of color, and other groups which have been historically marginalized in use-based research, start-up company formation, and other commercialization activities are included in UC’s innovation ecosystem, reflecting the diversity of the University community and the people it serves?
S3 Discussion: Speaker Series: Development of Groundbreaking Intellectual Property and Faculty Viewpoints on Innovation and Entrepreneurship at UC Santa Barbara
Cree Distinguished Professor Shuji Nakamura and Mitsubishi Distinguished Professor DenBaars will discuss the development of groundbreaking intellectual property in Gallium-nitride (GaN) semiconductors at UC Santa Barbara’s Solid State Lighting and Energy Electronics Center (SSLEEC), have commercial applications in various fields including electric vehicles and electronic device chargers, LED lighting and lasers. They will also share their viewpoints on innovation and entrepreneurship.
S4 Discussion: PTS Update: A New Shared Services Model for Managing UC Innovation
This item provides an update on progress toward replacing the University of California Patent Tracking System (PTS) with a modern information technology (IT) platform solution for supporting intellectual property management and related financial services. A comprehensive inventory of existing service categories and associated business processes is now complete. Distribution of those service categories that are solely campus responsibilities has been determined. Intellectual property management has been converted to a “menu” system that can be customized to meet campus needs but may undergo changes as the results of the RFP materialize. The most mature campuses have selected a more minimal set of services remaining with the UC Office of the President (UCOP), while the campuses at an earlier stage of their entrepreneurial development have selected a more comprehensive set. As campuses evolve, they will be able to adjust the mix within intellectual property management services. A Request for Information (RFI) was posted on February 28, 2023 for vendors of candidate intellectual property (IP) management systems to respond prior to a Request for Proposals (RFP). The RFP is scheduled to be issued on April 20, 2023, and the selection process is scheduled for completion by June 2023.
Source: https://regents.universityofcalifornia.edu/regmeet/april23/innovation.pdf.
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