Your Next Steps

Outline some specific steps you can take to strengthen our asset map of bioscience regions.

Wasatch Front, Lynn Purdin, lpurdin@utah.gov

Steps?

1. Complete our asset mapping for Wasatch Front
2. Identify 3 - 5 areas that will potentially spark new innovation

DVIN, Helen Groft, hgroft@innovationphiladelphia.com

Steps

1. Add "partners" to asset maps, and become aware of universal programs
2. Add collaborative regions to maps
3. Build up stakeholder data and add individuals on asset maps
   

By When?

1. 5/1/08
2. 7/1/08
3. 11/1/08
   

NJ Central, Northern, DVIN, Ana Montero, ana.montero@dol.state.nj.us

Steps

1. communicate with workforce development to ensure services provided to assist employees transitioning after layoffs.

By When? 

DVIN, Yustina Saleh, yustina.saleh@dol.state.nj.us

Steps

1. Encourage the establishment of consortia of business - academia - public

Denver Metro Region, Dawn Gardner, dgardner@co.arapahoe.co.us

Steps

1. Career tracks in bioscience

Metro Denver, Shelley Wood, shelley.wood@ccaurora.edu

Steps

1. Get more info - please ask for thoughts when I have to think!
   

Metro Denver, Jerry McCarthy, jeromie.mccarthy

Steps

1. Suggest more names
2. ID Specific university-based programs
3.  ID State education resources

Northern NJ, Ron Halperin, rhalperin@bionj.org

Steps

1. Biotech Strategic Plan
2. CEO Forum

California, Elaine Johnson, ejohnson@biolink.ucsf.edu

Steps

1. Invite WIRED biotech directors + faculty to Bio-link Summer Fellows Forum
   
2. Share model Bride to Bio-Tech
3. Explore collaboration between NSF + DOL
4. Work with Bay Bio Institute on Workforce Development
   
5. Check with Kansas City Wired and show I can keep the BioTech effort there.

By When

1.  Feb 30, 2008
2. June 1, 2008
3. June 1,2008
4. June 30, 2008
5. Feb 30, 2008

California, Elaine Johnson, ejohnson@biolink.ucsf.edu

Steps

1. Building a better workforce development pipeline
2. Strengthening STEM education in K-12 schools
3. Help teachers by providing professional development workshops
4. Offer early college experience programs to K - 12 students
   

Central KY, Sadiq Shah, sadiq.shah@wku.edu

Steps

1. Industry and University partnership - strengthening
2. Strengthen Bio Alliance organization - Explore funding
3. Start student chapter with Biotech focus
4. Business plan presentation to investors - explore the viability for BioTech

By When

1. One year
2. One year
3. One year
4. Two years 

 Denver CO, Mary Russell, merussell@jeffco.us

Steps 

1. Have Jerry McCarthy speak to our partners
2. Have Jerry talk to Metro Consortium
3. Check out NC Websites on BioScience

By When

1. 4/1/08
2. 5/1/08 

 Central KY - I65 Corridor, Lisa Williams, Lwilliams@kyinnovation.com

Steps

1. Investigate incubator funding thru ED as a WIRED region - better opportunities 

Finger Lakes NY, Douglas Merrill, Douglas.Merrill@cbet.rit.edu

Steps

1. Pursue on ATE/STEP grant with local community colleges
2. Promote customized workforce training & professional development workshops for local companies
3. Develop a new programs in clinical research to capitalize on URMC/CTSI and other efforts

By When?

1. 2008
2. 2008
3. 2008
   

Delaware Valley, Nadine Lomakin, nlomakin@lscalliance.org

Steps

1. Better understand the region
2. Understand other states programs
3. track headlines in region

By When?

1. Next 6 months 

Northern Williamette Valley OR, Cary Harkaway, charkaway@worksystems.org

Steps?

1. Build company support for an incubation center
2. Leverage company & support and WIRED and traveling funds for additional Federal Support
3. Use findings of Bioscience Cluster Study + build support for incubation center or research center
   

NC Piedmont Triad, Bob Hall, Bob_Hall@ncsu.edu

Steps

1. Get funding from industry to seed incubator / accel training center
2. Develop finite subclusters eg. Orthopedics
   

Central NJ, David Finegold, dfinegold, @smlr.rutgers.edu

Steps

1. Extend student network of mappers
2. Share template categories with all stakeholders
3. Put wiki on Bio - 1 site to allow individuals to add
4. Capture data on firms from industry association
5. Data analysis of distribution of layoffs
6. IPI posting of innovative bioscience programs