First WorkshopCollaborative Innovation: Strategies and Best Practices

January 19, 2011

Jeffrey R. Davis, MDDirector, NHHPC

NASA Johnson Space Center

Carol CarrollDeputy Director, NHHPC

NASA Ames Research Center

NASA Human Health and Performance Center

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NHHPC• Introduction - WELCOME!• Center concept established in 2007 strategic plan– Officially opened October 18, 2010– Currently 64 members

• Established to connect organizations worldwide interested in collaborating and advancing human health and performance innovations for space flight, commercial aviation and challenging environments on Earth.

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NHHPC

• Themes:– Health– Performance, Human Factors, and Human

System Engineering– Habitability and Environment– Research and technology Development– Education and Outreach

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NHHPC• Why the NHHPC? Established October 18, 2010– Publishes member needs in an open collaborative forum

to facilitate potential collaborative partnerships– Benefits all member organizations by closing gaps in the

research and technology human health and performance portfolio of work

– Leverages resources of all members– Facilitates rapid data sharing among members– Enables collaborative project discussions– Facilitates project prioritization, tracking and information

dissemination

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NHHPC• Administration and operations– Shared NASA leadership (JSC and Ames) – located at

JSC– Executive council to determine topics – No fees or agreements to join– NASA team provides communications, workshops,

facilitates Space Act Agreements– All material cleared for the public domain– Member connect area on the website (coming soon)– Projects among non-traditional partners

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NHHPC• NHHPC– First year products envisioned

– 2 to 3 workshops on compelling topics– 4-5 collaborative projects– Interagency challenges– Public-private challenges and/or projects– Accumulate and distribute best practices in many areas

– Will constantly solicit your feedback as to how to make this Center of value to all members

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NHHPC• Acknowledgments– Deputy Director from Ames, Carol Carroll– Our Center Directors

• Mike Coats – Johnson Space Center• Pete Worden – Ames Research Center

– Our team from Wyle Integrated Science and Engineering that put this together:• Elizabeth Richard• Samantha Snabes• Gabe Rieger• MaGee Johnson• Cindy Rando• Tacey Baker

– Our Sponsor – Bill Gerstenmaier, NASA HQ

8Over 2,900 Solvers from 80 Countries Participated

2900 Solvers – 80 countries

NASA Johnson Space Center SLSD – SA

NASA Glenn Research Center NASA Langley

Research Center

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Bone Imaging Contacts

Germany 6

Austria 1

Japan 7

Canada 1

France 6

Israel 1

Australia 3

Belgium 1

UK 5

Switzerland 4

Sweden 1

USA 15

Total 51

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Open Innovation- TopCoder

• Opportunity presented to NASA by Harvard Business School

• Research project to compare outcomes of collaborative and competitive teams

• NASA provided the problem statement • Optimize algorithm that supports medical kit design

• Competition began on 11/04/2009 and lasted approximately 10 days

• 2800 solutions were submitted by 480 individuals

• Useful algorithm developed and incorporated into NASA model

• Team felt this process was more efficient than internal development

• Next steps – SOMD (Jason Crusan) has formed a Tournament Lab with HBS and TopCoder to seek many novel optimization algorithms for ISS

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NASA@Work

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NASA@Work

397-Temperature Mgmt During Lunar Night

411-Non-Invasive Means Detect Internal Leak

432-Nonflam Stowage Bags0

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JSC Challenges

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Review of Agenda

• Opening Speakers:– Karim Lakhani, Harvard Business School• Framework for External Collaboration

– Pacal Finette, Mozilla• Community Based Approach at Mozilla

– Robynn Sturm, Office of Science and Technology Policy• The Use of Prizes in the Public Sector

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Review of Agenda

• Panel regarding challenges– Bev Godwin, moderator, U.S. General Services

Administration– Eugene Buff, yet2.com– Steve Domeck, InnoCentive– Pascal Finette, Mozilla– Jennifer Fogarty, NASA JSC– Lisa Pannell, General Mills– Craig Wynett, Procter & Gamble

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Review of Agenda

• Afternoon Speakers– Jeff Hamaoui, Cazneau Group– Lisa Pannell, General Mills

• Breakout sessions– Tables with themes from members– Open tables: projects 101 and challenges 101– Members information in your packet – Goal to propose topics for collaborative projects and/or

challenges– Wrap up – member feedback, next steps