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TRE Networks
a nationalnetwork organization drawingfrom universities and others to create a
system for providing strategies, tools, andservices across regions that driveseconomic prosperity
11/16/2010
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Policy opportunity: grow regional innovation clusters
Response: leverage a national network of colleges and universities
to boost regional innovation
Prosperity
Productivity
InnovationRegional prosperitydepends on innovation
Colleges & universities
can stimulate innovation
with more than degrees
and research
Analyze &
Legitimize
Convene
& Align
Customize
& Deliver
Research and innovation
builds value networks
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Universities have capacity in many areas
critical to our national interestsbut are organized to achieve other
missions
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Regional transformation requires strategic focus in five key
areasbut most regions are fragmented
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Important Policy Ideas
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1. Increase interactions
2. Get focus regionally
3. Build equity
4. Grow national framework
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Policy Idea 1: More interactions, cheaper interactions
Studies show that R&D spending
correlates with entrepreneurial
economic growth within commuting
distance of where $$$ is spent.
Knowledge exchange
is the raw material
of economic growth.
Talent 1980-2008: % change in population with BS
Talent 2009: Total BS degrees 25+
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Policy Idea 1: More interactions, cheaper interactions
% Change in Median Household Income
1980-2008
% Change in Population (1980-2008)
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Policy Idea 2: To transform -- get focus regionally
Create reengagementnetworks for the
unemployed
Build career pathways intoleading edge clusters
Leverage an urban
campus to become an
innovation hot spot
Focus a regional
strategy
Manage shrinking
cities so that they are attractive
to growing companies
Revive a slowing
industry clusterAttract R&D dollars to
seed innovating clusters
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Policy Idea 3: Build Equity
Brookings MetroNation 2007
Talent
Quality
Jobs
Innovation
Infrastructure
Discretionary
Income
Quality
Place
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Policy Idea 3: Build Equity
High cost
for startups
Cost of social
services for
others
Cost of underutilized
non-metro
infrastructure
Political cost for
excluding other
areas
Cost for aging
population
Brookings MetroNation 2007
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Policy Idea 4: Grow National Framework
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Need a New Framework to:
1. Convene and align innovation drivers with
policymakers, private sector, and regional
leaders
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Need a New Framework to:
1. Convene and align innovation drivers with
policymakers, private sector, and regional
leaders
2. Develop an Intermediary with neutral brand,trust as broker, and a collaborative platform
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Need a New Framework to:
1. Convene and align innovation drivers with
policymakers, private sector, and regional
leaders
2. Develop an Intermediary with neutral brand,trust as broker, and a collaborative platform
3. Possess the capability to transfer learning from
one region into another
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Need a New Framework to:
1. Convene and align innovation drivers withpolicymakers, private sector, and regionalleaders
2. Develop an Intermediary with neutral brand,trust as broker, and a collaborative platform
3. Possess the capability to transfer learning fromone region into another
4. Shape policy with incentives and trellising topull research universities into engagementswith regions near and far
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Need a New Framework to:
5. Offer a holistic model for regional
transformation beginning with the capacity for
skillful engagement
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Need a New Framework to:
5. Offer a holistic model for regional
transformation beginning with the capacity for
skillful engagement
6. Provide for a system to assemble best-in-classtoolkits and products into customized
solutions
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Need a New Framework to:
5. Offer a holistic model for regional
transformation beginning with the capacity for
skillful engagement
6. Provide for a system to assemble best-in-classtoolkits and products into customized
solutions
7. Offer approaches to build innovation capacityand fill gaps in needy regions
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Need a New Framework to:
5. Offer a holistic model for regional transformation
beginning with the capacity for skillful
engagement
6. Provide for a system to assemble best-in-classtoolkits and products into customized solutions
7. Offer approaches to build innovation capacity and
fill gaps in needy regions
8. Work from a collaboration model that engages
partners and assets already in the region,
including other post-secondary institutions
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TRE Networks, Inc.*
* 501(c)3
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TRE Networks Evolution
Oct 2008
Roundtable #1
convenes 16 research
universities & 10
policy organizations
Developing
pilot regions
Sept 2010Created TRE
Networks, Inc as
the strategic
intermediary
institution
May 2010
Defined two
program tracks:
TRE Roundtable &
TRE Practice
Feb-Apr 2010
Developed an
operational concept
to engage and
extend university
activities (Purdue &
PSU)
2008
Identified major
issues started
a dialogue
Sept 2009
Roundtable #2
actively
expand to
include quad
helix
Mar- Jun 2010Partner
development for
TRE Networks
Sept 2010
Developing core
providers and TRE
Advisors
Creating system
and partnerships
to bring more
workshops,
toolkits, and
services
Dec 2010
TRE Networks
Annual Meeting
Dec 2010
Seeking
Funding
TREPractice
TRERoundtable
2008 2009 2010
University
pilots (IALR)
WIRED
pilots
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TRE Networks Board and TRE Partners
Innovation Accelerator
InCenter
Current
TRE Board
Founding
TRE Core Providers
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Initial TRE Networks board members
Vic Lechtenberg (President)
Purdue University
Luis Proenza (Vice President)
University of AkronEmily DeRocco (Treasurer)
Manufacturing Institute
Tim Franklin (Secretary & COO)
Pennsylvania State UniversityChuck Fluharty
Rural Policy Research Institute (RUPRI)
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Feature
Program model develops a
TRE community to advance
policy and to influence
public funding decisions for
regions.
Value Proposition
Partners:
Join network of elite institutional
peers to build policy agenda
Collective effort on policy and
funding (state, federal and
foundation levels)
Coordinating Partner(s):
Prestige and leadership in
addressing national need
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TRERoundtable convenes the Quadruple Helix of
government, non-profits, business and higher
education to generate ideas and align agendas with
regular meetings
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TRE Roundtable
Network &
Policy
Forums
Resources,
Publications
Participants
Partners
TREPedia
Project
Online
Connections
Policy
Initiatives,
Analysis
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Feature
Program model matches
regional needs with best-in-class advisors and providers.
Unique solution sets align
with: 1) metropolitan areas,
2) aging industrial cities, and3) micropolitan areas
Value Proposition
Region
Holistic solution to region
Leverage and extend regional
assets
Provider
New market opportunities
Increased impact within system
solution
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TREPractice is the platform for accelerating the
deployment of leading-edge solutions for regional
transformation
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TRE Advisor
Customized
SolutionProducts
&
Services
Regional
Client
Anchor
Regional
Institution
TRE Core
Provider
Certificationo
f
Offering
TRE Practice
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Regional higher education institution is hub for
TRE activity
TRE Networks provides tools and TRE advisors tofill gaps in innovation capacity
Senior-level advisors hold long-term strategic
relationships in region and pull solutions from TRE
Networks to the region
TRE Networks products and services meet standards
of quality and scope
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Anchor
Regional
Institutions
TRE Advisor
TRE-Certified Offering
Field-tested,Customizable
Scalable,Replicable,Sustainable
AlignwithTRE
model
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TREPractice crafts world-class programs with regions
requesting assistance through a network of partners
Help regions build
capacity through
strategic doing
Implementcustom
high-touch, high-
impact solutions
based on world-class
certified programs
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Key#
# Strategy Workshop
Capability-building Toolkits
# Service Offerings
Brainpower & Talent Products and Services
Objectives: Build an effective K-12
education system
Develop a skilled adult
workforce
Align talent developmentpipelines
Build a culture of
entrepreneurship
Attract and retain intellectual
capacity
Advance regional STEM
competence
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environment for existing and
new businesses Develop clusters
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TRE Advisor
Customized
Solution
RegionalClient
Anchor
RegionalInstitution
TRE Core
Provider
Solution and Revenue Flow
TRENetworks
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Resources Needed to Move Forward
Best-in-class toolkits, workshops, andservices
Skillful TRE Advisors
Regional pilots and partnerships
Functioning intermediary institution
Ongoing structure to convene partners andlead the TRE agenda and dialogue
Funding to get started
G h i i i i i
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Game-changing progress requires maximizing
interactions between regional players with a
transformation modeland program tools
focus, align, and grow
networks and capacity across
talent, innovation and place