Benchmarked metropolitan-region strategies for bioscience development as part of an Internal Research and Development (IRAD) project at Battelle, designed to complement Battelle’s biannual survey of state-level strategy and build further business with the Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO).

BIO 2007 Metro Report

Executive Director (founding), Business Incubator Association of New York State, Inc.

Conducted extensive stakeholder interviews as part of a broader project for the Ben Franklin Technology PArtners of Southeastern Pennsylvania, intended to provide strategic vision to its Mid-Atlantic Nanotechnology Alliance (MANA) funded under a U.S. EDA award.

Project staff for Center for Economic and Environmental Partnership Inc. (CEEP) in managing a Network of Economic Development Officers in NYC Knowledge-Based Institutions, funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and sponsored by the New York State Foundation for Science, Technology and Innovation (NYSTAR).

At the request of the Technology Alliance in Washington State, benchmarked the way private foundations in six other regions were contributing to state-level initiatives for biomedical research.

Benchmarked five university-based programs to connect advanced polymer research with industrial practice, as part of a broader strategy project for PolymerOhio and (the former) Nortech.

Polymer Ohio

Researched and wrote benchmark profiles of bioscience cluster-development programming in more than half the states for successive editions of a state-policy survey document published regularly by the Biotechnology Industry Organization (2001, 2004, 2006, 2008, and 2010).

BIO_2001 BIO_2004 BIO_2006 BIO_State_2008 BIO_2010

Benchmarked eight competing regions with bioscience strategies built around downown medical districts and research parks, as part of a broader strategy project commisioned by Memphis Tomorrow on behalf of the (former) Memphis Biotech Foundation (now Bioworks).

Memphis Biosciences Report

Conducted extensive in-field stakeholder interviews as part of a bioscience cluster strategy for the Bio Economic Technology Alliance (BETA) hosted by the Economic Development Council of Western Massachusetts.

Benchmarked the interface between seven federal laboratories and their respective state-level initiatives in technology commercialization, as part of a broader project for the Ohio Aerospace Council, envisioning the sector’s future relationship with the NASA Glenn Center in Cleveland.

OAI