Benchmarked the commercialization strategies of six university-based programs in a project for the Iowa State University College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, the Center for Crops Utilization Research.
Benchmarked eight centers supported through the NSF’s Advanced Technological Education (ATE) program as part of a broader project for Maricopa County Community Colleges to strengthen curricula in sectors targeted for economic development in Arizona’s advanced-manufacturing roadmap.
Benchmarked seven biomedically oriented university research parks in a project for Georgetown University/MedStar to envision a Bio-Tech Research and Development Park at the Washington Hospital Center.
Benchmarked for Georgia State University six university research parks with economic-development facilities, as part of a project to plan a bio-incubator in Georga State’s own science park.
Benchmarked six research parks based on agricultural research, as part of a broader strategy project for the Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center (the OSU agricultural science campus at Wooster) to develop what has become the BioHio Research Park.
Benchmarked for Butler University (Indianapolis) three peer institutions in the areas of programming for undergraduate research, centers for technology entrepreneurship, and professional master’s and joint degrees.
Benchmarked 14 industrially oriented bioscience research institutes at leading U.S. universities as part of a project for both Carnegie Mellon and University of Pittsburgh to design a joint bioscience commercialization program, then called BioVenture.
Consultant for the Vice President for Research at the former University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, providing a comprehensive management review of the university-wide, multi-school Center for Continuing Education.
Benchmarked more than two dozen university technology-transfer and commercialization functions as part of a comprehensive project to help The Ohio State University redesign its office.
Prepared case studies of environmental research conducted at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Research and Development in Cincinnati. Also conducted early planning through Battelle for what became Central State University’s NET (National Environmental Technology) incubator, the first such program nationally at a Historically Black College or University (HBCU).
