Presented at the CONNECT Board meeting with Vice Chancellor Sandra Brown, San Diego, September 26, 2012.

1. Towards Accelerating
Innovation at UCSD
Sandra A. Brown
Vice Chancellor for Research
Philip E. Bourne
Associate Vice Chancellor for
Innovation and Industrial Alliances
September 26, 2012

2. One Reason We Are Here
National Research Council Report 2012
Research Universities and the Future of America
Included Ten Breakthrough Actions Vital to Our Nation’s Prosperity and
Security:
#3 Strengthen the business role in the
research partnership, facilitating the transfer of
knowledge, ideas, and technology to society
and accelerate “time to innovation” in order to
achieve our national goals.
http://www8.nationalacademies.org/onpinews/newsitem.aspx?RecordID=13396

3. The State of Play
ORA Activity in 2011-2012
• $1 Billion in research awards
• 6000+ research grants and contracts
• 300+ new patents filed
• 88 patents issued
• 46 inventions licensed
• 13 Start Up companies
(10 in San Diego)

4. The State of Play in Relative Terms
Year Ending June 30, 2011
Invention Disclosures
Startups Active US Patents

5. The Goal
• When new UCSD faculty and the public are
asked, “What are the most innovative and
entrepreneurial universities in the US?”
• 90% answer Stanford and MIT
• In five years we want them all to answer Stanford,
MIT and UCSD

6. The Approach
• Self Assessment
• Two major reports over the past 2-3
years
– University-Industry Relations
Committee
– Rapid Action Task Force for TTO

7. The Response – Immediate & Done
• Introduced an express license for
therapeutics
• Introduced an IP return option
• More flexibility in industry agreements
• Established a Division of Innovation and
Industrial Alliances & appointed AVC
Phil Bourne

8. The Response - Ongoing
• Develop Electronic Research Administration
Program (eRAP) to streamline:
– Proposal development
– Conflict of Interest
– MTAs
– The invention disclosure pipeline

9. Division of Innovation & Industrial
Alliances – Ongoing - Staffing
• Director position offered (done transparently and
in consultation with the private sector)
• Currently interviewing for a Business Analyst to
oversee innovation activities as they relate to the
TTO
• Coordinator position open for student and
postdoctoral placements in industry
– Prepare students for graduate, medical or
professional school
– Build the technology based and globally focused
work force

10. Division of Innovation & Industrial
Alliances – Strategic Planning
• Identified shortcomings e.g.,
– Innovations are lost through inventor naiveté
– Innovators are not fully part of the innovation process
leading to mistakes and mistrust
– There is a one-size-fits-all approach irrespective of
cost of development, time to market etc.
– The patent budget is too small
– There is insufficient expertise in deciding on
innovations to take forward
– Coordination or acceleration an incubation could be
improved both within UCSD and with the private
sector

11. Division of Innovation & Industrial
Alliances – Strategic Planning
• Approach:
– Convene an Innovations Advisory Board (IAB)
– Composed of leading stakeholders from UCSD and
the private sector
– Tease apart existing innovation models that are
working and cherry pick what works for our unique
environment
– Leapfrog existing efforts
• Deliverable:
– A 5 years strategic plan to be enacted starting early
next year; a plan that includes evaluative metrics

12. Division of Innovation & Industrial
Alliances – IAB Members
UCSD Private
• AVC Phil Bourne (ORA) • Mark Cafferty (SD Regional Ec. Forum)
• VC Sandra Brown (ORA) • Greg Hook (Am. Life Sciences Pharm.)
• Hans de Salas (SIO) • Greg Horowitt (T2 Venture Capital)
• VC Gary Firestein (Medicine) • Rory Moore (CommNexus)
• Prof. Rick Firtel (Biology) • Diego Miralles (Jannsen)
• Prof. Jules Jaffe (SIO) • Joe Panetta (BIOCOM)
• Dean Juan Lasheras (Eng.) • Duane Roth (CONNECT)
• Prof. Ramesh Rao (CalIT2) • Bob Slapin (SD Software Ind. Council)
• Prof. Deborah Spector (Pharmacy) • David Webb (TSRI, BIOCOM)
• Dean Robert Sullivan (Rady) • Philip Yeo (SPRING)
Accepted
Pending

13. TAKE HOME MESSAGE – THIS IS
NOT BUSINESS AS USUAL AND
WE WELCOME THE
OPPORTUNITY TO WORK WITH
YOU ALL TO ENABLE
INNOVATION

14. QUESTIONS?
Office of Research Affairs
http://research.ucsd.edu
sandrabrown@ucsd.edu
pbourne@ucsd.edu