Innovation is a major contributor to national security, productivity, competitiveness, and economic growth. The CHIPS and Science Act of 2022 represents a bipartisan commitment to supporting and promoting innovation across industries and sectors throughout the United States, motivated in part by the recognition of a decline in U.S. innovation activity compared with other countries. Capitalizing on new investments and policy to support innovation in the U.S. will require ongoing exploration of national and international innovation systems.

The Government-University-Industry Research Roundtable held a workshop for its membership and invited guests to consider the underpinning norms, conditions, and culture of successful innovation environments, to better enable innovation-fostering partnerships and collaboration. The workshop convened senior leaders from government, academia, and industry to discuss new trends in the theory and practice of innovation, and to facilitate dialogue on new approaches to innovation models and challenges.

This meeting is for GUIRR members and invited guests.

Agenda and Speakers

Tuesday, June 13
Reception – Keck Second Floor Pre-Function Area and Balcony (5:00-6:30pm ET)
Dinner – Keck Atrium (6:30-8:00pm ET)
Keynote – Regina Dugan, CEO of Wellcome Leap

Wednesday, June 14
Workshop – Keck 100
Opening remarks (9:00-9:20am ET)
Michael Nestor, GUIRR Director
Al Grasso, GUIRR Industry Co-Chair and Past President of the MITRE Corporation
Darryll Pines, GUIRR University Co-Chair and President of the University of Maryland

Measuring Innovation (9:20-10:30am ET)
Dashun Wang, Professor and Director of the Center for Science of Science and Innovation at Northwestern University
Russell Funk, Associate Professor at University of Minnesota (virtual)
Sandra Barbosu, Program Officer at Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Break (10:30-11am ET)

Incentivizing Innovation (11:00am-12:15pm ET)
Evelyn Wang, Director of ARPA-E
Cordell Hardy, Senior Vice President for Global R&D Operations at 3M
Len Polizzotto, Executive-in-Residence at Northeastern University; Distinguished Executive-in-Residence at Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Lunch (12:15-1:15pm ET)

Comparing Innovation Cultures (1:15-2:45pm ET)
Ambuj Sagar, Head of the School of Public Policy at the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
Taiga Nakamura, Senior Research Manager at IBM Research
Chux Daniels, Director of Transformative Innovation Africa Hub at University of Pretoria, South Africa; Research Fellow at University of Sussex
Jeroen Groenewegen-Lau, Head of Program for Science, Technology, and Innovation at Mercator Institute for China Studies (virtual)

Break (2:45-3pm ET)

Structuring Innovation (3-4:15pm ET)
Christine Callsen, Director of Strategy and Growth at MITRE Megan Clifford, Associate Laboratory Director for Science and Technology Partnerships and Outreach at Argonne National Laboratory

Closing Remarks (4:15-4:30pm ET)