Presented to CONNECT Commercialization Council October 3, 2013

1. Division of Innovation and
Industrial Alliances:
Mission and Status
Philip Bourne PhD
Associate Vice Chancellor
Springboard Participant x 2
@CONNECT
November 3, 2013

2. The Driver: Integrating Science and
Business is an Imperative
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. UCSD:
The Raw Material
2012
3

4. UCSD: A Time of Reassessment and
Opportunity
4

5. The State of Play
Office of Research Affairs 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)

6. UCSD Establishes a New Division to
Support Campus Innovation
• The Division of Innovation and Industry Alliances
(DI2A)
– Dedicated to maximizing societal benefit from university
research
• Division Members
– Phil Bourne, Associate Vice-Chancellor, Pharmacology
Professor & Entrepreneur
– Teri Melese, Assistant Vice-Chancellor, Adjunct Professor,
Medicine & 11 years of experience crafting academic/industry
collaborations
– Tony Lashley, Business Process Analyst
– Sandra Ponting, Student Internship Coordinator
6

7. DI2A Early Success
7

8. DI2A: Strategic Planning
• Approach:
– Convene an Innovations Advisory Board (IAB)
composed of leading stakeholders from UCSD and
the private sector
– Compare the current successful innovation models
and cherry pick features for our unique environment
– Leapfrog existing efforts
• Deliverable:
– Develop a strategic plan and associated
infrastructure which includes evaluative metrics
– Dovetail this with campus-wide strategic planning
activities
8

9. Innovation Advisory Board Members
UCSD
• VC Sandra Brown (Co-Chair)
• AVC Phil Bourne (Co-Chair)
• Prof. David Cheresh (Pathology)
• Hans de Salas (SIO)
• Ida Deichaite (Moores CC)
• David Eichhorn (Student)
• VC Gary Firestein (Trans. Medicine)
• Prof. Rick Firtel (Biology)
• Prof Heinntzmann (SOM)
• Prof. Jules Jaffe (SIO)
• Dean Juan Lasheras (Eng.)
• Prof. Teri Melese (ORA)
• Prof. Jerry Olefsky (Endocrinology)
• Prof. Ramesh Rao (CalIT2)
• Paul Samura (Student)
• Prof. Deborah Spector (SSPPS)
• Dean Robert Sullivan (Rady)
• Prof. Mary Wolshok (Extension)
Private
• Yanina Adler (Tech Coast Angels)
• Steve Bennett (Earth Risk Tech.)
• Julia Brown (UCSD Foundation)
• Greg Hook (Am. Life Sciences Pharm.)
• Greg Horowitt (T2 Venture Capital)
• Rod Glover
• Don Lewis (Lewis, Kohn & Fitzwilliam)
• Philip Low (Neurovigil)
• Rory Moore (CommNexus)
• Diego Miralles (Jannsen)
• Joe Panetta (BIOCOM)
• Bob Slapin (SD Software Ind. Council)
• Ruprecht Von Buttlar (CONNECT)
• Kandice Watson (Kilpatrick, Town..)
• David Webb (TSRI, BIOCOM)
• Philip Yeo (SPRING)
9

10. iNetwork – To Harness the Innovation
Ecosystem
Basic &
Applied
Research
Commerc
ialization
Emerging
Growth
University
Spin-off
Established
Company
Academic &
Administrative
Office
Department /
School /
Institute
Regional
Community
Informal &
Student
Organization
Venture
Capitalists
Networking
Organizations

11. iNetwork Established
• iNetwork resulted from a review of our own
strengths and unique position within the So. Cal.
ecosystem and a comparison against other
models being implemented
• Members – ORA, Development, Alumni, Rady,
Extension
• Concept presented and endorsed by:
– The Chancellor
– Deans and Chairs
• To be presented to the senate this academic
year

12. DI2A-iNetwork: Some On-going
Activities
• Early Stage Financing: Exploring new models to best
enable sustainable innovation on campus and beyond
• Incubators: review – how many, what resources they
need, who they will house, what relationship to
existing SD incubators and how might they be
structured
• TTO: review and perhaps reorganize to best support
innovation and the iNetwork portfolio concept
• Education: Cross-cutting innovator education
programs
• Rewarding Innovation: Chancellors Award
• Metrics: How to measure our success going forward

13. DI2A: Student Portal
Melissa Macou, Sandra Ponting, Paul Yu, Phil Bourne

14. iNetwork Portfolios
• GEM Galvanizing Engineering in Medicine
• Incorporate thinking by humanities scholars in to the
design of human studies by physician scientists
– Stem Cell Institute and Arts and Humanities: Kick
off Fall 2013
• Develop and craft partnering framework (internal and
external) with Brain Activity Mapping and Microbiome
Initiative teams
Teri Melese

15. Example Portfolio:
GEM Galvanizing Engineering in Medicine
– Established Board: Gary Firestein, Shu Chien, Teri
Melese, Debbie Spector, Sharon Franks
– First project selected includes clinical research scientist
and an engineer
– Presented to Jacobs Medical Center Advisory Board
– Competitions in the fall

16. Take Home Message
• This is not business as usual and
we welcome the opportunity to
work with you!

17. How to Create an Effective Relationship
between University Research and Industry
Needs?
• UCSD engagement
• UCSD-CONNECT entrepreneurs in residence?
• Professors of practice?
• Electronic early stage innovation feeds?
17
How to Connect with CONNECT?

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