January 12, 2015

Applied Innovation Center

for Advanced Analytics at the Desert Research Institute

Update to the Knowledge Fund Advisory Council

Vision and

MissionServices

Business

Model

ROI

Strategic

Plan

Results to

Date

Next Steps

Potential

Future KF

Projects

OUTLINE

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Vision and

Mission

In conjunction with GOED, establish an applied

research center at DRI for data analysis to help

drive innovation based economic development

Provide business/industry access to expertise in

data science, advanced analytics, HPC, data

visualization

Balanced portfolio: start-up/entrepreneurial ventures,

established industry, federal grants and contracts

Seeking collaborations: with academic institutions,

businesses and industries in Nevada, the U.S. and

globally

Manufacturing Mining Finance

Construction UAS Systems Healthcare

Education Resource Management Genomics

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Services

• Modeling

• Simulation

• Analysis

• Data Management

• Interactive &

Visual Computing

DRI

Universities

Partners

AIC

Applied Innovation Servicesadapting a Fraunhofer model to regional innovation in Nevada

Services,

Technology Transfer,

Applied R&D

• Weather/Climate

• Energy Analysis

• Hydrologic Transport

• Geospatial Analysis

• Drug Discovery

Informatics

• Microbial Ecology

AIC CapabilitiesNear-term Business

Development Areas

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Revenue Streams

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Business

Model

DEESDAS DHS

Analytics & Computation

Technical Core

Bus Dev

Contract Digital Services

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Federal Grants

Tech

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IP, C

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Contract services

AIC Technical Core

DRI faculty at-large

Hosted services

Grants from

strategic proposals

Technology transfer

Subscription,

facilities, systems

fees

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Phase I (Incubation – 2 years)

Hire new technical, business and support staff

Implement a new management structure

Establish development infrastructure

Aggressively develop business opportunities

Pursue public sector opportunities

Elaborate strategic plans for each area of specialization

Develop prototypes for new business

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Strategic

Plan

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New “Impact” Hires Innovation fellows become faculty

Attract new data experts/practitioners

Intellectual Property Invention disclosures

New copyrighted software assets

Licensing and commercialization

Workforce Development Training classes

Certificate programs

Economic Development Businesses under contract

Businesses attracted

Innovation clusters developed

New Model for DRI New contract services agreements

New successful grant proposals7

ROI

Number of impact faculty (post-doc fellows) hired

Number of businesses & other organizations contracted

Number of internships provided

Number of DRI interdisciplinary collaborations formed

Number of businesses/ technology conferences addressed

Number of speaking engagements & published works

Number of training session for workforce development

Number of software programs copyrighted

Number of IP disclosures/ patents filed

Amount of additional revenue generated through KF investments

Number of grant proposals authored/ successful

Number of jobs created or saved

Growth in total industry sponsored research + TT revenue

Number of businesses relocating to NV due to KF

Number of businesses relocating to vicinity of DRI

Number of commercialized IP assets from AIC

Number of AIC spin-out companies

Number of business & technical support hires

KNOWLEDGE FUND

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2 / 2

2 / 2

2 / 3

2/ 2

0 / 4

2 / 5

0 / 2

0 / 2

0 / 1

$260 / $618k

2 / 7/ 2

0 / 5

$260 / $618k

1 / 1

0 / 1

Goal

0 / 1

Current Status / Target Status

By 04/28/15 By 04/28/16

0 / 0

0 / 3

0 / 3

0 / 6

0 / 4

0 / 8

0 / 4

0 / 3

0 / 6

0 / $755k

0 / 9/ 4

0 / 20

0 / $855k

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0 / 1

0 / 3

0 / 0

0 / 0

0 / 0

Goal not metColor Key n/a or target of zero Close to achieving goalToo early to tell Goal achieved

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Current Partnerships/Collaborations

Leadership of the AIC has met with and fostered relationships with more than 64 companies and agencies since the inception

AIC has submitted 8 proposals and letters of intent to businesses and government

New or refreshed mutual non-disclosure agreements have been signed with more than 10 businesses

AIC has 4 Master Services Agreements (MSA) signed with business – MSA’s are founding documents to allow work and task orders

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Results to

Date

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Partnership Example

Ascel Bio Corporation provides infectious disease forecasting and outbreak warnings as a service for hospitals, public health, government agencies, and risk managers.

Ascel Bio left Colorado to come to Reno to partner with the DRI AIC and UNR School of Public Health.

This has the potential to make Nevada the worldwide center for disease forecasting.

Ascel Bio has offered DRI an equity stake in the company for AIC applied research services.

Market reports are predicting that the Infectious disease diagnostic (IDD) market is estimated to reach $18 billion by 2019.

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Results to

Date

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Results to

Date

Partnership Example

AIC staff are helping Ascel Bio expand their

services to the cloud and deliver web-based

data dashboards to clients

Design of high-performance computing solutions and

web interfaces for Ascel Bio clients, staff and public

data users

Development of global disease data dashboard system,

test deployment in real-time, manage cloud commercial

services

Integration of DRI climate and meteorological data to

increase accuracy and reliability of week-to-week

disease forecast

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AIC Phase 2 (Growth Phase – 2 years)

Align AIC business development

efforts with GOED focus on growing

and emerging technologies

Continue to expand staff to include

additional analytic/computational

expertise

Aggressively pursue new business

opportunities

Develop technologies for

commercialization12

Next Steps

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Information Technology - Continue support for the AIC

to expand efforts to develop and apply innovation-based

solutions for Nevada businesses and industry.

Water Technology - Expand support for the Nevada COE

to continue the development of new technologies, service

and delivery systems, applied research, and advanced

workforce development.

Biotechnology - Provide funding for an interdisciplinary

science center focused on microbial metabolic products

and processes that would aid with the development of the

biotechnology industry in Nevada.

Clean Energy – In conjunction with NSHE institutions and

private-sector energy producers provide support to

address issues related to operations, performance, and

functional life of solar energy systems.

Aerospace and Defense – Provide funding for NSHE

institutions to partner with private sector entities to build

technologies in support of UAS development and

deployment.

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Potential

Future KF

Projects

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Thank you