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innovate 2 innovation

COMPLETED: March 2011

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Innovation Action Team

The primary recommendation of the Innovate 2 Innovation project is to bring together public and private leaders who are given a specific charge to focus on California's innovation and competitiveness infrastructure. An Innovation Action Team (IAT), comprised of leaders from universities, industry, and government, has been tasked to develop an Innovation Roadmap that will include specific recommendations for Improving Critical Innovation Infrastructure in California. This Innovation Action Team would be convened for this specific purpose over a defined period of approximately 12 months. Facilitated and staffed by CCST, this team would provide their recommendations to the Legislature.

Two key strategies essential to achieve this task are:

  • Developing and leveraging public-private partnerships linking California's assets in education, research, technology, finance, and philanthropy to create social and technical innovations that competitors with less complete infrastructure cannot match.
  • Enlisting California's S&T community in finding solutions to two of the state's major challenges, education and water, and, in so doing, enhancing California's international competitiveness.
name affiliation position
Randolph HallUniversity of Southern CaliforniaVice President of Research
William F. MillerGraduate School of Business, Stanford UniversityHerbert Hoover Professor of Public & Private Management, Emeritus
Bob SullivanRady School of Management, University of California San DiegoDean
Sam TrainaUniversity of California MercedProfessor of Natural Sciences and Engineering, Ted and Jan Falasco Chair in Earth Sciences and Geology, Vice Chancellor for Research, Graduate Dean
Steve ZornetzerNASA Ames Research CenterAssociate Center Director

Education Action Team

As a component of the overall i2i assessment and recommendations requested by the Legislature, CCST facilitated several discussions around the state, explored the opportunities in new technologies created for education, and the Education Action Team will produce recommendations offering more radically effective approaches to educate California's workforce.

There still is a need and a real opportunity to look at different models to inspire excellence in education. Utilizing public/private partnerships, a new, innovative approach could leverage the technology base in California to create educational opportunity; a new, transformative approach targeted at worker training and advanced education with access for all Californians. Investing in digitally designed education is, in effect, using the technological supremacy of the state to "reboot" the state's education delivery system and would be designed for the digital native generation - the state's future workforce.

name affiliation position
Dede AlpertCalifornia State SenateFormer State Senator
Anne Marie BergenCal Poly, San Luis ObispoTeacher in Residence, Biological Sciences
Mohammad QayoumiSan Jose State UniversityPresident
Stephen RockwoodScience Applications International Corporation (SAIC)Former Executive Vice President and Director

Water Action Team

Water continues to be the most fundamental resource challenge facing California. Water issues have shaped California's politics and economy since its founding. While the North has the water and the South needs water, the Central Valley must have water to grow its crops. Historically, these water resource challenges were solved by engineering solutions including building massive water systems based on canals and dams.

While these investments remain urgent today, California faces a more complex range of resource challenges including inter-related issues of water, energy, agriculture, climate change, and environmental stewardship that can be addressed through the state's significant science and technology community, represented by its universities, research institutions, and innovative companies.

name affiliation position
Jude LaspaBechtel Group, Inc.Former Executive Vice President and Director
Soroosh SorooshianCenter for Hydrometeorology & Remote Sensing (CHRS), UC IrvineDistinguished Professor and Director
Robert WilkinsonWater Policy Program, University of California Santa BarbaraDirector
David ZoldoskeCalifornia Water Institute and the Center for Irrigation Technology CSU FresnoDirector
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