Presentation Transcript

1. Oak Ridge National Laboratory:“The Lab of the South” Building a Regional Virtual Laboratory Geographic Focus Operating Philosophy Initial Projects Example: Southern Nano Initiative

2. ORNL is DOE’s “Lab of the South” Idaho Argonne PacificNorthwest National Energy Technology Lab Brookhaven LawrenceBerkeley Jefferson Lab Oak Ridge LawrenceLivermore Savannah River Sandia National Renewable Energy Lab Los Alamos Battelle partner laboratories

3. ORNL is DOE’s “Lab of the South” Idaho Argonne PacificNorthwest National Energy Technology Lab LawrenceBerkeley Brookhaven Oak Ridge LawrenceLivermore Sandia National Renewable Energy Lab Los Alamos Battelle partner laboratories

4. ORNL has embraced the footprint of the Southern Growth Policies Board SGPB States

5. We are pursuing the vision through strategic partnerships with the key local economic development groups • Organizations in the Oak Ridge/Knoxville area – The “Little R”

6. We have similar strategic partners around Tennessee and the TVC • Organizations around the state and the Tennessee Valley Corridor – The “Regular R”

7. We’re cultivating strategic partners throughout the South • Organizations around the South – The “Big R"

8. The “Lab of the South” - The concept connects ORNL to the economic development priorities of SGPB states • Starts with fully understanding technology-based economic development priorities, programs and strategies of each state. • Identifies ways that ORNL’s world leadership capabilities can support these individual state priorities. • Finds ways to link state technology resources to ORNL expertise. • Seeks opportunities to leverage individual state capabilities into regional alliances involving several states.

9. The “Lab of the South” early initiatives • Southern Homeland Security Initiative (using the South as a test bed for new homeland security technologies and a region where cutting edge technologies are commercialized.) • Southern Automotive R&D Initiative (leveraging two decades of automotive manufacturing growth and the university-based R&D centers that have emerged near these OEMs into a regional consortium to compete with Michigan.) • Southern Information Technology Initiative (linking universities in the region to ORNL’s National Leadership Computing Facility.) • Southern Nanotechnology Initiative (building a Southern “nanotechnology hot spot” by leveraging the world’s greatest capabilities in neutron scattering and nano science at ORNL with the unique capabilities that exist at research institutions throughout the region.)

10. The “Lab of the South” concept applied to the fledgling Southern Nano Initiative • Funding SGPB to conduct a knowledge mapping and benchmarking study. • Understanding state specific initiatives (i.e., attending the recent Oklahoma Nanotechnology Conference). • Identifying key players and potential partners for the future, taking a long-term view. • Working on your agenda, hopefully finding ways over time to link our capabilities to your priorities. • Promoting proposals to use the CNMS. • Exploring the possibility of two multi-state regional conferences: • One focused on availability of capital for nano start-up companies • Another focused on nanotechnology researchers • Refining a “hub and spoke” concept first advanced at the Southern Technology Council meeting in Oak Ridge in April that leverages the region’s assets. • Doing everything possible to ensure that the “nano” revolution does no bypass the South as much as the “info” and “bio” did.