Table of Contents:
  • Overview and summary of the workshop
  • Introduction
  • Proceedings
  • Welcome / Henry McDoanld
  • Opening remarks / Zoe Lofgren
  • Panel I: Technology vision for NASA / Edward Penhoet ; NASA's technology strategy / Sam Venneri ; Ames' technology strategy / Henry McDonald
  • Panel II: Research parks: concept, history, and metrics / David B. Audretsch, presenter Michael I. Luger, discussant Susan Hackwood
  • Panel III: The Ames Research Park: goals and metrics / Patrick Windham ; The Ames Strategic Plan / William Berry ; Partnering with the University of California at Santa Cruz / M.R.C. Greenwood ; The role of Carnegie Mellon / Duane Adams, James Morris ; discussants Robert Wilson, Edward Penhoet, and Chron Corporation
  • Panel IV: SBIR initiatives and mission objectives / Burton McMurtry ; In-Q-Tel: a "nonprofit venture capital fund" / Gilman G. Louie ; An "Enterprise Fund" for NASA / Robert L. Norwood ; A venture capital perspective on research parks / Kathy Behrens
  • Panel V: Ames as an entrepreneurial center: opportunities and challenges / Mark Myers ; Commercializing technology / Carolina Blake ; The experience of one start-up company / Elizabeth Downing, discussant Jim Turner
  • Concluding remarks / Henry McDonald
  • Science and technology parks at the millennium: concept, history, and metrics / Michael I. Luger
  • The prospects for a technology park at Ames: a new economy model for industry-government partnership? / David B. Audretsch.