Regional Centers of Innovation Taskforce

This task force set out to identify the ingredients needed to incubate regional centers of innovation so that university-based scientific research can result in broad-based economic prosperity. The task force recommendations appear in the second print edition of Science Progress.

Chair: Ed Paisley, Editorial Director, Science Progress

Rob Atkinson, President, Information Technology and Innovation Foundation

Joseph Bartlett, Counsel, Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

Dan Berglund, President and CEO, State Science and Technology Institute, Westerville OH

Joseph Cortright, President and CEO, Impresa

Aimee Dobrzeniecki, National Institute of Standards and Technology, State Relations

Stephen Ezell, Senior Analyst, Information Technology and Innovation Foundation

Maryann Feldman, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Tom Gage, Chairman, Marconi Pacific LP

Val Giddings, President, Prometheus AB

David Hart, Associate Professor, School of Public Policy, George Mason University

Kent Hughes, Director of Science & Technology, Wilson Center

Tom Kalil, Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress

Paul Kornblith, Director, Pennsylvania BIO

James Andrew Lewis, Director and Senior Fellow, Technology and Public Policy Program, CSIS

Mark Lloyd, Vice President for Strategic Initiatives, Leadership Council on Civil Rights

Ryan Meyer, Assistant to Arizona State University President Michael Crow

Karen Mills, President, MMP Group

Jonathan Moreno, Editor-in-chief, Science Progress

Jean Moses, Director of Corporate Development, Partners Healthcare Systems Inc.

Lita Nelson, Director of the MIT Technology Licensing Office, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Dale Oesterle, Ohio State University

Mark Rice, Babson College

Richard Seline, CEO and Principal, New Economy Strategies

Louis Soares, Director of the Economic Mobility Program, Center for American Progress

Will Straw, Associate Director for Economic Growth, Center for American Progress

Mark Troppe, Director of Economic and Workforce Development, NIST

Jim Turner, Former Chief Counsel, Committee on Science and Technology, U.S. House of Representatives

Mark Wright, Managing Director, Blue Chip Venture Company