More now from the National Competitiveness forum with the focus on Public Private partnerships and manufacturing. This is an hour and a half. Good morning, everyone. Its great to be back with the council again. So i only have half a voice, im afraid. I left the other half in stockholm a couple days ago. I was very privileged to get to attend the nobel prize ceremonies because the National Science association supported the 3 physicists that won the prize for Gravitational Waves for 40 years. I think thats a good place to start. [ applause ] its good for all of us to appreciate just what a high risk high reward investment is all about. So that was a progress of technology and super duper engineering challenges that had to be overcome. A lot of people, as you might guess, came and went. It involved multidisciplinary teams of people who did the numerical relativity using Super Computers so we actually knew when the first gravitational wave was detected, what the source was, that it was two colliding black holes that were in a close binary system and the most recent gravitational wave detection because there have been several, two neutron stars merging. It was a very long tale. Of course, there are many in selfdirectors and selfprogram officers involved, National Science board changed over a large number of times during that interval and had to approve all the funding and congress is the ultimate arbiter of our appropriations. Making the decision to continue investment that nobody was quite sure would have a result. How risk taking is that . We all knew that einstein had his stuff right, and so we could expect that accelerating masses somewhere in the universe would produce Gravitational Waves. When the calculations were done, the difference, the little jiggle that the earth experienced for just a fraction of a second was so very very small that who would have guessed 100 years ago, when einstein predicted this would happen, that wed ever have the technology to find something so incredibly technically challenging. So since the observatories have been built we have two widely separated in the u. S. , one in the state of washington, in hanford, and one in the state of louisiana at livingston. Now, theres also another observatory in italy near pisa, we can now narrow down where the location of the sources are. In order to achieve such a technological triumph, a lot of erng engineering had to be done in successive ways and all produced outcomes enjoyed by Startup Companies and others who would have had no motivation for going in those particular directions without motivation of trying to nail this effect down and make this detection. So we dont know where it all will lead. Its just in its first exciting moments. Apparently the Nobel Prize Committee thought highly enough of it to award the prize to just three actually, thousands of people who have worked on it. On the latest paper with o there were 3,500 authors. That amount of print takes up more room than the actual article itself, just to identify the authors. I want to introduce the subject of this next session, which is this booklet here, transform, which is very beautiful. Its about an initiative that unicef was privileged to fund, called exploring innovation frontiers initiative. I want to give a shoutout to promode, the head of our engineering directorate a few years ago when we made the decision to fund this and he has gone on to uc irvine where he is a vicechancellor for research. During this time, there have been several workshops around the country. Ill say a few words about that and then youll hear from two of the people greatly involved in those workshops about this. Let me make now that ive introduced the subject of basic research leading to innovation and engineering applications, let me make some more formal remarks. Ill just begin with a quote from our inspiration, meaning the inspiration for the National Science foundation, bush, who quote there must be a stream of new scientific knowledge to turn the wheels of private and Public Enterprise. That man was a very very smart person, could look way way forward. He was asked by president roosevelt, at the time, just after the second world war, to writeup a statement of why it was important to have scientists and engineers involved, they had been so successful helping with the wartime effort, why was it so important for them to be involved in the peacetime effort. At that time, as you heard in this quote, hes talking about the importance of private and Public Enterprise and how there needs to be a new streams of scientific knowledge constantsly feeding into that. That really is the basis of the National Science foundation, its continually looking to support new discoveries and new discovererers because its the people of course that make the discoveries. Keeping that engine going is really the source of all innovation. We heard at some of the workshops from around the country and you will hear more about it from the next group of diversity and inclusion of discoverers and that was vital to have a plethora of new advances. That we are really tapping all the potential the United States has. Flowing from that sounding spirit, unicefs funding has resulted in countless advances for u. S. Citizens and really worldwide, from Doppler Radar to mri scans, from the internet to nano technology, from google to bar codes, customeraided Design Systems to tissue engineering. As i go about the country and world im always amazed by the numbers of people that come up to me and say, thank you. They gave me the first grant i ever had and i went to the department of energy and they fund me for more of my Mission Oriented work, we were the first editors of gene edits and 3d printing. I think bush would be happy for the first month since we moved headquarters to alexandra virginia from arlington, virginia we made a statute of mr. Bush, hard to believe a person who had such impact on science and technology 70 years ago there are no statutes of him around. We investigated and found in the basement of the smithsonian there is one about this tall, a bronze made in the 1940s with other famous people. The smithsonian wouldnt give it to us. So we 3d printed it. It looks just like the real thing. You have to come visit us, all painted bronze and nicely toned and rubbed in the right places. So he is back at his home at nsf. He would have had no idea what 3d printing was about but very pleased to see how technology brought him back. Our consistent backing of High Risk Research and initiatives that number around 30 around the country and Small BusinessResearch Program and the icore Innovation Program all over the country and helps graduate students and even undergraduates become entrepreneurs very quickly and our 10 big ideas, our signature vision for the future now, they all signify our long standing commitment to innovative breakthroughs critical to the nations economy, health and keeping us a global leader. The same entrepreneurial ambition drove the competitiveness and robust Economic Growth in the face of serious global challenges. I am going to be speaking later this afternoon at a forum on philanthropy of science and innovation together with others and its being hosted by the science philanthropy alliance. Mark castner is the head of that. I will use the counsel on competitiveness as a great example of bringing public and private entities together successfully to drive innovation through discovery. Organizations like the council has consistently encouraged a National Climate in which science and engineering discoverers have adapted new changes and continued to thrive and new progress have led us to the new verge of discovery. We still have a lot of challenges. We face all sorts of concerns at home and abroad. We have the very big challenge educating and inspiring future in novaytors. Thats why a lot of people at the National Science foundation, the council and this room, thats one of our Major Concerns how to include and inspire them so they can in turn inspire the world. Weve navigated a lot of Major Barriers in order to come this far. The question is how do we as a nation inspire the next entrepreneurs. We have consistently driven innovation. As a please where discoverers and discovery begins, thats out motto at nsf, its what is needed to secure our future. To address this challenge, nsf has approach it to come up with Innovative Discovery and why this is called transform. Two years ago at georgia tech, Debra Wynn Smith joined me announcing the National ScienceFoundation Awarded a grant to competitiveness to launch the frontiers and initiatives. The eifys we call it for short how to drive competitiveness in the decades ahead. We had at all the venues and i do dialogues around the country, nation labs and labor leaders and opinion leaders all gathered together. These led us to examine the transformative innovation model that address looming concerns. I do logs conducive to discovery insuring diversity and inclusion in americas talentbased inventors and analyzing specific technologies to help drive innovation in that future. I also had the opportunity to attend to opening dialogue in tampa and st. Louis. I want to thank our host sites, georgia tech, university of california riverside, texas a m university and Washington University and st. Louis and many people in those areas that worked hard to make eifi a success. Being part of those dialogues is why some of us specifically here this morning are very excited about this. Today, the council is going to release this final report capturing insights and recommendations from the last two years of dialogue and im interested hearing proposals to keep us competitive in the generations to come. That should have enlightening insights for us all. Id like to end with a quote in this report i found when perusing it. I just received it jed. Received it yesterday. In the summary section as a major resource and active participant in the u. S. Innovation ecosystem the u. S. Brings an invaluable perspective on the current stateoftheart in models of innovation. Me over, the u. S. Is the only agency with a mission and thats the actual partner for a topic as broad as innovation. I havent thought of it before our strength is in our breadth, we span all areas of science and engineering. We do so because you never know where the next great discovery is going to come from. We need discovery in order to be at the root of innovation, innovation is nothing without all our discoverers. Thank you to all who have been part of this dialogue and thank you to coc. Now, please help me welcome our group of speakers who will be talking about the specific dialogues and their outcomes. Thank you very much. To discuss insights and findings from the report transform, please welcome the Councils President and ceo, Debra Wynn Smith and provost and vicechancellor for Economic Affairs for Washington University in st. Louis, dr. Holden thorpe, and the chancellor for california riverside, dr. Kim wilcox. Thank you. Thank you dr. Cordova for your remarks and leadership. Were really thrilled youre leading the nsf and all the things you do for our country and the world. Thank you so much. I think well just jump right in to talk about some of the findings and excitement and energy that came out of the two dialogues that you both hosted. Maybe start with you, chancellor wilcox. When we went to uc riverside, fairly new university in the famous University California system we were really focusing on the talent continuum and how to get more americans into the innovation journey for our country. Not only was everybody excited and thrilled about the new models youre creating, i think we took those learnings back to our own world and theyre very much reflected in our report. Id like you to start wherever you want. Tell us what is unique about your university. We purposely went to the uc riverside because you are a new model and share the findings and where to go from here. Thanks, debra and for making us a part of this. Let me do a little bit of context and purpose and need. I notice in the clarion call predictive analytics. If you want to predict a High School Students success in college you wanted a data point, what would you choose . You wouldnt choose the scores, you would choose the familys zip code. The zip code is simply a proxy for family wealth. If your family is in the upper etch lon today you have a six times more likelihood graduating from college than someone of equal abilities in the bottom income. We cant afford to leave that much of america behind. If youre an africanamerican and you get into college you only have a 40 chance of graduating from college. For riverside, the res son is about a lot of programmatic changes and things we do. The real story is deliberateness. Decades ago our university was deliberate about recruiting students from across all sectors and helping them graduate, supporting them in ways that make a difference. The impacts, i think, are starting to grow in America Today, were seeing that deliberateness in lots of places. A Talent Initiative of 80 universities across the country with the express purpose of helping students from lowincome families graduate. Dr. Crow and i are part of the elevation alliance, 11 universities that banded a few years ago to improve graduates from college from lowincome families. We increased it by 25 already in three years. Those are stories about deliberateness. Were not done yet. A place like this the council is so crucial combining the efforts of the economic world and private world. I have a challenge for our corporate partners. If you go on the websites of most of the major fortune 500 companies and identify their Key University partners, youll generally see the same list of schools, the ones we think of as elite universities in america and elite universities are trying to catch the elite corporations. You dont see east carolina or unc greensboro, you dont see cleveland state. You dont see universities that really are embracing the diversity of America Today. If were going to change the leadership of innovation and really include all of america in the innovation economy we have to find ways collectively to be deliberate. My key lesson from riverside is deliberateness. Kim, thank you. Would you also share with us, what was the magic . What was the strategy that you all developed and deployed at riverside to get women and a huge number of the hispanic populations moving through stem and into graduate school. We saw that and everybody was blown away by it actually. I talk about two key pieces. There are lots of them. One is the simple notion you can make a Big University small you cant make a Small University big. We have taken our 23,000 Student University and created small living and learning communities for groups of students that really support them and you feel connected. For families who send their students to college and no one in the family has been to college before, theres a lot of, my goodness. In a small group, you can kind of find your way through it. The other piece i talk about, riverside, in much of america we talk about leveling the Playing Field and sticks one institution in one corner and another under another corner, riverside did it in a holistic way. We built the fields so that all parts, faculty, staff, student body, everybody is embedded and motivated by the same set of values. Its ubiquitous. Each of our pieces fits together in a way that is whole and deliberate. So, turning to st. Louis, the council had a very exciting activity with washington nation Innovation Initiative was concluded. In 2004. And there were many challenges in the city and the region around entrepreneur ship and start ups and building the ecostm. Now st. Louis is named the start up capitol. You have Tremendous Energy and momentum and results in driving this entrepreneurial culture that depends on great universities. So please share a bit about that journey because again, the entrepreneur ship path. Washington u. S. And st. Louis et us ahead in understanding the new model and whats going on in the region. Sure. Thanks so much for letting us host the even. It was an honor to have you over there. And really was a chance to bring together a will the of people to celebrate some of the things that we have done. First id like to second everything kim said about access to Higher Education. Its critically important. I kemd you. A chart i wish everyone can see that helps with this corrosive rhetoric. That shows how much better off people are if they go to college. And i thank the counsel on competitiveness for helping us get the message out. As far as st. Louis and the ecosystem is concerned. Were a proud city. With the magnificent history and Washington University is compelled to be porpt part of that. And i think the things that have happened before i got to st. Louis the a lot of people in the city came together to create a cortex innovation district. Which is where w