Jonathan Duvall, Garrett G Grindle, John Kaplan, David Marks, Lee Sylvers, Jenish Patel, Michael Lain, Andrea Bagay, C S Chung, Rory A Cooper
The COVID-19 pandemic stressed healthcare systems all over the world. Two primary challenges that healthcare systems faced were a shortage of personal protective equipment and the need for new technologies to handle infection prevention for staff and patients. The Department of Veteran's Affairs (VA) Technology Transfer Program responded by prioritizing the development of innovations in the Technology Transfer Assistance Project which addressed the pandemic. This paper describes several innovations that addressed the needs of the VA healthcare system during the pandemic and how they were rapidly developed.
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Jonathan Duvall, Garrett G Grindle, John Kaplan, Michael Lain, Rory A Cooper
Clinicians and staff of the Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care System (VA), who provide services to veterans, have invented many devices and methods for improving veterans' lives. However, translating those inventions to the market has been a challenge due to limited collaboration between the clinical inventors and the scientists, researchers, and engineers who can produce the prototypes necessary for licensing the technology. The VA Technology Transfer Program office and the Human Engineering Research Laboratories, a research laboratory with experience with developing prototypes and licensing technology, jointly developed a program called the Technology Transfer Assistance Project (TTAP) to bridge the gap between clinical inventors and prototypes ready for licensing. This paper describes TTAP and provides examples of the first inventions that were developed or enhanced through TTAP.
{"title":"TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER ASSISTANCE PROJECT BRINGS VA HEALTH CARE IDEAS TO LIFE.","authors":"Jonathan Duvall, Garrett G Grindle, John Kaplan, Michael Lain, Rory A Cooper","doi":"10.21300/21.4.2021.7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21300/21.4.2021.7","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Clinicians and staff of the Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care System (VA), who provide services to veterans, have invented many devices and methods for improving veterans' lives. However, translating those inventions to the market has been a challenge due to limited collaboration between the clinical inventors and the scientists, researchers, and engineers who can produce the prototypes necessary for licensing the technology. The VA Technology Transfer Program office and the Human Engineering Research Laboratories, a research laboratory with experience with developing prototypes and licensing technology, jointly developed a program called the Technology Transfer Assistance Project (TTAP) to bridge the gap between clinical inventors and prototypes ready for licensing. This paper describes TTAP and provides examples of the first inventions that were developed or enhanced through TTAP.</p>","PeriodicalId":44009,"journal":{"name":"Technology and Innovation","volume":"22 1","pages":"65-73"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2021-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8547312/pdf/nihms-1731666.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10462115","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Most people identify innovation by a financial outcome or event: either raising capital or generating it. This paper posits that while innovation is actually not defined by capital (consumption or generation), in order for an innovation to dominate market and mind share, capital is required. While the U.S. federal government has supported innovation across nearly every industry by underwriting many modern advances across the world, it cannot take its own innovations to market and requires the collaboration of the private sector for this. Achieving this collaboration is often challenging, as federal innovation is usually too early and immature to attract private investment, thus requiring further risk mitigation before the private sector can engage. Today, however, there are pressing reasons for the government and industry to collaborate, including economic and innovation drivers and challenges from foreign actors. This paper makes recommendations that federal innovation can employ to better position itself, including updating its lexicon and adopting novel engagement strategies and mindsets to attract venture capital and industry over the long term.
{"title":"On Capital, Innovation, and Government","authors":"S. Srinivasan","doi":"10.21300/21.4.2021.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21300/21.4.2021.2","url":null,"abstract":"Most people identify innovation by a financial outcome or event: either raising capital or generating it. This paper posits that while innovation is actually not defined by capital (consumption or generation), in order for an innovation to dominate market and mind share, capital is required. While the U.S. federal government has supported innovation across nearly every industry by underwriting many modern advances across the world, it cannot take its own innovations to market and requires the collaboration of the private sector for this. Achieving this collaboration is often challenging, as federal innovation is usually too early and immature to attract private investment, thus requiring further risk mitigation before the private sector can engage. Today, however, there are pressing reasons for the government and industry to collaborate, including economic and innovation drivers and challenges from foreign actors. This paper makes recommendations that federal innovation can employ to better position itself, including updating its lexicon and adopting novel engagement strategies and mindsets to attract venture capital and industry over the long term.","PeriodicalId":44009,"journal":{"name":"Technology and Innovation","volume":"16 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90644507","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Gaining from Gain","authors":"Richard Maulsby","doi":"10.21300/21.4.2020.14","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21300/21.4.2020.14","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44009,"journal":{"name":"Technology and Innovation","volume":"2014 1","pages":"1-2"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2020-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82729416","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Journeys of Innovation: Positively Connected","authors":"Lauren Emanuel","doi":"10.21300/21.3.2020.15","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21300/21.3.2020.15","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44009,"journal":{"name":"Technology and Innovation","volume":"143 1","pages":"1-4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2020-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76214492","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
With companies now recognizing how artificial intelligence (AI), digitalization, the internet of things (IoT), and data science affect value creation and the maintenance of a competitive advantage, their demand for talented individuals with both management skills and a strong understanding of technology will grow dramatically. There is a need to prepare and train our current and future decision makers and leaders to have an understanding of AI and data science, the significant impact these technologies are having on business, how to develop AI strategies, and the impact all of this will have on their employees' roles. This paper discusses how business schools can fulfill this need by incorporating AI into their business curricula, not only as stand-alone courses but also integrated into traditional business sequences, and establishing interdisciplinary efforts and collaborative industry partnerships. This article describes how the College of Business and Public Policy (CBPP) at the University of Alaska Anchorage is implementing multiple approaches to meet these needs and prepare future leaders and decision makers. These approaches include a detailed description of CBPP's first AI course and related student successes, the integration of AI into additional business courses such as entrepreneurship and GSCM, and the creation of an AI and Data Science Lab in partnership with the College of Engineering and an investment firm.
{"title":"What is the Business with AI? Preparing Future Decision Makers and Leaders","authors":"Helena S. Wisniewski","doi":"10.21300/21.4.2020.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21300/21.4.2020.4","url":null,"abstract":"With companies now recognizing how artificial intelligence (AI), digitalization, the internet of things (IoT), and data science affect value creation and the maintenance of a competitive advantage, their demand for talented individuals with both management skills and a strong understanding\u0000 of technology will grow dramatically. There is a need to prepare and train our current and future decision makers and leaders to have an understanding of AI and data science, the significant impact these technologies are having on business, how to develop AI strategies, and the impact all\u0000 of this will have on their employees' roles. This paper discusses how business schools can fulfill this need by incorporating AI into their business curricula, not only as stand-alone courses but also integrated into traditional business sequences, and establishing interdisciplinary efforts\u0000 and collaborative industry partnerships. This article describes how the College of Business and Public Policy (CBPP) at the University of Alaska Anchorage is implementing multiple approaches to meet these needs and prepare future leaders and decision makers. These approaches include a detailed\u0000 description of CBPP's first AI course and related student successes, the integration of AI into additional business courses such as entrepreneurship and GSCM, and the creation of an AI and Data Science Lab in partnership with the College of Engineering and an investment firm.","PeriodicalId":44009,"journal":{"name":"Technology and Innovation","volume":"8 1","pages":"1-14"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2020-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88649090","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Time to Eliminate Racial Barriers in American Innovation is Now","authors":"P. Sanberg, Jayde V. Stewart","doi":"10.21300/21.4.2020.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21300/21.4.2020.11","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44009,"journal":{"name":"Technology and Innovation","volume":"40 1","pages":"1-3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2020-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86832966","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Food and agricultural industries have an increasing need to develop and adopt novel and sustainable processing technologies with high processing and energy efficiency and less water usage and waste-water generation while, at the same time, delivering safe, high-quality processed food and agricultural products. The use of infrared (IR) radiation heating for food and agricultural processing represents a novel approach for various food thermal processing operations, including drying, blanching, disinfestation, disinfection, and stabilization. Relevant attributes of IR heating technology include high heat delivery rate, lack of need for a heating medium, reduced processing time, improved energy efficiency, and enhanced product quality and safety with a minimal environmental footprint. The author and his research team recently conducted systematic and innovative research on IR heating for food and agricultural product processing, which resulted in an advancement in the scientific knowledge of IR heating in food science and engineering and the development and commercialization of a series of patented processing technologies. The novel IR heating technologies improved food healthfulness, quality, and safety while saving energy and water. The focus of this article is the review of several innovative IR heating-based processing technologies that were developed, including IR dry-peeling, dry-blanching, and dehydration technologies for fruits and vegetables; IR heating technology for drying and roasting of tree nuts; and effective IR heating for simultaneously achieving multiple goals in rice postharvest processing.
{"title":"Innovative Infrared Heating Technologies for Food and Agricultural Processing","authors":"Z. Pan","doi":"10.21300/21.4.2020.8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21300/21.4.2020.8","url":null,"abstract":"Food and agricultural industries have an increasing need to develop and adopt novel and sustainable processing technologies with high processing and energy efficiency and less water usage and waste-water generation while, at the same time, delivering safe, high-quality processed food\u0000 and agricultural products. The use of infrared (IR) radiation heating for food and agricultural processing represents a novel approach for various food thermal processing operations, including drying, blanching, disinfestation, disinfection, and stabilization. Relevant attributes of IR heating\u0000 technology include high heat delivery rate, lack of need for a heating medium, reduced processing time, improved energy efficiency, and enhanced product quality and safety with a minimal environmental footprint. The author and his research team recently conducted systematic and innovative\u0000 research on IR heating for food and agricultural product processing, which resulted in an advancement in the scientific knowledge of IR heating in food science and engineering and the development and commercialization of a series of patented processing technologies. The novel IR heating technologies\u0000 improved food healthfulness, quality, and safety while saving energy and water. The focus of this article is the review of several innovative IR heating-based processing technologies that were developed, including IR dry-peeling, dry-blanching, and dehydration technologies for fruits and vegetables;\u0000 IR heating technology for drying and roasting of tree nuts; and effective IR heating for simultaneously achieving multiple goals in rice postharvest processing.","PeriodicalId":44009,"journal":{"name":"Technology and Innovation","volume":"311 1","pages":"1-16"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2020-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74401069","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ruoxu Shang, Taner Zerrin, Bo Dong, C. Ozkan, M. Ozkan
With the advancements in portable electronics and electric vehicle (EV) applications, the demand for lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) with high energy densities is ever increasing. Battery-powered transportation is being adopted more frequently due to its potential to enable a more sustainable society by reducing vehicle emissions from fossil fuels. There has been exponential growth in the need for high-capacity LIBs in all types of EVs, including hybrid and full electric automobiles, e-bikes, and drones, as well as electric tools, cell phones, tablets, and, more recently, house storage; this growth significantly increases the consumption of source material commodities, especially cobalt. Despite its drop in price in the last couple of years due to increased mining, cobalt remains expensive, and its price increase has gained momentum again compared to other electrode materials due to higher demand. Moreover, its toxicity and difficult mining practices could result in many problems, including excessive carbon dioxide and nitrogen dioxide emission along with a possible much higher demand in the long term. This provides a strong motivation to explore alternatives to battery source materials. In this article, we present a selection of our important works on LIBs, with a focus on alternative electrode chemistries by using abundant and sustainable material sources. As alternatives to traditional graphite-based anodes, we demonstrate the successful use of both silicon electrodes derived from beach sand and waste glass and carbon electrodes derived from portobello mushroom and waste plastic precursors. In addition, we demonstrate stable cycling of batteries with nonconventional electrode chemistries, such as lithium-sulfur with TiO2-coated sulfur electrodes and sulfur-silicon full cell batteries with integrated lithium sources. Batteries prepared by sustainable methods not only perform better than conventional ones but also result in reduced costs. Since accurate determination of battery state of health is another important challenge, we further present our electrochemical impedance spectroscopy-based analysis of LIBs, which could potentially be utilized in safety evaluations of current and next-generation LIBs.
{"title":"Sustainable and Low-Cost Lithium-Ion Batteries: Nonconventional Electrode Chemistries and State of Health Characterization","authors":"Ruoxu Shang, Taner Zerrin, Bo Dong, C. Ozkan, M. Ozkan","doi":"10.21300/21.4.2020.10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21300/21.4.2020.10","url":null,"abstract":"With the advancements in portable electronics and electric vehicle (EV) applications, the demand for lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) with high energy densities is ever increasing. Battery-powered transportation is being adopted more frequently due to its potential to enable a more sustainable\u0000 society by reducing vehicle emissions from fossil fuels. There has been exponential growth in the need for high-capacity LIBs in all types of EVs, including hybrid and full electric automobiles, e-bikes, and drones, as well as electric tools, cell phones, tablets, and, more recently, house\u0000 storage; this growth significantly increases the consumption of source material commodities, especially cobalt. Despite its drop in price in the last couple of years due to increased mining, cobalt remains expensive, and its price increase has gained momentum again compared to other electrode\u0000 materials due to higher demand. Moreover, its toxicity and difficult mining practices could result in many problems, including excessive carbon dioxide and nitrogen dioxide emission along with a possible much higher demand in the long term. This provides a strong motivation to explore alternatives\u0000 to battery source materials. In this article, we present a selection of our important works on LIBs, with a focus on alternative electrode chemistries by using abundant and sustainable material sources. As alternatives to traditional graphite-based anodes, we demonstrate the successful use\u0000 of both silicon electrodes derived from beach sand and waste glass and carbon electrodes derived from portobello mushroom and waste plastic precursors. In addition, we demonstrate stable cycling of batteries with nonconventional electrode chemistries, such as lithium-sulfur with TiO2-coated\u0000 sulfur electrodes and sulfur-silicon full cell batteries with integrated lithium sources. Batteries prepared by sustainable methods not only perform better than conventional ones but also result in reduced costs. Since accurate determination of battery state of health is another important\u0000 challenge, we further present our electrochemical impedance spectroscopy-based analysis of LIBs, which could potentially be utilized in safety evaluations of current and next-generation LIBs.","PeriodicalId":44009,"journal":{"name":"Technology and Innovation","volume":"119 1","pages":"1-23"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2020-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89400775","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The NAI Chapter Spotlight: Arizona State University","authors":"Neal Woodbury, Kimberly A. Macuare","doi":"10.21300/21.4.2020.16","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21300/21.4.2020.16","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44009,"journal":{"name":"Technology and Innovation","volume":"4 1","pages":"1-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2020-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83499533","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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