1 00:00:05,640 --> 00:00:13,290 It's my pleasure to introduce from the United States, a colleague from the National Institute of Standards and Technology, 2 00:00:13,290 --> 00:00:17,340 and I'm terrible at pronunciations of the best times, but I've been given allowances, 3 00:00:17,340 --> 00:00:23,580 but most is the associate director for innovation and industry services. 4 00:00:23,580 --> 00:00:29,460 She's had a number of roles, both at news but also across government U.S. agencies. 5 00:00:29,460 --> 00:00:35,580 For those in the audience today, for this sort of technology transfer and IP. 6 00:00:35,580 --> 00:00:44,160 She was formerly a patent attorney and has registration for the technology and transfer professionals to the ITP. 7 00:00:44,160 --> 00:00:48,060 As many of you know that a good badge of honour in this space, 8 00:00:48,060 --> 00:00:56,100 and I am delighted that we will get a US perspective on this and the ambitions that the US government has in this space. 9 00:00:56,100 --> 00:01:03,030 Over to you, Mr. Thank you very much. Thank you very much for the kind introduction. 10 00:01:03,030 --> 00:01:08,940 Good morning and good afternoon. I'm delighted to be with you at the Oxford Summit. 11 00:01:08,940 --> 00:01:16,890 Before I start my PowerPoint presentation, I think it's important to note that we are living in really exciting times as far as research, 12 00:01:16,890 --> 00:01:21,840 innovation and collaboration to address global challenges are concerned. 13 00:01:21,840 --> 00:01:27,750 As you well know, during President Biden's first foreign visit in advance of the G7 summit, 14 00:01:27,750 --> 00:01:33,990 US and UK issued a joint statement that specifically addressed, amongst other things, attempted collaborations. 15 00:01:33,990 --> 00:01:41,460 And I thought to start with maybe some parts of that that is germane to today's conversation. 16 00:01:41,460 --> 00:01:48,480 Part of the statement reads We will develop a new landmark bilateral technology partnership in 2021 22. 17 00:01:48,480 --> 00:01:57,600 It will enable a new era of strategic cooperation to guarantee the safety and security of our citizens that will continue to lead the world in R&D, 18 00:01:57,600 --> 00:02:04,830 wealth creation and tackling inequality. The values of liberal democracies, open societies and open markets. 19 00:02:04,830 --> 00:02:13,070 And that all of these are codified in and threaded throughout the design and use of technology globally. 20 00:02:13,070 --> 00:02:19,430 We will strengthen cooperation in areas such as ensuring the diversity, resilience and security of our critical supply chain, 21 00:02:19,430 --> 00:02:27,020 enabling our industries and research institutions to develop and apply existing and emerging technologies such as 22 00:02:27,020 --> 00:02:34,070 quantum battery technologies and reducing barriers to the accessibility and flow of data to support economic growth, 23 00:02:34,070 --> 00:02:38,690 public safety and scientific and technological progress. 24 00:02:38,690 --> 00:02:42,080 The statement goes on to say We will continue to strengthen. 25 00:02:42,080 --> 00:02:46,880 And this is really germane to what we talking about collaboration in science and technology. 26 00:02:46,880 --> 00:02:53,630 This will facilitate increased joint world class research, as well as encourage the development of rules, 27 00:02:53,630 --> 00:03:01,400 norms and standards governing data sharing technology and the digital economy that reflect our values and principles. 28 00:03:01,400 --> 00:03:12,650 We will cooperate on the basis of openness, transparency and reciprocity, and in hope of ensuring that our collaborative research benefits our people. 29 00:03:12,650 --> 00:03:22,940 We will combine our expertise to tackle global challenges such as cancer, antimicrobial resistance, climate change and pandemic preparedness. 30 00:03:22,940 --> 00:03:29,510 And it goes on, and these same concepts were emphasised again during the G7 summit. 31 00:03:29,510 --> 00:03:35,330 For example, in the G7 Research Compact, which was published alongside the G7 leaders statement, 32 00:03:35,330 --> 00:03:44,070 as well as welcome U.K. support and leadership for the 100 day mission to develop safe and effective vaccines that was endorsed by the G7 leaders. 33 00:03:44,070 --> 00:03:48,050 The research compact commits for G7 to address the administrative, 34 00:03:48,050 --> 00:03:54,980 legal and regulatory barriers that hinder our scientific cooperation to explore new mechanisms for more flexible 35 00:03:54,980 --> 00:04:02,720 and agile research collaborations to investigate how open science practises help achieve increasingly robust, 36 00:04:02,720 --> 00:04:09,200 reliable and impactful research outcomes through the renewed G7 Science Working Group. 37 00:04:09,200 --> 00:04:19,430 And to set up a new working group to affirm the principles of and to exchange best practises for research, security and research integrity. 38 00:04:19,430 --> 00:04:26,870 Besides the context for the need and desire for international collaborations, I'll start my PowerPoint presentation. 39 00:04:26,870 --> 00:04:32,420 I'll take a moment to talk to you about next, only to provide a context for our talk on collaborations. 40 00:04:32,420 --> 00:04:35,630 I will then speak on our international engagements in general, 41 00:04:35,630 --> 00:04:40,640 as well as highlighting our existing collaborations with the UK and finally provide a summary 42 00:04:40,640 --> 00:04:49,820 of some pending legislation and S.A. arena that maybe interests may be of interest to you. 43 00:04:49,820 --> 00:04:59,090 So first, talking about the next mission, as you know, is a laboratory under its own agency, under the Department of Commerce, 44 00:04:59,090 --> 00:05:04,280 and its mission is to promote U.S. innovation and industrial competitiveness by advancing measurement, 45 00:05:04,280 --> 00:05:11,120 science standards and technology in ways that enhance economic security and improve our quality of life. 46 00:05:11,120 --> 00:05:18,980 I wanted to give you next slide, please. I wanted to give you this by numbers we have. 47 00:05:18,980 --> 00:05:23,480 And I think some of these numbers are significant. 48 00:05:23,480 --> 00:05:31,880 We have 30, 400, about 30 400 federal employees, but we have about 30 500 associates and a lot of the associates are post-docs. 49 00:05:31,880 --> 00:05:37,490 Some of them are visiting scientists, some of them are foreign nationals. 50 00:05:37,490 --> 00:05:43,310 Some of them are visiting from from other U.S. institutions. We have five Nobel prises. 51 00:05:43,310 --> 00:05:50,690 We have 10 collaborative institutes. We are on two campuses, one in Gaithersburg, Maryland, and one in Boulder, Colorado. 52 00:05:50,690 --> 00:05:55,880 And we have about more than 400 businesses using our newest facility. 53 00:05:55,880 --> 00:06:02,000 These are unique facilities that researchers used to advance the research on the extramural site. 54 00:06:02,000 --> 00:06:09,230 We have the Manufacturing USA programme, which has 16 right now. 55 00:06:09,230 --> 00:06:18,380 Actually, there is there are 16 manufacturing USA institutions, some of which are sponsored by Department of Defence, 56 00:06:18,380 --> 00:06:22,730 no Department of Energy and one by the Department of Commerce and List. 57 00:06:22,730 --> 00:06:28,610 And that's the National Institute for Innovation in Manufacturing of Biopharmaceuticals. 58 00:06:28,610 --> 00:06:37,850 These are an industry led consortia, and they include global companies as well as small companies and some non-profits. 59 00:06:37,850 --> 00:06:47,630 We have the Manufacturing Extension Partnership Centre, which is a centre in each of our states, as well as one in Puerto Rico, and they help. 60 00:06:47,630 --> 00:06:53,570 They offer technical assistant assistance to small and medium sized U.S. manufacturers. 61 00:06:53,570 --> 00:07:01,430 We have U.S. Mortgage Performance Excellence programme, which is in the business of organisational excellence, and it is. 62 00:07:01,430 --> 00:07:11,750 It has and it awards organisations for excellence in performance across different industries. 63 00:07:11,750 --> 00:07:23,000 Next like this? Now that we know about this, I just wanted to kind of give you our thinking on international science and international collaborations. 64 00:07:23,000 --> 00:07:26,030 First and foremost, international science is frontier science. 65 00:07:26,030 --> 00:07:35,210 It enables cutting-edge research that no nation could achieve alone, and I think we can definitely see that during the pandemic. 66 00:07:35,210 --> 00:07:43,940 It strengthens scientific and diplomatic relations. It leverages resources, including funding, expertise and facilities. 67 00:07:43,940 --> 00:07:46,220 It's it trains the net. 68 00:07:46,220 --> 00:07:54,260 It's a pipeline basically for essential workforce as it trains a robust essential workforce capable of solving global global problems. 69 00:07:54,260 --> 00:08:02,970 And international students and scholars contribute significantly to the US research and development enterprises. 70 00:08:02,970 --> 00:08:09,630 Next countries. So what are tenants when we do international collaborations at next, 71 00:08:09,630 --> 00:08:15,120 we need to balance engagement in mutually beneficial international research and 72 00:08:15,120 --> 00:08:19,680 support of the next mission with protecting the integrity of a research enterprise. 73 00:08:19,680 --> 00:08:28,830 We need to make sure that we can collaborate, but that we can minimise threat of whether it's intellectual property theft, 74 00:08:28,830 --> 00:08:32,850 whether it's hostile attacks or on our system. 75 00:08:32,850 --> 00:08:39,120 So there need this is a balancing act and I would say not necessarily an easy one. 76 00:08:39,120 --> 00:08:42,600 We also provide global leadership in measurement, science and standards. 77 00:08:42,600 --> 00:08:48,480 We have a lot of collaborations around measurements and metrology around the world. 78 00:08:48,480 --> 00:08:55,530 It enhances measurement and standards infrastructure that enables global market access for U.S. products. 79 00:08:55,530 --> 00:09:01,380 It promotes harmonised standards and transparent regulatory regimes across the globe. 80 00:09:01,380 --> 00:09:10,400 And it supports the administration priorities and U.S. foreign policy objectives, some of which helped us frame this conversation. 81 00:09:10,400 --> 00:09:21,350 Next, let's. This works at a global, at a regional and bilateral capacities. 82 00:09:21,350 --> 00:09:27,260 We focus will be globally, we focus on infrastructure needed to look for key emerging technologies, 83 00:09:27,260 --> 00:09:33,650 international recognition measurement capabilities and international standards development. 84 00:09:33,650 --> 00:09:41,810 These activities tend to be facilitated through much more multilateral fora like the TV of the media for measurement, 85 00:09:41,810 --> 00:09:52,250 science research or the International Laboratory Accreditation Cooperation or international standards bodies like ISO or ITC. 86 00:09:52,250 --> 00:09:59,240 We sometimes work regionally, so the regional collaboration is focussed on measurements and standards challenges unique 87 00:09:59,240 --> 00:10:04,550 to the region and supports international recognition of measurement capabilities. 88 00:10:04,550 --> 00:10:07,070 For example, this is very active in the Americas. 89 00:10:07,070 --> 00:10:17,930 Currently, we hold the presidency of the system that Americano, the role of CEO of SIM, which is the Regional Metrology Organisation for the Americas. 90 00:10:17,930 --> 00:10:22,310 We are also an associate member of the Asia Pacific Metrology Programme and have provided 91 00:10:22,310 --> 00:10:27,140 assistance and training opportunities for developing it in mice not only in SIM, 92 00:10:27,140 --> 00:10:36,590 but also in Asia Pacific in regions. In addition, and I think some of these bilateral efforts with the UK were highlighted, 93 00:10:36,590 --> 00:10:43,670 we work with wood under bilateral cooperation, POC cooperative agreements or and we'll use. 94 00:10:43,670 --> 00:10:51,830 This would include the next relationship, for example, with UK yes, and tends to focus on research topics of mutual interest and benefit. 95 00:10:51,830 --> 00:10:58,490 This is typically driven by the scientific staff or or to fulfil administration priorities. 96 00:10:58,490 --> 00:11:04,820 This also includes Emily, who's like the US Brazil Commercial Dialogue List, 97 00:11:04,820 --> 00:11:09,440 led by Department of Commerce with nice living standards and metrology activities. 98 00:11:09,440 --> 00:11:20,240 Birds, which is the Israel US Binational Industrial Research and Development Foundation activities via these science and technology engagements. 99 00:11:20,240 --> 00:11:28,700 I want to be clear that they are typically led by our State Department and the Office of Science and Technology Policy, which Eric Holder leads, 100 00:11:28,700 --> 00:11:36,830 and this has bilateral engagements with National Metrology Institutes, universities and research centres around the world. 101 00:11:36,830 --> 00:11:44,660 Next slide, please. In my introductory remarks about this, I mentioned that we have about the equal number, 102 00:11:44,660 --> 00:11:49,580 if not more visiting scientists, than we have federal employees, 103 00:11:49,580 --> 00:11:59,000 and we significantly benefit from the engagement of our partners and international experts who work on our campuses and in the laboratories. 104 00:11:59,000 --> 00:12:07,070 They come from institutions both inside and outside the US, and they lend their expertise to this research programmes. 105 00:12:07,070 --> 00:12:18,440 Again, for these projects to happen, they must we must benefit from the foreign participation or the visitors participation. 106 00:12:18,440 --> 00:12:26,990 So things, for example, like the expertise of the visitor, the contributions that they can make to these programmes are all considered. 107 00:12:26,990 --> 00:12:34,970 Given that we have to keep the integrity of our agency and that's very important to us, these agreements are reviewed at many different levels. 108 00:12:34,970 --> 00:12:38,990 The laboratory management obviously reviews it for the scientific expertise. 109 00:12:38,990 --> 00:12:41,870 Then we have an export control review. 110 00:12:41,870 --> 00:12:48,470 We have a review by a senior bureau officials and our Office of International, Academic and International Affairs, 111 00:12:48,470 --> 00:12:55,550 and also are vetted by the Security Office to make sure that having the the visitor on our 112 00:12:55,550 --> 00:13:04,400 campus is productive and and we can ensure the integrity of the agency and the science next. 113 00:13:04,400 --> 00:13:17,840 Like please. I just wanted to provide an example of some of the things that that we do that have international impact and have widespread impact. 114 00:13:17,840 --> 00:13:21,710 Initially developed with a focus on critical infrastructure of the NYSC, 115 00:13:21,710 --> 00:13:28,280 cybersecurity framework continues to be a useful tool for managing cybersecurity risks in the five 116 00:13:28,280 --> 00:13:34,550 years since it was first produced with the active engagement of both private and public sectors. 117 00:13:34,550 --> 00:13:39,500 This original framework and an updated version, which I believe was released in April of 2018, 118 00:13:39,500 --> 00:13:43,940 are having a broad positive impact both in the U.S. and around the world, 119 00:13:43,940 --> 00:13:52,160 and translations of the framework are available in Spanish, Arabic, Japanese, Portuguese, Bulgarian and Polish. 120 00:13:52,160 --> 00:13:55,790 And there are adaptations in many countries, including Italy, Israel, 121 00:13:55,790 --> 00:14:03,170 Uruguay and others are referencing the framework in various ways, including Brazil, Canada and Switzerland. 122 00:14:03,170 --> 00:14:14,450 These adaptations and translations are available to all of you on our website, and we are continuing the efforts within ISO and IEC, 123 00:14:14,450 --> 00:14:20,000 including recent work with international partners on technical specification, and that's technical specification. 124 00:14:20,000 --> 00:14:26,180 Twenty seven one 10 that was published recently in February of 2021, 125 00:14:26,180 --> 00:14:37,940 and this technical specification focuses on developing cybersecurity framework and leverages the contents of the version 1.1 of the framework. 126 00:14:37,940 --> 00:14:43,850 Also, the World Bank is considering recommending that anyone receiving more funds for 127 00:14:43,850 --> 00:14:49,280 Internet of Things related issues adopt or use the framework in some capacity, 128 00:14:49,280 --> 00:15:00,700 so that gives us some semblance of standard cybersecurity activity. 129 00:15:00,700 --> 00:15:11,380 Next slide, please. Now on to an engagement that we're very proud of and is specifically related to the UK. 130 00:15:11,380 --> 00:15:22,480 Some UK US collaborations were highlighted with NIH, with NSF and with the newest advance with advanced manufacturing as a topic witnessed. 131 00:15:22,480 --> 00:15:27,190 This is another engagement that is between UKRI and this, 132 00:15:27,190 --> 00:15:34,900 and the aim is to collaborate in technology transfer areas and facilitate innovation and commercialisation best practises. 133 00:15:34,900 --> 00:15:43,330 It was formalised on November 20 of last year and it's a five year EMU and it's it aims to support 134 00:15:43,330 --> 00:15:48,490 activity around staff exchanges amongst technology transfer staff to do joint research and 135 00:15:48,490 --> 00:15:54,190 share best practises on technology transfer and knowledge exchange to collaborate to improve 136 00:15:54,190 --> 00:16:00,280 connexions between manufacturing programme and research funded by the U.S. and U.K. governments, 137 00:16:00,280 --> 00:16:10,210 and also to cooperate and collaborate on efforts concerning the mapping and analysis of regional innovation and economic development. 138 00:16:10,210 --> 00:16:18,190 Basically, the regional liquid systems. What we hope to also do is to advance U.S.-U.K. 139 00:16:18,190 --> 00:16:24,040 Ongoing transatlantic engagement on the role of technology based innovation in economic 140 00:16:24,040 --> 00:16:31,120 resilience and society societal benefits that cooperation will bring about to enhance the U.S., 141 00:16:31,120 --> 00:16:37,930 UK scientific cooperation in general and specifically in priority areas such as A.I., 142 00:16:37,930 --> 00:16:48,610 advanced manufacturing and quantum information science, and to support Nissan UK our partners in delivering on their shared mission. 143 00:16:48,610 --> 00:16:55,900 The effort was announced in the context of a virtual meeting held by 10 U. 144 00:16:55,900 --> 00:17:05,320 That was alluded to and 10 U includes leading tech transfer offices both in the US, UK and Belgium. 145 00:17:05,320 --> 00:17:13,930 And they include universities such as Cambridge, Columbia, Edinburgh, Imperial College of London, 146 00:17:13,930 --> 00:17:18,640 Live in Manchester and the Oxford, Stanford and University College of London. 147 00:17:18,640 --> 00:17:23,980 I hope I got everybody. Next slide, please. 148 00:17:23,980 --> 00:17:29,140 I thought you might be interested in some of the pending legislation that's 149 00:17:29,140 --> 00:17:35,650 that's before our Congress and will affect the Ascendis S.A. space in the US. 150 00:17:35,650 --> 00:17:40,960 The first one is you. You might have heard of the Endless Frontier Act. 151 00:17:40,960 --> 00:17:50,380 Endless Frontier Act is now part of U.S., which was introduced in the Senate, and it passed the Senate, and it's now like the House. 152 00:17:50,380 --> 00:17:57,280 This is the bill that adds a technology directorate to the National Science Foundation. 153 00:17:57,280 --> 00:18:05,110 It also creates university technology centres at the regional level, and there is the. 154 00:18:05,110 --> 00:18:11,560 This is germane to this because it also encourages that these regional hubs work with the manufacturing extension 155 00:18:11,560 --> 00:18:20,080 programme that I just mentioned and we up manufacturing institutes under our Manufacturing USA programme. 156 00:18:20,080 --> 00:18:31,420 The next one is the. House of Representative 20 Thirteen, which is securing American leadership in Science and Technology Act. 157 00:18:31,420 --> 00:18:39,610 It proposes revision to the Stevenson Weidler Act. That's the act that governs technology transfer in the federal labs. 158 00:18:39,610 --> 00:18:47,950 Most federal labs that are government owned, government operated, it modernises, modernises our STEM workforce. 159 00:18:47,950 --> 00:18:55,630 It requires there are some agencies that have what is called small technology transfer research funds, 160 00:18:55,630 --> 00:19:03,760 and it requires them to provide grants for innovative technology transfer approaches for the commercialisation of federally funded R&D. 161 00:19:03,760 --> 00:19:10,510 This is an effort that was the commercialisation of federally funded R&D, 162 00:19:10,510 --> 00:19:18,730 something that that is the subject of conversation and has been as to what is the return on investment for our taxpayers. 163 00:19:18,730 --> 00:19:28,810 Given that the federal agencies R&D budget is appropriated for most of the agencies and most of the funds that are used by 164 00:19:28,810 --> 00:19:38,350 scientists within the agencies and some of the newest return on investment package provisions were included in this bill. 165 00:19:38,350 --> 00:19:47,860 The provisions on that package is there is 10 suggestions and some of them are to enable government agencies, 166 00:19:47,860 --> 00:19:52,330 the government owned government operated ones to be able to see copyright, for example, 167 00:19:52,330 --> 00:19:59,350 to extend the period of cousin confidentiality of information under certain agreements, 168 00:19:59,350 --> 00:20:08,140 and to streamline some of the some of the practises under the Stevenson and What Stevenson Waiver Act. 169 00:20:08,140 --> 00:20:11,650 The next one is the Innovation Centre's Acceleration Act, 170 00:20:11,650 --> 00:20:17,320 which creates a cabinet level committee to select and find nine new innovation centres across the country. 171 00:20:17,320 --> 00:20:24,940 As you see, there is a there is a theme of bringing innovation together and building not just a centre, 172 00:20:24,940 --> 00:20:30,550 but centres that can that can vitalise regional economies, amongst other things. 173 00:20:30,550 --> 00:20:38,560 There is the America Leads Act, which proposes to address technology and economic issues related to competition with China, 174 00:20:38,560 --> 00:20:49,270 and there is a part of the act where we are that hopes to strengthen U.S. manufacturing requirements, 175 00:20:49,270 --> 00:20:55,930 especially in the context of government funded inventions. 176 00:20:55,930 --> 00:20:59,800 And last but not least, is the lowest return on investment legislative package, 177 00:20:59,800 --> 00:21:08,440 which has now become part of the Securing American Leadership in Science and Technology Act that you just mentioned. 178 00:21:08,440 --> 00:21:18,430 Next slide, please. So in summary, when we engage in international activities, we as the international activity that this supports, 179 00:21:18,430 --> 00:21:25,540 needs to be related to our mission and needs to have a tangible benefit to Tunis and Department of Commerce. 180 00:21:25,540 --> 00:21:35,050 This is a way to make sure every agency does their best that and offers what they are best at the diversity of international activities. 181 00:21:35,050 --> 00:21:41,620 And this reflects the leadership and measurement and standards and this commitment to mutually 182 00:21:41,620 --> 00:21:46,360 beneficial engagement to support the global measurement and standards infrastructure. 183 00:21:46,360 --> 00:21:55,930 This is one area where truly one cannot do anything alone, and one needs to engage one's partners across the globe. 184 00:21:55,930 --> 00:22:02,800 International engagement is primarily pursued through the Laboratories and Standards Coordination Office. 185 00:22:02,800 --> 00:22:12,970 As I mentioned, they are there are many players in the the manufacturing institutes that are more multinational corporations. 186 00:22:12,970 --> 00:22:20,650 So in that way, also the Manufacturing USA programme is engaged in international engagement and with few exceptions, 187 00:22:20,650 --> 00:22:31,180 Mr. Extramural programmes engage primarily on information exchange and benchmarking activities with our international colleagues. 188 00:22:31,180 --> 00:22:41,020 Next slide, please. Thank you very much for your kind attention and look forward to the questions. 189 00:22:41,020 --> 00:22:45,690 Excellent. Thank you very much. And well done. 190 00:22:45,690 --> 00:22:57,557 Remembering all of the 10 institutions for 10 u. I'm sure the team will be very delighted that you could remember not.