CONTENTS

5.1 OVERVIEW

5.2 ESTABLISHING AN INDUSTRIAL AFFILIATES PROGRAM
5.2.1 Start-up Systems Development
5.2.2 Membership Structure and Fees
5.2.3 Membership Rights
5.2.4 Member Responsibilities--Committees and Boards
5.2.5 Role of the Industrial Liaison/Technology Transfer Specialist
5.2.5.1 Structure of the Position
5.2.5.2 Most Important Aspects of the Role
5.2.5.3 Most Satisfying Aspects of the Role
5.2.5.4 Most Difficult Aspects of the Role
5.2.6 Lessons Learned: Establishing the Program

5.3 BUILDING AN INDUSTRIAL CONSTITUENCY
5.3.1 Attracting Corporate Members
5.3.1.1 Strategic Plan for Recruitment
5.3.1.2 Marketing the Center
5.3.1.3 Industrial Consortia and Governmental Groups
5.3.1.4 Start-up and Small Companies
5.3.1.5 Foreign Firms
5.3.2 Involving Industrial Members
5.3.2.1 Industrial Input into Strategic Planning
5.3.2.2 Mechanisms to Enhance Interactions
5.3.2.3 Industry/University Collaborative Research Teams
5.3.2.4 Information Exchange with Companies
5.3.3 Issues Regarding Industrial Involvement
5.3.3.1 Balancing Long- and Short-Term Research
5.3.3.2 Avoiding Conflicts of Interest
5.3.3.3 Other Federally Funded Joint Ventures
5.3.3.4 Industrial Involvement in Education Programs
5.3.3.5 Measuring Program Effectiveness
5.3.3.6 Benefits to the Center of Industrial Involvement
5.3.4 Lessons Learned: Building the Constituency

5.4 INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND COMMERCIALIZATION
5.4.1 Overview
5.4.2 Product Development and Commercialization
5.4.2.1 Developing and Maintaining an Industry-Relevant Research Agenda
5.4.2.2 The Changing Roles of Academic and Industry Researchers in Commercialization
5.4.2.3 Balancing the Needs of Researchers and Industry
5.4.2.4 Using Commercialization Successes as a Marketing
5.4.3 Intellectual Property Treatment and Ownership
5.4.3.1 Agreement with University Administration
5.4.3.2 Membership Levels and IP Rights
5.4.3.3 IP in Relation to Funding Source
5.4.3.4 A Model for IP Technology Transfer
5.4.4 Patenting
5.4.5 Lessons Learned: Intellectual Property and Commercialization

5.5 BENEFITS AND DIFFICULTIES FOR INDUSTRY OF ERC INTERACTION
5.5.1 Industrial Benefits of Membership
5.5.1.1 NSF Study of ERC-Industry Interactions
5.5.1.2 Benefits as Identified by Industrial Liaison Specialists
5.5.1.3 Job Performance of ERC Graduates
5.5.1.4 Benefits of University Consortia
5.5.1.5 Benefits in the Form of Spin-Off Companies
5.5.2 Successes and Difficulties

5.6 NSF ERC PROGRAM SUPPORT FOR INDUSTRIAL LIAISON
5.6.1 Importance of NSF Imprimatur to ERCs
5.6.2 NSF Support for Industrial Liaison
5.6.3 NSF Program Director Role in Industrial Liaison
5.6.4 NSF As Evangelist and Shepherd
5.6.5 University-Industry Partnership Strategy: Levels of Interaction

5.7 OVERALL SUMMARY

ATTACHMENT A: NSF Policy Statement on Industrial Membership

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