Cyclotron Road and ARL Open Campus Initiative Sample Clauses

Cyclotron Road and ARL Open Campus Initiative. One of the more interesting developments, as referenced above, in the area of technological incubators has been the establishment of Cyclotron Road, “a public-private partnership founded by Xxxxxxxx Berkeley National Laboratory and supported by the DOE Office of Energy Efficient and Renewable Energy’s [EERE] Advanced Manufacturing Office.”00 Xxxxxxxxx Xxxx was created with the specific intention of addressing the Darwinian Sea: recognizing that “[d]eveloping the next generation of clean energy technologies will take significant risk, capital, and time” and that we are in “an era of declining investment in early-stage energy technologies,” they seek to serve as “a home for top entrepreneurial researchers to advance technologies until they can succeed beyond the research lab.”59 Cyclotron Road provides researchers with funding, access to the Berkeley Laboratory, and technical assistance.60 They are currently engaged in a range of projects, such as Opus 12, which seeks to recycle carbon emissions into chemicals and fuels, and CalWave, which seeks to develop new technology for harnessing tidal energy. Such projects have attracted significant attention: Opus 12 has received funding from Shell’s GameChanger initiative for a feasibility study, while CalWave is in first place among the finalists for the DOE’s Wave Energy Prize as of March 1st, 2016.61 Cyclotron Road recently announced its acceptance of nine new projects as its “second cohort of innovators.”62 Cyclotron Road uses three different arrangements in its organizational structure. First, the participants who are selected to participate in Cyclotron Road receive an Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE) Fellowship through the DOE for 80% of their time in order to pay for their participation in a “mentored training program for scientists in translating scientific discoveries to potential business concepts and ultimately into sponsored business ideas.”63 Second, a CRADA is established between Berkeley Lab and the participant, which includes terms for intellectual property rights and provides the participant with a $100,000 “small business voucher for work to be done at the lab.”64 Finally, “[i]n order to conduct the mentored training,” the DOE “provides support for the lab through standard AOP [Annual Operating Plan] funding structures and authorities for working with the labs.”65 This model has caught the attention of many interested in innovation. In a similar vein, the U.S. Army’s Army Rese...