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South Bend Redevelopment Commission <br />Regular Meeting -June 4, 2010 <br />requests. Fifteen years ago, a patent had one <br />author. Today there are probably fifteen <br />authors on the patent. And it's <br />interdisciplinary. It's making it more <br />difficult for technology transfer. It used to be <br />if it was a chemistry PhD, he made his <br />application and it was reviewed by a <br />chemistry review person in technology <br />transfer. Today, there may be a chemist and <br />a biologist; there may be a statistician; there <br />may be an information technology person, <br />there may be an astrophysicist---all part of <br />the same discovery. We need that kind of <br />collaboration everywhere. <br />We look at project based New Tech High <br />School. Ms. Hathaway visited the New <br />Tech High School in Columbus. It is <br />interdisciplinary, project based, <br />collaboration. Doesn't that sound like <br />business? What she was really impressed <br />with there was the sense of confidence those <br />students had. And politeness. Two hundred <br />students, freshmen and sophomores, and not <br />one disengaged student. <br />Ms. Hathaway stressed Focus. Karl King <br />and John Roos just completed a report called <br />Benchmarking South Bend. They say, "Our <br />legacy industry mix consists of nationally <br />dying industries." We have to change that. <br />We have to be proactive in identifying what <br />our future strengths are going to be in <br />business. Michiana Tech Connect, which is <br />spearheaded by Project Future, is on the <br />campus of Notre Dame looking at the <br />research happening on campus and trying to <br />ascertain which research initiatives have the <br />greatest chance of commercialization to the <br />ultimate benefit of our region. That is so <br />important. They are now going deeper to <br />look at the processes that are going to be <br />13 <br />