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South Bend Redevelopment Commission <br />Regular Meeting –June 4, 2010 <br /> <br />6. NEW BUSINESS (CONT.) <br /> <br />B. Airport Economic Development Area <br /> <br />(5) continued… <br /> <br />We have to have a retail focus. The larger <br />the better. Because everyone is demanding <br />it. Foundation grant review boards are <br />demanding it. Employee search are <br />demanding it. Corporate search are <br />demanding it. The tenants are demanding it. <br />They need it because they understand that the <br />broader the region the greater the support and <br />the greater the potential impact. We need to <br />be thinking broadly here. <br /> <br />Some of this is happening. Collaboration is <br />happening. For example, with patent <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 /> <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 /> 14 <br /> <br />