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Purdue’s
Discovery Park
A. H. Rebar, DVM, Ph.D.
Executive Director of Discovery Park
and
Senior Associate Vice President for Research
Unlocking Purdue’s Treasure Chest
3/13/06
Discovery Park Integrated Centers
Founded
1961
2001
Purpose
Start-up companies
Interdisciplinary research
Location
Off-Campus
US 52 Highway
Main Campus
State Street
People
2500 employees
850 faculty members
38
3 completed
2 in design phase
130 Companies
10 Centers
591 acres
40 acres
# Buildings
# Companies/Centers
Area
An Engine for Indiana’s Economy
Industry
Purdue
Research Park
Startup
Company
Licensing
To Practice or
Commercialization
Project
Ideas
Educational or
Training Concepts
Seeding
Nurturing
Joint Venture
Executing
Discovery Park & University Infrastructure
Cooperative
Education
Campus wide
Discovery Park is designed to rapidly
integrate Purdue with outside partners.
Value
Proposition
Discovery Park Infrastructure
• Administrative
– Business team – SPS & Business Admin.
– Project coordination
– Web site integration
– Special events
• Technical
– Research Cores – partnership with
academic units
– Equipment and facilities
Discovery Park Infrastructure
(continued)
• Academic Support
– Seed funds for Super Projects
– Faculty start-up for recruitment
– Cost sharing
• Special Opportunity Support
– Staff
– Funds
Sustainability
• Financial
• Organizational
• Cultural Enthusiasm
Birck
Nanotechnology
Center
Birck Nanotechnology Center
Molecular Electronics
• Organic molecules have
unique and controllable
electrical characteristics
• Applications:
– Switching elements
– Molecular memories
– Sensors
2 nm
• $15 million NASA Institute for
Nanoelectronics and Computing (Datta)
Center for Advanced
Manufacturing
(CAM)
Interfacing basic academic
research and applied
needs of the manufacturing
industry
Center for Advanced Manufacturing
Disposable Cartridges for Rapid
Detection of Microbial Contaminants
Rashid Bashir, BioVitesse and Lite Machines
Bio Sensor meets Model Helicopter
Water
WaterLine
Line
• Need
– Plastic packaging
for cartridge
– 200-500 units for
alpha testing
Cell
Cell
Concentration
Concentration
and
and Recovery
Recovery
One-time-use
One-time-use
Cartridge
Cartridge and
and kit
kit
Short-term project
devices available in
one semester
• Solution
– BioVitesse sensor
– Lite Machines injection molding
– Purdue faculty and students
It’s All Happening Here!
For information on Discovery Park:
http://www.purdue.edu/discoverypark
Dr. A. H. Rebar
(765) 496-6625; [email protected]
• Educating leaders for tomorrow
• Hiring and retaining the
brightest minds
• Exploring new horizons
• Enabling new capabilities
• Opening new avenues for
basic and applied research
• Speeding new inventions
• Accelerating technology
commercialization
• Creating high-tech industry
• Making economic impact
• Shaping the future