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Contrasting Two Corridors:Both Nontraditional; One Established, The Other Emerging

Presented to:"Innovations in Economic Development Forum"

Presented by:Tom BallardDirector – Economic Development and Partnerships

February 28, 2007

OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORYU. S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Contrasting two nontraditional corridors: One more than a decade old; the other just emerging in a virtual fashion

What is the Tennessee Valley Corridor?

Key institutions and leaders in eight Congressional districts across four states working together to grow and attract the high-tech jobs of the future.

• Led by Blue-Ribbon Board of Directors

• Consults closely with Congressional leaders and key institutions

• Strategically links the technology-rich Tennessee Valley Corridor from North Alabama through East Tennessee into Southwest Virginia and Southeast Kentucky

The Tennessee Valley Corridor, a non-profit organization, has adopted the following mission:

• To promote the Tennessee Valley as one of the nation’s premier science and technology centers

• To leverage the abundant research and technology assets and institutions located throughout the Valley for maximum regional economic development and new job creation

How did the Tennessee Valley Corridor start?

Like any major initiative, it started with a visionary champion.

• Newly elected Congressman Zach Wamp faced a major challenge in 1995 – end of the Cold War, aging facilities in Oak Ridge, and the likelihood of major program cutbacks.

• Instead of accepting the situation, he turned adversity into opportunity by convening the first ever large scale event in Oak Ridge wherecommunity leaders focused on preserving the multi-billion dollar investments in Oak Ridge.

How did the Tennessee Valley Corridor start?

Like any successful initiative, it gained traction because of its visionary champion.

• This inaugural event in 1995 was so successful (hundreds under a tent at times because the city lacked a facility to accommodate the large crowd) that Congressman Wamp decided to “Connect the Valley” and hold another event in Chattanooga in 1996.

• The theme that began to emerge was working together across traditional political boundaries to leverage the assets of the Tennessee Valley for economic prosperity.

How did the Tennessee Valley Corridor grow?

The vision began to “take hold” and expand in the latter half of the 1990s.

• Based on two years of success, the newly named Tennessee ValleyCorridor Summit moved to Knoxville and a new Congressional district for the 1997 summit.

• A third Congressional district was added in 1998 – Tennessee’s First – as well as Southwestern Virginia.

• The TVC moved from an advisory board structure to a formally chartered 501(c)(6) in 1999.

How did the Tennessee Valley Corridor grow?

The momentum grew as we moved into the new century.

• A third state (Alabama) joined the effort when the 2000 TVC Summit was held in Huntsville. This marked the addition of the Marshall Space Flight Center and Redstone Arsenal to the resource base as the TVC focused on its dual mottos – “Putting Science and Technology to Work”and “National Leadership through Regional Cooperation.”

• We held our first ever event outside the region with a 2001 summit in Washington.

• Finally, Kentucky was added in 2004.

The Corridor’s Bipartisan Congressional Leadership

•Congressman Robert Aderholt (R-AL)

•Congressman Rick Boucher (D-VA)

•Congressman Bud Cramer (D-AL)

•Congressman David Davis (R-TN)

•Congressman Lincoln Davis (D-TN)

•Congressman John J. Duncan Jr. (R-TN)

•Congressman Harold Rogers (R-KY)

•Congressman Zach Wamp (R-TN)

World-Class Institutions and Initiatives•Alabama A&M University•Center for Rural Development•East Tennessee State University•Kentucky Universities Homeland Security Consortium

•NASA Marshall Space Flight Center•National Institute for Hometown Security

•National Safe Skies Alliance•National Space, Science and Technology Center

•National Transportation Research Center

•Oak Ridge Associated Universities•DOE’s Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education

•DOE’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory •Quillen College of Medicine•Technology 2020•Tennessee Valley Authority •University of Alabama Huntsville•University of Tennessee Chattanooga•University of Tennessee Knoxville•University of Tennessee Space Institute•U.S. Air Force Arnold Center•U.S. Army at Redstone Arsenal•Virginia Tech University•DOE/NNSA’s Y-12 National Security Complex•Southeast Regional Research Initiative•And many more…

1995: “Charting America’s Competitive Future” – Oak Ridge, Tenn. 1996: “A Model for Sustainable Communities” – Chattanooga, Tenn.1997: “Where Nature and Technology Meet” – Knoxville, Tenn.1998: “From Strong Roots, Building Tomorrow” – Tri-Cities, Tenn./Virginia1999: “Showcasing Our Technology for Economic Development” – Knoxville/Oak Ridge, Tenn.2000: “Connecting the Corridor for the Future” – Huntsville/Decatur, Ala.2000: “Aerospace and Automotive Crossroads” – Coffee and Franklin Counties, Tenn.2001: “Putting Science and Technology to Work” –Washington, D.C.2002: “National Leadership Through Regional Cooperation” – Nashville, Tenn.2002: “Creating Tomorrow’s Technologies Today” – Tri-Cities, Tenn.2003: “Creating Next Generation Transportation Solutions” – Huntsville, Ala.2003: “Where Technology Meets the Marketplace” – Chattanooga, Tenn.2004: “Research. Technology. Jobs.” – Knoxville/Oak Ridge, Tenn.2004: “Technology: Linking Homeland Security and Hometown Prosperity” – Somerset, Ky.2005: “National Leadership Through Regional Cooperation” – Washington, D.C. 2006: “Advancing America’s Competitiveness Through Regional Cooperation” – Chattanooga, Tenn.

Since 1995, Summits have taken place in all regions of the Corridor. The timeline of past Summits is as follows:

Impressive KeynotersKeynote Speakers at past Summits have included:

•U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff

•U.S. Secretary of Energy Samuel Bodman

•U.S. Senators Bill Frist, Lamar Alexander and Jeff Sessions; Tennessee Governor Phil Bredesen

•Kentucky Governor Ernie Fletcher

•FedEx founder and chairman Fred Smith

•Tennessee Valley Authority chairman Bill Sansom and CEO Tom Kilgore

•U.S. Deputy Secretary of Commerce David Sampson

•Former U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Tom Ridge

•Former U.S. Secretary of Energy Hazel O'Leary

•Former U.S. Secretary of Transportation Frederico Pena; former NASA administrator Dan Goldin

•Former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman

•Former Tennessee Governor Don Sundquist

•Congressmen Zach Wamp, Hal Rogers, Jimmy Duncan, Bill Jenkins, Rick Boucher, Bud Cramer, Lincoln Davis, Robert Aderholt, Bart Gordon, and Bob Inglis

•and dozens of other national and regional leaders.

Next Summit

2007 National SummitMay 29-30, 2007

MeadowView Conference Resort and Convention Center

Kingsport, Tenn.www.tennvalleycorridor.org/summits/detail.html.

Top 10 Reasons the Corridor is one of America’s Top 10 Technology Spots

•Institutions that Collaborate

•Brainpower at Work

•World-Class Innovation

•Technology-Driven Talent

•National Leadership Through Regional Cooperation

•Lower Business Costs

•Putting Ideas to Work

•Affordable Family Living

•Work and Play

•Location. Location. Location.

Other Major Activities: Conferences and Special Events

• Tennessee Valley Venture Forum• ORAU’s National Conference on High-Performance Computing • Oak Ridge New Industrialism Conference• NCORP Regional Demonstrations Project• Support for Regional Events• Southern Growth Policies Board/Southern Technology Council’s

Innovation and Technology Forums

Successes

• Early support and public consensus-building for the Department of Energy's $1.4 Billion Spallation Neutron Source project in Oak Ridge, which is referred to as the "World's Largest Civilian Science Project"

• Early organizing seeds in helping the Tri-Cities, TN/VA area becoming the first region in the country to apply for and receive All-American City designation as a great place to live, work and do business.

• Support for the region's Annual Tennessee Valley Venture Forum and other efforts to increase the availability of early venture capital and entrepreneurial support in the region.

Successes, continued…

•The development and launch of an innovative Federal Alliance forinteragency cooperation between NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, the Air Force's Arnold Engineering Development Centerand the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratoryand National Nuclear Security Administration’s Y-12 National Security Complex, and the U.S. Army’s Redstone Arsenal.

•The formation of new Valley-wide fiber optic telecommunications, partnership between the Tennessee Valley Authority, and the National Center for Computational Science at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

Successes, continued…

• Tangible funding and improvements for runway extensions at the Port of Huntsville airport as well as other highway, air and industrial infrastructure improvements throughout the Valley.

• New federal grants for pilot projects and regional initiatives focused on workforce development, clean transportation and energy security.

• Several other key initiatives, partnerships and projects important to fulfilling key federal missions while boosting the region's continued economic development.

Consistent Year-Round Initiatives and Projects

Modernization

Innovation

Education

Job Creation

One Benchmark of Success:

In 2004, the Tennessee Valley Corridor was recognized by the U.S. Department of Commerce Economic

Development Administration as one of the top two regional economic development programs in the

nation. The Corridor tied with the famed Research Triangle Partnership in North Carolina as the nation's most outstanding economic development organization

designed to “enhance regional competitiveness.

For more information:

www.tennvalleycorridor.org.


Contrasting two nontraditional corridors: One more than a decade old; the other just emerging in a virtual fashion


ORNL is DOE’s “Lab of the South”

National Renewable Energy Lab

National Renewable Energy Lab

Pacific Northwest

Pacific Northwest

IdahoIdaho BrookhavenBrookhaven

Oak RidgeOak Ridge

Lawrence Berkeley

Lawrence Berkeley

Lawrence LivermoreLawrence Livermore

SandiaSandia

Los AlamosLos Alamos

ArgonneArgonne

National Energy Technology LabNational Energy Technology Lab

Savannah River

Savannah River

Southern Growth Policy Board members

Battelle partner laboratories


ORNL’s “Lab of the South” Strategy:Creating a “Virtual Corridor” of “Hub and Spoke” connections


The “Lab of the South” Strategy:Building linkages locally (“Little R”), across the state (“Big R”) and throughout the South “(Big R”)


The initial assessment said the region lacked an entrepreneurialsupport system:We were not creating companies locally based on ORNL technologies.

We lacked access to angel investors and venture capital needed to “fuel” these start-ups.

We needed more serial entrepreneurs and a pool of talented, seasoned managers ready to do everything from mentoring to serving as interim CEOs.

We needed a nimble, outside support organization to do what we could not operate as effectively from within, and we turned to Technology 2020.

We identified several areas where the region was critically deficient

One of UT-Battelle’s first actions was to conduct a strategic assessment of the Knoxville/Oak Ridge region


UT-Battelle started by building a solid foundation with key local economic development groups

Key Partners in the Oak Ridge/Knoxville area:The “Little R”

• Tech 2020• ETEC• ETEDA• Oak Ridge Chamber of Commerce• Knoxville Area Chamber Partnership• Oak Ridge Economic Partnership• BWXT Y12• The Roane Alliance• Blount Partnership


Key partners around the state and the Tennessee Valley Corridor: The “Regular R”

We turned our attention next to expanding our footprint and focus, starting with TN and the TVC

• Tennessee Valley Corridor• UT• Knoxville Oak Ridge Innovation Valley• Southeast Community Capital• Tennessee Economic Partnership• The University of Memphis• Tennessee Department of Economic and Community Development• Tennessee Biotechnology Center• ARTE Center• The Enterprise Center• East Tennessee State University


Key partners throughout the South:The “Big R”

We’ve also worked recently to cultivate strategic partners throughout the South

• Southern Growth Policies Board

• Tennessee Valley Authority• Appalachian Regional

Commission• BioSouth• Mississippi State University

• Clemson University• University of Kentucky• University of Alabama at

Birmingham• Auburn• Arkansas Science and

Technology Authority• Mississippi Technology

Alliance


Alex Fischer led an aggressive effort to raise $35 million locally for Innovation Valley Partners, a sidecar fund to the $150 million Battelle Ventures initiative.

TTED, in conjunction with a number of the research directorates and many of our partners, has adopted a set of program priorities to more effectively engage ORNL with groups around the local area as well as the State of Tennessee and South.

ORNL is building on the early commitments to start-up companies with a “first of its kind” S&T Park within the secured area of the lab that will fuel stronger industry alliances.

We have embraced the South while simultaneously promoting new local and multi-

state initiatives

These new partnerships are related to our strategic thrust of expanding our footprint and focus


Jim Roberto challenged us to not let the local area and the South miss the economic benefits of the DOE investments in nano at ORNL. (RESULT: Innovation Valley Nano Alliance and Southern Nano Network.)

Thomas Zacharia challenged us to help find a cost effective route for ORNL’s telecommunications needs. (RESULT: FutureNET that rides on previously dark fiber on the TVA transmission grid and connects many universities to ORNL.)

Frank Akers and several Mississippi universities wanted a larger R&D opportunity in homeland security. (RESULT: The $25 million a year Southeast Region Research Initiative headquartered in ORNL’s NSD.)

We are moving aggressively to simultaneously maintain our local momentum while also

positioning ORNL as the “Lab of the South”

We are leveraging these relationships to build sustainable initiatives that support ORNL and the “region”


ORNL and TVA brainstormed on the best way to bring more automotive R&D to the region. (RESULT: The Southern Automotive R&D Alliance that links ORNL with an initial group of six Southern universities – Alabama-Birmingham, Alabama-Tuscaloosa, Clemson, Kentucky, Mississippi State and UT.)

Reinhold Mann challenged us to help formulate a regional consortium of those interested in bioenergy. (RESULT: The still unfolding Southern Bioenergy Alliance in conjunction with the Southern Technology Council.)

Dana Christensen challenged us to help with a pilot program in energy efficient building technologies on a broad scale. (RESULT: A still-in-progress effort.)

We are moving aggressively to simultaneously maintain our local momentum while also

positioning ORNL as the “Lab of the South”

We are leveraging these relationships to build sustainable initiatives that support ORNL and the “region”


We start by fully understanding technology-based economic development priorities, programs and strategies of each state.

We identify ways that ORNL’s world leadership capabilities can support these individual state priorities.

We find ways to link state technology resources to ORNL expertise.

We seek opportunities to leverage individual state capabilities into regional alliances involving several states.

We seek alliances that build on some key fundamental principles

The “Lab of the South” is driven by a core philosophy of true collaboration


We start by fully understanding technology-based economic development priorities, programs and strategies of each state.

We identify ways that ORNL’s world leadership capabilities can support these individual state priorities.

We find ways to link state technology resources to ORNL expertise.

We seek opportunities to leverage individual state capabilities into regional alliances involving several states.

We seek alliances that build on some key fundamental principles

The “Lab of the South” is driven by a core philosophy of true collaboration


TVC and the “Lab of the South”:Two complementary initiatives to build a stronger technology-based economy in the South


For More Information:

Thomas B. BallardDirector, Economic Development and Partnerships

Oak Ridge National LaboratoryP. O. Box 2008

Oak Ridge, TN 37831-6196865/241-8900 (Voice - Main Number)865/241-1948 (Voice - Direct Number)

865/241-4265 (Fax)865/805-0032 (Cell)[email protected]

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Both Nontraditional; One Established, The Other Emergingstip.gatech.edu/.../03/ballard_forum_2-28-2007.pdf · 3/1/2007 · and National Nuclear Security Administration’s Y-12 National