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DuPont MIT Alliance
Bruce TidorMIT
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Components
• Research of relevance to industry (chemical, polymers, materials, agriculture)– Close contact between business units and MIT– Patent protection and licensing rights to DuPont;
patents belong to inventors• Education– Support of graduate students at MIT– Educational short-courses at DuPont
• Funding from DuPont
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DuPont MIT
Research
Problems
Solutions
Patent Licenses
Students/Employees
Funding
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Company Motivation
• Not to replace research at company, but rather to augment it and give it further reach
• Particular interest of CEO to education his executive team to anticipate the future so his company could respond appropriately
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University Motivation
• Interesting problems for research• Interesting opportunities for students• Don’t do it because of the funding, but rather
once the other pieces are correct, then industry needs to provide funding
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Overall Parameters
• Begun in 2000 and continues today• Total funding to date is $60 MM• Example projects
– Gregory Stephanopoulos: next-generation advances in metabolic engineering
– Mriganka Sur: a novel biopolymer-based nervous system implant that could replace nonfunctional brain tissue following traumatic brain injury
– Linda Griffith: a device for tissue-like culturing of liver cells, designed to provide early assessment of the toxicity of new pharmaceuticals;
– Michael Rubner: a novel material similar to the naturally water repellent surface of the lotus leaf
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Balancing Needs of Partners
• Projects selected based on proposed novel research from MIT faculty– MIT evaluates for research excellence– DuPont evaluates for relevance to business
• Project reporting includes close interactions between partners– frequent video conferences– visits and some exchanges of personnel