Seeding Innovation

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Seeding Innovation

• Office for the New Economy Tom
  Welch, Director
• KTLC March 6, 2004

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Seeding Innovation

• Why?
• What?
• Where?
• Who?
• When?
• Whats ahead?

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Why.1?

• Shift in fundamental work/labor needs
• Decrease in manufacturing jobs
• Increasing robotics
• Decreasing low wage labor needs
• Example of 3.5 million fast food jobs
• Comparable loss in other fields
• Source Lex H-L Oct. 26, 2003

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Why.2?

• Changes in State education goals
• Shift away from the mental couch potato
• Establishment of high-stakes standards
• Commitment to proficiency for all

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Adults with less than a 9th grade education

• US average 7.4
• KY average 11.7
• 110 KY counties below the national average

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Above natl avg. for adults with less than a 9th
grade education
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Adults with a HS diploma

• US average 80.4
• KY average 74.1
• 109 KY counties below the national average

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Why.3?

• Need for high-tech/neo-entrepreneur
• Neo-entrepreneurs
• Ability to combine highly-trained intellect with
  solutions to problems not yet clearly defined or
  which represent nonparadigmatic problems

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Why.4?

• Reengineered identity for young Kentuckians
• Synthesizes the following
• Unparalleled academic preparation
• Entrepreneurial approach
• Confidence as a fundamental characteristic of the
  identity
• Understanding of the global nature of their tasks

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What.1?

• Entrepreneurship PK-12
• Networking to begin
• KSTC
• KCEE
• Junior Achievement
• Other

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What.2?

• Entrepreneurship Post-Secondary
• Existing efforts
• Gorilla groups
• Targeted next
• Business schools in the Univ
• E-clubs (similar to CA examples)

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What.3?

• Mentorship/Role Model
• Focus on high visibility initiatives
• Intel Science Fairs
• High recognition
• Science/High Tech orientation
• Expanded opportunities for Mentors
• University researchers
• Community contacts
• Student involvement as role models
• STLP program

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What.4?

• Role Model
• Links from other programs
• Intel
• Entrepreneurship activities
• Contacts with other initiatives

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What.5?

• Internships
• Discussions currently underway
• UK
• U of L
• Future targets
• ICC contacts
• Mentor program contacts
• Other ONE contacts

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What.6?

• Summer Entrepreneur Camp
• Current discussions
• Governors Scholars Partner
• Expansion of Existing program
• Lexington Summer Program
• Future Expansion
• Targeting expansion for Summer 2005

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What.7?

• Networking
• Molecular concept joining programs both Seeding
  Innovation and others
• Adding on to current initatives
• Example Project Lead The Way PreEngineering
  Program for MS and HS

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Where.1?

• ONE base
• State-wide involvement
• Location and access as surmountables
• Expand from ONE initiatives already underway

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Where.2?

• University involvement
• Research centers
• ONE-centered involvement
• ICC involvement
• Call me to leverage ONE projects at the PK-16
  level

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When.1?

• Projects underway
• Each currently at a different, beginning stage
• Budget impact on timing
• Waiting for flow-through approval with money
  intended for Seeding Innovation

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Innovation Seed Crop

• Need for credentialing learning
• Vanguard-like initiatives
• Governors School for the Future of the
  Commonwealth

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Contact Info

• Please contact me with info or questions
  concerning projects and ideas
• Tom Welch
• 502 564.0531
• tom.welch_at_ky.gov