Areas of Project Expertise
Technology
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Pasadena Biosciences Innovation and Training Center (2000-2001)
ETG in collaboration with its brother company, ECG, and the Institute for Biotechnology Information (IBI), and the Smith Group, developed a rational analytic and participatory approach to assessing the needs, market potential, and feasibility of developing the proposed multi-use biotechnology facility in Pasadena. The overall goal was to enhance the growth of biotechnology industry in the Pasadena regional economy by recommending a state-of-the-art design and defining the mission, role and structural attributes of the new Center. The project team worked with the California State University client team and other regional bioscience industry stakeholders. The strategy process combines innovative analysis of niche markets with collaborative participation by regional industry, institutions, and public entities in the design of the new biotechnology facility. The Pasadena Biosciences Innovation and Training Center was implemented in 2003. Monterey Bay Education, Science, and Technology Center, Fort Ord (1996)
In 1996, ETG (then a unit of DRI/McGraw-Hill) led a multi-disciplinary team to develop the MBEST center. This study articulated the nature of market demand that, in turn, determined the MBEST Center concept, its physical design, and implementation strategy. A complementary approach was to understand the mix of industries, institutions, and organizations in the region that could be mobilized to pursue identified market opportunities. ETG conducted detailed market niche studies tied to concrete action-oriented marketing plans for each of four clusters, one of which was The Biotechnology Cluster. |
Long Beach, California: Defense Conversion and Incubator/Technology Park (1995-96)
Professional with ETG (then a unit of DRI/McGraw-Hill) were asked by California State University Long Beach to develop a conversion strategy for the Cabrillo Navy base. The approach used here was to analyze the surrounding industry clusters in Long Beach and Los Angeles and determine their status, growth and requirements for expansion in the region, then use their requirements to shape a research and technology park complex that would leverage the core competencies of the University. The project provided an economic rationale and design for development of the converted base facilities to new uses. This plan is now being implemented, and ETG went on to design components of the park being developed. In addition, ETG developed the first cluster analysis of the City of Long Beach, and demonstrated how their cluster structure sets the stage for future economic development investments. In a follow-up study with Long Beach we are helped to design a demand-driven regional business incubator that utilized ETG’s approach of avoiding “physical” incubators when not necessary and emphasizing “virtual” incubators wherever possible to accelerate enterprise formation by overcoming market gaps in business services, market information, technology “downstreaming”, production partnerships and financing. |
Southeast Los Angeles County Defense Adjustment Plan
The ETG team was selected to provide the County of Los Angeles and the cities of Commerce, Downey, Lakewood, Montebello, Pico Rivera, Santa Fe Springs and Whittier with a defense adjustment framework. ETG fashioned analytic tools and data bases for the defense adjustment strategy as well as engineered a collaborative strategy process. The resulting action plan mobilizes the diverse communities of Southeast Los Angeles to work together to leverage their defense/aerospace work force, subcontractors and site assets in a highly competitive regional, state and global market place. This project addresses all facets of defense industry adjustment, including patterns of aerospace and defense worker displacement, identifies opportunities and risks arising from cluster growth and decline, and assesses training and retraining resources integrating this information into a data base and cluster development strategy process. ETG developed an action plan to create, retain, expand and attract clusters to the SELAC areas through a strategy that links economic development with specific aerospace/defense adjustment initiatives for displaced workers, subcontractors and sites in a collaborative and strategic process. |
Lake Superior Initiative: Conceptual Plan for the Institute for Lake Superior Research
The state of Minnesota, as part of the Lake Superior Initiative, asked the professionals, now with ETG, to prepare a conceptual plan for an Institute for Lake Superior Research (ILSR). The mission of the proposed institute is to develop the research and knowledge base necessary to guide policy decisions to maintain the environmental integrity of Lake Superior. The ETG team identified the resources available to address research and information-transfer needs for ensuring the ecological integrity of Lake Superior. The ETG team also proposed an administrative and management structure for development of scientific research and information transfer on Lake Superior. |