Southwest Ohio Region (DD)
Abstract
The Dayton MSA is heavily reliant on the Department of Defense with nearly 1 in 10 people (7.33%) working directly for the Department of Defense at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. The region needs to diversify its economy to ensure future viability. The region will do this through a series of assessments and projects that will leverage the defense assets in the region and identify new market opportunities through technology transfer or commercialization, workforce transition, or market transition. These ten subprojects will: Identify, organize, and assess regional stakeholder and partner capabilities; Develop a regional strategy to identify commercial market technology needs and intellectual property; Develop a regional strategy to identify commercially viable technologies, including plans to grow regional capabilities around market analysis, patent analysis, and management capability analysis; Develop a regional strategy to assess regional technologies; Develop a market push regional technology acceleration model; Develop a market pull regional technology commercialization model; Develop a platform to increase regional collaboration and identify local assets, including a network of technology development and entrepreneurial mentors; Develop pathways for workforce transition into the growing industries of medical manufacturing, unmanned systems, and information technology; Develop a regional international trade strategy; Develop a sustainability plan to ensure projects continue beyond the length of the grant. At the end of the grant term, the region expects to have a cohesive and operational technology development ecosystem and aligned funding sources to continue the work to diversify the Dayton economy.
Document Details
- Document Type
- DoD Grant Award
- Publication Date
- May 06, 2016
- Source ID
- HQ00051510047
Entities
People
- Elaine Reinsch Friese
Organizations
- Office of Local Defense Community Cooperation
- Office of the Secretary of Defense