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Date/Time:
November 5, 2003

Speaker:
Ray Leach, new head of NEOPreneur, an Ohio business development center

Speaker:
Leon Polott, founder of 5iTech, a new company bringing new technology from scientists of the former Soviet Union.

Location:
Corporate Circle West in Pepper Pike

We are pleased to have as our speaker Dr. Donald B. Anthony, President and Chief Executive Officer of NineSigma, Inc., a Cleveland, Ohio Internet-based company that serves the global research and development industry. Don has 26 years of executive-level experience, managing business operations, research and development, technology, and commercial ventures for world-class companies such as ABB Automation, Bechtel Corporation and BP America/Standard Oil of Ohio.

Abstract
"Open-Market Innovation - What's New?"

The Wall Street Journal recently published an article entitled "The Marketplace of Ideas." The concept of open-market innovation was introduced as, "in essence, a company gets lower cost, higher quality ideas from the best sources in the world, allowing it to refocus its own innovation resources where it has clear competitive advantage." The article specifically referenced some recent and very successful forays into open-market innovation.

Don Anthony, President and CEO of NineSigma, will talk about open-market innovation, the concept and the current industrial interest, as well as NineSigma's unique role in facilitating the process.

The meeting will be held at noon at the Corporate Circle West Building just west of Lander Circle on Chagrin, and will provide a choice of lunches catered by Block & Barrel. These include a Roast Beef sandwich, Turkey Wrap sandwich, or a Meatless salad. A side salad, dessert, and a beverage will also be served. The cost will be $10.00, payable at the door. Please return your reservation - by email or phone - by noon on Monday, February 24. Although we have some very limited flexibility to add reservations after that time, you are obligated to pay for any reservations not canceled before the noon cutoff.

The Corporate Circle West Building is located at 30050 Chagrin Blvd. It is a mile and a quarter east of the I-271 exit and a quarter mile west of Lander Circle. The meeting room is on the third floor, just to the right as you exit the elevator. The meeting will start promptly at noon and end at 1:30 p.m.

Location:
First Energy, Downtown Akron

Featured Speaker:
Dr. George R. Newkome
Vice President of Research and Dean of the Graduate School
College of Polymer Science and Polymer Engineering
University of Akron

Dr. Newkome will speak on "Understanding University R & D: Intellectual Property to Commercialization"

George R. Newkome grew up in Akron, Ohio, and received both a B.S. and a Ph.D. in chemistry from Kent State University. After a postdoctoral fellowship at Princeton, he moved to Louisiana State University where he held the positions of assistant to full professor, then in 1986 on to the University of South Florida as Vice President for Research, Dean of the Graduate School, and Professor of Chemistry. In 1991, he was made a distinguished research professor. In 2001, he moved to The University of Akron in similar administrative positions as well as serving as the President of their Research Foundation, Professor of Chemistry and Polymer Sciences, and holder of the Oelschlager Professorship of Science and Technology. He has published over 350 papers, 10 books and monographs, holds 40 patents, as well as is on numerous boards of directors.

Professor Newkome's research program has covered many different areas of chemistry ranging from natural products, heterocyclic chemistry, organometallics, polymers, and is currently directed toward the melding of these disciplines into molecular motors, nanobatteries, and synthetically probing the nanoregime.

Mr. Mark Coticchia, Vice President for Research and Technology Management at Case Western Reserve University, spoke at this luncheon. Prior to coming to CWRU, Mr. Coticchia was Director of Technology Transfer at Carnegie Mellon University, and then a Senior Director of Redleaf Group, an early stage venture capital firm. He is a co-founder of Lycos, a company that provides products and services to find information on the Internet. He spoke on the role of CWRU technology in the region. He has a B.S. degree in Civil Engineering, and an M.S. degree in Industrial Engineering and Management from the University of Pittsburgh.