Presentation given at PwC\'s CleanTech Revolution at the LA AutoShow

1. Globalization & the Impact
of a STEAM Driven
Education System
PwC’s Cleantech Revolution
28 November 2012
G. Nagesh Rao

2. PROFESSIONAL
BACKGROUND
Starbucks “Coffee Jockey” (’01-’03)
RPI Office of Technology
Commercialization (’02-’04)
Mirzayan S&T Fellow at The National
Academies (‘04)
US Department of Commerce-
USPTO/CLDP/EDA (’04-’11)
Startup America
NACIE
Professional Science i6 Green Challenge
PT-Student Humanitarian IP Program
CTLA, LACI, & FLoW (‘11-’12)
Law Business
Stiefel Family Foundation (Present)

3. What is STEAM & Why
is Important?
Science
Technology
Engineering
Arts
Mathematics

4. Addressing The
Challenges
Homegrown vs. Imported Talents
Encouraging a Higher Bar for STEAM Education
Making CleanTech attractive again vs Web 2.0/Social Media
Energy Independence & National Security
Reducing Barriers to High Tech Growth Development
NOT stigmatizing failure or slow comprehension

5. Underlying Motivating
Factors
PRIDE
LOVE
MONEY

6. Capital Development
How do we Reduce β ?
Financial
Need money, programs, and infrastructure to facilitate
appropriate endeavors around STEAM.
Public and Private Dollars
Political
STEAM needs to be a priority at the Local, State, and National
Level.
“The Quiet Crisis” (Dr. Shirley Ann Jackson)
Human
Basic Education (K-12)
After-School Programs
Community Colleges
University Level (BS, MS, and PhD)

7. Making a STEAM Based
Education Attractive
More Bill Nye’s Mayim Bialik’s and Neil deGrasse
Tyson’s in mainstream media.

8. It Makes Economic
Sense! (1)

9. It Makes Economic
Sense! (2)

10. It Makes Economic
Sense! (3)

11. FEDERAL GOVERNMENT’S
PERSPECTIVE
High Tech Growth Intra & Entre- preneurship
Priority of the Obama Administration
Public/Private Models (Policy Push)
Startup America (PR Umbrella Federal Interagency Push)
Prize Incentivization Mechanism (Programmatic
Endeavors)
Challenge.gov
i6 Grant Program
ERIC
Jobs & Accelerator Program
DOE National University Clean Energy Business Plan
Competition
Humanitarian IP
NSF I-Corp

12. Launch: Energy

13. DOE National University
Clean Energy Business
Plan Competition

14. Conclusion
STEAM Education needs to be a priority if America
wishes to “Out-Innovate, Out-Educate, and Out-
Build” the rest of the world.