Over $5 billion of federal R&D funds are spent each year at the national laboratories located in New Mexico. These Federal research institutions are a key driver of the economy in New Mexico. This panel will feature representatives from Los Alamos National Laboratory, Sandia National Laboratories and the Air Force Research Laboratory in NM to discuss how each supports initiatives to influence national, state, and local economic competitiveness. The panel will touch on how national laboratories are reducing the barriers to working with industry, better connecting lab technologies to the marketplace, and helping build a vital economy in New Mexico.

1. Innovation Protecting Tomorrow
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2. Strategic Collaborations
Partnerships & Alliances
Building the best teams to work
on industry’s most challenging
problems
Strategic Sponsored Work
Sharing knowledge and expertise
to facilitate effective and efficient
research and development
Initiatives
Initiating new business models
for long-term success
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3. Market Transition
Laboratory inventions and software with commercial potential have a better chance of
making a transition to the market when an industrial partner undertakes future
development and marketing.
Strategic licensing aligns the commercialization effort
with the programmatic mission of the Laboratory
Express Licensing provides business access to Laboratory
inventions and software to determine if there is a market
Industry Partner:
Chevron ETC and GE
What is the technology?
Using swept frequency
acoustic interferometry
(SFAI), Safire translates
sound propagation
measurements made at
many frequencies into the
volumetric flow rate for each
component of the fluid,
continuously revealing the
well’s proportion of oil, gas,
and water.
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Industry Partner:
Engine manufactures
(originally Cummins)
Over 400 licenses
What is the technology?
KIVA is a family of Fortran-based
Computational Fluid
Dynamics (CFD) software
that predicts complex fuel
and air flows as well as
ignition, combustion, and
pollutant-formation
processes in engines.

4. Innovation in New Mexico
“Programs like the VAF are…instrumental in helping a business…”
~ William Kurtz, CEO of Aerolenz
ENTREPRENEURIAL LEAVE OF ABSENCE
(ELOA) AND LICENSING
ELOA and Licensing in New Mexico helps
commercialize Los Alamos technology by
launching new ventures or helping expand
existing companies.
Metric reflect results 1997-2011, based on a cumulative survey of
45 clients.
LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL SECURITY LLC
VENTURE ACCELERATION FUND (LANS VAF)
LANS VAF has supported companies in every
stage of development, ranging from proof-of-concept,
prototyping, and product engineering to
customer acquisition and market validation.
Metric reflect results 2006-2012
The NMSBA program has more than 13 years of
success leveraging world-class science and
technology from Los Alamos and Sandia national
laboratories to assist in New Mexico small businesses.
Metric reflect results 2000-2012. Los Alamos’ participation began in
2007.
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NEW MEXICO SMALL BUSINESS
ASSISTANCE (NMSBA) PROGRAM
Total $ Return on
Investment
$47.0M
$48.0M
$346.4M
“By participating in NMSBA, we’ve been able to pursue cutting-edge
technology for our mobile app, which has a direct correlation to getting
more users and investors.” ~Molly Cernicek, Chief Executive Officer

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6. Contact Us
Richard P. Feynman Center for Innovation
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Email: feynmancenter@lanl.gov
Office: (505) 665-9090
www.lanl.gov/feynmancenter
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Our Team
The Many Faces of Feynman