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  • INNOVATION SUPPORT
  • 1.1 Creation of an Economic Development Toolkit
  • 1.2 Develop 21st Century Job Profiles to define future workforce skills and needs
  • 1.3 Compilation of an Innovation Asset Inventory to foster innovation and entrepreneurship
  • 1.4 Support of entrepreneurial companies, including SBIR Phase II awardees, to identify best practices that lead to commercialization
  • 1.5 A pilot program set to identify and replicate an existing successful model of technology transfer from a university to the business community
  • 1.6 Identification of a new model for student payload rideshares on military space craft
  • 1.7 Establish a Workforce Innovation Board (WIB) toolkit for support of entrepreneurial companies
  • INDUSTRIAL REJUVENATION
  • 2.1 Identification of high priority supplier training needs through surveys, forums and industry input [ Current Survey, Resources ]
  • 2.2 Characterization of "Smart Supplier" competitiveness skills [Oct 24 Forum]
  • 2.3 Build a "Smart Supplier" resource for providers within the Corridor
  • 2.4 Development of an industry-driven community college Manufacturing Technician Training Program
  • TALENT DEVELOPMENT
  • 3.1 Compilation of a Corporation Workforce Skills Analysis
  • 3.2 Unifying a Space Employer/University Consortium
  • 3.3 Advancing space related experiential university internships and mentoring programs
  • 3.4 Develop and execute an outreach of systems engineering training programs throughout the Corridor
  • 3.5 Organize the development of a statewide STEM education collaborative action plan
  • 3.6 Creation and implementation of science and math middle and high school teachers institutes
  • 3.7 Originate an industry-driven training program to retrain dislocated software specialists for space related computer science technician work
  • 3.8 Orientation of university and graduate advisors to innovation-oriented acumen through the establishment of an industry mentorship link
  • 3.9 Advancing the Troops To Teachers recruitment and accelerated credentialing of math/science teachers
  • 3.10 Establish a model university and high school mentoring program
  • 3.11 Foster a community college industrial technology-based degree in Mechatronics
  • 3.12 Produce real-world curriculum for educator conferences focused on STEM education and space science
  • 3.13 Develop a virtual web-based participatory "California Space Education Center" using interactive and community building Internet technology
  • 3.14 Building a Learning Collaboratory of training and best practices on innovative approaches to partnerships in support of an innovation ecosystem