Spiros Dimolitsas,
Senior Vice President for Research & Chief Technology Officer,
Georgetown University

Spiros Dimolitsas was appointed Senior Vice President for Research & Chief Technology Officer at Georgetown University in July 2011. In this newly created role, he leads Georgetown’s development of innovation alliances and partnerships with industry, universities, and national laboratories domestically and overseas to address complex socio-technical problems of our time in such fields as health, security and sustainability. He works collaboratively with leaders across the University to promote research, secure investments in University-based programs, and oversee multi-disciplinary and multi-institutional research programs, and the Office of Technology Commercialization.

Presentation Title: The Power of Cross-institutional Alliances

Presentation Description: Cross-institutional alliances can allow an organization to acquire capability faster and at lower cost, increase its reputational foot-print and/or reach into new areas geographically or thematically.  However, forming and sustaining alliances can be as much a tradecraft as an art.  In an academic environment, one can think of alliances that touch education/pedagogy, inquiry/research, and/or operations.  Towards this end, I plan to share my perspective on what allowed me to form educational and research alliances that succeed (and failed) touching upon the purpose of the alliances, their unique characteristics and the associated risks that were managed well, or not.