Outcomes and benefits
OUTCOMES
Congress
- Improve US global position
- Make US an attractor for the world's best
- Beyond manufacturing, beyond services – shift to the creative
- New models in engineering, IT and design education
- Attracting the best minds to technology and design
Researchers
- Transformational outcomes
- Ontologies for collaboration
- New environments/ new space
- New digital tools
- New prototyping/fabrication tools
- Graduate student support (esp humanities)
- Reflection on the doing
Education
- New programs
- New kinds of graduates - effective participants in the creative economy
BENEFITS
Congress
- Economic: improve GNP
- Adaptive labor force (rapid re-education and re-training), lower unemployment
- Base economic engine on sustainable, renewable resources (IT and design)
Researchers
- Opens up new problem areas
- New environments
- New opportunities
- Better theories
- Personal efficacy
Education
- Transformation to more flexible and creative
- Increase pool of talented graduates