Agenda
- Strategic focus: Increased resources towards Tribal requests for business development and due diligence services
- Innovation workspace programming and features in proposed community resilience center
- Feasibility study and partnership concepts
Key Takeaways
- Strategic focus
- TECC is increasing its focus towards providing business development and due diligence services to member Tribes with opportunities or needs within TECC’s clean energy and climate scope. Intent is to provide support that our member Tribes value while building up the feasibility studies and overall innovation ecosystem framework.
- Proposed TECC Innovation Hub
- Advisors stressed the importance of designing the space based on who target users would be and how they would use it, creating flexible common space that users can adjust to meet their needs, and making users part of a community that supports each other with resources available to help them grow.
- Resources:
- Guidelines for designing and managing co-working spaces_updated.pdf; based on observations of the Boston Innovation Ecosystem.
- UCSD’s pilot / test lab is an example of a well-designed lab.
- Value of authority over jurisdiction
- UCSD has some authority over their jurisdiction and has leveraged their staff, including their own fire marshal, to develop an organized system to design and approve engineering drawings and provide permits. Their process is ~2x faster than if a company tried to conduct their pilot elsewhere in the state.
- TECC’s member Tribes are sovereign nations and have authority over their jurisdiction.
- Initial feasibility studies with member Tribes
- Building an understanding of member Tribes’ financial capital sources and desired returns will help guide outreach and opportunity selection.
Action Items
- Dr. Ramon Sanchez from ATCE to send resource on Boston Innovation Ecosystem co-working space design.
Previous Action Items
- Develop a lightweight tribal readiness / site feasibility questionnaire and decide on confidentiality protocol for Tribal infrastructure and site information.
- Follow up with Will to confirm and accurately capture legal, tax, jurisdictional, and governance points.
- Follow up with Byron on lab-to-market pilot processes and internal safety review practices.
- Review and determine path forward on legislative education on TECC and Innovation Ecosystem programming. Reach out to Advisory Board members to see if there is any interest in collaborating.
- Develop educational material on Tribal engagement, capabilities, and constraints for both advisory board and prospective companies. Utilize material from ATCE.
- Explore what educational material and outreach is needed for SCTCA Tribal governments and communities.
- Develop understanding of regulatory constraints and advantages related to a technology pilot deployment on Tribal lands.