Livermore, California
EPS was retained by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) as part of a multi-disciplinary team to prepare a Master Plan for a Science & Technology Park located “outside the fence” but still on federal land and adjacent to existing facilities. The purpose of the Livermore Valley Open Campus (LVOC) is to locate unclassified government research facilities in a more open environment than the current LLNL facility in order to encourage collaborative research and development with academic and private industry partners, greater interaction between lab scientists and the larger scientific community, and potentially collocation of academic institutions and private sector R&D businesses to facilitate dissemination and commercialization of LLNL scientific findings.
EPS was responsible for preparing a market analysis and development feasibility study for LVOC. As part of this effort, EPS interviewed program heads and LLNL/SNL scientists from a wide range of research areas about their projects and core competencies; analyzed the Labs’ partnerships with outside agencies, institutions, and businesses; conducted case studies of other research parks; and assessed the potential links between the core research competencies of the Labs and emerging technologies in the academic and business communities in the Bay Area. Based on this analysis, EPS evaluated the potential for increased collaboration and collocation within LVOC, as well as the scale and character of LVOC, and made recommendations on factors critical to successful implementation of the Master Plan.