Brookhaven National Laboratory Economic Impact Report

Brookhaven National Laboratory managed for the U.S. Department of Energy by Brookhaven Science Associates, a company founded by Stony Brook University and Battelle Economic Impact Report Meeting National Needs, Creating Opportunities for Growth This report was prepared by Appleseed, a New York City-based economic development consulting firm that works with government, corporations, and nonprofit institutions to promote economic growth and opportunity. 80 Broad Street 13th Floor New York, NY 10004 www.appleseedinc.com www.bnl.gov Brookhaven National Laboratory managed for the U.S. Department of Energy by Brookhaven Science Associates, a company founded by Stony Brook University and Battelle Economic Impact Report Meeting National Needs, Creating Opportunities for Growth This report was prepared by Appleseed, a New York City-based economic development consulting firm that works with government, corporations, and nonprofit institutions to promote economic growth and opportunity. 80 Broad Street 13th Floor New York, NY 10004 www.appleseedinc.com www.bnl.gov State & Local Impacts Fiscal Year 2009 Highlights National Influence By the numbers... Global Reach in economic output generated by in goods and services purchased from $704 Million Brookhaven Lab and its visitors $75.2 Million New York State companies, including from Long Island $62.7 Million companies $573 Million in total funding full-time equivalent jobs directly supported 295 throughout New York State, including 255 on Long Island 5,400 jobs created throughout New York State $74.7 Million invested in new facilities and renovations 3,000 employees, 98% living on Long Island paid to New York State $45.1 Million contractors, including visiting researchers from university, corporate and to Long Island-based contractors 3,000+ government institutions, nearly from New $34.9 Million 700 York State jobs directly supported in construction and related 314 industries in New York State including with Long Island 12% growth in employment from 2006 to 2009 238 contractors Brookhaven National Laboratory Economic Impact Report Meeting National Needs, Creating Opportunities for Growth Table of Contents 2 Executive Summary 8 Introduction Part One: Brookhaven National 10 Laboratory – An Overview Part Two: Brookhaven National 14 Laboratory as an Enterprise Part Three: Research at Brookhaven: 24 Meeting the Nation’s Needs, Creating Opportunities for Growth Part Four: From Discovery 36 to Deployment Part Five: Educational and 44 Community Programs at BNL Part Six: BNL and the Future of 50 New York State’s Economy 55 Appendix A: IMPLAN Methodology Executive Summary Over the past 60 years, research, development, and innovation – on university campuses, in corporate research centers and small business ventures, and at national laboratories – have been among the most significant drivers of economic growth in the United States. Today, as the U.S. looks for new sources of growth while facing major challenges in areas as diverse as health, energy efficiency, climate change, and national security, research and innovation are as vital as ever. Located in Upton, New York, the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory is one of just six multi-program national labs funded by DOE’s Office of Science. Established in 1947, Brookhaven Lab is the only national lab located in the Northeast. It is also one of New York State’s largest centers of scientific research and a major contributor to the growth of Long Island’s1 technology- based economy. At a time when the recovery of the State’s economy depends (perhaps more than ever) on its capacity for innovation, Brookhaven Lab represents a uniquely valuable resource – both as a major science-based enterprise in its own right, and as a source of the scientific discovery and technological innovation on which growth depends. 2 Meeting National Needs, Creating Opportunities for Growth This report examines Brookhaven Lab’s sig- • In FY 2009, Brookhaven Lab invested $74.7 nificant impact on the economy of Long Island million in construction of new facilities and and New York State as a whole, both as a major renovation of existing ones. Of this total, science-based enterprise in its own right and $45.1 million was paid to New York State through its mission of research, technology de- contractors, including $34.9 million paid to velopment and deployment and education. contractors based on Long Island. We esti- mate that this spending directly supported 314 FTE jobs in construction and related indus- Brookhaven National Laboratory tries throughout New York State, including as an Enterprise – Fiscal Year 2009 238 FTE jobs with Long Island contractors. • Brookhaven National Laboratory is managed • Through the “multiplier effect,” Brookhaven by Brookhaven Science Associates – a limited- Lab’s spending on payroll, purchasing, and liability company founded by the Research construction in FY 2009 indirectly generated Foundation of the State University of New $324 million in additional economic output York on behalf of Stony Brook University, and approximately 1,822 FTE jobs through- the largest academic user of Lab facilities, out New York State – including $290 million and Battelle Memorial Institute, a nonprofit, in output and 1,660 FTE jobs on Long Island. applied science and technology organization – under a contract with DOE. • In fiscal year 2009, state and local personal in- come taxes withheld from the salaries of Lab • Brookhaven Lab’s funding in fiscal year 2009 employees, along with unemployment insur- totaled $573 million – about 96 percent of ance taxes, totaled more than $13.5 million. which came from the Department of Energy The Laboratory also distributed more than $1 and other federal agencies. million in payments in lieu of taxes and other fees to local governments. • As of September 2009, Brookhaven Lab employed 2,893 people – 94 percent of whom • Appleseed estimates that off-site spending by worked full time, and more than 98 percent of visitors to Brookhaven Lab in 2009 directly whom live on Long Island. The Lab’s payroll and indirectly accounted for about $9.5 mil- for FY 2009 totaled $250 million. lion in economic output and 97 FTE jobs on Long Island. • Between September 2006 and September 2009 – a period during which payroll employment • Appleseed estimates that, in total, the direct, declined both on Long Island and in New indirect, and induced impact of spending by York State – employment at Brookhaven Lab Brookhaven Lab and by its visitors in FY 2009 grew by 12 percent. generated approximately: • In FY 2009, Brookhaven Lab spent $212 mil- • $647 million in economic output and 5,190 lion on purchases of goods and services (other FTE jobs on Long Island; and than construction). Of this total, $75.2 million was spent on purchases of goods and services • $704 million and 5,400 jobs throughout from New York State companies, including New York State. $62.7 million in purchasing from Long Island companies. This spending directly supported • By FY 2014, Brookhaven National Laboratory about 295 full-time-equivalent jobs throughout expects its employment to grow to 3,350 – an New York State – including about 255 FTE jobs increase of nearly 16 percent. with vendors and contractors on Long Island. • Between FY 2010 and FY 2014, Brookhaven Lab plans to invest $1.047 billion in construc- 1 Throughout this report, “Long Island” refers to Nassau tion of new and renovation of existing facili- and Suffolk Counties in New York State ties. During the same period, the Lab will also The Economic Impact of Brookhaven National Laboratory 3 Brookhaven’s Center for Functional Nanomaterials spend $1.113 billion on purchases of goods nanoscience and nanotechnology, environ- and services. mental sciences and national security. • Taking into account the projected increases • Brookhaven Lab’s strength in these and re- in spending on payroll, purchasing and lated areas is reflected in the fact that twelve construction – and assuming current levels of scientists in the last half-century have been visitor spending – it is estimated that between awarded seven Nobel Prizes based on re- 2010 and 2014, Brookhaven Lab will, on an search conducted at the Laboratory. average annual basis, generate approximately: • Research currently or recently conducted • $849 million in economic output and 6,531 at Brookhaven Lab – by its own scientists FTE jobs on Long Island; and and by researchers who come to Brookhaven from around the world to use its facilities – • $947 million in economic output and 7,092 illustrates both the breadth of the Lab’s sci- FTE jobs throughout New York State, in- entific enterprise and its potential benefits. cluding Long Island. Some examples include: • Research that uses RHIC to recreate condi- Research at Brookhaven National tions thought to have existed a microsec- Laboratory ond following the Big Bang at the begin- ning of the universe, helping physicists • The foundation on which Brookhaven Lab’s better understand both the evolution of the role as a leading center of scientific research universe and the nature of matter; is built (and what distinguishes it from most university and corporate research centers) is • Development of superconducting mate- its strength in designing, developing, build- rials that can conduct electricity much ing, and operating major research facilities more efficiently than conventional copper such as the National Synchrotron Light cables; Source (NSLS), the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) and the Center

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