EPSCoR Workshop Series: Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Translational Research

EPSCoR 研讨会系列：创新、创业和转化研究

• 批准号: 1521666
• 负责人: Stacey Patterson
• 金额: $ 20万
• 依托单位: University of Tennessee Knoxville
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-04-15 至 2016-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1521666&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: EPSCoR; Workshop; Series; Innovation; Entrepreneurship

Nontechnical DescriptionThis grant provides funding to conduct a workshop series on innovation, entrepreneurship, and translational research. Two workshops are supported by the Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) and focus on facilitating EPSCoR jurisdictions, assessment of current processes and resources that support innovation and translation, increase their capacity in these areas, and develop circumstance-specific action plans that will improve innovation-related outcomes in their respective jurisdictions. Institutions in general grapple with the intrinsic challenges of technology transfer for university-based inventions. Many EPSCoR jurisdictions, however, face the additional hurdles of limited availability of entrepreneurs, lack of a connected business development eco-system, and difficulty in finding capital to support technology maturation and start-up growth. The workshops address these issues, increase the tangible discoveries emerging from funded research programs, and improve the processes for translating discoveries into commercially viable applications. Technical DescriptionThis workshop series, comprised of two workshops, seek to improve, both individually and collectively, the capacity of EPSCoR jurisdictions to develop and implement processes for accelerating research-based innovation and the translation of innovation into products and services that benefit society. The immediate goals include evaluating the environment within the community and jurisdictions (first workshop) and then tailoring individual jurisdiction-specific action plans based on a menu of experiential best practices (second workshop). Jurisdictions will work on implementing their action plans after the second workshop. The action plans will have impact by improving processes for encouraging disclosure of inventions, establishing and strengthening partnerships with industry, engaging students in entrepreneurial programs, supporting technology licensing and business development, and collaborating with regional business development support resources. In addition, a shared clearing-house (called an Innovation Hub) will be developed for communicating innovation-based partnering opportunities.Longer term outcomes include improvements to the processes for translating fundamental research results into applications. Improvements in quality of life, economic development, and job creation are some of the resulting significant derived benefits.

非技术描述该赠款为举办有关创新、创业和转化研究的系列研讨会提供资金。 两个研讨会得到了刺激竞争研究实验计划 (EPSCoR) 的支持，重点是促进 EPSCoR 管辖范围、评估支持创新和翻译的当前流程和资源、提高这些领域的能力，并制定针对具体情况的行动计划，改善各自管辖范围内的创新相关成果。 一般来说，机构都在努力应对大学发明技术转让的内在挑战。 然而，许多 EPSCoR 管辖区还面临着额外的障碍：企业家数量有限、缺乏互联的业务发展生态系统以及难以找到资金来支持技术成熟和初创企业发展。 这些研讨会解决了这些问题，增加了受资助的研究项目中出现的有形发现，并改进了将发现转化为商业上可行的应用的过程。 技术说明本研讨会系列由两个研讨会组成，旨在单独和集体提高 EPSCoR 辖区开发和实施加速基于研究的创新以及将创新转化为造福社会的产品和服务的流程的能力。 近期目标包括评估社区和辖区内的环境（第一次研讨会），然后根据经验最佳实践菜单定制针对具体辖区的行动计划（第二次研讨会）。 各司法管辖区将在第二次研讨会后努力实施其行动计划。 该行动计划将通过改进鼓励发明公开的流程、建立和加强与行业的伙伴关系、让学生参与创业计划、支持技术许可和业务发展以及与区域业务发展支持资源合作来产生影响。 此外，还将开发一个共享的信息交换所（称为创新中心），用于交流基于创新的合作机会。长期成果包括改进将基础研究成果转化为应用的流程。 生活质量的改善、经济发展和创造就业机会是由此带来的一些显着的衍生效益。