Innovation in the Bioeconomy: Workshops to catalyze translation and partnerships

生物经济创新：促进转化和伙伴关系的研讨会

• 批准号: 2137471
• 负责人: Anthony Boccanfuso
• 金额: $ 48.06万
• 依托单位: University Industry Demonstration Partnership
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-07-01 至 2022-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2137471&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Innovation; Bioeconomy; Workshops; catalyze; translation

This award is intended to fund a series of five biotechnology-related workshops around the following themes (i) Feeding the Planet Sustainably, (ii) World Without Waste: a circular bioeconomy, (iii) Towards a Healthier Planet: from molecules to ecosystems, (iv) Biological Mitigation of Climate Change, and (v) Bioeconomy Ecosystem and Society. Each of these themes will have a set of four overarching goals (a) Examine biotechnology areas associated with significant societal challenge where increased research could yield translatable impacts; (b) Explore interdisciplinary science areas where a virtuous cycle of discovery and innovation over a sustained period is possible; (c) Identify areas ripe for partnerships that will leverage expertise and resources across sectors; and (d) Catalyze the research community to engage in translation, innovation, and partnership at speed and scale. Overall, the workshops are intended to address the required needs to bridge the disconnect among discovery, innovation, and translation into practice by assembling for discussion the necessary expertise from interdisciplinary teams across academia and industry to co-generate knowledge, discovery, and innovation to enable the translation to practice at speed and scale. The five workshops will be held using an on-line platform. The series of workshop will contribute to the enhancement and improvement of scientific, engineering, and/or educational activities by convening experts to address the societal challenges of producing food sustainably, creating a circular bioeconomy that will reduce waste, using advances in biotechnology to improve health, leveraging biotechnology to mitigate the impacts of climate change, and exploring the unique aspects of bioeconomy innovation ecosystems.Advances in biotechnology, synthetic and engineering biology are producing rapid economic growth and are leading to novel biomaterials, transforming the food, agriculture and pharmaceutical industries, enabling new capabilities for information storage and renewable energy and creating new kinds of targeted medical therapies. To achieve the full translational potential of these research advances, there is a need to bring together experts and practitioners in biotechnology and associated fields from academia, industry, and other parts of the broader ecosystem of stakeholders to engage in a virtuous cycle of discovery and innovation that will yield societal impacts. This series of five workshops, focused on different grand societal challenges, contemplates new paradigms of engagement between academic and industrial sectors that are necessary to create the requisite environment to foster both discovery and innovation that leads to rapid translation.This award is co-funded by the Directorates for Biological Sciences; Computer and Information Sciences and Engineering; Engineering; Geosciences; Mathematical and Physical Sciences; and Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences; along with the Office of Integrative Activities.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

该奖项旨在资助围绕以下主题的一系列五个生物技术相关研讨会：(i) 可持续地养活地球，(ii) 没有废物的世界：循环生物经济，(iii) 迈向更健康的地球：从分子到生态系统， (iv) 气候变化的生物减缓，以及 (v) 生物经济生态系统和社会。每个主题都将有一组四个总体目标 (a) 审查与重大社会挑战相关的生物技术领域，在这些领域加强研究可以产生可转化的影响； (b) 探索跨学科科学领域，在这些领域中，发现和创新能够在持续的时期内形成良性循环； (c) 确定建立伙伴关系的成熟领域，以利用跨部门的专门知识和资源； (d) 促进研究界快速、大规模地参与翻译、创新和合作。总体而言，研讨会旨在通过聚集学术界和工业界跨学科团队的必要专业知识进行讨论，共同生成知识、发现和创新，从而满足弥合发现、创新和转化为实践之间脱节的需求。快速、大规模地进行翻译实践。这五场研讨会将利用在线平台举行。该系列研讨会将通过召集专家来解决可持续生产粮食、创建减少浪费的循环生物经济、利用生物技术的进步来改善健康等社会挑战，从而促进科学、工程和/或教育活动的加强和改进，利用生物技术减轻气候变化的影响，探索生物经济创新生态系统的独特之处。生物技术、合成生物学和工程生物学的进步正在推动经济快速增长，并催生新型生物材料，改变粮食、农业和制药行业，实现信息存储和可再生能源的新功能，并创造新型有针对性的医疗疗法。为了充分发挥这些研究进展的转化潜力，需要将来自学术界、工业界和更广泛的利益相关者生态系统其他部分的生物技术及相关领域的专家和从业者聚集在一起，参与发现和创新的良性循环这将产生社会影响。这一系列的五场研讨会专注于不同的重大社会挑战，思考学术界和工业界之间合作的新范式，这些范式对于创造必要的环境来促进发现和创新，从而实现快速转化是必要的。该奖项由以下机构共同资助生物科学理事会；计算机与信息科学与工程；工程;地球科学；数学和物理科学；以及社会、行为和经济科学；该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。