NSF Engines Development Award: Building a climate-smart bioeconomy in upstate New York (NY)

NSF 发动机发展奖：在纽约州北部建立气候智能型生物经济

• 批准号: 2305505
• 负责人: Jillian Goldfarb
• 金额: $ 100万
• 依托单位: Cornell University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Cooperative Agreement
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-05-15 至 2025-04-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2305505&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: NSF; Engines; Development; Award; Building

This Regional Innovation Engines Development Award is focused on transitioning upstate New York from a fossil-fuel-dependent, economically declining region to a sustainable climate-smart bioeconomy. The current New York State legislative environment creates a timely opportunity to develop a climate-smart bioeconomy. Leveraging policies like the New York State Climate Act, the project will expand the bioeconomy in Upstate NY, a predominantly rural region with several urban centers of limited economic growth for over 30 years. The project will develop technological solutions to global sustainability challenges and a workforce ready to implement solutions. The climate-smart bioeconomy will foster a resilient supply chain via sustainable biomass management, grow the regional economy, address national competitiveness and security by reducing fossil carbon use, and support the state and nation's goal of creating a net-zero carbon economy. The climate-smart bioeconomy will become a model for how rural regions nationwide can build an ecosystem of partners and stakeholders to transform their economy by sustainably using locally available biomass and talent resources. The research, education, and entrepreneurial expertise of partner institutions - Cornell University and State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry - leveraged alongside the Cornell Cooperative Extension network, Cornell's Center for Regional Economic Advancement, the recently established NSF I-Corps Hub, and strategic partnerships among innovators, industry, entrepreneurs, job creators, policymakers, and community members, will drive use-inspired research to realize this goal.The project will develop a sustainable climate-smart bioeconomy by supporting interdisciplinary, convergent, use-inspired research across three target Areas: (1) sustainable agri-food and forestry systems; (2) climate beneficial technology and nature-based innovation; (3) bio-based industrial processes and products. This award supports two activities: site visits to regional industries (e.g., agro-industrial producers, robotics manufacturers, forestry services, training programs) and workshops with stakeholders (e.g., researchers, industry leaders, investors, government, educators, and economic developers). The goals of these activities are to identify areas of critical innovation to advance the Climate Smart Bioeconomy, training, and educational needs to grow a workforce prepared to implement sustainable climate-smart solutions, challenges faced by entrepreneurs, in particular those from underrepresented groups, and how synergistic policy advances can support the climate-smart bioeconomy. This Regional Innovation Engines Development Award will enable the team to prepare for an Engine by engaging stakeholders across the region to identify critical research, training, and innovation infrastructure needs to design an inclusive ecosystem to enable sustainable growth of the climate-smart bioeconomy.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.

该区域创新发动机开发奖的重点是将纽约上州的纽约从化石燃料依赖，经济上衰落的地区转变为可持续的气候智能生物经济学。当前的纽约州立法环境为开发气候智能生物经济提供了及时的机会。该项目利用《纽约州气候法》这样的政策将扩大纽约州北部的生物经济，这是一个主要是农村地区，其经济增长有限30多年。该项目将开发针对全球可持续性挑战的技术解决方案，并准备实施解决方案的劳动力。气候智能生物经济性将通过可持续生物量管理促进富有弹性的供应链，扩大区域经济，通过减少化石碳的使用来解决国家竞争力和安全，并支持建立净零碳经济的州和国家的目标。气候智能生物经济将成为全国农村地区如何建立合作伙伴和利益相关者的生态系统来通过可持续使用本地可用的生物量和人才资源来改变其经济的模型。合作机构的研究，教育和企业家专业知识 - 康奈尔大学和纽约州立大学环境科学与林业学院 - 与康奈尔大学地区经济进步中心的康奈尔合作扩展网络一起，最近建立了NSF I -Corps Hub，以及企业家，工业，业务，业务，业务，工作的NSF I -Corps Hub以及战略伙伴关系，以使用启发的研究来实现这一目标。该项目将通过支持跨三个目标领域的跨学科，融合，使用启发的研究来开发可持续的气候生物经济：（1）可持续的农业食品和林业系统； （2）气候有益技术和基于自然的创新； （3）基于生物的工业过程和产品。该奖项支持两项活动：对区域行业的现场访问（例如，农业工业生产商，机器人制造商，林业服务，培训计划）和与利益相关者（例如研究人员，行业领导者，投资者，政府，教育者和经济开发商）的研讨会。这些活动的目标是确定批判性创新的领域，以提高气候智能生物经济性，培训和教育需求，以增加准备实施可持续的气候智能解决方案的劳动力，企业家面临的挑战，尤其是来自代表性不足的群体的挑战，以及协同政策的发展如何支持Climate-Smart-Marart-Smmart-Marart-Smmart-Smmart-Smmart-Smmart-Smmartsmartsmartsmartsmartsmartsmart。 This Regional Innovation Engines Development Award will enable the team to prepare for an Engine by engaging stakeholders across the region to identify critical research, training, and innovation infrastructure needs to design an inclusive ecosystem to enable sustainable growth of the climate-smart bioeconomy.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 标准。