ART: Facilitating Impactful New Entrepreneurs to Accelerate Research Translation (FINE ART)

ART：促进有影响力的新企业家加速研究转化（FINE ART）

• 批准号: 2331351
• 负责人: Peter Reinhart
• 金额: $ 600万
• 依托单位: University of Massachusetts Amherst
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Cooperative Agreement
• 财政年份: 2024
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2024-02-01 至 2028-01-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2331351&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: ART; Facilitating; Impactful; New; Entrepreneurs

The focus of this project is to identify, foster relationships with, and facilitate the development of emerging entrepreneurs to increase the capacity of the University of Massachusetts Amherst to realize the translational impacts of its well-developed basic research enterprise. The expected outcome is to create a sustainable innovation engine to prepare students and faculty to contribute to the innovation economy, shorten timelines between ideation and de-risked enterprises ready for significant seed-round and venture capitalization, and establish enterprises that embrace DEI and develop technologies that address important societal needs. The project will equip diverse groups of scientists and engineers from undergraduates to senior faculty with skills to extend research excellence towards impactful translational outcomes. To develop such translational skills faculty, postdoctoral, and student researchers will be embedded in a network of ART (Accelerating Research Translation) Ambassadors who will serve as role models, peer mentors and advocates for societally impactful translational research, trained and supported to develop both technical and non-technical or ‘soft’ translational research skills, and provided with resources, including microgrants and seed grants, to support and accelerate specific translational research milestones. The ART project team will manage an umbrella organization to serve as 1) an enabler of interdisciplinary teamwork across traditional ‘silos’, 2) facilitator of new ‘teachers’ in the form of industry leaders/serial entrepreneurs, 3) a home and resource for translational intellectual development, 4) manage Seed Translational Research Projects (STRPs) to accelerate specific technology development projects and 5) establish a specific DEI sub-team that engages with all other ART working groups. The project team will also collaborate with external partners and other ART sites to develop best practices for an innovation ecosystem across the often-neglected region of Western Massachusetts. This project will unlock the translational impacts of the strong basic research enterprise at UMass Amherst.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.

该项目的重点是识别、培养与新兴企业家的关系并促进他们的发展，以提高马萨诸塞大学阿默斯特分校的能力，以实现其发展良好的基础研究企业的转化影响。预期成果是创造。一个可持续的创新引擎，帮助学生和教师做好为创新经济做出贡献的准备，缩短构思和降低企业风险之间的时间，为重大种子轮和风险投资做好准备，并建立接受 DEI 的企业并开发满足重要社会需求的技术。该项目将为不同的科学家群体提供装备为了培养这种转化能力，博士后和学生研究人员将被纳入 ART（加速研究翻译）大使网络，他们将成为榜样。 、具有社会影响力的转化研究的同行导师和倡导者，接受培训和支持，以发展技术和非技术或“软”转化研究技能，并提供资源，包括赠款小额赠款和种子，以支持和加速具体的转化研究ART 项目团队将管理一个伞式组织，作为 1) 跨传统“孤岛”的跨学科团队合作的推动者，2) 以行业领导者/连续创业者的形式培养新“教师”，3) 一个家庭和组织。转化智力开发资源，4) 管理种子转化研究项目 (STRP) 以加速特定技术开发项目，5) 建立一个与所有其他 ART 工作组合作的特定 DEI 子团队。该项目团队还将与外部合作伙伴和其他 ART 站点合作，为马萨诸塞州西部经常被忽视的地区的创新生态系统开发最佳实践。该项目将释放麻省大学阿默斯特分校强大的基础研究企业的转化影响。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，NSF 的法定使命被认为值得支持。