ART: Fostering an entrepreneurial innovation ecosystem through training and university-led private-public partnerships

ART：通过培训和大学主导的公私伙伴关系培育创业创新生态系统

• 批准号: 2331381
• 负责人: Nghia Chiem
• 金额: $ 599.7万
• 依托单位: University of Alabama Tuscaloosa
• 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=2331381&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: ART; Fostering; entrepreneurial; innovation; ecosystem

This project aims to accelerate the capacity for translational research at The University of Alabama (UA), while strengthening its role in innovation in a flourishing regional ecosystem. A main objective is to foster innovation and entrepreneurial culture on campus to increase technology commercialization that is supported by training and university led private-public partnerships. The activities of the project will result in increasing the number of inventions, patents, licenses, startups, and other forms of technology commercialization, generating high-quality jobs, fostering U.S. global competitiveness, and strengthening the U.S. economy. Training programs will foster growth of a globally competitive and diverse research workforce and advance the scientific and innovation skills. Specific efforts will be made to encourage recruitment of students and staff from underrepresented and minority groups. Evidence-based training and education curriculum will be developed to continually train postdoctoral researchers and graduate students to be experts in translational research activities. It will inform how to create new and accessible educational pathways into emerging technology careers for persons interested in participating in the research and innovation enterprise. Selected translation projects that have established high probability of commercialization potential based on market needs will be supported to mature the technologies and develop proof-of-concept prototypes while simultaneously being used as training vehicles to train postdoctoral researchers and graduate students. The project will amalgamate diverse academia, government, and industry stakeholders to drive technological advancements and address systemic/societal challenges through use-inspired research to unleash new ideas, talent, pathways, and resources to create a vibrant innovation ecosystem. It will cultivate targeted early partnerships between researchers and industry, broaden institutional capacity for translational research, enhance entrepreneurial knowledge of the research community through training programs that prepare participants for non-academic careers, and eliminate typical institutional barriers that hinder effective and inclusive research translation via policy advocacy.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.

该项目旨在提高阿拉巴马大学 (UA) 的转化研究能力，同时加强其在蓬勃发展的区域生态系统中的创新作用。主要目标是在校园内培育创新和创业文化，以提高由培训和大学主导的公私合作伙伴关系支持的技术商业化。该项目的活动将增加发明、专利、许可证、初创企业和其他形式的技术商业化的数量，创造高质量的就业机会，增强美国的全球竞争力，并加强美国经济。培训计划将促进培养具有全球竞争力和多元化的研究队伍，并提高科学和创新技能。我们将做出具体努力，鼓励从代表性不足的群体和少数群体中招募学生和教职员工。将开发循证培训和教育课程，不断培训博士后研究人员和研究生成为转化研究活动的专家。它将告知如何为有兴趣参与研究和创新企业的人员创建进入新兴技术职业的新且易于接受的教育途径。根据市场需求，选定具有较高商业化潜力的翻译项目将得到支持，以成熟技术并开发概念验证原型，同时作为培养博士后研究人员和研究生的培训工具。该项目将联合不同的学术界、政府和行业利益相关者，通过以使用为灵感的研究来推动技术进步并解决系统/社会挑战，释放新的想法、人才、途径和资源，创建一个充满活力的创新生态系统。它将培养研究人员和工业界之间有针对性的早期伙伴关系，扩大转化研究的机构能力，通过为参与者的非学术职业做好准备的培训计划来增强研究界的创业知识，并通过以下方式消除阻碍有效和包容性研究转化的典型制度障碍：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。