An Industry-State-University Partnership for Southeast Massachusetts Economic Development Through Innovation in Technologies

0332597阿扎迪瓦该奖项授予马萨诸塞大学达特茅斯分校，以支持下述活动24个月。该提案是对创新伙伴关系计划(NSF-03521)的响应。合作伙伴包括马萨诸塞大学达特茅斯大学(牵头机构)、马萨诸塞州环境事务办公室、马萨诸塞州交通部、海军海底作战中心以及27家地区性公司。其中至少有10家公司已同意每家向该项目投入5万美元。该项目的目标包括：1.创造一个类似商业的环境，由大学教职员工、学生和专业人员开发产品、流程和系统，供个别私营部门合作伙伴商业化。使更广泛的区域经济部门，特别是中小型公司，能够获得和负担得起大学开发的技术。通过提供技术和劳动力来开发该行业，促进该地区的经济发展。为学生提供一个学习环境，以商业世界的经验来补充他们的课堂教育。将研究、教育和创新融为一体，通过伙伴关系为社会提供经济发展和服务。将模型和经验传播给其他高等学府。潜在的经济影响马萨诸塞州的这个地区在以技术为基础的经济增长方面落在了后面。由于捕鲸和纺织业，马萨诸塞州东南部曾经是美国最繁荣的地区之一。随着这两个行业都离开了该地区，该地区一直在遭受经济困难。今天，该地区的经济实力落后于美国其他地区，高科技产业的就业也落后于其他地区。该地区已经开始改变这一状况。电子、环境、生物医药、电信、智能材料和纤维正在进入该地区的工业基地。这一拟议的努力提供了大学主导的与政府和行业的合作伙伴关系，以促进技术转让、技术支持和具有技术素养的劳动力。这项活动的智力价值在于开发了大量创新技术，并将其商业化为产品、流程、系统和服务，以及实现这些创新所需的劳动力。就更广泛的影响而言，这项提议是极好的。该项目将教育专业人员，并为该区域人数不足的不同群体提供就业机会。将给该区域带来的以技术为基础的经济福祉将为其他因工业撤离而经历过类似经济衰退的区域树立榜样。

0332597AzadivarThis award is to the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth to support the activity described below for 24 months. The proposal was submitted in response to the Partnerships for Innovation Program Solicitation (NSF-03521).PartnersThe partners include the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth (Lead Institution), Massachusetts Office of Environmental Affairs Massachusetts Department of Transportation, Naval Undersea Warfare Center, plus 27 regional companies. At least 10 of these companies have agreed to commit $50,000 each to the project. More are being recruited.The objectives for the project include:1. Create a business-like environment where products, processes, and systems are developed by university faculty, students, and professional staff for individual private sector partners to commercialize.2. Make the university-developed technology available and affordable to a broader sector of the regional economy, especial small to medium sized companies.3. Enhance the economic development of the region by serving the industry by providing technology and a workforce to exploit it.4. Provide a learning environment for students to supplement their classroom education with experiences in the business world.5. Integrate research, education and innovation to provide economic development and service to the community via the partnership.6. Disseminate the model and the experience to other institutions of higher learning.Potential Economic ImpactThis region of Massachusetts has been left behind in technology-based economic growth. Southeast Massachusetts was once one of the most prosperous regions in the nation due to whaling and textile industries. The region has been suffering economic hardship as both industries have left the area. Today, the economic strength of the region lags behind the rest of the United States, and the employment in high technology industry. The region has begun to change that situation. Electronics, environment, biomedicine, telecommunications, intelligent materials, and fibers are being inserted into the industrial base in the region. This proposed effort provides a university-lead partnership with government and industry to facilitate technology transfer, technology support, and a technologically literate workforce. The intellectual merit of the activity lies in a significant number of innovative technologies developed and commercialized into products, processes, systems and services, and the workforce needed to enable these innovations. This proposal is excellent in terms of Broader Impacts. The project will educate professionals and provide employment opportunities for a diverse group of underrepresented groups in the region. The technology-based economic well-being that will result in the region will serve as a model for other regions that have experienced similar economic downturn from departing industries.