UNCP Biotechnology Business and Industrial Training Center

0332650布朗奖是北卡罗来纳州彭布罗克大学，以支持以下所述的活动24个月。 该提案是为了响应创新伙伴关系计划征集而提交的合作伙伴合作伙伴包括位于彭布罗克的北卡罗来纳州大学（牵头机构）、中央卡罗莱纳社区学院、费耶特维尔理工社区学院、里士满社区学院、罗伯逊社区学院、东南社区学院、卡罗莱纳商业和技术中心、恩伯克斯公司、凯利科学资源公司、新玩法科学公司、惠氏疫苗公司、木材河政府理事会/劳动力发展委员会、罗伯逊经济发展办公室和苏格兰县政府。该奖项支持区域努力，以促进在东南部北卡罗来纳州的生物技术集群的建立和发展。它有一个广泛的目标，即刺激经济增长，提高该地区的经济福祉。北卡罗来纳州彭布罗克大学经济、社区和专业发展区域中心将协调建立北卡罗来纳州彭布罗克大学生物技术商业和工业培训中心。该中心将容纳一个实验室到中试规模的发酵和生物技术设施，并将提供生物技术相关培训的资源，课程和计划，以及学术活动。该活动的目标是通过加速生物技术公司的发展来增加地区高薪工作的数量，增加生物技术部门训练有素的劳动力，通过提供培训来动员该地区代表性不足的人口，并为企业家提供技术和商业支持，包括与资本来源的联系。潜在的经济影响北卡罗来纳州东南部经济困难。这项工作将为代表性不足的群体提供教育和培训，使他们能够受雇于新兴的生物技术集群部门。劳动力的可用性将有助于吸引其他生物技术公司创造更多的就业机会。这项工作是北卡罗来纳州生物技术计划的一部分。这项活动的智力价值在于它侧重于向学术界和工业界参与者提供生物技术方面的最新知识和技能。它将成为学术主导的经济发展模式，可以转移到其他经济困难的农村地区，该活动的更广泛的影响包括提高技术劳动力的技能和培训K-16教师的生物技术，增加代表性不足的群体在创新企业中的参与，并提高贫困地区的经济福祉。

0332650BrownThis award is to University of North Carolina at Pembroke 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 University of North Carolina at Pembroke (Lead Institution), Central Carolina Community College, Fayetteville Tech Community College, Richmond Community College, Robeson Community College, Southeastern Community College, Carolina Commerce and Technology Center, Embrex Incorporated, Kelly Scientific Resources, New Brunswick Scientific Company, Wyeth Vaccines, Lumber River Council of Governments/Workforce Development Board, Robeson Office of Economic Development, and Scotland County Government. This award supports regional efforts to foster the establishment and growth of a biotechnology cluster in southeastern North Carolina. It has a broad goal to stimulate economic growth and increase the economic well being of the region. The University of North Carolina Pembroke Regional Center for Economic, Community and Professional Development will coordinate the establishment of a University of North Carolina Pembroke Biotechnology Business and Industrial Training Center. The center will house a bench-to-pilot-scale fermentation and biotechnology facility and will provide the resources, curriculum, and programs for biotechnology-related training, as well as academic activities. The goals for the activity are to increase the number of regional higher paying jobs by accelerating the growth of biotechnology companies, increase the trained workforce in the biotechnology sector, mobilize the underrepresented populations in the region by providing training, and offer entrepreneurs technological and business support, including connections to sources of capital.Potential Economic ImpactSoutheastern North Carolina is economically distressed. The effort will provide education and training for underrepresented groups to make them employable by an emerging biotechnology cluster sector. The availability of a workforce will help attract other biotechnology companies creating more jobs. The effort is part of North Carolina's Biotechnology Initiative. The intellectual merit of the activity lies in its focus on providing state-of-the-art knowledge and skills in biotechnology to academic and industrial participants. It will serve as a model for academic-led economic development that can be transferred to other economically distressed rural regions.The broader impacts of the activity include improving technical workforce skills and training K-16 teachers in biotechnology, increasing participation of underrepresented group in the innovation enterprise, and increasing the economic well being of a distressed region.