Finger Lakes New Knowledge Fusion: Unique Collaboration for Economic Impact

手指湖新知识融合：独特的经济影响合作

• 批准号: 0438607
• 负责人: Robert Seem
• 金额: $ 60万
• 依托单位: Cornell Univ - State: AWDS MADE PRIOR MAY 2010
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2006-03-15 至 2009-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0438607&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Finger; Lakes; New; Knowledge; Fusion

0438607SeemThis award is to Cornell University to support the activity described below for 36 months. The proposal was submitted in response to the Partnerships for Innovation Program Solicitation (NSF-04556).PartnersThe partners include Cornell University (Lead Institution); New York State Agricultural Experiment Station, Geneva, NY; Cornell Agriculture and Food Technology Park Corporation, Geneva, NY; Infotonics Center for Technology, Canandaigua, NY; Finger Lakes Workforce Investment Board, Geneva, NY; and Ontario County Office of Economic Development, Canandaigua, NY. In addition, the collaborating institutions include Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY; Metropolitan Development Agency of Central New York, Syracuse, NY; Finger Lakes Institute; Hobart & William Smith Colleges, Geneva, NY; Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY; The Trillium Group, LLC, Penfield, NY; High Tech Rochester, Rochester, NY; New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets, Albany, NY; NY Agri Development Corp., Syracuse, NY; Cornell Cooperative Extension, Canandaigua, NY; BirdsEye Foods; Constellation Wines US; CY Farms; Red Jacket Orchards;and Wegmans.The primary objective of the proposal follows. The Finger Lakes Region of New York State, bounded by Syracuse to the east, Rochester to the west, and Ithaca to the south, is ready to emerge from its lagging economic development by exploiting the intellectual power resident in its many institutions of higher education and the strong desire to keep innovations arising from these institutions within the region. This is technology-based economic development. This proposal addresses the need by making a unique blend of disparate technologies that rarely meet, but have great potential to generate innovation when they do. The first set of technologies are agriculture and food, and is embodied in the translational research carried out by the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station which supports a wide range of research for the horticulture and food industries in New York State. The second technology set consists of photonics, microsystems and imaging, embodied by the industry-initiated Center of Infotonics Technology, a New York State Center for Excellence. Such a fusion will create innovation.Potential Economic ImpactThe proposed effort will create the support systems that insure this innovation will find a home within the region to anchor, be nurtured, and grow. This support consists of business and legal services for start-up businesses, capital funding sources for new ventures, commercialization support for new technologies, a well-prepared workforce to support the innovations, and a well-educated community that will welcome the businesses producing the innovations. Because there is region-wide excitement about technology-based economic development, with the creation of initial successes expected from this grant, the region will embrace sustained activity in technology fusion. The investigators will share our successful approach with other regions that want to replicate the success.The intellectual merit of the project follows. This is a novel proposal to address the need for cross-institutional, cross-disciplinary research, fusing disparate technology areas to create innovation. It is a very aggressive partnership that is unified by the overall goal of community education and economic diversification.The broader impacts of the activity follow. The impacts of this project are extensive -- covering rural populations, citizens (an oft neglected constituency!), high school teachers and administrators, community colleges, higher education, economic development organizations and all parts of the private sector. This proposal has the potential to affect a large physical area, large population and diverse population with an innovate approach to knowledge and technology fusion -- interdisciplinary work harnessed to create economic diversification opportunities.

本奖项将颁发给康奈尔大学，用于支持以下36个月的活动。该提案是根据创新伙伴关系项目招标（NSF-04556）提交的。合作伙伴包括康奈尔大学（牵头机构）；纽约州农业实验站，日内瓦，纽约州；康奈尔农业和食品科技园公司，日内瓦，纽约；信息技术中心，加拿大，纽约州；手指湖劳动力投资委员会，日内瓦，纽约；和安大略县经济发展办公室，位于纽约州加南代瓜。此外，合作机构包括纽约州锡拉丘兹的锡拉丘兹大学；纽约中部都市发展署，锡拉丘兹，纽约州；芬格湖研究所；霍巴特&威廉史密斯学院，日内瓦，纽约；罗切斯特理工学院，罗切斯特，纽约州；The Trillium Group， LLC, Penfield， NY；高科技罗切斯特，罗切斯特，纽约州；纽约州农业和市场部，奥尔巴尼，纽约州；纽约农业发展公司，锡拉丘兹，纽约州；康奈尔合作推广公司，纽约州加南代瓜；宰食物;美国星座酒业；CY农场;红夹克果园；和Wegmans。提案的主要目标如下。纽约州的五指湖地区，东临锡拉丘兹，西临罗切斯特，南临伊萨卡，正准备通过利用其众多高等教育机构中的智力力量，以及将这些机构产生的创新保持在该地区的强烈愿望，来摆脱其落后的经济发展。这是基于技术的经济发展。该提案通过将不同的技术进行独特的融合来解决这一需求，这些技术很少满足，但在满足时却具有巨大的创新潜力。第一组技术是农业和食品，体现在纽约州农业实验站开展的转化研究中，该实验站支持纽约州园艺和食品工业的广泛研究。第二套技术包括光子学、微系统和成像，由行业发起的纽约州卓越中心信息电子技术中心体现。这样的融合将创造创新。潜在的经济影响拟议的努力将创建支持系统，确保这一创新在该地区找到立足之地，得到培育和发展。这种支持包括为初创企业提供的商业和法律服务、为新企业提供的资本资金来源、为新技术提供的商业化支持、为支持创新而准备充分的劳动力以及欢迎产生创新的企业的受过良好教育的社区。由于整个区域都对以技术为基础的经济发展感到兴奋，随着这项赠款有望取得初步成功，该区域将在技术融合方面开展持续的活动。研究人员将与其他想要复制成功的地区分享我们的成功方法。该项目的智力价值如下。这是一项新颖的提议，旨在解决跨机构、跨学科研究的需求，融合不同的技术领域以创造创新。这是一个非常积极的伙伴关系，它由社区教育和经济多样化的总体目标统一起来。该活动的更广泛影响随之而来。该项目的影响是广泛的——包括农村人口、公民（一个经常被忽视的选民！）、高中教师和行政人员、社区学院、高等教育、经济发展组织和私营部门的所有部分。该提案有可能影响大面积的自然区域、大量的人口和多样化的人口，并采用创新的方法来实现知识和技术融合——利用跨学科的工作来创造经济多样化的机会。