PFI: Overcoming Cultural Barriers: An Innovation Model for Smaller University/Industry Partnerships

PFI：克服文化障碍：小型大学/行业合作伙伴关系的创新模式

• 批准号: 0917466
• 负责人: Marian Walters
• 金额: $ 60万
• 依托单位: Pennsylvania State Univ University Park
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-09-15 至 2012-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0917466&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: PFI; Overcoming; Cultural; Barriers; Innovation

This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5)This Partnerships for Innovation (PFI) project--a Type III: (C: A) partnership between Pennsylvania State University-Harrisburg (PSH), an institution new to the PFI Program (defined as one that has never been a PFI grantee) and Pennsylvania State University-University Park (PSUP), an NSF PFI graduate (0090393) seeks to overcome the industry/university cultural chasm by forging new partnerships for innovation between universities and businesses in South Central Pennsylvania. Newly formed partnerships will advance innovative technologies as a result of breadth and depth of expertise, sharing of intellectual and physical resources, and rigorous internal and external evaluation procedures. The project builds on prior knowledge about partnerships for innovation from relevant research literature and in lessons learned from the efforts of the PSUP graduated PFI. The proposed model is based on the literature on links between innovation and technology-based economic development for the types of institutions involved. The project goals are based on a three-phase approach of awareness, skill training, and implementation presented. The project will advance discovery via teaching and training in the region, in multiple, targeted business sectors and related academic disciplines. The broader impacts of the project include removing regional industry/university collaboration barriers; outreach to thousands of faculty and tens of thousands of students, multiple dissemination strategies; and broad participation by smaller academic institutions, small businesses, and underrepresented groups. Partners at the inception of the project are Academic Institutions: Pennsylvania State University-Harrisburg (PSH) (lead institution), Pennsylvania State University-University Park (PSUP), Dickinson College, Franklin and Marshall College, Cheyney University of Pennsylvania, Elizabethtown College, Harrisburg Area Community College, Harrisburg University of Science and Technology, Messiah College, Millersville University, and Shippensburg University; Private Sector Partners: Gannett Fleming, Mission Research, Die Tech, Keystone BioFuels, Material Sensing and Instrumentation; and Economic Development Partners: Lancaster Keystone Innovation Zone, Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Central and Northern PA, Ben Franklin Venture Investment Forum, Capital Region Economic Development Corporation (CREDC), Life Sciences Greenhouse of Central PA, Technology Council of Central PA/Tech Quest, Innovation Transfer Network (ITN).

该奖项是根据2009年美国复苏和再投资法案（公法111-5）资助的。该创新伙伴关系（PFI）项目- III类：(C)A)宾夕法尼亚州立大学哈里斯堡分校（PSH）， PFI计划的新机构（定义为从未成为PFI受助人的机构）和宾夕法尼亚州立大学大学公园分校（PSUP）， NSF PFI毕业生（0090393）之间的合作伙伴关系，寻求通过在宾夕法尼亚州中南部的大学和企业之间建立新的创新伙伴关系来克服工业/大学文化鸿沟。由于专业知识的广度和深度、智力和物质资源的共享以及严格的内部和外部评估程序，新形成的伙伴关系将推动创新技术的发展。该项目建立在从相关研究文献中获得的关于创新伙伴关系的先验知识和从PSUP毕业的PFI的努力中吸取的经验教训的基础上。所提出的模型是基于有关创新与基于技术的经济发展之间的联系的文献。项目目标基于意识、技能训练和实现的三阶段方法。该项目将通过该地区多个目标业务部门和相关学科的教学和培训来推进发现。该项目更广泛的影响包括消除区域工业/大学合作障碍；面向数千名教师和数万名学生，多种传播策略；小型学术机构、小企业和代表性不足的群体的广泛参与。项目开始时的合作伙伴是学术机构：宾夕法尼亚州立大学哈里斯堡分校（PSH）（牵头机构）、宾夕法尼亚州立大学大学公园分校（PSUP）、迪金森学院、富兰克林和马歇尔学院、宾夕法尼亚切尼大学、伊丽莎白镇学院、哈里斯堡地区社区学院、哈里斯堡科技大学、弥赛亚学院、米勒斯维尔大学和希本斯堡大学；私营部门合作伙伴：Gannett Fleming、Mission Research、Die Tech、Keystone生物燃料、材料传感和仪器；经济发展合作伙伴：兰开斯特基斯通创新区、中北部地区本·富兰克林技术合作伙伴、本·富兰克林风险投资论坛、首都地区经济发展公司（CREDC）、中部地区生命科学温室、中部地区技术委员会/科技探索、创新转移网络（ITN）。