PFI: Kansas Bioprocessing Science and Engineering Center

这一创新伙伴关系项目是堪萨斯州立大学和匹兹堡州立大学之间的第三类(A：C)合作项目，堪萨斯州立大学是国家科学基金会创新伙伴关系毕业生(0438691)，匹兹堡州立大学是创新伙伴关系计划的新机构(定义为从未获得创新伙伴关系资助的机构)，该项目寻求同时开发和正规化一个过程，以加速生物科学产品、工艺和技术的商业开发，并为堪萨斯州未来的技术工程师和企业家提供有意义的早期技术开发(ESTD)经验。该项目将加速堪萨斯州领先的农业生物技术州和地区的生物科学发现商业化进程。特别是，设计方法来从当前的生物废物流中产生更多价值是有好处的，包括那些来自乙醇生产加工流的废物。这个项目代表了一种新的方法，将该州世界级的农业和生物科学投资与新的创新方法，特别是生物加工的扩大方法联系起来。该项目将提高堪萨斯州的整体经济福祉。它将增加对堪萨斯州公司的技术转让；刺激和协助堪萨斯州以技术为基础的企业的形成和发展；增加推向市场的新产品；并提供获得协调的早期技术开发(ESTD)资源的机会，这将大大加快堪萨斯州以生物科学为基础的新产品、工艺和技术的开发和强化。主要的社会影响将是为堪萨斯州公民创造财富和高薪就业机会。此外，创建一个对技术创建者/发明者和接受者都有利的模型过程，将促进公司和大学实验室创造的知识产权转化为商业产品。本科生和研究生都将参与商业化活动的教育，因此，堪萨斯州未来的技术企业家将学习定义和实施成功的生物科学ESTD项目。项目开始时的合作伙伴是学术机构：堪萨斯州立大学(牵头机构)、匹兹堡州立大学(PSU)和堪萨斯州立大学-创新园区；私营部门组织：堪萨斯环境管理协会(KEMA)有限责任公司；生命线食品公司(密苏里州圣约瑟夫)；MGP配料公司(肯塔基州阿奇森)；以及州和地方政府：堪萨斯生物科学管理局(KBA)和堪萨斯科技企业公司(KTEC)。

This Partnerships for Innovation (PFI) project--a Type III (A:C) partnership between Kansas State University, an NSF PFI graduate (0438691), and Pittsburg State University (PSU), an institution new to the PFI Program (defined as one that has never been a PFI grantee)--seeks to simultaneously develop and formalize a process to accelerate the commercial development of bioscience products, processes and technologies and provide meaningful Early-Stage Technology Development (ESTD) experience to Kansas's future technology engineers and entrepreneurs. This project will accelerate the movement of bioscience discoveries to commercialization for a leading agricultural biotechnology state and region, Kansas. In particular, there is merit in designing ways to produce more value from current bio-based waste streams, including those from ethanol production processing streams. This project represents a new approach to linking world class agriculture and bioscience investments in the state to new innovation methods, particularly scale-up methods for bio-processing.The project will enhance general economic well being in Kansas. It will increase the transfer of technologies to Kansas companies; stimulate the formation and assist the development of technology-based businesses in Kansas; increase new products brought to market; and provide access to a coordinated Early-Stage Technology Development (ESTD) resource that significantly accelerates the development and hardening of new bioscience-based products, processes, and technologies in Kansas. The major societal impact will be the creation of wealth and high-paying jobs for the citizens of Kansas. In addition, creating a model process that benefits both the technology creator/inventor and the recipient will stimulate transformation of intellectual property created in both company and university laboratories into commercial products. Both undergraduate and graduate students will be involved in education about commercialization activities and thus, Kansas's future technology entrepreneurs will learn to define and conduct successful bioscience ESTD projects. Partners at the inception of the project are Academic Institutions: Kansas State University (lead institutions), Pittsburgh State University (PSU), and Kansas State Olathe-Innovation Campus; Private Sector Organizations: Kansas Environmental Management Associates (KEMA) LLC.; Lifeline Foods (St. Joseph, MO); MGP Ingredients, Inc. (Atchison, KS); and State and Local Government: Kansas Bioscience Authority (KBA) and Kansas Technology Enterprise Corporation (KTEC).