PFI: From Whiteboard to Boardroom: Creating Innovation Infrastructure in Institutions with Modest R&D Funding

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。该创新合作伙伴关系（PFI）项目是密苏里州堪萨斯城大学（UMKC），NSF PFI毕业生（0090578），约翰逊县社区学院（JCCC）（Overland Park，KS）和威廉朱厄尔学院（Liberty，MO）之间的第三类（A：C）合作伙伴关系，这两个机构都是PFI计划的新机构（定义为从未获得PFI资助的机构）。 Whiteboard to Boardroom（W2 B）合作伙伴关系旨在最大限度地提高所有高等教育机构的能力，包括那些每年研发资金不到1亿美元的机构，通过创建一个系统来识别高等教育机构的商业化机会，并将其无缝连接到支持业务发展的无数社区资源，从而为该地区的经济做出重要贡献。它的重点是识别，支持和利用堪萨斯城地区的现有资源，以实现技术商业化。它将启动一个过程，创建一个机制，将技术从机构中“拉”出来，而不是等待创新者请求帮助提出一个想法，并积极地将它们通过业务发展途径。W2 B团队汇集了教师和专业人士，他们共同拥有学术过程和商业创造的知识。W2 B将提供一种可复制的方法来培训教师和学生了解商业化过程。 它将通过确定社区学院和其他非研究密集型机构可以为这一进程作出贡献的方式，扩大所有类型的学术机构对创新进程的参与。 它将建立一个技术平台，支持在其他社区复制。 与美国小企业管理局合作（美国小企业管理局）将允许结果直接传播到全国各地的大学和学院的小企业发展资源。该项目一开始的合作伙伴是学术机构：密苏里州堪萨斯城大学（UMKC）（牵头机构）、约翰逊县社区学院、威廉朱厄尔学院和堪萨斯大学;私营部门组织：公民银行信托公司&，约翰逊县企业中心/中美洲天使;堪萨斯城地区生命科学研究所、堪萨斯妇女商业中心/妇女资本网络、考夫曼基金会、Polsinelli Shalton Flanigan Suelthaus PC、Show-Me Angels、Tradebot Ventures，Inc.、KCSSourceLink;州和地方政府组织：密苏里州科技公司;和联邦政府组织：美国小企业管理局，堪萨斯城区办事处（堪萨斯城，密苏里州）。

This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).This Partnerships for Innovation (PFI) project is a Type III (A:C) partnership between the University of Missouri Kansas City (UMKC), an NSF PFI graduate (0090578), and Johnson County Community College (JCCC) (Overland Park, KS) and William Jewell College (Liberty, MO), both institutions new to the PFI Program (defined as ones that have never been PFI grantees). The Whiteboard to Boardroom (W2B) partnership seeks to maximize the ability of all higher education institutions, including those with R&D funding of less than $100 million per year, to make a vital contribution to the region's economy by creating a system that identifies commercialization opportunities in the higher education institutions and seamlessly connects them to myriad community resources that support business development. It focuses on identifying, supporting, and capitalizing on existing resources in the Kansas City region to realize technology commercialization. It will invoke a process that creates a mechanism that "pulls" technologies out of the institution rather than waiting for an innovator to ask for assistance with an idea and actively moves them through the business development pathway. The W2B team brings together faculty and professions that collectively have the knowledge of the academic process and business creation. W2B will provide a replicable method to train faculty and students in the understanding of the commercialization process. It will broaden the participation of all types of academic institutions in the innovation process by defining ways that community colleges and other non-research intensive institutions can contribute to this process. It will create a technology platform supporting replication in other communities. A partnership with the U.S. Small Business Administration (U.S. SBA) will allow results to be disseminated directly to small business development resources in universities and colleges around the country.Partners at the inception of the project are Academic Institutions: University of Missouri Kansas City (UMKC) (lead institution), Johnson County Community College, William Jewell College, and University of Kansas; Private Sector Organizations: Citizens Bank & Trust Company, Enterprise Center of Johnson County/Mid-America Angels; Kansas City Area Life Science Institute, Kansas Women's Business Center/Women's Capital Network, Kauffman Foundation, Polsinelli Shalton Flanigan Suelthaus PC, Show-Me Angels, Tradebot Ventures, Inc., and KCSourceLink; State and Local Government Organization: Missouri Technology Corporation; and Federal Government Organization: U.S. SBA, Kansas City District Office (Kansas City, MO).