2010 Partnerships for Innovation Program Grantees Workshop

弗吉尼亚大学将于2010年4月25日至27日在弗吉尼亚州阿灵顿的威斯汀酒店组织和管理2010年NSF创新伙伴关系(PFI)受赠者研讨会。第二次这样的PFI受赠者研讨会的目的是为NSF赞助的研究人员提供一个论坛，讨论由创新伙伴关系(PFI)计划支持的积极奖项。此外，对于每个奖项，论坛应包括一名来自非学术合作伙伴的代表和一名参与项目的学生的代表。研讨会的目标是(1)寻求PFI行业合作伙伴的广泛参与，包括大公司的高管、部门负责人或单位负责人、小企业的所有者/雇员和企业家；(2)通过吸引天使投资者、风险资本家、基金会和来自地方和州政府资助的经济发展社区的思想领袖，讨论“后续资金”的途径；以及(3)在关键成功故事的背景下，制定改进PFI计划的战略方法。重点将放在人身上，对未来人类需求和欲望的洞察，学术和技术、政府、行业和公众之间的清晰沟通。这些是创新生态系统的基本要素，将通过一系列机制与PFI会议一起探讨，包括关于认知图谱、企业界再发明战略、艺术/媒体/技术/创新的接口以及美国、欧洲、亚洲和拉丁美洲创新实践比较的互动工作会议。这一提议的学术价值在于，研讨会将产生持续的价值创造和创新的路线图。研讨会与会者之间的互动和讨论将为NSF提供对PFI计划所提供的关键进展的描述。也许更重要的是，PFI项目的成功案例将产生将研究和教育转化为创新的“最佳实践”的建议，从而扩大生产率、增加全球财富并改善人类福祉。此外，研讨会期间将启用的大学、互动和发人深省的氛围，加上休息时间和下班后社交活动中的网络机会，将促进新的关系和合作，旨在超越学术、企业、政府和投资实体之间的传统障碍，帮助定义创新生态系统的核心。这一提议的更广泛影响包括为创意经济中持续的价值创造和创新提供路线图。鉴于活跃的PFI奖项的多样性(就其重点、方法以及组织和地理组成而言)，预计这一路线图将阐明有针对性的方式，为21世纪的创新劳动力提供年轻人才的体验式教育，并加快将研究转化为产品和服务。对于如何为创业型企业制定课程，以及如何在一个组织内或跨许多组织(可能在多个地理位置)合并科学、工程、研究、营销、商业和法律部门，可以获得新的见解。

The University of Virginia will organize and manage the 2010 NSF Partnerships for Innovation (PFI) Grantees Workshop at the Westin Hotel, Arlington, VA, April 25-27, 2010. The purpose of this second such PFI grantees workshop is to provide a forum for a gathering of NSF-sponsored researchers on active awards supported by the Partnership for Innovation (PFI) Program. In addition, for each award, the forum should include a representative from among the non-academic partners and a representative from among the students involved in the project. The objectives of the workshop are to (1) seek broad participation of PFI industry partners, including executives, department heads, or unit heads of large corporations, owners/employees of small businesses and entrepreneurs; (2) discuss avenues for "follow-on funding" by engaging angel investors, venture capitalists, foundations, and thought leaders from the local- and state-government-funded economic development community; and (3) strategize ways to improve the PFI program moving forward in the context of key success stories. The focus will be on people, insights into future human needs and desires, clear communication among academic science and technology, government, industry, and the public. These are the essential elements of an innovation ecosystem, and these will be explored with the PFI gathering, through a number of mechanisms, including interactive working sessions on cognitive mapping, re-invention strategies in the corporate world, the interfaces of art/media/technology/innovation and comparisons of innovation practices in the U.S, Europe, Asia, and Latin America. The intellectual merit of this proposal lies in the roadmap for sustaining value creation and innovation that will emerge from the workshop. The interaction and discussion among workshop attendees will provide NSF with a description of key advances afforded by the PFI program. Perhaps more importantly, stories of successful PFI programs will result in recommendations for "best practices" to translate research and education into innovation that amplifies productivity, increases global wealth, and improves human well-being. Moreover, the collegial, interactive and thought-provoking atmosphere to be invoked during the workshop, coupled with networking opportunities during breaks and an after-hours social event, will foster new relationships and collaborations intended to transcend traditional barriers among academic, corporate, government, and investment entities, helping to define the core of innovation ecosystems. The broader impacts of this proposal include providing a roadmap for sustaining value creation and innovation in a creative economy. Given the diversity of active PFI awards (in terms of their focus, approach, and organizational and geographic composition), it is anticipated that this roadmap will shed light on targeted ways to provide experiential education of young talent for the twenty-first century innovation workforce and accelerate translation of research into products and services. New insight into how to develop curricula for an entrepreneurial enterprise can be gained as well as into how to merge scientific, engineering, research, marketing, business, and legal units within an organization or across many organizations (in potentially multiple geographic locations).