EPSCoR Workshop Series: Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Translational Research

非技术描述这笔资金用于举办一系列关于创新、创业和转化性研究的研讨会。两个研讨会得到了激励竞争研究实验计划(EPSCoR)的支持，重点是促进EPSCoR司法管辖区，评估支持创新和翻译的当前流程和资源，提高这些领域的能力，并制定具体情况的行动计划，以改善各自司法管辖区的创新相关成果。各机构一般都在努力应对以大学为基础的发明技术转让的内在挑战。然而，许多EPSCoR司法管辖区面临着额外的障碍，即企业家的可获得性有限，缺乏连接的商业发展生态系统，以及难以找到支持技术成熟和初创企业发展的资金。这些研讨会解决了这些问题，增加了从资助的研究计划中产生的有形发现，并改进了将发现转化为商业可行应用的过程。本系列研讨会由两个研讨会组成，旨在单独和集体提高EPSCoR司法管辖区制定和实施进程的能力，以加快基于研究的创新，并将创新转化为造福社会的产品和服务。近期目标包括评估社区和司法管辖区内的环境(第一期讲习班)，然后根据经验最佳做法清单制定针对个别司法管辖区的行动计划(第二期讲习班)。各司法管辖区将在第二次讲习班之后努力执行其行动计划。这些行动计划将产生影响，改进鼓励披露发明的程序，建立和加强与业界的伙伴关系，让学生参与创业计划，支持技术许可和商业发展，并与区域商业发展支持资源合作。此外，还将建立一个共享的信息交换中心(称为创新中心)，以交流基于创新的合作机会。较长期的成果包括改进将基础研究成果转化为应用的过程。生活质量的改善、经济发展和创造就业机会是由此产生的一些显著的衍生利益。

Nontechnical DescriptionThis grant provides funding to conduct a workshop series on innovation, entrepreneurship, and translational research. Two workshops are supported by the Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) and focus on facilitating EPSCoR jurisdictions, assessment of current processes and resources that support innovation and translation, increase their capacity in these areas, and develop circumstance-specific action plans that will improve innovation-related outcomes in their respective jurisdictions. Institutions in general grapple with the intrinsic challenges of technology transfer for university-based inventions. Many EPSCoR jurisdictions, however, face the additional hurdles of limited availability of entrepreneurs, lack of a connected business development eco-system, and difficulty in finding capital to support technology maturation and start-up growth. The workshops address these issues, increase the tangible discoveries emerging from funded research programs, and improve the processes for translating discoveries into commercially viable applications. Technical DescriptionThis workshop series, comprised of two workshops, seek to improve, both individually and collectively, the capacity of EPSCoR jurisdictions to develop and implement processes for accelerating research-based innovation and the translation of innovation into products and services that benefit society. The immediate goals include evaluating the environment within the community and jurisdictions (first workshop) and then tailoring individual jurisdiction-specific action plans based on a menu of experiential best practices (second workshop). Jurisdictions will work on implementing their action plans after the second workshop. The action plans will have impact by improving processes for encouraging disclosure of inventions, establishing and strengthening partnerships with industry, engaging students in entrepreneurial programs, supporting technology licensing and business development, and collaborating with regional business development support resources. In addition, a shared clearing-house (called an Innovation Hub) will be developed for communicating innovation-based partnering opportunities.Longer term outcomes include improvements to the processes for translating fundamental research results into applications. Improvements in quality of life, economic development, and job creation are some of the resulting significant derived benefits.