EPSCoR Workshop Series: Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Translational Research

EPSCoR 研讨会系列：创新、创业和转化研究

• 批准号: 1521666
• 负责人: Stacey Patterson
• 金额: $ 20万
• 依托单位: University of Tennessee Knoxville
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-04-15 至 2016-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1521666&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: EPSCoR; Workshop; Series; Innovation; Entrepreneurship

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.

非技术描述这笔赠款提供了关于创新，企业家精神和转化研究的研讨会系列的资金。 实验计划支持了两个研讨会，以刺激竞争研究（EPSCOR），并着重于促进EPSCOR管辖区，评估当前流程和资源，这些过程和资源支持创新和翻译，提高了这些领域的能力，并制定特定于特定的行动计划，以提高其在其相关授权方面与创新相关的结果。 总体上，机构应对基于大学发明的技术转移的内在挑战。 但是，许多EPSCOR司法管辖区都面临企业家可用性有限的额外障碍，缺乏联系的业务发展生态系统，并且难以找到资本来支持技术成熟和启动增长。 这些研讨会解决了这些问题，增加了从资助的研究计划中出现的切实发现，并改善了将发现转化为商业可行的应用程序的过程。 技术描述该研讨会系列由两个研讨会组成，他们寻求单独和集体改进EPSCOR管辖区开发和实施流程以加速基于研究的创新以及将创新转化为受益社会的产品和服务的能力。 直接的目标包括评估社区内的环境和司法管辖区（第一个研讨会），然后根据体验式最佳实践菜单（第二个研讨会）来量身定制特定于管辖权的行动计划。 在第二次研讨会之后，司法管辖区将致力于执行其行动计划。 该行动计划将通过改善鼓励披露发明，与行业建立和加强伙伴关系，使学生参与企业家计划，支持技术许可和业务发展以及与区域业务发展支持资源的合作的流程，从而产生影响。 此外，将开发共享的交换室（称为创新中心）来传达基于创新的合作机会。较长的期限结果包括改进将基本研究结果转化为应用程序的过程。 改善生活质量，经济发展和创造就业机会是产生的重大衍生好处。