EPSCoR Workshop Series: Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Translational Research

非技术性说明该补助金提供资金进行创新，创业和转化研究系列研讨会。 两个研讨会得到了刺激竞争研究实验计划（EPSCoR）的支持，重点是促进EPSCoR管辖区，评估支持创新和翻译的当前流程和资源，提高他们在这些领域的能力，并制定具体情况的行动计划，以改善各自管辖区的创新相关成果。 一般来说，各机构都在努力应对技术转让对大学发明的内在挑战。 然而，许多EPSCoR管辖区面临着企业家数量有限、缺乏互联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增长的资本等额外障碍。 研讨会解决这些问题，增加资助的研究项目中出现的有形发现，并改进将发现转化为商业上可行的应用的过程。 技术说明本系列研讨会由两个研讨会组成，旨在单独和集体地提高EPSCoR管辖区的能力，以制定和实施加速基于研究的创新以及将创新转化为造福社会的产品和服务的流程。 近期目标包括评估社区和管辖区内的环境（第一次讲习班），然后根据经验最佳做法菜单制定具体管辖区的行动计划（第二次讲习班）。 各管辖区将在第二次讲习班后着手执行其行动计划。 这些行动计划将通过改进鼓励披露发明的程序、建立和加强与行业的伙伴关系、让学生参与创业计划、支持技术许可和业务发展以及与区域业务发展支持资源合作来产生影响。 此外，还将建立一个共享的信息交换中心（称为创新中心），以交流基于创新的伙伴关系机会，长期成果包括改进将基础研究成果转化为应用的程序。 生活质量的提高、经济发展和创造就业机会是由此产生的一些重大惠益。

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.