EPSCoR Workshop Series: Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Translational Research

非技术描述这项拨款为开展一系列关于创新、创业和转化研究的研讨会提供资金。两个研讨会由刺激竞争性研究实验计划（EPSCoR）支持，重点是促进EPSCoR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，以改善各自辖区的创新相关成果。一般来说，机构都在努力应对以大学为基础的发明的技术转让的内在挑战。然而，许多EPSCoR管辖区面临着企业家数量有限、缺乏相互联系的商业发展生态系统、难以找到资金支持技术成熟和初创企业成长等额外障碍。这些研讨会解决了这些问题，增加了资助研究项目中出现的有形发现，并改进了将发现转化为商业上可行应用的过程。技术描述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的能力。近期目标包括评估社区和辖区内的环境（第一次讲习班），然后根据经验最佳做法菜单（第二次讲习班）定制个别辖区的具体行动计划。各司法管辖区将在第二次研讨会后努力实施其行动计划。这些行动计划将通过改善鼓励发明披露的流程、建立和加强与工业界的伙伴关系、让学生参与创业项目、支持技术许可和商业发展以及与地区商业发展支持资源合作等方式产生影响。此外，将开发一个共享的信息交换所（称为创新中心），以交流基于创新的合作机会。长期成果包括改进将基础研究成果转化为应用的过程。生活质量的提高、经济的发展和就业的创造是由此产生的一些显著的附带效益。

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.