University-Industry Engagement outside Major Metropolitan Areas and Megacities: Identifying Issues and Finding Solutions

主要大都市区和特大城市以外的大学与行业合作：发现问题并寻找解决方案

• 批准号: 1748686
• 负责人: Cynthia Sides
• 金额: $ 10万
• 依托单位: University of Arkansas
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-08-15 至 2019-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1748686&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: University; Industry; Engagement; outside; Major

A myriad of engagement opportunities between universities and companies exists across a partnership continuum, including research collaboration, technology commercialization, curriculum support, internships, and jobs. While relationships between companies and universities in metropolitan areas are stellar examples of robust innovation ecosystems that easily foster university-industry partnerships, many universities and companies in non-metropolitan areas struggle to create equivalent ecosystems. Numerous research-intensive universities are located outside metropolitan areas. Engagement between these institutions and industry is of equal importance, as their economic, educational, and social impacts in local communities and states are especially pronounced. Metropolitan regions possess innate assets that are unavailable to non-metropolitan areas; however, valuable and translatable lessons from metropolitan models can be mirrored in non-metropolitan areas to stimulate creation and growth of innovation and economic ecosystems. Non-metropolitan regions and institutions also possess unique attributes and research opportunities that can be leveraged to grow and establish relationships with companies and enhance the economic ecosystem in the region and state. This National Science Foundation supported workshop will promote a national discussion on strategies that universities and companies can design and implement to encourage partnerships with and between institutions and industry, specifically when one or both parties are located and operate outside metropolitan areas. The University of Arkansas, in collaboration with the University-Industry Demonstration Partnership, will organize a three-day forum in Fayetteville, Arkansas, for universities and companies outside major metropolitan areas to consider how to develop and grow strong industry engagement programs to bolster local and state innovation ecosystems. The workshop will leverage diverse experts and recruit attendees from metropolitan and non-metropolitan areas across the United States to participate in discussions about practical approaches that can be used by academic, corporate, government, and nonprofit groups in a community. Attendees will assess existing national models, brainstorm new programs and ideas, and develop steps that can be taken to improve academic-corporate engagement in non-metropolitan regions and support collaborations with the objectives of advancing university missions (teaching, research, service, and economic development), company goals, and local and state economies. Topics for discussion include existing national programs that universities and companies can use as a basis for research collaboration that can lead to economic development at the regional, state, and national levels; successful (and not so successful) strategies for university-industry engagement; strengthening graduate and undergraduate research; technology commercialization; career development and workforce pipelines; global competitiveness and influence; and the importance of diversity and inclusion in innovation teams.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

大学和公司之间存在着无数的合作机会，包括研究合作、技术商业化、课程支持、实习和工作。虽然大都市地区的公司和大学之间的关系是强大的创新生态系统的典型例子，可以很容易地促进大学与行业的合作关系，但非大都市地区的许多大学和公司都在努力创建类似的生态系统。许多研究密集型大学位于大都市地区以外。这些机构和行业之间的接触同样重要，因为它们对当地社区和国家的经济、教育和社会影响特别明显。大都市地区拥有非大都市地区无法获得的先天资产;然而，大都市模式的宝贵和可转化的经验教训可以在非大都市地区得到反映，以刺激创新和经济生态系统的创造和增长。非大都市地区和机构也拥有独特的属性和研究机会，可以利用这些机会来发展和建立与公司的关系，并加强该地区和国家的经济生态系统。这个国家科学基金会支持的研讨会将促进全国讨论大学和公司可以设计和实施的战略，以鼓励与机构和行业之间的伙伴关系，特别是当一方或双方位于大都市地区以外时。阿肯色州大学与大学-行业示范合作伙伴关系合作，将在阿肯色州费耶特维尔组织为期三天的论坛，让主要大都市地区以外的大学和公司考虑如何开发和发展强大的行业参与计划，以支持当地和州的创新生态系统。该研讨会将利用不同的专家，并招募来自美国大都市和非大都市地区的与会者参加讨论，讨论可供社区中的学术，企业，政府和非营利组织使用的实用方法。与会者将评估现有的国家模式，集思广益新的计划和想法，并制定可以采取的措施，以改善非大都市地区的学术企业参与，并支持与推进大学使命（教学，研究，服务和经济发展），公司目标，以及地方和国家经济的目标合作。讨论的主题包括现有的国家计划，大学和公司可以利用这些计划作为研究合作的基础，这些研究合作可以导致地区，州和国家层面的经济发展;成功的（但不太成功）大学-产业界合作战略;加强研究生和本科生研究;技术商业化;职业发展和劳动力管道;全球竞争力和影响力;该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。