Innovation in the Bioeconomy: Workshops to catalyze translation and partnerships

该奖项旨在资助围绕以下主题的五个生物技术相关研讨会：（i）可持续地养活地球，（ii）无废物的世界：循环生物经济，（iii）走向更健康的地球：从分子到生态系统，（iv）生物减缓气候变化，以及（v）生物经济生态系统和社会。每一个主题都有一套四个总体目标：（a）审查与重大社会挑战有关的生物技术领域，在这些领域，增加研究可以产生可转化的影响;（B）探索跨学科科学领域，在这些领域，发现和创新可以在一个持续的时期内形成良性循环;（c）确定建立伙伴关系的时机已经成熟的领域，以利用各部门的专门知识和资源;以及（d）促进研究界快速和大规模地参与翻译、创新和伙伴关系。总的来说，研讨会旨在解决所需的需求，通过收集学术界和工业界跨学科团队的必要专业知识进行讨论，以共同产生知识，发现和创新，使翻译能够快速和大规模地实践，从而弥合发现，创新和翻译之间的脱节。这五个研讨会将使用在线平台举行。该系列研讨会将通过召集专家来应对可持续生产粮食的社会挑战，创建减少浪费的循环生物经济，利用生物技术进步改善健康，利用生物技术减轻气候变化的影响，探索生物经济创新生态系统的独特方面。生物技术、合成生物学和工程生物学的进步正在带来快速的经济增长，并导致新型生物材料的产生，改变了食品、农业和制药行业，为信息存储和可再生能源提供新的能力，并创造新的靶向医学疗法。为了充分发挥这些研究进展的转化潜力，有必要将来自学术界、工业界和更广泛的利益攸关方生态系统的其他部分的生物技术和相关领域的专家和从业人员聚集在一起，参与发现和创新的良性循环，从而产生社会影响。这一系列的五个讲习班，侧重于不同的重大社会挑战，设想了学术和工业部门之间的新的互动模式，这是必要的，以创造必要的环境，促进发现和创新，导致快速翻译。该奖项是由生物科学局共同资助;计算机和信息科学与工程;工程;地球科学;数学和物理科学;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。

This award is intended to fund a series of five biotechnology-related workshops around the following themes (i) Feeding the Planet Sustainably, (ii) World Without Waste: a circular bioeconomy, (iii) Towards a Healthier Planet: from molecules to ecosystems, (iv) Biological Mitigation of Climate Change, and (v) Bioeconomy Ecosystem and Society. Each of these themes will have a set of four overarching goals (a) Examine biotechnology areas associated with significant societal challenge where increased research could yield translatable impacts; (b) Explore interdisciplinary science areas where a virtuous cycle of discovery and innovation over a sustained period is possible; (c) Identify areas ripe for partnerships that will leverage expertise and resources across sectors; and (d) Catalyze the research community to engage in translation, innovation, and partnership at speed and scale. Overall, the workshops are intended to address the required needs to bridge the disconnect among discovery, innovation, and translation into practice by assembling for discussion the necessary expertise from interdisciplinary teams across academia and industry to co-generate knowledge, discovery, and innovation to enable the translation to practice at speed and scale. The five workshops will be held using an on-line platform. The series of workshop will contribute to the enhancement and improvement of scientific, engineering, and/or educational activities by convening experts to address the societal challenges of producing food sustainably, creating a circular bioeconomy that will reduce waste, using advances in biotechnology to improve health, leveraging biotechnology to mitigate the impacts of climate change, and exploring the unique aspects of bioeconomy innovation ecosystems.Advances in biotechnology, synthetic and engineering biology are producing rapid economic growth and are leading to novel biomaterials, transforming the food, agriculture and pharmaceutical industries, enabling new capabilities for information storage and renewable energy and creating new kinds of targeted medical therapies. To achieve the full translational potential of these research advances, there is a need to bring together experts and practitioners in biotechnology and associated fields from academia, industry, and other parts of the broader ecosystem of stakeholders to engage in a virtuous cycle of discovery and innovation that will yield societal impacts. This series of five workshops, focused on different grand societal challenges, contemplates new paradigms of engagement between academic and industrial sectors that are necessary to create the requisite environment to foster both discovery and innovation that leads to rapid translation.This award is co-funded by the Directorates for Biological Sciences; Computer and Information Sciences and Engineering; Engineering; Geosciences; Mathematical and Physical Sciences; and Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences; along with the Office of Integrative Activities.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.