ART: Research to Solutions, Building Translational Capacity in the Central Florida Innovation Ecosystem

该项目将加速中央佛罗里达大学（UCF）对以中央佛罗里达地区为中心的区域和全球创新生态系统的贡献。UCF是为研究翻译准备的强大和支持性创新生态系统的一部分。UCF与航天，航空航天，健康，国防（光学和激光，AI/ML/计算机视觉，数字孪生，仿真和建模），能源等部门建立了合作伙伴关系。加速UCF研究成果转化将创造巨大的经济发展机会，因为UCF已经产生了高水平的基础研究。该项目将创建连接UCF产生的基础研究所需的基础设施，并培养多样化的人才，以满足中央佛罗里达生态系统和国家生态系统的需求。 由于工业部门（空间，航空航天，国防和能源），以及所涉及公司的全球性质，该项目将对经济增长，社会福祉和国家安全产生国家和全球积极影响。该项目将提高UCF的研究翻译能力，西班牙裔服务机构（HSI），通过建立缺失的基础设施和利用现有的基础设施，并在指导机构格鲁吉亚理工学院（一家高级研究转化机构）的帮助下，该项目将围绕以下重点开展沿着活动：（1）通过创建直接支持翻译的创业实验室，以及重组创业支持组织，以遵循与我们的导师机构类似的更先进的模式，提高研究翻译能力。(2)通过工程学院、计算机科学学院和商学院的循证创业教育的重新规划和扩展，扩大整个校园学生的教育和培训机会;并扩大研究生毕业后可以追求的途径，包括创业发展和工业研发。(3)招募，指导和支持六个种子转化研究项目，旨在发展成为成功的技术创业公司。(4)创建，扩大和维持来自行业和社区合作伙伴的创业和创新大使网络，以支持项目目标1- 3。该项目部分得到NSF的路易斯·斯托克斯少数民族参与联盟计划的支持。该项目的部分资金由改善本科生STEM教育（IUSE）计划提供，该计划支持改善所有本科生的STEM教学和学习。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力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 project will accelerate the University of Central Florida’s (UCF’s) contributions to the regional and global innovation ecosystem centered in the Central Florida area. UCF is part of a strong and supportive innovation ecosystem primed for research translation. UCF has partnerships and collaborations with the sectors of space, aerospace, health, defense (optics and lasers, AI/ML/computer vision, digital twin, simulation, and modeling), energy, and many others. Accelerating UCF research translation will create an enormous economic development opportunity since UCF already produces high levels of fundamental research. This project will create the infrastructure needed to connect fundamental research produced by UCF and to train diverse talent to meet the needs of the Central Florida ecosystem and the nation’s ecosystem. Because of the industry sectors (space, aerospace, defense, and energy), and the global nature of the companies involved, this project will have national and global positive impact on economic growth, societal wellbeing, and national security.This project will enhance the research translation capacity of UCF, a Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI), by building missing and by leveraging existing infrastructure with the assistance of mentoring institution, Georgia Tech, a high research translational institution. The project will undertake activities along the following key thrusts: (1) Enhance research translation capacity by creating a Venture Lab to directly support translation, and by reorganizing entrepreneurial support organizations to follow a more advanced model similar to our mentor institution. (2) Expand the educational and training opportunities for students across campus with reprograming and expansions of evidence-based entrepreneurship education at the colleges of engineering and computer science and business; and expand the pathways graduate students can pursue after graduation to include startup development and industrial research and development. (3) Recruit, mentor, and support six seed translational research projects aimed to be developed into successful technology startups. (4) Create, expand, and sustain a network of entrepreneurship and innovation ambassadors from industry and community partners in support of the project objectives 1-3.The project is partially supported by NSF’s Louis Stokes Alliances for Minority Participation program. Partial funding for this project was provided by the Improving Undergraduate STEM Education (IUSE) program, which supports improvements in STEM teaching and learning for all undergraduate students.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.