ART: STRIDE - Stimulating Translation of Research via Intentional Development and Ecosystem

大学在科学和工程方面的基础研究的发现和创新已经成为国家健康、繁荣和福利进步的基石。为了将这些创新转化为经济和社会效益，大学教师、学者和学生将需要不同于他们的学术培训和支持的技能，而这些支持在大多数大学中往往是稀缺的。克莱姆森大学（Clemson University）在过去十年中，赞助研究的增长强劲而稳定；然而，其研究翻译的速度仍然处于较低水平。该项目名为“通过有意发展和生态系统刺激研究翻译”（STRIDE），将广泛吸引克莱姆森大学的利益相关者，根据大学的土地赠款承诺，确定大学研究翻译能力的限制因素和重大转变之路。STRIDE的目标包括：制定路线图，在技术转移办公室、学院和创新中心发展大学的研究翻译支持基础设施；授权教职员工和学生从事研究性翻译，并在整个学院建立研究性翻译支持实体；为有潜力的翻译研究项目提供资金和其他支持。STRIDE将在所有学院开展培训项目和参与活动，以支持其教育、研究、经济和社会使命。STRIDE还将通过联合项目开发和创新阶段的精简支持，使该地区的创新生态系统比以往任何时候都更加紧密。多样性、公平性、包容性和可及性将指导STRIDE从参与者和创新项目的吸收到翻译成果。STRIDE将与克莱姆森大学的战略举措密切配合，以扩大其影响。STRIDE将显著提高思想和知识转化为有形产品、服务、工具和方法的规模和速度，通过创建下一代劳动力和大学支持研究翻译的框架，最终创造持久的经济和/或社会影响。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，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。

Discoveries and innovations from universities’ foundational research in science and engineering have been the cornerstone for advancements in the nation’s health, prosperity, and welfare. To translate such innovations into economic and societal benefits, university faculty, scholar, and students will need skillsets different from their academic training and supports often scarce in most universities. Clemson University has seen strong, steady growth in sponsored research in the past decade; its pace of research translation, however, has remained at a lower level. This project, titled Stimulating Translation of Research via Intentional Development and Ecosystem (STRIDE), will broadly engage Clemson University stakeholders to identify the limiting factors and a path toward significant transformation in the university’s research translation capacity, in line with the university’s land grant commitment. STRIDE’s goals include: bootstrapping a roadmap to grow the university’s research translation support infrastructure in the technology transfer office, colleges, and innovation center; empower faculty and students to pursue research translation and create research translation support entities across the institution; provide financial and other support to seed translational research projects with high potential for impactful translation. STRIDE will develop training programs and engagement activities across all colleges to support its education, research, economic, and societal missions. STRIDE will also bring the region’s innovation ecosystem closer than ever through joint program developments and streamlined support through stages of innovation. Diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility considerations will guide STRIDE from intake of participants and innovation projects to translation outcomes. STRIDE will be closely aligned with the Clemson Elevate university strategic initiatives to multiply its impacts. STRIDE will significantly enhance the scale and pace of translation of ideas and knowledge into tangible products, services, tools, and methods that will ultimately create lasting economic and/or societal impacts through creation of the next generation workforce and university support framework for research translation.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.