Research Infrastructure: KCV EDGE (Equitable and Diverse Grant Ecosystem)

KCV EDGE建立在肯塔基州科学技术公司为肯塔基州公立学院和大学提供的集中技术转让机制的基础上，并利用肯塔基州经济发展内阁等合作伙伴关系，在区域机构中建立竞争力和能力，以确保和管理研究赠款。创新的KCV EDGE共享、规模化服务模式通过提供精简、有针对性的商业化、融资和合作机会，为合作机构提供了一种具有成本效益、可运营和包容性的增长机制。 KCV EDGE将彻底改变高等教育的区域，农村，少数民族服务和技术机构的能力，通过为赠款提案撰写，管理/合规，技术商业化和领导力发展提供协调，全面的支持，在获得和管理研究资金方面取得成功。该计划旨在成为国家转型的催化剂。具体而言，它旨在通过为参与机构配备人员以支持扩大研究企业的努力，建立评估项目影响的报告系统，评估研究挑战和成功，以及创建和实施研究商业化和赠款管理的加速器模式，为新兴研究机构消除障碍。KCV EDGE将为肯塔基州作为研究中心的竞争力做出贡献，同时在该地区创造高质量的就业机会。影响将在地区，农村，少数民族服务和高等教育社区的技术机构中实现，为全国各地的研究机构发展和为后代建立成功的社区增强研究景观。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而被认为值得支持。

KCV EDGE builds on the Kentucky Science & Technology Corporation’s centralized technology transfer mechanism for Kentucky’s public colleges and universities and leverages partnerships such as the Kentucky Cabinet for Economic Development to build competitiveness and capacity in regional institutions for securing and managing research grants. The innovative KCV EDGE model of shared, scaled services acts as a cost-effective, operational, and inclusive growth mechanism for partner institutions by providing lean, targeted approaches to commercialization, funding, and partnership opportunities. KCV EDGE will revolutionize the ability for regional, rural, minority-serving, and technical institutions of higher learning to achieve success in gaining and administering research funding by providing coordinated, holistic support for grant proposal writing, administration/compliance, technology commercialization, and leadership development. The program is designed to be a catalyst for national transformation. Specifically, it aims to dismantle barriers for emerging research institutions by staffing participating institutions to support expanding efforts in research enterprise, establishing reporting systems to assess project impacts, evaluating research challenges and successes, and creating and implementing an accelerator model for research commercialization and grant administration. KCV EDGE will contribute to the competitiveness of Kentucky as a center for research while creating high-quality jobs in the region. Impact will be realized in regional, rural, minority-serving, and technical institutions of higher learning communities, enhancing the research landscape for developing research institutions across the country and building communities of success for future generations.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.