Fostering entrepreneurship in biomedical research

培养生物医学研究创业精神

• 批准号: 8998210
• 负责人: Mercedes Rincon
• 金额: $ 44.01万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT & ST AGRIC COLLEGE
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-04-01 至 2021-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8998210
• 关键词: Academia; Acceleration; Alaska; Applications Grants; Area; Authorization documentation; Biomedical Research; Businesses; Clinical Research; Conflict (Psychology); Devices; Economics; Educational workshop; Entrepreneurship; Environment; Evaluation; Faculty; Fostering; Frequencies; Funding; Funding Mechanisms; Generations; Goals; Grant; Growth; Guidelines; Healthcare; Institution; Instruction; Internships; Maine; Marketing; Mentors; Mission; National Institute of General Medical Sciences; New Hampshire; Occupations; Participant; Patients; Postdoctoral Fellow; Principal Investigator; Process; Puerto Rico; Research; Research Training; Rhode Island; Scientist; Skills Development; Small Business Innovation Research Grant; Small Business Technology Transfer Research; Structure; Training; Training Programs; Translations; United States National Institutes of Health; Universities; Vermont; bench to bedside; commercialization; disease diagnosis; education research; graduate student; improved; indexing; innovation; interest; meetings; outreach; program dissemination; programs; public health relevance; response; responsible research conduct; skill acquisition

 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Biomedical entrepreneurship is a field rapidly emerging from academia. Federal funding is continuously committed to support the generation of biomedical small businesses (SBIR and STTR grant mechanisms). Despite the large number of scientists in biomedical research, the number of scientists who are interested in entrepreneurship and are willing to move forward their discoveries to the business world is however very limited. This is in part due to dogma associating entrepreneurship with financial interest instead of associating it with acceleration of health care improvement. Training in innovation and entrepreneurship is currently not accessible to all biomedical research. At the University of Vermont we recently established the SPARK-VT program to support funding for entrepreneurial biomedical research with the goal of improving the process of moving innovative ideas on disease diagnosis, therapy or device from bench to bedside. Within the scope to the "Innovative Programs to Enhance Research Training" (IPERT) R25 FOA from NIGMS the overall goal of this application is to develop an entrepreneurial training program that promotes entrepreneurship in biomedical and clinical research and facilitates the transition of innovative ideas from the bench to bedside and discoveries into the marketplace. This program will be open to graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and faculty from the University of Vermont, but also to institutions from specific IDeA States (Alaska, Puerto Rico, Maine, Rhode Island, and New Hampshire). The program will use a variety of approaches to provide contemporary training in entrepreneurship: 1) to foster skills development in entrepreneurship the program will provide workshops by experts in the field, an intensive course in biomedical entrepreneurship, and small pilot grants for innovative ideas; 2) to foster mentoring the program will provide one-to-one mentoring and internships for biomedical small business; 3) to enhance outreach and dissemination the program will be offered to some of the IDeA states, and participants will be able to attend selected national meetings.

 描述（由申请人提供）：生物医学创业是一个迅速从学术界新兴的领域。联邦资金不断致力于支持生物医学小企业的产生（SBIR和STTR赠款机制）。尽管有大量的科学家从事生物医学研究，但对创业感兴趣并愿意将其发现推向商业世界的科学家数量非常有限。这部分是由于将创业与经济利益联系在一起的教条，而不是将其与加速医疗保健改善联系在一起。目前，并非所有生物医学研究都能获得创新和创业培训。在佛蒙特大学，我们最近建立了SPARK-VT计划，以支持创业生物医学研究的资金，目标是改善将疾病诊断，治疗或设备的创新想法从实验室转移到床边的过程。在NIGMS的“增强研究培训的创新计划”（IPERT）R25 FOA的范围内，该应用程序的总体目标是开发一个创业培训计划，促进生物医学和临床研究中的创业精神，并促进创新观念的转变从实验室到床边，并将发现带入市场。该计划将向佛蒙特大学的研究生，博士后研究员和教师开放，但也向来自特定IDEA州（阿拉斯加，波多黎各，缅因州，罗得岛和新罕布什尔州）的机构开放。该方案将采用各种方法提供当代创业培训：1）促进创业技能发展，该方案将提供该领域专家的讲习班，生物医学创业强化课程，以及创新想法的小额试点赠款; 2）促进指导，该方案将为生物医学小企业提供一对一的指导和实习; 3）为了加强外联和传播，该方案将提供给一些IDEA国家，参与者将能够参加选定的国家会议。