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）：生物医学创业是学术界迅速兴起的一个领域。联邦资金持续致力于支持生物医学小型企业的产生（SBIR 和 STTR 拨款机制）。尽管从事生物医学研究的科学家数量众多，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却非常有限。这在一定程度上是由于人们将创业精神与经济利益联系起来，而不是将其与加速医疗保健改善联系起来。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，为创业型生物医学研究提供资金支持，其目标是改善将疾病诊断、治疗或设备的创新理念从实验室转移到临床的过程。在 NIGMS 的“增强研究培训创新计划”(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领域的创业精神，并促进创新理念从实验室到临床以及发现到市场的转变。该项目将向佛蒙特大学的研究生、博士后研究员和教师开放，同时也向 IDeA 特定州（阿拉斯加州、波多黎各、缅因州、罗德岛州和新罕布什尔州）的机构开放。该计划将采用多种方法提供当代创业培训：1）为了促进创业技能发展，该计划将提供由该领域专家举办的研讨会、生物医学创业强化课程以及针对创新想法的小额试点资助； 2）为了促进指导，该计划将为生物医学小型企业提供一对一的指导和实习； 3) 为了加强推广和传播，该计划将向一些 IDeA 成员国提供，参与者将能够参加选定的国家会议。