The Sustainable Heartland Accelerator Regional Partnership (SHARP) Hub

可持续中心地带加速器区域合作伙伴关系 (SHARP) 中心

• 批准号: 9983367
• 负责人: Becky Aistrup
• 金额: $ 25万
• 依托单位: BBC ENTREPRENUERIAL TRAINING AND CONSULTING, LLC
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-09-01 至 2021-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9983367
• 关键词: Academia; Address; Advisory Committees; Award; Basic Science; Biological Sciences; Biomedical Research; Biomedical Technology; Businesses; Communication; Consult; Development; Economics; Ecosystem; Educational Curriculum; Elements; Endowment; Entrepreneurship; Equipment and supply inventories; Evaluation; Event; Faculty; Fees; Fostering; Funding; Goals; Grant; Health Sciences; Home environment; Infrastructure; Institution; Investments; Kansas; Knowledge; Leadership; Licensing; Link; Medical center; Mentors; Modeling; Nebraska; Network Infrastructure; North Dakota; Oklahoma; Patients; Pharmacy Schools; Phase; Pilot Projects; Process; Program Development; Protocols documentation; Recording of previous events; Research Personnel; Resources; Science; Services; Small Business Technology Transfer Research; South Dakota; Structure; Students; Teacher Professional Development; Technology; Technology Transfer; Training; Translating; Translations; United States National Institutes of Health; Universities; base; commercial application; commercialization; design; experience; innovation; network models; outreach; programs; prototype; research and development; success; symposium; tool

Project Summary/Abstract Despite the investment of billions of dollars in biomedical research each year from NIH, barriers remain in effectively translating basic science discoveries from academia to commercial products that benefit patients. These barriers include a funding gap between basic research and commercial developments, a lack of knowledge by innovators on how to bring products to market, and a lack of sufficient commercialization resources required for early-stage developments. To address this need, this project will develop a five state biomedical technology transfer accelerator hub serving the Central Region IDeA states (Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma, North Dakota and South Dakota). This accelerator hub will be called the Sustainable Heartland Accelerator Regional Partnership (SHARP) Hub. Led by BBC Entrepreneurial Training and Consulting LLC (BBCetc) and the University of Kansas (KU), SHARP Hub will implement a three-pronged approach to include a mentoring program, an entrepreneurial training curriculum, and networking and outreach tools. These resources will be available to universities or regional consortia to develop technology commercialization capacity in the health sciences. The long term goal is creation of a self-sustaining, regional biomedical technology transfer accelerator that will increase the number of biomedical technologies translated and new startups formed. In the first phase of the project, we will use the extensive training experience of BBCetc and the life science expertise at KU to build the leadership and governance framework of the accelerator hub, and establish the mentoring program, training curricula, and networking infrastructure at KU. During the first phase, we will also build relationships with targeted universities in the other four states of the Central Region, sign a memorandum of understanding with these universities, and host a regional conference. In the second phase of the project, we will roll out the mentoring program, training curricula and networking resources to the other four states. During the second phase, we also aim to implement a grant program to selected pilot projects using matching funds from outside of NIH dollars. To sustain SHARP Hub at the completion of the second phase, we intend license materials and protocols to biomedical technology transfer offices at universities nationwide with incremental services for a fee.

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