Maryland Technology Partnership for Innovation

0332528 DeLoatch此奖项是摩根州立大学，以支持下面描述的活动36个月。 该提案是为了响应创新伙伴关系计划征集而提交的（NSF-03521）。合作伙伴合作伙伴包括摩根州立大学（牵头机构）、新兴技术中心、马里兰州技术开发公司、乔治王子县经济发展公司、切萨皮克湾地区卓越技术中心、地理中心公司、巴尔的摩大学技术商业化中心、马里兰州大学，马里兰州商业和经济发展系。Meridian管理集团、新市场增长基金、巨嘴鸟资本公司：这一伙伴关系的主要目标是将马里兰州的工业-大学技术转让基础设施所磨练的技术应用于将该州联邦实验室创造的知识转化为创造新财富和建立强大地方经济的创新的挑战。这一努力的主要社会影响是扩大代表性不足的机构和群体对国家经济的参与。马里兰州创新技术伙伴关系由一个财团（由摩根州立大学牵头）组成，该财团侧重于马里兰州三个经济困难地区的小公司：巴尔的摩市（困难的城市地区）、乔治王子县（少数民族人口众多的内郊区）和东海岸（贫困的农村地区）。超过20家公司将提供密集的，定制的技术和管理援助，以实施商业化战略，创造新的产品，从联邦技术，吸引私人资本，并创造就业机会，在经济困难的community.Potential Economic ImpactMaryland有更多的联邦研发实验室比任何其他国家（超过60亿美元，每年在校内研究），但马里兰州有许多经济困难的地区。该奖项的活动重点是提供基础设施，使这些实验室中的联邦研发新技术商业化，以改善三个经济困难的示范地区的经济福祉：城市、郊区和农村。大学的参与提供了技术和商业/管理专业知识，使新公司具有竞争力。私营部门和州/地区政府的经济发展活动提供了更有利的商业环境以及技术和管理专业知识。将在代表性不足群体人口众多的地区创造新的就业机会。管理计划足以使基础设施在合同终止后有很高的可能性继续维持下去。该活动的智力价值在于通过与大学、小企业、风险资本基金、孵化器以及地区和州政府机构的合作，开发一种将联邦实验室开发的技术商业化的模式。经济困难的社区没有从国家研究企业的活动中充分受益。各州通常不会在经济困难的社区部署技术开发计划。因此，这是一个相当新颖的方法，活动的更广泛影响集中在使代表性不足的群体参与创新企业。这项赠款由摩根州立大学（一所历史上的黑人大学）牵头，涉及少数民族比例很高的城市和郊区，以及经济困难和在技术创新企业中代表性不足的农村地区。

0332528DeLoatchThis award is to Morgan State University to support the activity described below for 36 months. The proposal was submitted in response to the Partnerships for Innovation Program Solicitation (NSF-03521).PartnersThe partners include Morgan State University (Lead Institution), Emerging Technology Center, Maryland Technology Development Corporation, Prince George's County Economic Development Corporation, Chesapeake Bay Region Technical Center of Excellence, Geo-Centers Incorporated, University of Baltimore Center for Technology Commercialization, University of Maryland, Maryland Department of Business and Economic Development. Meridian Management Group, New Market Growth Fund, Toucan Capital Corporation.The primary objective of this partnership is to apply the techniques honed by Maryland's industry-university technology transfer infrastructure to the challenge of transferring knowledge created by the State's federal laboratories into innovations that create new wealth and build strong local economies. The primary social impact of this effort is to broaden the participation of underrepresented institutions and groups in the nation's economy. The Maryland Technology Partnership for Innovation consists of a consortium (led by Morgan State University) that focuses on small companies in three economically distressed regions of the State of Maryland: the City of Baltimore (distressed urban area), Prince George's County (inner suburb with high minority population), and the Eastern Shore (depressed rural region). More than 20 companies will be provided with intensive, customized technical and managerial assistance to implement commercialization strategies that create new products from federal technologies, attract private capital, and create jobs in economically distressed communities.Potential Economic ImpactMaryland has more federal R&D laboratories than any other state (more than $6 billion annually in intramural research), yet Maryland has many economically distressed regions. The activities of this award focus on providing the infrastructure to commercialize new technologies from the federal R&D in these laboratories to improve the economic well being of three model regions hat are economically distressed: city, suburban, and rural. University involvement provides technical and business/management expertise to make the new companies competitive. The economic development activities of the private sector and state/regional governments provide a more favorable business climate as well as technical and managerial expertise. New jobs in regions with high population of underrepresented groups will result. The management plan is sufficient to give the infrastructure a very high probability of being sustained after the award has terminated.The intellectual merit of the activity lies in developing a model for commercialization of technology developed in federal laboratories via partnership with universities, small businesses, venture capital funds, incubators, and regional and state government agencies. Economically distressed communities do not fully benefit from the activities of the national research enterprise. States typically do not deploy their technology development programs in economically distressed communities. Thus this is a fairly novel approach.The broader impacts of the activity concentrate on involving underrepresented groups in the innovation enterprise. This grant is led by Morgan State University (a Historically Black University) and involves an urban and a suburban region with high percentages of underrepresented minorities, as well as a rural region that is economically distressed and underrepresented in the technology innovation enterprise.