UNCP Biotechnology Business and Industrial Training Center

该奖项授予北卡罗来纳大学彭布罗克分校，以支持以下活动24个月。该提案是为了响应创新伙伴关系计划招标（NSF-03521）而提交的。合作伙伴合作伙伴包括北卡罗来纳大学彭布罗克分校（领导机构）、中央卡罗莱纳社区学院、费耶特维尔技术社区学院、里士满社区学院、罗布森社区学院、东南社区学院、卡罗莱纳商业和技术中心、Embrex公司、凯利科学资源、新不伦瑞克科学公司、惠氏疫苗、木材河政府委员会/劳动力发展委员会、罗布森经济发展办公室、和苏格兰郡政府。该奖项支持在北卡罗来纳州东南部建立和发展生物技术集群的区域性努力。它有一个广泛的目标，即刺激经济增长和提高该地区的经济福祉。北卡罗来纳大学彭布罗克经济、社区和专业发展区域中心将协调建立北卡罗来纳大学彭布罗克生物技术商业和工业培训中心。该中心将拥有一个从实验台到中试规模的发酵和生物技术设施，并将为生物技术相关的培训以及学术活动提供资源、课程和计划。这项活动的目标是通过加速生物技术公司的增长来增加区域高薪工作的数量，增加生物技术部门受过训练的劳动力，通过提供培训动员该区域代表性不足的人口，并向企业家提供技术和商业支助，包括与资金来源的联系。潜在的经济影响北卡罗莱纳州东南部经济不景气。这项努力将为代表性不足的群体提供教育和培训，使他们能够受雇于新兴的生物技术集群部门。劳动力的可用性将有助于吸引其他生物技术公司创造更多就业机会。这项工作是北卡罗来纳州生物技术计划的一部分。该活动的智力价值在于其重点是向学术界和工业界参与者提供最先进的生物技术知识和技能。它将成为一个以学术为主导的经济发展模式，可以转移到其他经济困难的农村地区。该活动的更广泛影响包括提高技术劳动力技能和培训K-16生物技术教师，增加代表性不足群体在创新企业中的参与，以及增加贫困地区的经济福祉。

0332650BrownThis award is to University of North Carolina at Pembroke to support the activity described below for 24 months. The proposal was submitted in response to the Partnerships for Innovation Program Solicitation (NSF-03521).PartnersThe partners include University of North Carolina at Pembroke (Lead Institution), Central Carolina Community College, Fayetteville Tech Community College, Richmond Community College, Robeson Community College, Southeastern Community College, Carolina Commerce and Technology Center, Embrex Incorporated, Kelly Scientific Resources, New Brunswick Scientific Company, Wyeth Vaccines, Lumber River Council of Governments/Workforce Development Board, Robeson Office of Economic Development, and Scotland County Government. This award supports regional efforts to foster the establishment and growth of a biotechnology cluster in southeastern North Carolina. It has a broad goal to stimulate economic growth and increase the economic well being of the region. The University of North Carolina Pembroke Regional Center for Economic, Community and Professional Development will coordinate the establishment of a University of North Carolina Pembroke Biotechnology Business and Industrial Training Center. The center will house a bench-to-pilot-scale fermentation and biotechnology facility and will provide the resources, curriculum, and programs for biotechnology-related training, as well as academic activities. The goals for the activity are to increase the number of regional higher paying jobs by accelerating the growth of biotechnology companies, increase the trained workforce in the biotechnology sector, mobilize the underrepresented populations in the region by providing training, and offer entrepreneurs technological and business support, including connections to sources of capital.Potential Economic ImpactSoutheastern North Carolina is economically distressed. The effort will provide education and training for underrepresented groups to make them employable by an emerging biotechnology cluster sector. The availability of a workforce will help attract other biotechnology companies creating more jobs. The effort is part of North Carolina's Biotechnology Initiative. The intellectual merit of the activity lies in its focus on providing state-of-the-art knowledge and skills in biotechnology to academic and industrial participants. It will serve as a model for academic-led economic development that can be transferred to other economically distressed rural regions.The broader impacts of the activity include improving technical workforce skills and training K-16 teachers in biotechnology, increasing participation of underrepresented group in the innovation enterprise, and increasing the economic well being of a distressed region.