Partnership to Accelerate Commercialization of Kansas Bioscience Products and Technologies

该奖项授予堪萨斯州立大学，用于支持以下36个月的活动。该提案是根据创新伙伴关系项目招标（NSF-04556）提交的。合作伙伴包括堪萨斯州立大学（领导机构）、先进制造研究所（AMI）、农业创新中心（AIC）、生物加工和工业增值计划（BIVAP）、堪萨斯州商务部（KDOC）、堪萨斯州企业家和中小型制造商、堪萨斯州技术企业公司（KTEC）、劳伦斯区域技术中心（LRTC）、中美洲商业化公司（MACC）、增值业务发展计划（VABDP）。主要目标是：1)创建一个结构化的过程来识别成熟的大学知识产权；2)创建将生物科学相关研究和应用中的知识、发明和发现转化为可行产品所需的基础设施；3)在整个大学和州推广这种早期技术开发（ESTD）服务；4)培养未来的劳动力来开发新的生物科学产品和技术。潜在的经济影响这项活动将为堪萨斯州的整体经济带来良好的发展。它将增加对堪萨斯州公司的技术转让；促进堪萨斯州科技型企业的形成和发展；增加新产品投放市场；并提供获得工程资源的途径，大大加快了堪萨斯州基于生物科学的新产品、工艺和技术的开发和强化。该项目的智力价值是同时开发和正式制定一个过程，以加速生物科学产品和技术的商业开发，并为堪萨斯州未来的技术工程师和企业家提供有意义的est经验。这项活动的更广泛影响集中在为堪萨斯公民创造财富和高薪工作上。此外，创建一个对技术创造者/发明者和接受者都有利的模型过程，将刺激公司和大学实验室创造的知识产权转化为商业产品。本科生和研究生都将参与并接受有关商业化活动的教育，因此，堪萨斯未来的技术企业家将学习如何定义和实施成功的生物科学ESTD项目。

0438691KramerThis award is to Kansas 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-04556).PartnersThe partners include Kansas State University (Lead Institution), Advanced Manufacturing Institute (AMI), Agricultural Innovation Center (AIC), Bioprocessing & Industrial Value-Added Program (BIVAP), Kansas Department of Commerce (KDOC), Kansas Entrepreneurs & Small to Medium-Sized Manufacturers, Kansas Technology Enterprise Corporation (KTEC), Lawrence Regional Technology Center (LRTC), Mid-America Commercialization Corporation (MACC), and Value-Added Business Development Program (VABDP).The primary objectives are: 1) create a structured process to identify universityintellectual property that is ripe for development; 2) create the infrastructure needed to transformknowledge, inventions, and discoveries in bioscience-related research and applications into viableproducts; 3) market this Early Stage Technology Development (ESTD) service throughout the universityand state; and 4) prepare a future workforce to develop new bioscience products and technologies.Potential Economic ImpactThis activity will provide general economic well being in Kansas. It will increase the transfer of technologies to Kansas companies; stimulate the formation of and assist the development of technology-based businesses in Kansas; increase new products brought to market; and provide access to an engineering resource that significantly accelerates the development and hardening of new bioscience-based products, processes, and technologies in Kansas.The intellectual merit of the project is to simultaneously develop and formalize a process to accelerate thecommercial development of bioscience products and technologies and provide meaningful ESTDexperience to Kansas's future technology engineers and entrepreneurs.The broader impacts of the activity concentrate on the creation of wealth and high-paying jobs for the citizens of Kansas. In addition, creating a model process that benefits both thetechnology creator/inventor and the recipient will stimulate transformation of intellectual property createdin both company and university laboratories into commercial products. Both undergraduate and graduatestudents will be involved and educated about commercialization activities and thus, Kansas futuretechnology entrepreneurs will learn to define and conduct successful bioscience ESTD projects.