PFI: Overcoming Cultural Barriers: An Innovation Model for Smaller University/Industry Partnerships

该奖项是根据2009年美国复苏和再投资法案资助的（公法111-5）这一创新伙伴关系项目-第三类：（C：A）宾夕法尼亚州立大学哈里斯堡分校（PSH），一个新的PFI计划机构之间的伙伴关系（定义为从未获得PFI资助的人）和宾夕法尼亚州立大学-大学公园（PFI），美国国家科学基金会PFI毕业生（0090393）寻求克服工业/大学文化鸿沟，通过建立新的合作伙伴关系，为创新之间的大学和企业在中南部宾夕法尼亚州。新建立的伙伴关系将通过广泛和深入的专门知识、知识和物质资源的共享以及严格的内部和外部评价程序来推动创新技术。该项目建立在从相关研究文献中获得的关于创新伙伴关系的先前知识以及从PFI毕业的PFI的努力中吸取的经验教训的基础上。所提议的模式是根据有关创新与以技术为基础的经济发展之间的联系的文献提出的。该项目的目标是基于一个三阶段的认识，技能培训和实施的方法。该项目将通过该地区的教学和培训，在多个有针对性的商业部门和相关学科中推进发现。该项目的更广泛影响包括消除区域产业/大学合作障碍;与数千名教师和数万名学生进行外联，多种传播策略;以及较小的学术机构，小企业和代表性不足的群体的广泛参与。项目开始时的合作伙伴是学术机构：宾夕法尼亚州立大学哈里斯堡分校（PSH）（牵头机构）、宾夕法尼亚州立大学-大学园区（宾夕法尼亚大学）、迪金森学院、富兰克林和马歇尔学院、宾夕法尼亚州切尼大学、伊丽莎白敦学院、哈里斯堡地区社区学院、哈里斯堡科技大学、弥赛亚学院、米勒斯维尔大学和希彭斯堡大学;私营部门合作伙伴：甘尼特·弗莱明、使命研究、模具技术、基石生物燃料、材料传感和仪器;经济发展合作伙伴：兰开斯特基石创新区，宾夕法尼亚州中部和北方的本富兰克林技术合作伙伴，本富兰克林风险投资论坛，首都地区经济发展公司（CREDC），宾夕法尼亚州中部的生命科学温室，中央PA技术理事会/技术探索，创新转移网络。

This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5)This Partnerships for Innovation (PFI) project--a Type III: (C: A) partnership between Pennsylvania State University-Harrisburg (PSH), an institution new to the PFI Program (defined as one that has never been a PFI grantee) and Pennsylvania State University-University Park (PSUP), an NSF PFI graduate (0090393) seeks to overcome the industry/university cultural chasm by forging new partnerships for innovation between universities and businesses in South Central Pennsylvania. Newly formed partnerships will advance innovative technologies as a result of breadth and depth of expertise, sharing of intellectual and physical resources, and rigorous internal and external evaluation procedures. The project builds on prior knowledge about partnerships for innovation from relevant research literature and in lessons learned from the efforts of the PSUP graduated PFI. The proposed model is based on the literature on links between innovation and technology-based economic development for the types of institutions involved. The project goals are based on a three-phase approach of awareness, skill training, and implementation presented. The project will advance discovery via teaching and training in the region, in multiple, targeted business sectors and related academic disciplines. The broader impacts of the project include removing regional industry/university collaboration barriers; outreach to thousands of faculty and tens of thousands of students, multiple dissemination strategies; and broad participation by smaller academic institutions, small businesses, and underrepresented groups. Partners at the inception of the project are Academic Institutions: Pennsylvania State University-Harrisburg (PSH) (lead institution), Pennsylvania State University-University Park (PSUP), Dickinson College, Franklin and Marshall College, Cheyney University of Pennsylvania, Elizabethtown College, Harrisburg Area Community College, Harrisburg University of Science and Technology, Messiah College, Millersville University, and Shippensburg University; Private Sector Partners: Gannett Fleming, Mission Research, Die Tech, Keystone BioFuels, Material Sensing and Instrumentation; and Economic Development Partners: Lancaster Keystone Innovation Zone, Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Central and Northern PA, Ben Franklin Venture Investment Forum, Capital Region Economic Development Corporation (CREDC), Life Sciences Greenhouse of Central PA, Technology Council of Central PA/Tech Quest, Innovation Transfer Network (ITN).