PFI: Kansas Bioprocessing Science and Engineering Center

创新伙伴关系（PFI）项目-堪萨斯州立大学(NSF PFI毕业生（0438691）和匹兹堡州立大学（PSU） （PFI计划的新机构）之间的III型（a:C）合作伙伴关系（定义为从未成为PFI受助人的机构）-寻求同时开发和正式化一个过程，以加速生物科学产品的商业开发。为堪萨斯州未来的技术工程师和企业家提供有意义的早期技术开发（ESTD）经验。该项目将加速生物科学发现的商业化运动，为领先的农业生物技术州和地区，堪萨斯州。特别是，设计从目前的生物基废物流（包括乙醇生产加工流）中产生更多价值的方法是有价值的。该项目代表了将该州世界级农业和生物科学投资与新的创新方法联系起来的新方法，特别是扩大生物加工的方法。该项目将提高堪萨斯州的总体经济水平。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；并提供协调的早期技术开发（ESTD）资源，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。主要的社会影响将是为堪萨斯公民创造财富和高薪工作。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商业化活动的教育，因此，堪萨斯州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。项目启动时的合作伙伴是学术机构：堪萨斯州立大学（牵头机构）、匹兹堡州立大学（PSU）和堪萨斯州立奥拉创新校园；私营部门组织：Kansas Environmental Management Associates (KEMA) LLC.；生命线食品公司（圣约瑟夫，密苏里州）；MGP Ingredients, Inc.（艾奇森，KS）；以及州和地方政府：堪萨斯州生物科学管理局（KBA）和堪萨斯州技术企业公司（KTEC）。

This Partnerships for Innovation (PFI) project--a Type III (A:C) partnership between Kansas State University, an NSF PFI graduate (0438691), and Pittsburg State University (PSU), an institution new to the PFI Program (defined as one that has never been a PFI grantee)--seeks to simultaneously develop and formalize a process to accelerate the commercial development of bioscience products, processes and technologies and provide meaningful Early-Stage Technology Development (ESTD) experience to Kansas's future technology engineers and entrepreneurs. This project will accelerate the movement of bioscience discoveries to commercialization for a leading agricultural biotechnology state and region, Kansas. In particular, there is merit in designing ways to produce more value from current bio-based waste streams, including those from ethanol production processing streams. This project represents a new approach to linking world class agriculture and bioscience investments in the state to new innovation methods, particularly scale-up methods for bio-processing.The project will enhance general economic well being in Kansas. It will increase the transfer of technologies to Kansas companies; stimulate the formation and assist the development of technology-based businesses in Kansas; increase new products brought to market; and provide access to a coordinated Early-Stage Technology Development (ESTD) resource that significantly accelerates the development and hardening of new bioscience-based products, processes, and technologies in Kansas. The major societal impact will be the creation of wealth and high-paying jobs for the citizens of Kansas. In addition, creating a model process that benefits both the technology creator/inventor and the recipient will stimulate transformation of intellectual property created in both company and university laboratories into commercial products. Both undergraduate and graduate students will be involved in education about commercialization activities and thus, Kansas's future technology entrepreneurs will learn to define and conduct successful bioscience ESTD projects. Partners at the inception of the project are Academic Institutions: Kansas State University (lead institutions), Pittsburgh State University (PSU), and Kansas State Olathe-Innovation Campus; Private Sector Organizations: Kansas Environmental Management Associates (KEMA) LLC.; Lifeline Foods (St. Joseph, MO); MGP Ingredients, Inc. (Atchison, KS); and State and Local Government: Kansas Bioscience Authority (KBA) and Kansas Technology Enterprise Corporation (KTEC).