AIR: Water Technology Innovation Ecosystem

NSF I/UCRC水与环境技术(WET)中心与本·富兰克林技术合作伙伴(BFTP)合作，提议建立水技术创新生态系统，以促进新水处理技术的商业化。这一伙伴关系的目标是确保作为一个区域创新生态系统的长期增长和可持续性。这一伙伴关系将帮助制造业、城市废水和饮用水处理厂、设备供应商和工程设计公司提供水和废水问题的解决方案。中心的工程师和科学家将利用微生物、化学、水文和数学方法合作进行翻译研究。教师和学生将与行业代表合作，在他们关于水质和新出现的污染物的研究的基础上，学习创业精神。由此产生的创新生态系统的压倒一切的智力优势将是以行业需求为重点的转化研究和商业化计划的影响，这些计划将加强科学和商业理解，以解决重大的健康和环境问题。创新生态系统将包括教师研究人员、研究生和本科生与行业代表创造性地合作。该生态系统将进一步加强在课堂教学中整合研究的持续努力。许多成员公司都有国际业务，学生将接触到不同国家的监管、技术、社会和文化方面，增强他们的全球体验。创新生态系统将包括坦普尔大学教师科学和数学评估与研究(TU-SMART)，其使命是改善费城地区K-12 STEM教与学和学生表现的基础设施；以及由NSF资助的坦普尔学习科学中心，重点是教育儿童。研究项目的成果将在会议上公布，并在科学期刊和商业杂志上发表。创新生态系统将导致收入大幅增长，并为全美受影响的公司创造高科技就业机会。

The NSF I/UCRC Water and Environmental Technology (WET) Center, in partnership with the Ben Franklin Technology Partners (BFTP), propose to establish a Water Technology Innovation Ecosystem to advance the commercialization of new water treatment technologies. The goal for this Partnership is to assure long term growth and sustainability as a regional innovation ecosystem. This partnership will assist manufacturing industries, municipal wastewater and drinking water treatment plants, equipment vendors and engineering design firms in providing solutions to water and wastewater issues. Center engineers and scientists utilizing microbial, chemical, hydrologic, and mathematic approaches will work collaboratively to perform the translational research. Faculty and students will work with industry representatives and build upon their research dealing with water quality and emerging contaminants, and learn about entrepreneurship. The overriding intellectual merit of the resulting Innovation Ecosystem will be the impact of industrial need-focused translational research and commercialization programs, which will enhance scientific and business understanding to address a major health and environmental problem. The Innovation Ecosystem will involve faculty researchers, graduate and undergraduate students working creatively with industrial representatives. The Ecosystem will further enhance the ongoing efforts of integrating research in classroom teaching. Many member companies have international operations, and students will be exposed to regulatory, technological, social and cultural aspects of different countries, enhancing their global experience. The Innovation Ecosystem will involve the Temple University Science and Mathematics Assessment and Research for Teachers (TU-SMART), whose mission is to improve the infrastructure for K-12 STEM teaching and learning and student performance in the Philadelphia region; and the NSF-funded Science of Learning Center at Temple with focus on educating children. Results from research projects will be presented at Conferences and published in scientific journals and business magazines. The Innovation Ecosystem will result in significant revenue growth and creation of high technology jobs in impacted companies across the US.