Conference: GRANTED Building a Regional Research Ecosystem among Emerging and Minority Serving Universities and Community Partners

该项目是弗吉尼亚州中部地区新兴研究型大学和社区合作伙伴之间的一系列会议，将发展、组织和支持建立区域研究生态系统的努力。这一区域合作努力将加强人力资本资产和技术转让以及公私研究伙伴关系，在整个区域努力增加接触研究人员、导师、研究管理人员和技术转让专家的机会。召集会议还将有助于发展和分享共同的培训和专业发展机会。以前的合作努力表明，以下目标将对弗吉尼亚州联邦中部地区的研究企业产生最大影响：1)增加技术转让和知识产权保护的知识；鉴于地区大学和合作伙伴的多样性，这也创造了机会，探索社会科学和人文研究的技术转让机会的潜力，以及研究成果的翻译如何为非营利性和营利性商业部门服务。2)建设人力资本，包括科研管理队伍、科研领导力、学生科研培训和领导力。3)为研究和翻译建立公私和社区合作伙伴关系；努力协调网络、项目和资源。该项目的主要参与者是弗吉尼亚州立大学、诺福克州立大学、朗伍德大学、弗吉尼亚联邦大学和激活资本。国家专业组织STEM卓越教学研究所(TIES)也是合作者。这一奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This project, a series of convenings among emerging research universities and community partners in the Central region of the Commonwealth of Virginia, will develop, organize, and support efforts to build a regional research ecosystem. This regional collaborative effort will strengthen human capital assets and technology transfer and public-private research partnerships by working across the region to increase access to researchers, mentors, research administrators, and tech transfer specialists. The convenings will also assist in the development and sharing of common training and professional development opportunities. Previous collaborative efforts suggest that the following goals will have maximum impact on the research enterprise in the Central region of the Commonwealth of Virginia: 1) Increase knowledge of technology transfer and intellectual property protection; given the diversity of regional universities and partners, this also creates opportunities to explore the potential of technology transfer opportunities for social sciences and humanities research and how translation of research serves the non-profit and for-profit business sectors. 2) Building human capital, which includes the research administrative workforce, research leadership, and student research training and leadership. 3) Build public-private and community partnerships for research and translation; working to coordinate networks, projects, and resources. Primary participants in the project are Virginia State University, Norfolk State University, Longwood University, Virginia Commonwealth University, and Activation Capital. The national professional organization, Teaching Institute for Excellence in STEM (TIES), is also a collaborator.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.