ART: Facilitating Impactful New Entrepreneurs to Accelerate Research Translation (FINE ART)

该项目的重点是识别，培养与新兴企业家的关系，并促进他们的发展，以提高马萨诸塞州阿默斯特大学的能力，实现其发展良好的基础研究企业的转化影响。预期的结果是创建一个可持续的创新引擎，让学生和教师为创新经济做出贡献，缩短构思和风险企业之间的时间，为重大种子轮和风险投资做好准备，并建立接受DEI并开发满足重要社会需求的技术的企业。 该项目将为从本科生到高级教师的不同科学家和工程师群体提供技能，以将卓越的研究成果扩展到有影响力的转化成果。为了培养这样的翻译技能，教师，博士后和学生研究人员将嵌入ART网络（加速研究翻译）大使谁将作为榜样，同行导师和倡导者对社会有影响力的翻译研究，培训和支持，以发展技术和非技术或“软”翻译研究技能，并提供资源，包括小额赠款和种子赠款，支持和加速特定的转化研究里程碑。ART项目团队将管理一个伞式组织，作为1）跨传统“筒仓”的跨学科团队合作的推动者，2）以行业领导者/连续企业家的形式促进新“教师”，3）转化智力发展的家园和资源，4）管理种子转化研究项目（STRP），以加速特定的技术开发项目，5）建立一个特定的DEI子项目，与所有其他ART工作组合作的团队。项目团队还将与外部合作伙伴和其他ART网站合作，为经常被忽视的马萨诸塞州西部地区的创新生态系统开发最佳实践。该项目将释放马萨诸塞大学阿默斯特分校强大的基础研究企业的转化影响。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The focus of this project is to identify, foster relationships with, and facilitate the development of emerging entrepreneurs to increase the capacity of the University of Massachusetts Amherst to realize the translational impacts of its well-developed basic research enterprise. The expected outcome is to create a sustainable innovation engine to prepare students and faculty to contribute to the innovation economy, shorten timelines between ideation and de-risked enterprises ready for significant seed-round and venture capitalization, and establish enterprises that embrace DEI and develop technologies that address important societal needs. The project will equip diverse groups of scientists and engineers from undergraduates to senior faculty with skills to extend research excellence towards impactful translational outcomes. To develop such translational skills faculty, postdoctoral, and student researchers will be embedded in a network of ART (Accelerating Research Translation) Ambassadors who will serve as role models, peer mentors and advocates for societally impactful translational research, trained and supported to develop both technical and non-technical or ‘soft’ translational research skills, and provided with resources, including microgrants and seed grants, to support and accelerate specific translational research milestones. The ART project team will manage an umbrella organization to serve as 1) an enabler of interdisciplinary teamwork across traditional ‘silos’, 2) facilitator of new ‘teachers’ in the form of industry leaders/serial entrepreneurs, 3) a home and resource for translational intellectual development, 4) manage Seed Translational Research Projects (STRPs) to accelerate specific technology development projects and 5) establish a specific DEI sub-team that engages with all other ART working groups. The project team will also collaborate with external partners and other ART sites to develop best practices for an innovation ecosystem across the often-neglected region of Western Massachusetts. This project will unlock the translational impacts of the strong basic research enterprise at UMass Amherst.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.