Fostering entrepreneurship in biomedical research

 描述(申请人提供)：生物医学创业是一个迅速从学术界崛起的领域。联邦资金一直致力于支持生物医学小企业的产生(SBIR和STTR赠款机制)。尽管有大量的科学家从事生物医学研究，但对创业感兴趣并愿意将他们的发现推向商业世界的科学家数量非常有限。这在一定程度上是因为教条将创业与经济利益联系在一起，而不是将其与加速医疗保健改善联系在一起。目前，并非所有生物医学研究都能获得创新和创业方面的培训。在佛蒙特大学，我们最近建立了Spark-VT计划，以支持创业生物医学研究的资金，目标是改善将疾病诊断、治疗或设备的创新想法从工作台转移到床边的过程。在NIGMS的“加强研究培训的创新计划”(IPERT)R25 FOA的范围内，这项申请的总体目标是开发一个创业培训计划，促进生物医学和临床研究的创业精神，并促进创新想法从工作台到床边和发现进入市场的转变。该项目将向佛蒙特州大学的研究生、博士后研究员和教师开放，但也向来自特定IDEA州(阿拉斯加、波多黎各、缅因州、罗德岛和新罕布夏州)的机构开放。该计划将使用多种方法提供当代创业培训：1)为了促进创业技能发展，该计划将提供该领域专家的研讨会、生物医学创业强化课程和创新想法的小额试点资助；2)为了促进指导，该计划将为生物医学小企业提供一对一的指导和实习机会；3)为了加强外联和传播，该计划将提供给一些想法国家，参与者将能够参加选定的国家会议。

 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Biomedical entrepreneurship is a field rapidly emerging from academia. Federal funding is continuously committed to support the generation of biomedical small businesses (SBIR and STTR grant mechanisms). Despite the large number of scientists in biomedical research, the number of scientists who are interested in entrepreneurship and are willing to move forward their discoveries to the business world is however very limited. This is in part due to dogma associating entrepreneurship with financial interest instead of associating it with acceleration of health care improvement. Training in innovation and entrepreneurship is currently not accessible to all biomedical research. At the University of Vermont we recently established the SPARK-VT program to support funding for entrepreneurial biomedical research with the goal of improving the process of moving innovative ideas on disease diagnosis, therapy or device from bench to bedside. Within the scope to the "Innovative Programs to Enhance Research Training" (IPERT) R25 FOA from NIGMS the overall goal of this application is to develop an entrepreneurial training program that promotes entrepreneurship in biomedical and clinical research and facilitates the transition of innovative ideas from the bench to bedside and discoveries into the marketplace. This program will be open to graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and faculty from the University of Vermont, but also to institutions from specific IDeA States (Alaska, Puerto Rico, Maine, Rhode Island, and New Hampshire). The program will use a variety of approaches to provide contemporary training in entrepreneurship: 1) to foster skills development in entrepreneurship the program will provide workshops by experts in the field, an intensive course in biomedical entrepreneurship, and small pilot grants for innovative ideas; 2) to foster mentoring the program will provide one-to-one mentoring and internships for biomedical small business; 3) to enhance outreach and dissemination the program will be offered to some of the IDeA states, and participants will be able to attend selected national meetings.