This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program (CFDA 47.084) provides $103,672 to develop a framework for assessing the societal and economic impacts of regional innovation programs. The project aims to design an evaluation system and data infrastructure to track outcomes from NSF's Regional Innovation Engines program investments. This includes analyzing employment dynamics, supplier-buyer networks, and...
This $230,292 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program supports research to enhance understanding of how innovative research and development (R&D) effectively translate into commercial products. The study will focus on place-based innovation (PBI) ecosystems, regions where stakeholders collaborate in close geographic proximity, to uncover critical factors that facilitate or hinder successful R&D...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Federal Grant Award under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program (CFDA 47.084) provides $299,408 to Case Western Reserve University (UEI: HJMKEF7EJW69) to develop a groundbreaking forecasting tool that can help policymakers predict the economic and societal impacts of NSF investments in regional technology and science-based innovation ecosystems. The research aims to advance the state-of-the-art in two ways: 1) improving the...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) EAGER: PBI project grant award to the National Bureau of Economic Research Inc. (NBER) totaling $299,316 provides funding to develop an innovative methodology for comprehensively assessing regional innovation ecosystems. The project aims to integrate industry-specific metrics and a diverse array of outcome indicators to measure the impact of regional entrepreneurial activities on economic growth and societal welfare. This approach builds on the foundational...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) Project Grant award of $299,999 to Research Triangle Institute (RTI International) aims to develop and validate a process for generating new geographic subdivisions, analogous to the Census Bureau's Public Use Microdata Areas (PUMAs), that are well-suited for analyzing business microdata, such as the Annual Business Survey. This work will explore clustering algorithms, synthetic data methods, and...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program (CFDA 47.084) Project Grant award of $295,591 to the University of Kentucky Research Foundation will develop a deep graph neural network-based foundation model to quantify and predict place-based innovation (PBI) factors. The key products and services to be delivered include: Modeling the time and capital requirements for PBI product development and commercialization. Assessing the impacts of...
This $299,386 National Science Foundation (NSF) EAGER: PBI - Innovation Impact Framework (IIF) Project Grant aims to enhance the understanding of how regional technology transfer initiatives contribute to societal and economic benefits. The project, awarded to Hyperion Technologies LLC, will develop new methods to measure the local return on investment of technology transfer activities, with the goal of informing policymakers and stakeholders on best practices for fostering innovation and...
This $285,504 EAGER award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program supports a two-year research project to measure the impact of university innovation facilities on real estate markets and R&D space supply and demand across the top 100 U.S. metropolitan areas. The project aims to collect and analyze data on four key outcome variables: R&D space demand, R&D space supply, business establishment clustering, and...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $399,168 Project Grant under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program (CFDA 47.084) to Madison Area Technical College (Matc) for the "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: EPIIC: COLLABORATIONS WITH HIGH-TECH INDUSTRY PARTNERS (CHIP)" project. The grant will enable Matc, along with partner institutions Tuskegee University, Youngstown State University, and others, to create industry partnerships, develop capacity, and secure future...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $249,998 Project Grant to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on June 1, 2021 for research concluding May 31, 2022. The grant is part of NSF's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), which supports basic research and education in these fields. Specifically, MIT will use the funding to conduct a study titled "FIRM RELOCATION AS ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY: IMPACTS ON AGGLOMERATION AND THE ENVIRONMENT." The research will...