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 $300,000 EAGER grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program will support research on the impact of innovation ecosystem acceleration training programs. The project aims to empirically analyze how regional stakeholders undertake innovation ecosystem analyses, engage ecosystem partners, and select innovation interventions. Specifically, the research will leverage an NSF Regional Innovation Engines (RIE) program...
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...
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 $300,000 EAGER award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program (CFDA 47.084) supports a project by South Dakota State University (SDSU) to analyze collaboration patterns and socioeconomic impacts of science and technology advancements. The key initiatives of this project include: 1) using machine learning to forecast emerging science and technology areas, 2) evaluating the regional societal and economic impacts of leading research...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) EAGER grant under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program awarded $300,000 to the Center On Rural Innovation Inc. to conduct a 2-year research project. The project aims to identify early indicators of success in building rural tech innovation ecosystems that foster sustainable economic growth and community well-being. The research will utilize a mixed-methods approach, integrating quantitative and qualitative techniques, to:...
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) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) award of $299,998 supports a project titled "EAGER: PBI: ASSESSING SOCIETAL AND ECONOMIC IMPACTS OF PLACE-BASED INNOVATION WITH SMALL AREA INNOVATION RATE ESTIMATION" at The Pennsylvania State University over the period of September 1, 2024 to August 31, 2026. The project aims to investigate the feasibility of using data from the larger Economic Census (EC) dataset to generate more accurate...
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 $154,173 National Science Foundation project grant through the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program will fund Arizona State University to assess the impact of different biomedical research funder strategies on innovation. Over an 18-month period ending in February 2024, ASU will build an extensive scientist-level database merging individual researcher data with sponsored research proposals, awards, and scientific outcomes including publications and technology transfer...