This $399,922 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program supports a collaborative research initiative called "EPIIC: Building Institutional Capacity for External Partnerships (BICEP)." The BICEP team, comprised of four primarily undergraduate and emerging research institutions - Santa Clara University, Lawrence Technological University, Grand Valley State University, and Minnesota State University Mankato - aims to collectively build their institutional capacity and knowledge for growing external partnerships to advance key technologies within their regional innovation ecosystems.
The project focuses on three key objectives: (1) developing operational maturity in establishing institutional policies and structures to enable efficient and professional partnering, (2) providing professional development to enhance faculty and staff knowledge for participating in and contributing to external technology partnerships, and (3) conducting partner engagement activities to better manage and strategically evolve partnerships over time. The findings, strategies, and lessons learned from this collaborative effort will be documented and disseminated through publications, workshops, and a toolkit to assist other similar institutions in building their capacity to support regional innovation. No sub-awards are planned for this project.
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