Project Grant ED15HDQ0300031

This Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program provides $399,727 to Saint Francis University to establish a regional innovation ecosystem consortium called SCORE (Symbiotic Collaboration for Regional Ecosystem). The primary goals are to: (1) Develop innovation capacity within a cohort of primarily undergraduate institutions (PUIs), including several rural and minority-serving schools; and (2) Foster...

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 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...

The U.S. Department of Commerce Economic Development Administration (EDA) awarded a $1.67 million Project Grant under the Investments for Public Works and Economic Development Facilities program (CFDA 11.300) on July 8, 2021 to the New Orleans Business Alliance. The funding will support the development of wet lab space and a clean room in the University of New Orleans Research and Technology Park. These biotech labs will be part of an information technology center located in the park. The...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program (CFDA 47.084) provides $399,965 to the President and Board of Trustees of Santa Clara College to build institutional capacity for developing external partnerships that advance key technologies within the university's regional innovation ecosystem. The key objectives are to: a) establish operational policies and structures to enable efficient and professional...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $999,997 Cooperative Agreement under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program to the Universities Space Research Association (USRA) to develop the George Washington Carver (GWC) Science Park Accelerator & Regional Catalyst - Ohio (SPARC Ohio) project. The goal of this 2-year award, commencing on March 1, 2024, is to establish Ohio as a leading destination for the projected $1 trillion space economy by leveraging...

The National Science Foundation (NSF), through its Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083), awarded a $100,000 Project Grant to the University of New Mexico (UNM) to host a two-day conference titled "Improving the Research and Innovation Enterprise Across the Southwest Region". The conference aims to (1) enhance the collective understanding of challenges facing the research enterprise in the Southwest U.S., (2) formulate next steps for individual and collective action to...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program (CFDA 47.084) provides $400,000 in funding to the University of Detroit Mercy (UDM) to build external partnerships and enhance the university's capacity to support local innovation, use-inspired research, and workforce development in engineering and computer science. The project aims to establish strong and sustainable external partnerships for UDM, focusing on emerging...

This $399,922 award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program (CFDA 47.084) supports a collaborative project titled "EPIIC: Building Institutional Capacity for External Partnerships (BICEP)." The project aims to help four primarily undergraduate institutions (PUIs) and emerging research institutions (ERIs) - Santa Clara University, Lawrence Technological University, Grand Valley State University, and Minnesota State University...

This $370,000 Project Grant, awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program, supports a collaborative research project titled "EPIIC: Strengthening Collaborative Advancements Leveraging Equitable University Partnerships." The project involves four diverse institutions - Winston-Salem State University, North Arkansas College, Middle Georgia State University, and St. Vincent College - with the goal of increasing...