Project Grant ED19HDQ0200027

The Rural Business Innovation Corporation (RBI) was awarded a $254,427 Rural Business Development Grant from the United States Department of Agriculture Rural Housing Service on September 22, 2022. The two-year Project Grant will support RBI's efforts to promote sustainable economic development and facilitate the growth of small businesses in rural Pennsylvania communities through September 2024. As the recipient of funding through the Rural Business Development Grant Program (CFDA #10.351), RBI...

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) 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...

Summary of Cooperative Agreement Award Resilitix Intelligence LLC received a $1.21 million Cooperative Agreement from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program (CFDA 47.084), effective September 1, 2025 through August 31, 2027. The awardee will develop an intelligent, analytics-driven platform for disaster resilience and situational awareness that integrates multi-modal data streams—including mobility data and lifeline systems...

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 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 $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 Research Park Corporation received a $1.125 million project grant award from the Department of Commerce Economic Development Administration on May 24, 2022. The funding supports the Ignition Accelerator and Venture Capital Assistance Program to develop tech-based startups across Louisiana's Capital Region. Through this program, the Research Park Corporation will provide technical assistance, planning support, and outreach to underserved communities and businesses to help address the lack...

The Department of Commerce Minority Business Development Agency (MBDA) awarded a $1.4 million Project Grant to Rice University under the Minority Business Resource Development program (CFDA 11.802) to establish Inner City Innovation Hub Projects. The grant period is from September 1, 2022 to August 31, 2023. The projects will incorporate research and technology transfer, digital innovation, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and entrepreneurship to assist business clients or provide...

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...