Project Grant IF232511260A48

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $399,781 Project Grant under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program to Widener University. The 3-year BRIDGE-TECH project aims to strengthen regional innovation ecosystems at five primarily undergraduate institutions (PUIs) by removing barriers to research, workforce development, and technology commercialization. Key goals include increasing industry-sponsored research, enhancing innovation culture and technology...

The Inter-American Foundation (IAF) awarded a $125,000 Project Grant under the IAF Assistance for Overseas Programs (CFDA 85.750) to the Young Americas Business Trust (YABT) to launch the Innovation in Action Challenge Fund (INNOVACTION 2.0). INNOVACTION 2.0 will provide business training to hundreds of youth throughout Latin America and the Caribbean to create youth-led entrepreneurship initiatives that support reducing environmental impacts, climate risks, emissions, and energy use. YABT...

The National Science Foundation awarded $304,558 under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships federal grant program to the National Collegiate Inventors & Innovators Alliance, Inc. to design and implement an eight-week entrepreneurial training program. The program will provide approximately 100 educational and learning technology research teams with resources and tools to advance their innovations from the lab to the market. Specifically, the grantee will offer curriculum based on...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $400,000 Project Grant through its Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program to the University of New Haven for the "BRIDGE-TECH: Building Relationships in Innovation and Development for Growth in Emerging Technologies" project. This collaborative research effort brings together five primarily undergraduate institutions to strengthen regional innovation ecosystems by removing barriers to research, workforce...

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...

Innovations Financial Credit Union was awarded a $1,826,265 Project Grant from the Department of the Treasury's Community Development Financial Institutions Fund under the Community Development Financial Institutions Rapid Response Program (CDFI RRP, CFDA 21.024). The grant will support Innovations' ability to respond to the economic impacts of the coronavirus by providing financial and technical assistance services to communities and populations affected by the pandemic from June 2021 through...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program, titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: EPIIC:INCREASING OUR INNOVATION SCORES: SYMBIOTIC COLLABORATION OF REGIONAL ECOSYSTEMS," provides $394,470 to establish an innovation ecosystem in a cohort-based model for primarily undergraduate institutions (PUIs). The primary goals are to (1) develop innovation capacity within the cohort institutions and (2) collectively...

This federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program (CFDA 47.084) provides $400,000 in funding to Bradley University to support the BRIDGE-TECH (Building Relationships in Innovation and Development for Growth in Emerging Technologies) project. This collaborative initiative brings together five primarily undergraduate institutions (PUIs) to strengthen regional innovation ecosystems by addressing barriers to research,...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program provides $400,000 in funding to Fairleigh Dickinson University (FDU) and the University of Minnesota Duluth (UMD) for a collaborative research project titled "EPIIC: The Concept Café (Collaborative Activities Fostering Exploration): Innovation Brewing." The award aims to build research capacity at FDU and UMD by enhancing communication strategies for...

This $374,782 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program (CFDA 47.084) supports a collaborative research initiative to strengthen innovation capacity across four diverse academic institutions: Winston-Salem State University, North Arkansas College, Middle Georgia State University, and St. Vincent College. The "EPIIC: Strengthening Collaborative Advancements Leveraging Equitable University...