Project Grant IF234001260A6

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...

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 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 $599,999 federal Project Grant award, provided by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program, supports a research project titled "Learning to Innovate: Development and Diversity" at the University of Texas at Austin. The project, set to run from April 2025 to March 2028, explores the cognitive processes and educational experiences that shape human capacity for tool innovation. The research aims to deepen the...

This $400,000 federal 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: The Concept CAF? (Collaborative Activities Fostering Exploration): Innovation Brewing" between Fairleigh Dickinson University (FDU) and the University of Minnesota Duluth (UMD). The goal of this 3-year project is to build research capacity and establish external partnerships...

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 $299,898 Project Grant award was provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program (CFDA 47.084) to Northeastern University. The award aims to catalyze the formation and success of small business concerns founded by NSF's Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs. Key planned activities include: Facilitating international cooperation on deep-tech startup creation to...

This $300,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program aims to identify early indicators of success in building rural innovation ecosystems that promote long-term community economic development and well-being. The Center On Rural Innovation Inc., a non-profit organization focused on rural economic development, will lead this 2-year research project using a mixed-methods approach. Key activities include: 1)...

The U.S. Department of Labor Employment and Training Administration awarded a $287,550.61 Project Grant under the Community Project Funding/Congressionally Directed Spending program (CFDA 17.289) to Current Innovation NFP, a non-profit organization based in Chicago, Illinois. The funding supports workforce services focused on water systems and utilities. As a sub-awardee, Current Innovation NFP has also provided technical assistance and research resources through the Delta Institute to support...