Project Grant U396B100045

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 National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) Project Grant award of $275,000 to Grayskytech, Inc. aims to develop a novel technology that will dramatically improve the speed and cost-effectiveness of integrated circuit (IC) design verification. The innovation involves a highly parallel, configurable computer architecture that can effectively turn a single FPGA into hundreds of fast virtual processors. This will enable 30x faster behavioral...

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...

The Center for Advancing Innovation, Inc. was awarded a $2.49 million project grant from the Department of Commerce Economic Development Administration under the BUILD TO SCALE federal grant program (CFDA 11.024) to launch the Global Health Innovation Challenge. Over three years, the Center will source and launch over 60 high-growth startups in the Washington D.C. metro area to address global health threats using technology. The startups will focus on preventing, diagnosing, treating and...

This Project Grant award of $299,898 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program is intended to catalyze deep tech innovation and entrepreneurship through international partnerships. The project aims to enhance the impact of NSF's Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs by facilitating the formation and success of small business concerns working to solve critical...

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 National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) Project Grant award of $196,325 to Arizona State University (ASU) develops a framework to measure the dynamics, intermediate outcomes, and broader socio-economic and environmental impacts of regional innovation programs. The project engages interdisciplinary perspectives across public policy, economics, geography, and management to build a conceptual foundation for assessing large-scale government...

The Economic Development Administration awarded a $2.17 million Project Grant to Vilcap, Inc. to develop lasting investment infrastructure for technology startups led by founders of color in the Southeast region of the United States. Under the Resource Invests initiative funded through the agency's BUILD TO SCALE program (CFDA #11.024), Vilcap will work with the Black Innovation Alliance from November 2022 to April 2024 to launch infrastructure and a replicable model to improve...

This $274,936 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program supports the development and validation of innovative technology capable of learning to infer from unlabeled time series financial data. The project aims to address technical hurdles in machine reasoning of qualitative financial information, reliance on human annotation, difficulties with transfer learning, and scarcity of labeled financial...

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...