Project Grant U411C150011

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 $230,292 to Elsevier Inc. will support research to enhance understanding of factors affecting how innovative R&D effectively translates into commercial products. The study will focus on place-based innovation (PBI) ecosystems, analyzing data across the innovation pipeline from academic publications and patents to market-ready products. The research aims to characterize the...

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...

The Innovation Marquette Enterprise Corporation was awarded a $611,911 Project Grant from the Department of Commerce Economic Development Administration under the BUILD TO SCALE federal grant program (CFDA 11.024). The grant will fund the creation of an innovative crowdfunding platform to connect local entrepreneurs to angel investors and broader venture capital networks. Key services include establishing a crowdfunding program, educating local angel investors about scalable tech...

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)...

The $800,000 Project Grant awarded by the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFI) Program to Innovations Financial Credit Union on Sep 26, 2024 will support the delivery of financial services, loans, investments, and technical assistance to underserved communities. This grant, provided under the CFDA Number 21.020 Community Development Financial Institutions Program, aims to enable Innovations to grow, achieve organizational sustainability, and...

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...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) Project Grant award of $275,000 will enable Grayskytech, Inc., a small disadvantaged business, to develop an innovative computer architecture to dramatically improve the speed and efficiency of integrated circuit (IC) simulation and validation. The technology incorporates a proprietary bulk synchronous data flow architecture that can turn a single FPGA into hundreds of virtual processors capable of...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) Phase I Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant awarded $275,000 to ADA TECH LLC to develop a novel artificial intelligence-powered generative design solution. The project aims to integrate consumer data, Internet of Things (IoT) telemetry, and design for excellence (DFX) engineering specifications into 3D generative computer-aided-design models. The primary objectives are to enable the...

Novelty Films, Inc. received a $256,000 Small Business Innovation Research Phase I Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation on August 1, 2021 to develop a spatial computing learning system for early literacy. Funded through the NSF's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), the award supports the creation of a new technology to improve early childhood literacy using augmented and virtual reality platforms. The Engineering program seeks to advance innovation and excellence in...