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Previous Limited Submissions Opportunities
NSf-04-556- Partnerships for Innovation (PFI) Internal Deadline: March 19, 2004 (FRI- 5:00 P.M.)
Guidelines:http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2004/nsf04556/nsf04556.htmNSF FULL PROPOSAL DEADLINE: May 17, 2004; Letter of Intent (Optional) due: March 10
A limitation of (1) One Lead Partnership Proposal Per Institution and One Non-Lead Proposal( Partnership)
* Limitation on the categories of organizations that are eligible to submit proposals: Proposals must be submitted by U.S. universities and colleges located in the U.S., its territories and possessions, including universities, two-and four-year colleges and community colleges, hereafter referred to as universities and colleges, or academic institutions. A Partnership proposal must be submitted as a single administrative package by the lead institution. The submitting institution must serve as the lead institution or partner in the proposed partnership, that is, as the institution responsible for overall management of the partnership activity with administrative responsibility for the proposed effort. Partners may include, but are not limited to, other academic institutions, not-for-profit organizations, private sector firms, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, state and local government entities, trade and professional associations, and Federal laboratories. At a minimum, proposed partnerships must include academic institutions and private sector organizations. Partnerships that include state/local government entities are strongly encouraged.Ê
PI Eligibility Limit:
A senior institutional administrator (Dean or higher) in the lead institution must serve as Principal Investigator or Co-Principal Investigator.
Limit on Number of Proposals: U.S. universities and colleges located in the U.S., its territories and possessions, including universities, two-and four-year colleges and community colleges, hereafter referred to as universities and colleges, or academic institutions may participate in no more than two partnership proposals. Such institutions may submit only one partnership proposal as the lead institution.
Cost Sharing Requirements: Cost Sharing is required
Cost Sharing Level/Amount: 10%
PROGRAM DESCRIPTION
The Partnerships for Innovation program is intended to forge connections between new knowledge created in the discovery process to learning and innovation, while broadening the participation of people and institutions in NSF activities. For the purposes of this program innovation is defined as the transformation of knowledge into the products, processes, systems and services that fuel economic development, create wealth and generate improvements in the national standard of living. The goals of the program are to:
Stimulate the transformation of knowledge created by the national research and education enterprise into innovations that create new wealth, build strong local, regional and national economies and improve the national well-being;
Broaden the participation of all types of academic institutions and all citizens in NSF activities to more fully meet the broad workforce needs of the national innovation enterprise; and
Catalyze or enhance enabling infrastructure necessary to foster and sustain innovation in the long-term.
In order to accomplish these goals, proposals may propose any one or combination of the following activities: (1) research, technology transfer, commercialization, (2) workforce education and/or training, and (3) establish the infrastructure to accomplish or enable innovation. Proposals should show how all activities being proposed are related to innovation as the ultimate outcome. Proposals should also have a plan to ensure that the innovation can be sustained in the long term. Innovation should be the proposed outcome. Formation of partnerships should not be proposed as the outcome. Appropriate activities for projects in the program might also include the planning and/or implementation of new models for innovation that connect scientific and technological discovery to use through knowledge transfer; education and training activities that explicitly address the workforce needs of the innovation enterprise; and the development and deployment of new tools or mechanisms that support the innovation infrastructure. They may focus on creating a critical level of innovation activity in a technology area, an industry sector, or a geographical region. Since many emerging and small businesses fail for lack of sufficient business or marketing expertise, partnerships could include participation of the business or management schools where appropriate.
At a minimum, proposed Partnerships must include academic institutions as the lead and private sector organizations as partners. Partnerships that also include state/local government entities are strongly encouraged. The outcomes for proposed activities must foster economic and/or societal well-being that can be self-sustaining in the long term. In all Partnerships, NSF seeks to optimize the participation of the private sector to foster innovation-driven growth per se, as well as to ensure appropriate workforce development activities. Since innovation occurs first as a localized phenomenon, Partnerships involving regional, state or local governments are strongly encouraged. Since innovation is critically dependent upon a diverse workforce poised to innovate, Partnerships led by and involving academic institutions of all types are essential for the program's success. The participation of institutions that serve groups currently underrepresented in the science, engineering and technological workforce, as well as those institutions that serve regions and or sectors not yet fully participating in the innovation enterprise, is strongly encouraged. NSF seeks to enhance the roles such institutions play in contributing to and participating in innovation.
Partnerships for Innovation may:
Capitalize upon the shared interests of regional academic institutions, local and state governments and the private sector to contribute to the innovation enterprise;
Enable small- and medium-sized businesses to utilize the resources and capabilities of academic institutions;
Promote and enable innovation as a specific goal by increasing the scientific and technological capabilities of the workforce;
Strengthen the capabilities of all academic institutions to contribute to the innovation process;
Enable technological innovation through the synergistic development, integration and transfer of new knowledge to partners that can create economic or societal well-being; and
Create and validate new generalized models that integrate research and education capacity to create a critical level of technological innovation in a state or a region.
UM INTERNAL COMPETITION:Project Summary DEADLINE---March 19, 2004 (FRIDAY- 5:00 P.M.)
If you are interested in claiming the UM's Proposal slot, please submit the following:
1) A simple cumulative budget
2) Your capacity to contribute to the 10% level of institutional cost sharing required for these awards as defined in the program announcement.
3) Six(6) page summary covering the following:
A) Explain how the proposed Partnership will address the goals articulated in he program solicitation.
B) How these goals will be connected.
C) Who the primary partners are and what their roles are
D) How the partnership will be managed.
E) The outcomes you anticipate if your proposal is successful.
We will need to receive your electronic version of the project summary for the PFI Internal Competition by close of business on Friday, March 19th.( 5:00 P.M.)
The summary should be submitted to Marvin G. Parnes via e-mail: mgparnes@umich.edu with a copy to Dave Plawchan; davedrda@umich.edu
The Office of the Vice President for Research, in consultation with others, will decide which one proposal should be developed. The finalists for the PFI Competition will be notified no later than April 2,2004.
If you have any questions about project eligibility, or requests to receive a hard copy of the NSF Program Announcement NSF 04-556, please direct them to Dave Plawchan [fastlaneadmin@umich.edu] in DRDA. You can also retrieve an electronic version directly from NSF by following the directions on the NSF website:
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2004/nsf04556/nsf04556.htmCurrent limited submissions opportunities