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Deadline approaching: NSF Partnerships for Innovation: Building Innovation Capacity

by cmp.admin November 25, 2014

Important Deadlines 
Required Letter of Intent (LOI), December 3, 2014, due 5:00 pm local time.
Full Proposal Submission January 28, 2015, due 5:00 pm local time.
 

The NSF Partnerships for Innovation: Building Innovation Capacity (PFI:BIC) program supports academia-industry partnerships to focus on post-discovery, academic-led research that advances, adapts and integrates technology into a human-centered smart service system and builds innovation capacity: 

  • Technological innovation capacity, by focusing on technological innovations with significant potential for economic and societal impact; and
  • Human innovation capacity, by activating academe-industry partnerships that are anticipated to have indelible effects on the partners; and by the participation of students and/or postdoctoral researchers, who are anticipated to develop the skill-sets, capabilities, and motivation to become future innovators in partnership collaborations; and
  • Service system innovation capacity, by using an interdisciplinary and cross-organizational approach to shape smart service systems that integrate both human-centered considerations and technologies from an early juncture in the project. In addition to the discipline or disciplines related to the technology, the disciplines to be included in this project are:
    • systems engineering or engineering design
    • computer science/information technology
    • human factors/behavioral science/cognitive engineering

Grants are for up to $1,000,000 for 3 years. There is a single funding competition each fiscal year.

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The U.S. Cluster Mapping Project is led by Professor Michael E. Porter at the Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness, Harvard Business School.

This project is funded by the U.S. Department of Commerce, Economic Development Administration.