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Partnerships for Innovation

Key Underlying Tenets

Innovation happens locally - partnerships with state, regional and local governments and industry are key to success; and

Innovation is critically dependent upon new knowledge and the availability of a “knowledge workforce” - therefore partnerships with academic institutions of all types are key to success.


Innovation is the Goal.

Partnership is the Means.

Partnerships for Innovation :

The Building BlocksActivity Program

State Research and Education Development

Industry R&D

UniversityPartnerships

National R&DCenters

Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR)Rural Systemic Initiatives (RSI)State Systemic Initiatives (SSI)

Grant Opportunities for Academic Liaison with Industry (GOALI)Industry/University Cooperative Research Centers (IUCRC)Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR)Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR)Innovation and Organizational Change (IOC)

Advanced Networking Infrastructure (ANI)Centers for Research Excellence in Science and Technology (CREST)Partnerships for Advanced Scientific Computing (PACI)

Engineering Research Centers (ERC)Long-Term Ecological Research Sites (LTER)Material Research Science and Engineering Centers (MRSEC)Science and Technology Centers (STC)


Program Goals Catalyze Partnerships for Innovation that will enable

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 wellbeing;

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

Create enabling infrastructure necessary to foster and sustain innovation in the long-term.


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This competition will support the planning and early implementation of new activities designed to support and sustain innovation in the long-term; activities undertaken by promising partnerships among academe, government, and the private sector.


The Partnerships for Innovation Program is focused on connections between new knowledge created in the discovery process to learning and innovation. Concurrently, it addresses NSF’s strategic intention to broaden participation of people and institutions in NSF activities.


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Through a diverse set of awards, NSF seeks to identify best practices for enabling innovation that in the future might be replicated on a national scale.

NSF will make 15-25 awards totaling $8 million. Proposed Partnerships may request from NSF total budgets ranging from $300,000 to $600,000 for two or three years.


Program Features

Cost Sharing: 10%

Proposal Limitation per Institution

Dean or Higher must be PI or Co-PI

Non-binding Notice of Intent: June 1, 2000

Proposal Deadline: July 6, 2000

Award Amount: $300K-$600K

Award Duration: 2 or 3 years


Review Criteria

In addition to the two NSB-approved criteria, reviewers will also consider the following factors:

responsiveness of the proposal to the goals of the Partnerships for Innovation Program;

potential of the proposed Partnership to foster and sustain innovation in the long-term;

the degree to which the proposed activity will stimulate new innovation opportunities for the partner organizations;


Review Criteria

the degree to which the participation of institutions that serve groups currently underrepresented in the science, engineering and technological workforce are involved in the proposed innovation activity; and,

the degree to which institutions that serve regions and/or sectors not yet fully participating in the innovation enterprise contribute to the proposed activity.


Review Criteria

In making the final award decisions, NSF will also consider:

Geographic distribution and diversity of lead institutions;

Likely distribution of societal impacts; and

Distribution of technology or industry sectors served.

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