Partnerships for Innovation: Accelerating Innovation Research- Technology Translation

The summary for the Partnerships for Innovation: Accelerating Innovation Research- Technology Translation grant is detailed below. This summary states who is eligible for the grant, how much grant money will be awarded, current and past deadlines, Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) numbers, and a sampling of similar government grants. Verify the accuracy of the data FederalGrants.com provides by visiting the webpage noted in the Link to Full Announcement section or by contacting the appropriate person listed as the Grant Announcement Contact. If any section is incomplete, please visit the website for the National Science Foundation, which is the U.S. government agency offering this grant.

Partnerships for Innovation: Accelerating Innovation Research- Technology Translation: The NSF Partnerships for Innovation (PFI) program within the Division of Industrial Innovation and Partnerships (IIP) is an umbrella for two complementary subprograms, Accelerating Innovation Research (AIR) and Building Innovation Capacity (BIC). Overall, the PFI program offers opportunities to connect new knowledge to societal benefit through translational research efforts and/or partnerships that encourage, enhance and accelerate innovation and entrepreneurship. The subject of this solicitation is PFI: AIR-Technology Translation (PFI: AIR-TT). The PFI: AIR-TT solicitation serves as an early opportunity to move previously NSF-funded research results with promising commercial potential along the path toward commercialization. Projects are supported to demonstrate proof-of-concept, prototype, or scale-up while engaging faculty and students in entrepreneurial/innovative thinking.

WEBINAR: A webinar will be held the end of July or early August, 2016 to answer any questions about this solicitation. Details will be posted on the IIP website (<a href="http://www.nsf.gov/eng/iip/pfi/air-tt.jsp">http://www.nsf.gov/eng/iip/pfi/air-tt.jsp</a>) as they become available.

Federal Grant Title:	Partnerships for Innovation: Accelerating Innovation Research- Technology Translation
Federal Agency Name:	National Science Foundation
Grant Categories:	Other
Type of Opportunity:	Discretionary
Funding Opportunity Number:	16-583
Type of Funding:	Information not provided
CFDA Numbers:	327586, 327579, 327585, 327583, 327581, 327582, 327587, 327584, 327580, 327588
CFDA Descriptions:	Engineering Grants; Mathematical and Physical Sciences; Geosciences; Computer and Information Science and Engineering; Biological Sciences; Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences; Education and Human Resources; Office of International Science and Engineering; Office of Integrative Activities
Current Application Deadline:	Oct 11, 2016
Original Application Deadline:	Oct 11, 2016
Posted Date:	Jul 13, 2016
Creation Date:	Jul 13, 2016
Archive Date:	Nov 10, 2016
Total Program Funding:	$10,000,000
Maximum Federal Grant Award:	$800,000
Minimum Federal Grant Award:	none
Expected Number of Awards:	50
Cost Sharing or Matching:	No

Applicants Eligible for this Grant: Information not provided
Additional Information on Eligibility: *Who May Submit Proposals: Proposals may only be submitted by the following:
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Academic / Research Institutions; includes universities and two- and four-year colleges (including community colleges) accredited in, and having a campus located in, the US acting on behalf of their faculty members. Includesnon-profit academic / research institutions.

*Who May Serve as PI:

Lineage Requirement: There are two paths to meet the lineage requirement: throughNSF-supported research results, or NSF-supported (National I-CorpsTM) customer discovery results

1. Principal Investigator (PI) or a co-PI must have had an NSF award that ended no more than 6-years prior to the chosen submission window’s full proposal deadline date or be a current NSF award recipient. The proposed proof-of-concept or prototype/ scale-up must be derived from the research results and/or discoveries from this underlying NSF award -OR-

2. The Principal Investigator (PI) or a co-PI must have graduated as part of an NSF cohort from an NSF-funded National I- CorpsTMprogram within the past 3 years. The proposed proof-of-concept or prototype/ scale-up must be based on technology for which customer discovery activities were performed under the I- CorpsTMnational training. In other words, it isnotsufficient to just have had I- CorpsTMtraining; rather the customer discovery activities performed under the NSF-funded I- CorpsTMgrant need to be based on the technology that is proposed to be translated within the AIR-TT proposal.

Note: a proposal describing sole lineage to any of the following programs is not allowed and may be returned without review: Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU), Research Experiences for Teachers (RET), the Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP), PFI: AIR-TT, PFI: AIR-RA, Regional I-CorpsTM, and SBIR/STTR.

The PI must be a faculty member at a U.S. academic / research institution at the time of the award.

In addition to the PI, there must be at least one other participant on the project (e.g., someone listed as a co-PI, Senior Personnel, Other Professional, subawardee, consultant, collaborator, etc.) with explicit business experience (for example, someone from the technology transfer office, the business school, a local/regional development office, a business entity, etc.). This person must have an active role that is explicitly described along with the specification of a time commitment on the project.
Link to Full Grant Announcement: NSF Publication 16-583
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