{"id":137,"date":"2010-07-15T17:09:31","date_gmt":"2010-07-15T21:09:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencebusiness.technewslit.com\/?p=137"},"modified":"2010-07-15T17:09:31","modified_gmt":"2010-07-15T21:09:31","slug":"academic-business-partnership-proposals-sought-by-nsf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/?p=137","title":{"rendered":"Academic-Business Partnership Proposals Sought by NSF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>National Science Foundation (NSF) wants innovative ideas on energy, sustainability, and the education of next generation entrepreneurs from small business and academic institutions, and is prepared to pay $7 million for those ideas. This NSF program, called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nsf.gov\/pubs\/2010\/nsf10581\/nsf10581.htm\">Partnerships for Innovation<\/a>, aims to produce academic scientists better able to adapt their findings to practical applications and help small businesses make better use of academic research.<\/p>\n<p>The NSF announcement requires proposal teams to include a minimum of two small businesses partnering with a lead academic institution. Larger businesses and not-for-profits can take part in these teams, as long as the academic\/small-business partners are in charge. While\u00a0NSF will entertain a wide range of ideas, the proposal announcement notes, &#8220;Partnerships that support areas pertaining to energy, sustainability, or education of next generation entrepreneurs are particularly desirable.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The agency expects to spend some $7 million on the program in fiscal year 2011, and fund 9 to 11 proposals of up to $600,000 each. The deadline for letters of intent is 1 October 2010, with full proposals due on 4 December 2010.<\/p>\n<p>Hat-tip: <a href=\"http:\/\/grantsnet.org\/search\/pgm_info.cfm?pgm_id=7270\">Science Careers\/GrantsNet<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Science Foundation (NSF) wants innovative ideas on energy, sustainability, and the education of next generation entrepreneurs from small business and academic institutions, and is prepared to pay $7 million for those ideas. This NSF program, called Partnerships for Innovation, aims to produce academic scientists better able to adapt their findings to practical applications and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,16],"tags":[38,14],"class_list":["post-137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finance","category-ventures","tag-grant","tag-nsf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=137"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":140,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions\/140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}