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Description of Modification
Added information regarding Letter of Intent submission through NSF FastLane system.
Document Type:
Modification to Previous
Grants Notice
Funding Opportunity Number:
12-578
Opportunity Category:
Discretionary
Posted Date:
Jul 05, 2012
Creation Date:
Jul 10, 2012
Original Closing Date for Applications:
Dec 12, 2012
Letter of Intent Due Date(s) (required) (due by 5 p.m. proposer's local time):
September 26, 2012
Full Proposal Deadline(s):
December 12, 2012
Current Closing Date for Applications:
Dec 12, 2012
Letter of Intent (required): September 26, 2012 (due by 5 p.m. proposer's local time) Must be submitted through NSF FastLane system.
Full Proposal: December 12, 2012
Archive Date:
Jan 12, 2013
Funding Instrument Type:
Grant
Category of Funding Activity:
Science and Technology and other Research and Development
Category Explanation:
Expected Number of Awards:
13
Estimated Total Program Funding:
$8,000,000
Award Ceiling:
$600,000
Award Floor:
CFDA Number(s):
47.041
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Engineering Grants
Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement:
No
Eligible Applicants
Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)
Additional Information on Eligibility:
*Organization Limit: Proposals may only be submitted by the following:
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U.S. universities and two-and four-year colleges (including community and technical colleges) accredited in, and having a campus located in the U.S., acting on behalf of their faculty members. Such organizations also are referred to as academic institutions. The lead (submitting) organization must be an academic institution.
Collaborative proposals between organizationsare notpermitted. (A collaborative proposal is defined as simultaneous proposal submissions for a joint project from different organizations, with each organization requesting a separate award).
*PI Limit:
The PI cannot be a PI on a Partnership for Innovation award that will be active after September 30, 2013.
A PI who submits a proposal in response to this program solicitation may not also submit a proposal to the Partnerships for Innovation: Accelerating Innovation Research (PFI: AIR) program
Agency Name
National Science Foundation
Description
National prosperity today has become more dependent upon research and technology. Thus, NSF's role of supporting discovery research across all fields of science and engineering has become increasingly more relevant to economic development. By establishing and expanding partnerships, existing research discovery findings from institutions of higher education can be translated to innovations.This program solicitation, Partnerships for Innovation: Building Innovation Capacity (PFI: BIC) starts with an existing sound scientific and/or engineering-based research discovery that can be translated to market-valued solutions through a partnership between academe and small technology-based businesses. The funds will provide support to an academic institution to partner with at least two small technology-based businesses that are not in direct competition with each other to carry out early translational-research activities The primary aims of the activities of this partnership are three-fold: (1) to build the innovation capacity of the individual participants from academe and from business; (2) to increase the viability of the small business concerns; and (3) to develop the next-generation workforce by providing opportunities for students at different levels to effectively learn from, participate in, and be profoundly changed by exposure to the process of building innovation capacity that occurs in BIC projects. The active collaboration between academe and business could result in solutions with potential for an impact on more than one market. WEBINAR: A webinar will be held within 6 weeks of the release date of this solicitation to answer any questions about the solicitation. Details will be posted on the Industrial Innovation and Partnerships (IIP) website. (www.nsf.gov/div/index.jsp?div=iip) as they become available.
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