NSF – Partnerships for Innovation: Building Innovation Capacity (PFI: BIC)
The Office of the Vice President for Research (OVPR) plays a central role in the continuing success and development of the faculty’s research, scholarship, and creative endeavors through its leadership and support services in Research Administration and Research Development. A critical mechanism for cultivating research development and enhancing research capacity is to foster interdisciplinary collaborations with diverse industry partners. To this end, the OVPR will be conducting an internal screening process in support of the Partnerships for Innovation: Building Innovation Capacity (PFI: BIC) sponsored by the National Science Foundation.
The Partnerships for Innovation: Building Innovation Capacity (PFI: BIC) program supports academe-industry partnerships, which are led by an interdisciplinary academic research team with a least one industry partner to build technological, human, and service system innovation capacity. These partnerships focus on the integration of technologies into a specified human-centered smart service system with the potential to achieve transformational change in an existing service system or to spur an entirely new service system. These technologies have been inspired by existing breakthrough discoveries.
Limited Submission
Because a limited number of applications can be submitted for this program, an internal screening process is required. If you are considering submitting an application for the program listed below, an on-line Notification of Intent to Submitmust be completed by the requested Intent to Submit Deadline.
When submitting pre-proposals for the internal screening process, be sure to check the Guidelines for updates. Pre-proposals not adhering to these guidelines and instructions will be returned.
Program Requirements
Limit: Two proposals
Intent to Submit Deadline: October 13, 2014
Internal Screening Deadline: October 24, 2014
Sponsor Letter of Intent Due Date (required): December 3, 2014
Sponsor Full Proposal Deadline: January 28, 2015
For more information, contact: Larisa Zagorski at Larisa.Zagorski@uconn.edu