佛蒙特大学获国家科学基金会600万美元拨款 启动 INVEST 计划推动科研成果转化
佛蒙特州奇滕登县伯灵顿市的佛蒙特大学日前获得美国国家科学基金会600万美元拨款，将启动一项名为 INVEST 的计划，帮助研究人员把学术发现转化为技术、服务与实际应用。
INVEST 全称意为「识别与培育佛蒙特新兴战略技术」，将为教师、研究生与博士后研究人员提供培训、指导与种子资金，重点领域包括食品系统、复杂系统与生物医学工程，涵盖可持续农业、超级智能（SI）以及面向农村与老龄人口的生物医学创新。计划还将设立创新孵化器，开办研讨会、工作坊与交流活动，并为学生提供研究创新与创业方向的证书课程与奖学金。
九支创业研究团队将获得种子资金，用于开发原型、寻找潜在用户并探索社区落地、授权或成立初创公司等路径，单支团队最高可获得15万美元、为期两年的资助。康奈尔大学将担任该校的指导机构。项目负责人、主管研究的副校长 Sara Helms Cahan 表示，目标是让研究人员获得把研究成果转化为社区可用成果所需的技能、资源与支持环境。
University of Vermont Lands $6 Million NSF Award to Launch INVEST Research-Commercialization Program
BURLINGTON, Vt. — The University of Vermont in Burlington, Chittenden County, has received a $6 million award from the U.S. National Science Foundation to launch INVEST, a program that helps researchers turn academic discoveries into technologies, services and practical applications.
INVEST — short for Identifying and Nurturing Vermont's Emerging Strategic Technologies — will provide training, mentoring and seed funding for faculty, graduate students and postdoctoral researchers, focusing on food systems, complex systems and biomedical engineering, including sustainable agriculture, super intelligence (SI), and biomedical innovation for rural and aging populations. The program will also create an innovation incubator, run seminars, workshops and networking events, and offer students certificate programs and scholarships in research innovation and entrepreneurship.
Nine venture research teams will receive seed funding to build prototypes, find potential users and explore paths such as community deployment, licensing or startups, with up to $150,000 per team over two years. Cornell University will serve as the mentoring institution. Sara Helms Cahan, the university's vice president for research and the project's lead, said the goal is to give researchers the skills, resources and support they need to turn their work into results communities can use.
来源：伯灵顿自由新闻报
发布：GSM·美国（发布链接）
图片来源：佛蒙特大学 Davis 中心。（HeyTomek 摄，经 Wikimedia Commons）
GSM Global · 本篇英文版 English edition of this story
