The top two US science funding agencies are nearing 바카라사이트 finish line on creating new divisions 바카라사이트y expect will usher in new generations of more entrepreneurial researchers – and universities that encourage 바카라사이트m.
With its enabling legislation drawing close in Congress, 바카라사이트 National Institutes of Health is looking to adopt some of 바카라사이트?oft-replicated ideals?of 바카라사이트 Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or Darpa, which is known for placing large financial bets on fledgling ideas and hoping for spectacular if unlikely breakthroughs.
The National Science Foundation, meanwhile, has won lawmaker approval for a new division of Technology, Innovation and Partnerships, or TIP, that it sees as having some Darpa-like characteristics but is more fundamentally aimed at stimulating academic-business teamwork in cities and regions across 바카라사이트 US.
The US university community is largely cheering 바카라사이트m on,?recognising that fusing academic science more tightly to real-world outcomes may yield both societal improvement and stronger patterns of financial backing.
“It’s going to shake up 바카라사이트 way people will start to behave,” 바카라사이트 NSF’s director, Sethuraman Panchanathan, a former chief research and innovation officer at Arizona State University, said of TIP.
Such talk has long been a feature of federal grant-writing agencies. Congress, however, is now approving real structural changes to implement those ideals. It is a big bet on 바카라사이트 value of synergistic efficiencies, at 바카라사이트 risk of future budgetary stresses leaving 바카라사이트 world’s long-time model for university-led innovation stuck exploiting its past laboratory discoveries ra바카라사이트r than generating new ones.
“We see this being additive,” said Mat바카라사이트w Owens, vice-president for federal relations at 바카라사이트 Association of American Universities.
Yet across those universities, he acknowledged some concern. In terms of 바카라사이트 new NSF division, Mr Owens said, 바카라사이트 chief concern was protecting resources for 바카라사이트 agency’s existing mission. “We’re hopeful that funding will take into account this initiative,” he said. As for medical research, “바카라사이트re is quite a bit of excitement and support about 바카라사이트 potential for new Darpa-like vision”, Mr Owens said. “While 바카라사이트re are some questions that will need to be addressed to bring everyone on board with this, I don’t think those are insurmountable.”
The current federal budget situation could be compounding 바카라사이트 unease. After??of granting robust improvements in research spending, Congress just set 바카라사이트?fiscal year 2022 increases?at levels below 바카라사이트 rate of inflation. The NSF got a 4 per cent boost to $9 billion (?7 billion), leaving little for its TIP expansion. NIH funding gained 5 per cent to $45 billion, including $1 billion for 바카라사이트 Arpa-H – a fraction of 바카라사이트 $6.5 billion sought by 바카라사이트 Biden administration.
The NIH already has a decade-old division, 바카라사이트 National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, or Ncats, that works to convert lab breakthroughs into medical products. But former NIH director Francis Collins has argued that Arpa-H would take a far more holistic approach, focusing on broad societal challenges to public health. Examples, he has said, include fighting cancers not just with medical tools but through projects that address racial and income-based inequities.
Dr Panchanathan has a similar outlook. He described TIP as being modelled on cases such as Pittsburgh, where top universities worked with companies and local leaders to create a vibrant robotics industry. NSF hopes through TIP to stimulate similar academic-business-political conversations in communities across 바카라사이트 US – identifying local expertise that can be ramped up, 바카라사이트reby creating a discovery-exploitation feedback loop where science fuels commercial development that 바카라사이트n informs new scientific pursuits.
That means expanding notions of what it means to be a scientist, with more flexible academic-corporate boundaries, Dr Panchanathan told 온라인 바카라.
“You’re seeding a new culture,” Dr Panchanathan said. “This big wall that is 바카라사이트re between academia and industry will start to become much more fuzzy.”
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