The National Science Foundation, 바카라사이트 prestigious US funder, is taking a step beyond funding only top-tier research universities towards “heartland America” and different kinds of institutions in higher education and beyond, embracing 바카라사이트 “geography of innovation” in an aim to secure global strength.
In December, Congress passed an omnibus package that included a $9.5 billion (?7.9 billion) annual budget for 바카라사이트 NSF – up from $8.8 billion 바카라사이트 previous year, 바카라사이트 largest dollar increase in 바카라사이트 organisation’s 70-year history.
Some of that funding will enable 바카라사이트 independent federal agency?to?progress its?Regional Innovation Engines programme, authorised in last year’s CHIPS and Science Act, 바카라사이트 legislation aimed at boosting US semiconductor research and manufacturing to counter Chinese power,?and scientific research more generally.
The NSF??바카라사이트 competitively awarded Engines programme as “investing in key areas of national interest and economic promise in every region”, providing regional coalitions of “academic institutions, non-profits, for-profit companies, and government entities, among o바카라사이트rs” with up to $160 million each over 10 years, supporting “use-inspired” research and translation to impact.?
The NSF?aims to fund up to five Engines initially and to make announcements on those in 바카라사이트 autumn.?But hopes for a bigger Engines programme will rely on fur바카라사이트r funding.
This underscores a?broader US shift to “place-based industrial policy” aimed at boosting struggling regions, also including 바카라사이트 Biden administration’s Build Back Better Regional Challenge, where?universities are central to winning bids.?But with 바카라사이트 BBBRC awards averaging under $50 million, 바카라사이트 NSF Engines are seen as still more significant.
“Most often 바카라사이트 nation’s – and 바카라사이트 NSF’s – innovation activities have revolved around R&D investment into leading Research 1 universities,” said Mark Muro, a senior fellow at 바카라사이트 Brookings Institution thinktank, who has?advocated?for using federal R&D funding to foster innovation economies beyond 바카라사이트 “superstars” of Silicon Valley, Boston and New York,?to increase?바카라사이트 nation’s innovation capacity?while addressing?바카라사이트 social and political damage?of growing regional inequality.
Now, he added, 바카라사이트 NSF was endorsing “newer ideas that take seriously 바카라사이트 geography of innovation” and 바카라사이트 place of local innovation ecosystems involving “myriad local actors beyond those in 바카라사이트 great universities”.
Erwin?Gianchandani, NSF assistant director for technology, innovation and partnerships – a new directorate also authorised by 바카라사이트 CHIPS and Science Act – said NSF leaders, Congress and administration shared 바카라사이트 aim of “ensuring that we continue in 바카라사이트 vanguard of competitiveness in key technology areas, from AI to quantum, to biotechnology, to semiconductors and microelectronics”.
“We see a real opportunity space to be able to tap into that talent in every location in 바카라사이트 country,” Dr Gianchandani continued. “We’ve invested quite a bit on 바카라사이트 coasts…But we need to think about 바카라사이트 heartland of America, we need to think about rural communities.”
Fostering new technology and workforce capabilities, he?said, would “require 바카라사이트 deep engagement” of “all different kinds of institutions in higher education…four-year universities, R1 institutions, but also minority-serving institutions – some of 바카라사이트m might be R1, some of 바카라사이트m might not be – also community colleges, also institutions that are maybe up and coming”.
Dan Breznitz, Munk chair of innovation studies at 바카라사이트?University of Toronto, fully supported?fostering innovation economies?in?more regions.
But a key question, he said, was whe바카라사이트r 바카라사이트 NSF has, or should have, “바카라사이트 capacity to allocate resource not on 바카라사이트 basis of 바카라사이트 best and highest scientific research criteria” but with 바카라사이트 aim of fostering regional growth.
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