Matthew Enjalran
Southern Connecticut State University, CT·Education Research
Small and medium-sized businesses rarely have the means to take part in use-inspired research (UIR), research aimed at solving concrete real-world problems, especially in emerging technologies. Primarily undergraduate institutions are well placed to partner with these businesses, but they often lack the support systems to build such partnerships.
- Fields
Education Research
Social Science
- Topics
use-inspired research
academic-industry partnerships
primarily undergraduate institutions
- Grants
- 1 known grant, through Aug 2028
What they work on
- Build a community of practice among three primarily undergraduate institutions to develop and strengthen research partnerships with small and medium-sized businesses in emerging technologies.
- Create credentialed workforce training programs that draw on the partner institutions' expertise in experiential learning.
- Train faculty and staff in grant seeking and technology transfer, and share resources through a public virtual playbook and website.
More about the research
PRISTINE (Partnerships to Promote Research & Innovation for SocieTal Impact & Novel Engagements) is a collaboration among three primarily undergraduate institutions. The group includes private and public universities, liberal arts and community colleges, and urban and rural communities. The project will set up a community of practice to build the capacity of smaller institutions to form research and innovation partnerships with industry. It has three aims. The first is to cultivate external partnerships that attract research funding and support use-inspired research in emerging technology fields. The second is to use the partners' experience in experiential learning to create credentialed workforce training programs. The third is to help faculty and staff build skills in grant seeking and technology transfer, so that more formal proposals and agreements are made with industry. The team plans to produce resources and training for faculty and industry partners and to share lessons through a public virtual playbook and website.
Why it matters
Regional small and medium-sized businesses could gain access to university research partnerships that help solve practical problems with emerging technologies. Students and workers could benefit from new credentialed training programs. Smaller colleges could gain a playbook for building industry collaborations.
Known grants
From NIH and NSF research grants. Labs often have other funding we can't see.
Closest labs
Josephine Rodriguez
Western New England University, MA·Engineering
Share best practices and lessons learned across the five EXPAND universities to improve institutional policies and processes for partnerships with industry and community organizations.
Samantha Roth
Guilford College, NC·Education Research
Identify and repair gaps in institutional policies and processes, including intellectual property rights policies and partnership agreements, that currently limit research and community partnerships at a primarily undergraduate institution.
Timothy Miller
Saint Francis University, PA·Education Research
Build innovation capacity at each of five primarily undergraduate institutions, developing campus structures for industry partnerships, entrepreneurship, experiential learning and research suited to undergraduate-focused colleges.
The school
Southern Connecticut State University: 1 labs on PI Pages, $8M a year on research, 34 research doctorates a year.
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