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March 27, 2023

UIDP is a non-profit association of companies and universities. Arizona State University is an institutional member of UIDP. This global network is project-oriented, focused on challenges impacting research collaboration and workforce development.

UIDP provides networking and connection between researchers, economic development professionals, contractors, industry representatives, and academic leaders.

  • UIDP Events include information on national programs that impact individual faculty members and their scholarship.
  • UIDP Training opportunities increase knowledge, skills, and abilities around inter-institutional contracting success.
  • UIDP Content includes best practice knowledge documents and policy papers on university-industry partnership relevant topics.

Additional perks of membership include receiving the University-Industry Engagement Advisor. Click HERE to download March 2023 issue. Click HERE to visit their website.

2023 Updates

WEBINAR RECORDING: Collaboration Metrics, aired Feb. 23 (view recording). This webinar focuses on the metrics used when tracking and assessing university-industry partnerships, assessing relationship growth or lags, opportunities to broaden engagement, and identify gaps that existing partners are not filling.

  • Supplement—Collaboration Metrics Resource, attached.
  • Best to share with—R&D leadership, professionals responsible for strategic university engagement, and corporate/university relations

WEBINAR RECORDING: NSF PFI Solicitation 2023, aired Feb. 27 (view recording). NSF published an updated solicitation with significantly increased funding awards and now offers $550,000 per Technology Translation (PFI-TT) track and up to $1 million per proposal for its Research Partnership (PFI-RP) track. This webinar further discussed the new solicitation announcement and award process.

  • Best to share with—Professionals interested in university-industry-government opportunities to advance their research priorities

WEBINAR RECORDING: HBCU Showcase—Development of Carbon-Carbon Bond Formation for Heterocycle Synthesis with Winston-Salem State University, aired Feb. 28 (view recording). This webinar is part of a series illuminating opportunities to partner with HBCUs on research. Learn more about the research developments and importance of heterocycles, which account for more than half of all known organic compounds, and the need for developing efficient methods to make them.

  • Best to share with—Scientific professionals with interest in heterocycles

WEBINAR RECORDING: HBCU Research Engagement: Topics, Stats, and Facts, aired March 1 (view recording). This webinar helps illuminate topics around research capabilities and facts and figures that are most prolific at HBCUs. The panel shares practical takeaways from our first annual HBCU Conference and discusses goals and sessions that will be explored at HBCU Engage 2023, set for April 18-19 in Nashville!

  • Best to share with—Professionals seeking to build long-term partnerships with HBCUs and professionals working at HBCUs seeking to build research partnerships with industry, other research funders, and other research performers.

PODCAST: UIDP Conversations with Quincy Quick (listen here). Quincy Quick is the associate vice president for research and sponsored programs and chief research officer at UIDP member organization Tennessee State University. This conversation delves into Tennessee State’s positioning to advance its research enterprise. Tennessee State will locally co-host HBCU Engage 2023 with Fisk University and Meharry Medical College, held April 18-19, in Nashville.

  • Best to share with— Professionals seeking to build long-term partnerships with HBCUs, and those vested in diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives.

REFERENCE LIST: HBCU Research Offices List (more details). This reference list compiles links to the office of research at HBCUs. It has been created to conveniently collate links to research offices for company representatives and R1 universities who wish to develop mutually beneficial partnerships rooted in research and development.

  • Best to share with—Professionals vested in building long-term relationships with HBCUs

REFERENCE LIST: Business Funding List 2021 (more details). This business funding list shows business funding as a percent of R&D expenditures and has been developed using public data from the National Science Foundation and solicited information.

  • Best to share with—Professionals focused on economic development and interested in university-industry-government opportunities for sponsored research.

Learn more about UIDP here: https://uidp.org/

Presenter: Angie Florentine Taylor, Membership Services Manager