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NSF Invests in Second Year of Grants for Community Innovation

November 30, 2001
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A National Science Foundation (NSF) program to foster significant public/private partnerships and help better position local communities to accommodate new and enhanced research and development is continuing into a second year, NSF announced last month. 



The $14 million in grants awarded last year under NSF's Partnerships for Innovation (PFI) have been supplemented with more than $7 million for 12 new grants in 2001 to cover projects in 11 states involving more than 150 partner organizations. 



The twelve lead institutions receiving new PFI awards include: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland; the University of Alaska, Anchorage; the universities of Maine, Southern Mississippi, Southern California, Pennsylvania and South Dakota; Montana Tech; Michigan Technological University; and Montana State, Northwestern and Wichita State universities. 



All are receiving an average of $600,000 over the next two to three years. The lead institutions are selected to act as catalysts in helping their surrounding communities transform research-based knowledge into innovations that create opportunities for new wealth and a broader economic base that benefit communities and the nation at large. 



A complete list of the second Partnership for Innovation Awards is available at: http://www.nsf.gov/od/lpa/news/press/01/pr0188.htm 

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