NSF Regional Innovation Engines posts data about letters of interest online for potential collaborators
NSF has released data on nearly 300 letters of intent (LOIs) submitted to the NSF Regional Innovation Engines program by lead organization applicants. The data is meant to enable applicant teams to connect and potentially collaborate before the preliminary proposal deadline on Aug. 6, 2024, according to a press release from NSF.
The data can be found on the NSF Engines' Letter of Intent Explorer, which offers an interactive map showing the location of lead organizations and the industry sectors from which the LOIs came, a search engine for finding lead organizations by state, a data table showing LOI titles, lead organizations names, types, and contact information, and region of service.
The explorer indicates that
- There are more than 600 unique partner organizations.
- Organizations in EPSCoR jurisdictions lead 28% of the LOI lead organizations.
- Non-academic organizations lead 43% of the LOI lead organizations.
- Minority-serving institutions lead thirty-five LOI lead organizations.