You may have heard about the $60 million investment by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to support research translation. But what does it mean for research administration teams, and how can it help you?
Stef Friesen, Cayuse’s director of solutions consulting, recently wrote an in-depth article on the program and its expected outcomes. If you’re wondering whether this program is for you, keep reading to learn what the Accelerating Research Translation (ART) program is and how it could impact your research administration team.
What is the ART program?
The ART program is a $60 million investment led by the NSF’s Directorate for Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships. The goal is to support institutions of higher education to “build capacity and infrastructure needed to strengthen and scale the translation of basic research outcomes into impactful solutions and practice.”
As Friesen explains, translational research in this program “is not solely about making a commercial product or service (commercialization). NSF is defining translational research more broadly now, to include discoveries that can impact other scientific disciplines, policies, specific communities, or society at large.”
The NSF is awarding winners up to $6 million per award to be distributed over four years.
How the program impacts your team
The ART program is intended for organizations without strong translational research programs. An ideal candidate might have high fundamental research activity but lower levels of translational research activity — or might be producing innovative research outcomes without the infrastructure to translate them into the world for impact.
Qualifying organizations may:
- Demonstrate strong basic science and engineering research with an eagerness to grow more
- Not yet have translation research activity fully supported or flourishing
- Wish to develop translational research but have not had the resources to achieve it
The program’s goal is to support your team not in research but in developing structure, infrastructure, employee training, and outcomes tracking for translational research. The NSF aims to help drive results in the real world and put your research into action.
How Cayuse can support your research translation
From the beginning, Cayuse has been in the business of helping institutions with research translation. Cayuse Inventions is a tool specifically designed to assist with technology transfer and commercialization. Through the NSF’s grant, Cayuse can be a key partner and part of the ART program.
With Cayuse Inventions, we work with our partners to build the framework, processes, and systems to deliver impact through their research findings.
Through our integrated digital hub, Cayuse Inventions can:
- Streamline processes and data flow
- Clean up workflows and data to ensure accuracy and on-time reporting and impact
- Bring teams together to work more collaboratively toward their goals
- Centralize all reports and processes so teams are working on a single “source of truth”
- Speed up results and outcomes
