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Weekly NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices 
NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts
November 16, 2007
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/WeeklyIndex.cfm?WeekEnding=11-16-2007


NIH Requiring Mandatory Use of the Electronic Financial Status Report
System in the eRA Commons Beginning October 1, 2007 

 

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Commerce Business Daily for this week:

http://people.clemson.edu/~wahba/CBDs/CBD-11-16-07.htm

http://people.clemson.edu/~wahba/CBDs/CBD-11-15-07.htm

http://people.clemson.edu/~wahba/CBDs/CBD-11-14-07.htm

http://people.clemson.edu/~wahba/CBDs/CBD-11-13-07.htm

http://people.clemson.edu/~wahba/CBDs/CBD-11-12-07.htm

 

 

NSF, NIH and ACS deadlines have been updated in the Research
Opportunities continuous list at the bottom of the page.  To view the
continuous list of Research Opportunities and items you may have missed
please click on the following URL:
 
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To see what's in the (State Science and Technology Institute) STTI
Weekly Digest go to the bottom of this document.

 

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Current Fringe Rates, Indirect Rates, and Tuition Remission Rates are
listed at the bottom.

 

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December 9, 2007

 

Medical Countermeasures to Enhance Platelet Regeneration and Increase
Survival Following Radiation Exposure (RC1) (REVISED) (Letter of intent
due Dec. 9, 2007, application due Jan. 9, 2008)
(RFA-AI-07-036)
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

Grant
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-AI-07-036.html 

 

December 13, 2007

 

DOD

Department of Defense

Office of Naval Research

NAVAL FACILITIES ENGINEERING COMMAND

Coyote Population Study, MCB Quantico VA

Grant

http://www07.grants.gov/search/search.do?mode=VIEW&oppId=40054

 

Molecular Libraries Probe Production Centers Network (MLPCN) (U54) -
Limited Competition (RFA-RM-08-005) (letter of intent due Dec. 13, 2007;
application due Jan. 4, 2008)
NIH Roadmap Initiatives

Grant
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-RM-08-005.html 

 

December 20, 2007

 

DHS

Department of Homeland Security

Office of Procurement Operations - Grants Division

Rapid Technology Application Program (RTAP) - Communications & Maritime

Safety

Grant

http://www.fbo.gov/spg/DHS/OCPO/DHS-OCPO/BAA08%2D02/listing.html
<http://www.fbo.gov/spg/DHS/OCPO/DHS-OCPO/BAA08-02/listing.html> 

http://www07.grants.gov/search/search.do?mode=VIEW&oppId=40059

 

DHS

Department of Homeland Security

Office of Procurement Operations - Grants Division

Rapid Technology Application Program (RTAP) - Explosives Detection

Grant

http://www.fbo.gov/spg/DHS/OCPO/DHS-OCPO/BAA08%2D03/listing.html
<http://www.fbo.gov/spg/DHS/OCPO/DHS-OCPO/BAA08-03/listing.html> 

http://www07.grants.gov/search/search.do?mode=VIEW&oppId=40060

 

January 10, 2008

 

HHS

Department of Health and Human Services

National Institutes of Health

Molecular Libraries Probe Production Centers Network (MLPCN) (U54) 

Limited Competition

Modification 1

http://www.grants.gov/search/search.do?&mode=VIEW&flag2006=true&oppId=15
918

 

January 16, 2008

 

Development and Application of Nanotechnology-based Tools to Understand
Mechanisms of Bioremediation (R01) (letter of intent due Jan. 16, 2008;
application due Feb. 15, 2008)
(RFA-ES-07-007)
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences

Grant
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-ES-07-007.html 

 

January 22, 2008

 

Centers of Excellence in Cancer Communication Research II (CECCR II)
(P50)
(RFA-CA-08-004) (letter of intent due Jan. 22, 2008; application due
Feb. 22, 2008)
National Cancer Institute

Grant
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-CA-08-004.html 

 

March 31, 2008

 

2008 NIH Directorate(tm)s New Innovator Award Program (DP2)
(RFA-RM-08-014)
NIH Roadmap Initiatives

Grant
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-RM-08-014.html 

 

February 17, 2009

 

DOC

Department of Commerce

Low-Power Digital-to-Analog Conversion Program

Modification 1

http://www07.grants.gov/search/search.do?mode=VIEW&oppId=40055

 

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New F&A Schedule (Pending Federal approval)

 

These rates are expected to be approved and should be used starting
immediately on proposals being developed.  

 

For projects starting on or after July 1, 2007, for the duration of the
award the rates will be:

 

Organized Research - 47.5%

Instruction - 45.0%

Other Sponsored Activities - 34.0%

 

For projects starting on or after July 1, 2008, for the duration of the
award the rates will be:

 

Organized Research - 48.0%

Instruction - 45.0%

Other Sponsored Activities -34.0%

 

For projects starting on or after July 1, 2009, for the duration of the
award the rates will be:

 

Organized Research - 48.5%

Instruction - 45.0%

Other Sponsored Activities -34.0%

 

Example:  If you proposal starts September 1, 2007, your rate will be
47.5% for the life of the proposed project.

New Fringe Rates
Faculty - 24.1%
Staff & Post-Docs - 30.2%
Students - 5.1%
Part-time & Retired - 15.9%

FY

Per Semester

Per Summer Session

Total for Year

 

 

 

 

2008

2,691

1,035

7,452

2009

2,826

788

7,228

2010

2,967

827

7,588

2011

3,115

868

7,966

2012

3,271

911

8,364

 

 

 

 

 

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In the November 14, 2007 Issue: 

*	Toronto Regional Innovation Gauge Released along with Other
Competitiveness Reports
*	Colorado Governor Unveils Climate Action Plan
*	Hawaii's Controversial Tax Credit Generates $821M in Investment
*	Broadband Programs Transform Rural Economies
*	Incubator RoundUp: New Incubators Help Grow Specialized
High-Tech Companies
*	Useful Stats: 2005 Federal R&D Obligations Per Capita to
Universities and Colleges
*	Next Digest 11/28

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Toronto Regional Innovation Gauge Released along with Other
Competitiveness Reports 
A handful of competitiveness reports have been released in the past two
weeks, each comparing various geographic locations and incorporating a
range of innovation metrics. Perhaps the publication garnering the most
international press has been The Global Competitiveness Report 2007-2008
by the World Economic Forum. Produced since 1979, this year's version of
the Report includes the Forum's Global Competitiveness Index, which
incorporates 12 "pillars of competitiveness" consisting of roughly 120
variables to rank 131 countries. These pillars range from Infrastructure
and Macroeconomic Stability to more advanced groupings such as
Technological Readiness and Innovation. 

The U.S. and Canada are ranked first and 12th, respectively, in the
report's Innovation subgroup. Each country's Innovation ranking was
calculated using such variables as the quality of scientific research
institutions, company spending on R&D, government procurement of
advanced technology products, the availability of scientists and
engineers, and intellectual property protection, among others. The top
five countries in terms of the composite GCI score were the U.S.,
Switzerland, Denmark, Sweden and Germany. The study ranked Canada 13th
in the world, in terms of overall competitiveness. 

A second recently released report, Raising Productivity Growth: Key
Messages from the European Competitiveness Report 2007, delves more into
the drivers of competitiveness in the European Union, especially in
terms of productivity. The report notes that the labor productivity gap
between the E.U. and the U.S., after widening continuously since 2001,
is beginning to diminish. While the difference in annual productivity
growth was relatively small at 0.1 percent, productivity measured as
gross domestic product (GDP) per employed person was 38.6 percent higher
in the U.S. than the E.U. and, if measured as GDP per hour worked, was
25 percent higher in the U.S. The report contends the main reason for
this gap is the productivity growth from factors such as technical
progress and organizational innovation. Policies designed to foster the
use of information technologies, increase investment in R&D, and induce
competition with product market reform should lessen the gap by driving
productivity. 

The first Annual Toronto Region Innovation Gauge, assembled by the
Toronto Region Research Alliance, was also just released. The report
benchmarks the greater Toronto region against 10 U.S. states with a
relatively comparable population and economic size identified as leaders
in technology -- California, Connecticut, Illinois, Massachusetts,
Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and
Virginia. This region - with a population of 6.8 million - contains
North America's second-largest financial services cluster,
second-largest automotive cluster, third-largest ICT cluster and the
continent's sixth-largest pharmaceutical cluster, the report observes. 

Modeled on the Massachusetts Innovation Economy Index produced by the
Massachusetts Technology Collaborative, the Innovation Gauge organizes
indicators into three categories - innovation inputs, innovation
processes and innovation outputs - in order to assess strengths and
weaknesses. This 2007 version states three main findings: 

*	The first is that the Toronto region is not achieving its
potential in terms of economic impact, even though it contains the
fundamental ingredients for success. For example, the region is ranked
second in terms of the proportion of the population over 25 years of age
with a postsecondary degree or diploma (44 percent) and second in terms
of engineering degrees awarded per capita. However, compared to the 10
benchmark states, the median household income was ranked eighth, and in
terms of patents issued per capita, the Toronto region was ranked 10th.
*	The perceived shortcomings of the first finding are perhaps
connected to the second finding, which indicates that funding for R&D
and new businesses is lacking compared to other competitor regions and
countries. Out of the 11, Toronto was ranked seventh in private R&D
expenditures per capita and ninth in venture capital investments.
*	The third finding describes how a lack of information on the
Toronto region's innovation system postpones instituting the needed
changes to improve performance. Already, work on the 2008 Innovation
Gauge has begun, with the intention of adding more measurements to
future editions. By further outlining the situation, the authors hope to
continue the process of informing, engaging and building consensus among
the region's stakeholders.

Additional details about the Global Competitiveness Index, including the
methodology used to calculate scores for each of the 12 pillars for all
of the 131 countries, can be found at www.gcr.weforum.org/. 

The E.U. Competitiveness Reports for 2007, all the way back to 1999, can
be accessed at: 
http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/enterprise_policy/competitiveness/1_eucom
petrep/eu_compet_reports.htm 

The 2007 Annual Toronto Region Innovation Gauge can be downloaded at: 
http://www.trra.ca/trratorontoregion
<http://www.trra.ca/trratorontoregion/>  

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Colorado Governor Unveils Climate Action Plan 
In support of his New Energy Economy Initiative, Gov. Bill Ritter
introduced last week a statewide action plan to expand renewable energy
opportunities and reduce the impact of climate change. 

Two key components of the plan include R&D for coal, natural gas and
renewable energy and fostering an educated workforce. Under the plan,
the state will partner with research institutions and industry to expand
R&D in these areas and develop clean-coal technologies. No additional
funding is requested in the governor's fiscal year 2008-09 budget
proposal for these initiatives; however, the key departments involved in
the action plan have committed to using existing funds to implement the
action items. 

The plan also calls for promoting the R&D of new energy resource
technologies through the Colorado Renewable Energy Collaboratory -- a
partnership between the National Renewable Energy Laboratory and
Colorado's three science research universities established in 2006. Gov.
Ritter signed HB 1322
<http://www.leg.state.co.us/CLICS2006A/csl.nsf/fsbillcont3/D2FF990E6D3DA
67B87257103006A9E5E?Open&file=1322_enr.pdf>  last year, allocating up to
$2 million per year for three years to the partnership. 

The Governor's Jobs Cabinet, consisting of business leaders and
representatives from higher education and K-12, was created last year to
develop a well trained workforce for the New Energy Economy. The plan
calls for partnering with higher education to train the workforce needed
for the New Energy Economy and partnering with K-12 educators to develop
and teach sustainability criteria. 

Gov. Ritter calls on the federal government to "step up its obligation
and provide national leadership on this front." Recommendations for
federal support include providing funding for the following: 

*	Loan guarantees to research clean coal technologies that capture
carbon dioxide and move from the pilot phase to full-scale commercial
use;
*	R&D for biofuels, particularly cellulosic ethanol; and,
*	Expanded funding for the key federal scientific research
institutions in Colorado, including the National Renewable Energy
Laboratory, National Center for Atmospheric Research and National
Oceanic Atmospheric Administration that are working on cutting-edge
climate change research.

In his FY08-09 budget submitted to the legislature's Joint Budget
Committee last week, Gov. Ritter recommends $2 million for rebate and
incentive programs for the installation of solar panels and replacing
existing state vehicles with E-85 and hybrid vehicles for a reduction of
the budget by approximately $443,000. For geothermal research relating
to the Colorado Geological Survey and for carbon sequestration, the
governor recommends $72,000 per project. 

The Colorado Climate Action Plan is available from the governor's office
at www.colorado.gov/governor/ . 

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Hawaii's Controversial Tax Credit Generates $821M in Investment 
Hawaii's research and investment tax credits for high-tech companies
have been a issue of debate for nearly a decade. In a survey conducted
earlier this year
<http://www.grantthornton.com/staticfiles/GTCom/files/services/TaxServic
es/SALT/GT%20Hawaii%20RD%20Survey%20FINAL.pdf> , 45 percent of a sample
of high-tech business owners said these credits played a "major
influence" in their decision to grow and expand in Hawaii. Opponents,
however, claim that the program's generous tax breaks overstep their
bounds by extending incentives to movie and television companies. 

A new report from the Hawaii Department of Taxation suggests that,
despite these concerns, the two credits have been successful in
generating greater technology investment. The department claims that
participating businesses attracted more than $821 million in investment,
paid out $506 million in salaries, and have been a major driver of
technology business in Hawaii since the credits were introduced. 

Hawaii residents claimed $195.6 million in investment tax credits
between 1999 and 2005. The tax department reports that qualifying
businesses spent $1 billion on salaries and infrastructure and created
more than 5,300 jobs in Hawaii. The most frequent applicants have been
computer software firms, which have created 921 new jobs and attracted
about $232 million in investment. Qualifying biotechnology firms created
217 jobs and spent about $80 million. Other firms participating in the
program include companies in sensors and optics, ocean sciences and
non-fossil fuels. 

The report, however, includes several caveats to those findings,
particularly its figures on employment. More than half of the new jobs
cited by the department were created within performing arts companies.
This represents about 2,800 new jobs. Performing arts businesses,
however, employed only 307 people in 2006. The report explains that many
of these jobs existed only for a short time. The tax department admitted
that the jobs figures were not reliable since they also included jobs
created outside of the state and by company suppliers. Also, the report
does not differentiate between part-time and full-time jobs. 

Though performing arts attracted an amount of investment on par with the
more conventional high-tech industries and a large number of jobs, these
jobs tended to pay much less than those industries. Between 2003 and
2006, the average salary paid to employees in the performing arts was
only $17,412, compared to $32,191 in biotechnology and $31,935 in
computer software. 

Both the research and investment credits have been reformulated several
times over the years to keep pace with the business interest in the
program and to respond to the objections of many in the state who
believe that the program definition of qualified expenses remains too
inclusive to be beneficial to the state economy. 

As interest in the credit grew, the state expanded the program in 2001.
Act 221 increased the credit for qualified investments from 10 percent
to 100 percent. The investment credit now provides a full return on cash
investments over five years: 35 percent in the first year, then 25
percent, 20 percent, and 10 percent in the final two years. Up to $2
million in credits are available for each qualifying high-tech business
per year. Businesses that qualified for the investment credit include
computer software design, biotechnology, ocean sciences, sensor and
optics technology and, over the objections of many in the state, the
performing arts. 

This flexibility led to increased concern that the incentives,
particularly the investment credit, were not being properly targeted to
benefit the high-tech economy. In 2004, the state legislature amended
the credits to tighten the restrictions qualifying businesses. Act 215
requires firms to first apply for status as qualifying high-tech
businesses (QHTBs) in order to receive either credit. All applicants for
the credit must now demonstrate that more than 50 percent of their total
business activities are qualified research and that 75 percent of that
research occurs in the state of Hawaii. Additionally, more than 75
percent of a firm's gross income from qualified research must be
generated by sales, manufacturing or production within the state of
Hawaii. 

While these restrictions did reduce the number of qualifying businesses,
they did not eliminate the inclusion of performing arts firms as QHTBs.
Opponents claim that these firms often provide only temporary employment
while filming movies or television series and rarely contribute to the
state's long-term high-tech growth. By providing an investment tax
credit to these firms, the state merely creates a tax loophole for movie
and television production companies. 

A frequent objection to the administration of the credit has been its
lack of transparency. Throughout most of the program's history, Hawaii's
Department of Taxation did not release the names of businesses and
investors participating in the program. That changed this summer
following a report from the Tax Review Commission that criticized the
program's lack of appropriate metrics, according to the Honolulu
Advisor. The department will now identify participants so that the
program can be evaluated in the before the sunset of the program in
2010. 

Read the Hawaii Department of Taxation's report on the High Technology
Business Investment Tax Credit at:
http://www.hawaii.gov/tax/pubs/2007hitec_rpt07a.pdf 

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Broadband Programs Transform Rural Economies 
Despite pioneering the development of the Internet and the World Wide
Web, the U.S. for years has lagged behind other industrialized countries
in offering broadband services to its citizens. The U.S. ranks 16th in
per capita broadband subscribers, and even when Americans do receive
high-speed Internet services, they frequently pay more for lower speeds
that their counterparts in Asia and Europe. A new report from the
Alliance for Public Technology, the third in a series of reports on U.S.
broadband, calls attention to the need for improved broadband services
and provides some examples of states and regions that have stepped in to
make sure that their economies benefit from the Internet revolution. 

The group offers several policy recommendations to frame a national
broadband strategy that could help the U.S. bridge its substantial gaps
in broadband adoption. These include establishing national goals for
deployment, setting standards for reporting broadband data, fostering
private investment and competition, requiring Universal Service Fund
recipients to offer broadband, providing new incentives for providers,
and creating a federal Office of Broadband. They also recommend that the
federal government employ non-traditional, non-telecommunications-based
strategies to increase adoption, as has been done in many states. 

The authors highlight regional programs across the country that are
expanding and leveraging their broadband infrastructure to drive
community development, disability access, education, health care, labor
and economic growth and public safety. The report cites several state
and regional programs that have helped to improve regional economies,
including the Beyond Tobacco technology development program in Greene
County, N.C., a heavily tobacco-dependent rural community. The
initiative offers free computer and web classes, online agricultural
resources and worker training to improve broadband adoption and demand.
A county-wide wireless network has been paired with the initiative to
modernize the community's economy. 

Download Broadband Initiatives: Enhancing Lives and Transforming
Communities at:
http://www.apt.org/publications/reports-studies/broadband_initiatives.pd
f 

Kentucky's statewide broadband initiative, ConnectKentucky
<http://www.connectkentucky.org/default.htm> , launched in 2004 to
extend the benefits of high-speed Internet to underserved communities.
Though the key mission of ConnectKentucky is to achieve full broadband
deployment by the end of 2007, it has also worked with local
governments, private companies and universities to increase the use of
Internet resources. During its three years of operation, the share of
Kentucky citizens and businesses that are able to access high-speed
connections has leaped from 60 percent to more than 90 percent. A recent
article published by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis examines the
effect that the increased availability of broadband has had on the
state's county economies and finds that these efforts have had a
significant positive impact on the levels and nature of employment 

In particular, the study finds that broadband deployment contributes to
regional economic dynamism by reducing employment in stagnant,
lower-paying sectors while creating new jobs in higher-paying ones.
Mining, construction, information and administration sector jobs clearly
grew as a result of new IT infrastructure, while real estate and arts
and entertainment showed some signs of broadband-related growth.
Deployment, however, appears to be linked to the disappearance of
accommodation and food service jobs, which the authors believe may be
related to the replacement of employees with IT equipment and services.
By eliminating these lower paying jobs and increasing the demand for IT
services and skilled workers in other areas, broadband availability
helps fuel a healthier, growing economy. 

The contribution of broadband access appears to be greatest as a
regional economy begins to fill in holes in its IT infrastructure.
Counties that were just beginning to offer high-speed access and
counties that were approaching universal access both benefited less from
increased deployment. The authors suggest that in order to maximize the
economic benefit of broadband programs, states would target their
efforts to communities with average levels of availability and
underserved communities that will soon be capable of reaping greater
benefit from full deployment. 

Read The Economic Impact of Broadband Deployment in Kentucky at:
http://research.stlouisfed.org/publications/red/2007/02/Shideler.pdf 

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________________________________

Incubator RoundUp: New Incubators Help Grow Specialized High-Tech
Companies 
Over the past several months, universities, city and state governments,
and private companies alike have announced the creation of high-tech
incubators that will serve as springboards for developing specialized
companies to help grow the regional economy. Following is a sampling of
recent incubator news from across the nation. 

In September, U.S. Sen. Evan Bayh (D-IN) announced a $50,000 Rural
Business Opportunity Grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to be
used toward the creation of a high-technology incubator in Grant County.
In partnership with Taylor University's Center for Research &
Innovation, Grant County Economic Growth Council
<http://www.grantcoindevelopment.com/current_news_2007_rbog.htm>  will
receive the bulk of the money to develop the Grant County Innovators
Network Center, providing space for one anchor tenant and up to 20
incubator clients. 

The Greater Owensboro Economic Development Corp.
<http://edc.owensboro.com/>  is in the development phase for its planned
Emerging Venture Center of Innovation. The goal is for the center to
become a satellite of Kentucky's Central Region Innovation and
Commercialization Center. The second phase of the plan includes
incubator and accelerator space with science laboratories for new
companies. 

A technology incubator is set to open early next year in East Lansing as
part of the Lansing Regional SmartZone
<http://www.michigan.org/medc/smartzones/szsum/lansingregional/index.asp
> . The 7,000-square-foot facility will work to develop Michigan State
University spin-offs and support other local high-tech ventures. The
city's Downtown Development Authority is providing $250,000 to build the
space, according to the Lansing State Journal. 

Last month, Kettering University broke ground on a 12,000-square-foot
multi-tenant facility called the Kettering University Science and
Technology Incubator Building
<http://www.kettering.edu/visitors/storydetail.jsp?storynum=626> . The
facility will support scientific and technologically-based start-up
companies and will include 10 dedicated research laboratory suites,
executive offices and shared equipment and support facilities. Funding
for the $2.7 million facility came from the U.S. Department of Commerce
and State of Michigan funds. 

As part of an overall effort to drive the development of the bioscience
industry in Rochester, Minn., Rochester Area Economic Development Inc.,
the city's economic development arm, announced the creation of the
Minnesota BioBusiness Center <http://raedi.org/bioscience.html> . The
150,000-square-foot facility will be located near to the Mayo Clinic and
the Minnesota Partnership for Biotechnology and Medical Genomics and
will provide office and lab space for companies that could benefit from
Rochester's bioscience assets. 

A privately owned technology business incubator, called the Turbine
Flats project <http://www.turbineflats.org/> , opened last month in
Omaha, Neb. The owners converted an old manufacturing building into
27,000 sq. ft. of office space. The project also includes a community
venture fund to provide small and preferably matching seed funds to
start-up companies. 

The city of Akron, Ohio, recently held an open house to reveal its newly
expanded incubator, renamed the Akron Global Business Accelerator
<http://www.ci.akron.oh.us/aii/> . The city received a $1.7 million
federal grant for renovations that allowed them to open several more
floors for start-up businesses. The University of Akron Research
Foundation also announced the creation of the Akron Innovation Campus
<http://www.uakron.edu/news/articles/uamain_1837.php>  geared toward
university spin off technology companies. 

The city of Dayton recently invested $1.4 million to create the Dayton
RFID Incubator Corp
<http://www.rfidupdate.com/articles/index.php?id=1457> ., an economic
development project to attract and develop radio frequency
identification-related businesses. CityWide Development Corp. will
develop and manage the incubator, which is expected to open sometime
next year. 

The University of Toledo (UT)
<http://www.utoledo.edu/research/incubator/index.html>  won a second $2
million grant from the U.S. Department of Commerce's Economic
Development Administration in September to establish a second high-tech
incubator. UT will construct a 40,000-square-foot building next to the
existing Clean and Alternative Energy Incubation Center that will house
a broader spectrum of companies. 

A new bioscience incubator at the University of Texas-Austin will become
the fourth incubator formed inside the Austin Technology Incubator
<http://www.ati.utexas.edu/> . The city of Austin invested $125,000 in
the new incubator that will focus on biotech and life sciences
industries. 

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Useful Stats 
2005 Federal R&D Obligations Per Capita to Universities and Colleges 
At $453.28, the District of Columbia led the nation in federal R&D
obligations per capita to colleges and universities in 2005, according
to recent National Science Foundation (NSF) report. For the U.S. as a
whole, the per capita amount rose 25.8 percent from 2001 to 2005. 

The District of Columbia was followed by Maryland ($261.49),
Massachusetts ($214.11), California ($136.62), and Hawaii ($133.94) in
2005, based on the NSF data. The national average in 2005 was $84.35 per
person. At the other end of the rankings, Puerto Rico experienced the
lowest average at $16.29 per capita. This ws followed by Maine ($23.06),
West Virginia ($27.27), Oklahoma ($30.97), and Florida ($33.12). 

States experiencing the largest increase per capita from 2001 to 2005
were North Dakota at 107.2 percent, Idaho at 67.7 percent, Nevada at
66.5 percent, Hawaii at 61.7 percent, and Louisiana at 59.8 percent. 

SSTI has prepared a table illustrating the NSF data for every state, the
District of Columbia and Puerto Rico for each of the five years from
2001 to 2005. Additionally, the percent change in obligations per capita
over the five-year period has been calculated. 

"Obligations are the amounts for orders placed, contracts awarded,
services received, and similar transactions during a given period,
regardless of when the funds were appropriated and when future payment
of money is required," the NSF report states. "Obligations differ from
expenditures in that funds allocated by federal agencies during one
fiscal year may be spent by the recipient institution either partially
or entirely during one or more subsequent years." 

SSTI's table is available at:
http://www.ssti.org/Digest/Tables/111407t.htm 

Federal Science and Engineering Support to Universities, Colleges, and
Nonprofit Institutions: Fiscal Year 2005 is available at:
http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/nsf07333/ 

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Grants Administrator

College of Engineering and Science

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Clemson, SC  29634-0901

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