SyracuseCoE Accepting Proposals for Spherical Two of Innovation Fund Awards
SyracuseCoE is now accepting proposals from present and new {industry} companions for its second spherical of Innovation Fund grants for 2022.
Grant functions from corporations who’re new or current members of the SyracuseCoE Accomplice Program are being accepted by means of 5 p.m. ET on Thursday, Oct. 20. Awards of as much as $10,000 every for as much as 5 tasks could also be introduced.
M3 Improvements’ Chris Nolan, left, and Joe Casper with their Mako Answer System. The corporate obtained Innovation Fund grants in 2020 and 2022. (Photograph by Kerrie Marshall)
Corporations in any respect SyracuseCoE accomplice ranges—{industry}, affiliate and start-up—are invited to use for the grants. Venture proposals should handle a problem within the SyracuseCoE’s core focus areas of indoor environmental high quality, clear and renewable power and water sources.
Led by Syracuse College, SyracuseCoE is considered one of 13 NYSTAR-funded Facilities of Excellence designed to foster collaboration between the educational analysis neighborhood and the enterprise sector to develop and commercialize new merchandise and applied sciences and promote personal sector funding in rising high-technology fields in New York state.
SyracuseCoE Govt Director Jianshun “Jensen” Zhang, who can be a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering within the College’s School of Engineering and Pc Science, notes that many SyracuseCoE companions have leveraged their Innovation Fund awards to commercialize their applied sciences and strengthen their corporations.
Jianshun “Jensen” Zhang, government director, SyracuseCoE.
“These awards speed up analysis and improvement and assist rework revolutionary discoveries into commercially viable services and products, making the businesses extra aggressive. The entrepreneurial tradition that’s inherent in university-industry collaboration contributes to a robust economic system for New York state, whereas addressing vital, multifaceted societal challenges,” Zhang says.
Zhang cites the success of three prior grantees as a measure of the potential the awards can imply. Normal Hydrogen Corp. used its 2016 grant to construct monetary and bodily fashions of their system to advance essential conversations with utilities. The corporate is now working with Nationwide Grid to construct New York state’s first hydrogen power station. Ephesus Lighting Corp.’s 2014 award allowed it to check new, revolutionary LED sports activities lighting know-how that they used the next yr to gentle the Tremendous Bowl. SparkCharge’s 2016 grant helped it check the warmth administration system for its transportable electrical automobile chargers. The startup constructed its first prototype at SyracuseCoE headquarters and has gained tens of millions in different grants. Founder Josh Aviv ’15 G’17 has obtained a number of “greatest entrepreneur” honors. Not too long ago, he launched President Joseph R. Biden Jr. L’68 on the White Home signing of the CHIPS and Science Act.
Those that are all for becoming a member of the accomplice program now to be eligible for grant consideration for this October’s awards can contact Tamara Rosanio at tlrosani@syr.edu. Extra particulars about this system and software course of could be discovered on the SyracuseCoE web site.
