National Science Foundation Partnerships for Innovation: Building Innovation Capacity PFI:BIC --“Smart” Service Systems-- Alexandra Medina-Borja, Ph.D. Program Director Office of the Assistant Director Directorate for Engineering National Science Foundation
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National Science Foundation
Partnerships for Innovation:
Building Innovation Capacity
PFI:BIC
--“Smart” Service Systems--
Alexandra Medina-Borja, Ph.D.
Program Director
Office of the Assistant Director
Directorate for Engineering
National Science Foundation
NSF Directorate for Engineering (ENG)
Emerging Frontiers in Research and Innovation (EFRI)
Sohi Rastegar Office of the Assistant Director Pramod Khargonekar, Assistant Director Grace Wang, Deputy Assistant Director
Senior Advisor for Nanotechnology
Mihail Roco
Chemical, Bioengineering,
Environmental, and Transport Systems
(CBET) JoAnn Lighty
Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation (CMMI)
George Hazelrigg (acting)
Electrical, Communications,
and Cyber Systems (ECCS)
Samir El-Ghazaly
Engineering Education and Centers (EEC)
Theresa Maldonado
Industrial Innovation and
Partnerships (IIP)
Cheryl Albus (acting)
Innovation Corps Babu DasGupta
Program Director for Evaluation & Assessment Alexandra Medina-Borja
Program Director for Strategic Operations
Cheryl Albus
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What is PFI: BIC?
• Partnerships for Innovation: Building Innovation Capacity
(PFI:BIC): SMART SERVICE SYSTEMS
– supports academe-industry partnerships,
– led by an interdisciplinary academic research
team collaborating with at least one industry partner
– to build technological, human, and service system
innovation capacity
– projects in the post-fundamental discovery space
but precede being on a clear path to
commercialization.
– understanding of human interaction with technology
to inform a human-centered service design
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Solicitation: NSF 14-610 Key Facts
• Letter of Intent (LOI) required: December 3, 2014
• Full proposal submission deadline: January 28, 2015
• Awards: up to $1,000,000/3-year duration
– Estimated: 10 awards
– Anticipated funding: $10,000,000
• Submission restrictions:
– One (1) submission opportunity/year
– Two (2) proposals per institution, each proposal, respectively,
pursuant to its own LOI .
– Principal Investigator (PI) who proposes
• Cannot be concurrently a PI on an active award from the NSF
PFI:BIC program
• PI cannot submit both to the PFI:BIC and to the PFI:AIR program for