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The U.S. National Science Foundation today announced a $20 million investment to launch a two-year pilot supporting small businesses in commercializing their deep-technology ventures. The pilot aims to address a persistent gap separating federally funded deep technology research from commercial success. The investment ensures that the U.S. remains at the forefront of global innovation.

“NSF invests in small businesses that bring the most innovative, cutting-edge technologies to the market,” said Erwin Gianchandani, NSF Assistant Director for Technology, Innovation and Partnerships. “By helping these companies go further in bridging the so-called ‘valley of death,’ we can build on NSF’s R&D investments and help more breakthrough innovations reach the market, strengthening U.S. competitiveness and economic growth.”

“We are grateful to NSF for its continued confidence in UCF and for the opportunity to help shape the future of research translation and commercialization,” said University of Central Florida (UCF) President Alexander N. Cartwright. “Discovery reaches its greatest potential when it moves beyond the laboratory and improves lives, strengthens industries and creates opportunities. UCF’s National Commercialization and Translation Institute (NCTI) builds on UCF’s growing national leadership in helping promising technologies become products, companies and economic growth. With Central Florida’s extraordinary concentration of talent, industry, and innovation, UCF is well positioned to build a model that can deliver impact for Florida and across the nation.”

Led by UCF’s NCTI, the pilot

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Dear Colleagues,

The U.S. National Science Foundation was established in 1950 to keep American discovery at the frontier. That mission has not changed. The science and technology ecosystem around it has.

We’ve heard this message clearly from researchers across disciplines and settings. Science today is no longer a straight line from laboratory to application. Talent is more widely distributed beyond organizations that have traditionally received federal support. Philanthropies and the private sector have risen to become major players in both basic and applied research. Artificial intelligence is changing not only what we can study, but how research itself is organized.

To meet this moment, NSF is embracing a portfolio approach, where the structure of an award matches the nature of the work. We are expanding who carries out NSF-supported work and how, to enable ambitious, multidisciplinary inquiry at the scientific frontier. We will find and support exceptional students and early-career researchers, at the stage when research creativity is high. Our new Office of Metascience will rigorously assess the effectiveness of new initiatives, scaling what works and retiring what does not.

Many of these changes at NSF have already begun. We know none of this succeeds without you, NSF’s staff, reviewers, awardees, students, and partners across academia and industry. NSF’s role is to create conditions for exceptional science to happen more often and more frequently. We are

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Cutting-edge science and technology advancements are revolutionizing artificial intelligence systems. Mark Hersam an NSF-supported researcher, discusses nanoelectronic materials and how a cerebellum-inspired approach may transform how AI performs in wearable devices.

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