Awards - Third Round
- Third Round Awardees (PDF)
- Partners Involved in the Third Round Awards
- Third Round Award Distribution
- Third Round Applicants (PDF)
- Third Round Proposal Focus Areas (PDF)
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Summary
101 proposals will be reviewed in the third and final round of the Indiana 21st Century Fund's Award process for the 1999-2000 biennium. The proposals cover a remarkable range of topic areas. Broad categories include: Engineering (40 proposals); Medical (26 proposals); Agriculture (10 proposals); Information Technologies (14 proposals); Nanotechnology (1 proposal); Pharmaceutical Science (2 proposals); Global Positioning Systems and Applications (4 proposals); and Entrepreneurial (4 proposals). Since the Fund emphasizes interdisciplinary activities, it is not surprising that many proposals overlap several of the above categories. Nonetheless, each proposal was assigned to a single topic area in making the above classification.
Roughly 50% of the third round proposals were submitted by commercial sector entities, and the remainder by academic institutions. Whatever institution made the submission, proposals involved participation by multiple partner institutions. In the first two rounds, 40% of applications originated in the commercial sector.
The third round proposals request a total of $137,419,744 from the Fund in support of projects with total budgets of $385,652,408. Thus the overall leverage for this round is 2.8 to 1. Leveraging of awards from rounds one and two were 1 to 1 and 2 to 1, respectively.
Within the academic sector the following institutions made submissions as lead institutions:
- Tri-State University (1)
- University of Evansville (1)
- University of Notre Dame (7)
- IUPUI (6)
- Indiana University, Bloomington (1)
- Purdue University (26)
- Indiana Institute of Technology (2)
- Indiana State University (2)
- Ball State University (2)
Academic institutions were lead institutions or partners in virtually all of the proposals, consistent with the Fund's emphasis on the formation of academic sector-commercial sector partnerships.
Two spreadsheets summarizing the proposals submitted to the third round are provided. The first, and simplest, is an Excel Spreadsheet, listing submitting institution, project title, project ID number, PI, 21st Century Fund request, and Total project cost. The second spreadsheet is an Access Database containing the above information as well as an abstract, describing the project. Both databases can be downloaded and searched or sorted. We hope that this format will help companies and academic institutions identify groups with interests, needs, or capabilities of mutual interest.