The CRCF issues 29 awards to 22 organizations with grants totaling $3.6 million to spark innovation, company formation in the Commonwealth
Herndon, VA (PRWEB) December 21, 2011 The Center for Innovative Technology (CIT) announced today 29 Commonwealth Research Commercialization Fund (CRCF) awards totaling $3.6 million made to 22 organizations from academia, the research community, and industry in the Commonwealth for the purpose of funding targeted areas of research with commercial promise aligned with the Commonwealth Research and Technology (R&T) Strategic Roadmap.
This solicitation brought in more than 90 eligible proposals from throughout Virginia, totaling nearly $21 million, and spanning the breadth of industries identified in the Roadmap as priorities areas for the Commonwealth, including: advanced manufacturing, aerospace, communications, energy, environment, information technology, life sciences, modeling and simulation, nuclear physics, and transportation; awarded projects represent the areas of life sciences, energy, advanced manufacturing and nuclear physics.
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