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= <span id="docs-internal-guid-c44b34b0-2cd9-083d-5686-8e3b045727e8"><span style="font-size: 35px; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">University-Industry Collaboration </span></span> =
<span id="docs-internal-guid-c44b34b0-2cd9-083d-5686-8e3b045727e8">[http://enpub.fulton.asu.edu/sensip/ <bspan style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">The Sensor, Signal and Information Processing Center and Consortium</bspan><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;"> (SenSIP) </span>]<span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">at ASU has been designated a </span>[http://www.nsf.gov/ <span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">National Science Foundation (NSF)</span>] <span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Industry/University Collaborative Research Center. The consortium researchers have provided the mathematical and algorithmic groundwork for technology used in security systems, consumer electronics, medicine health carehealthcare, nanotechnology, and other technologies including global positioning systems.</span></span>
<span id="docs-internal-guid-c44b34b0-2cd9-083d-5686-8e3b045727e8">[http://www.techshop.ws/ <span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">TechShop</span>]<span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(28, 69, 135); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">, </span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">To further develop creativity and the entrepreneurial spirit in the communities ASU serves, they have joined with TechShop, a membership-based, do-it-yourself facility that provides the public with tools, equipment, training and a vibrant, supportive community of creative people. TechShop membership provides access to over $1 million dollars worth of advanced machines and tools, sophisticated 2D and 3D design software, and other professional equipment. All full-time students at all 4 campuses are currently provided TechShop memberships free of charge.</span></span><br/><span id="docs-internal-guid-c44b34b0-2cd9-083d-5686-8e3b045727e8">[http://adrc.asu.edu/ <bspan style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">The Aerospace and Defense Research Collaboratory</bspan>]<span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">, a consortium between ASU, UA and Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, is intended to bridge the gap between education and industry through research. The Collaboratory is housed on ASU’s Polytechnic campus in the College of Technology and Innovation.</span></span><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-c44b34b0-2cd9-083d-5686-8e3b045727e8"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">This research initiative is expected to boost Arizona’s economy, as well as attract other big corporations to the state</span></span></li></ul>
*This research initiative <br/><span id="docs-internal-guid-c44b34b0-2cd9-083d-5686-8e3b045727e8"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">ASU's </span>[http://www.biodesign.asu.edu/ <span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Biodesign Institute</span>]<span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">in collaboration with industry is expected engaged in a $5 million, four-year project to boost Arizona’s economyidentify protein biomarkers that could predict cardiovascular disease in people with type 2 diabetes. The collaboration is sponsored by the </span>[http://www.niddk.nih.gov/Pages/default.aspx <span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases</span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">(NIDDK--part of the National Institutes of Health)</span>]<span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">. Other collaborators in the project include </span>[http://www.pfizer.com/ <span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Pfizer</span>]<span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">and the </span>[http://www.phoenix.va.gov/ <span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Phoenix VA Healthcare System</span>]<span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, as well as attract other big corporations 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">. The money comes from a fund that is designed to the statesupport scientists from different disciplines to work together on a common problem.</span></span>
<br/span id="docs-internal-guid-c44b34b0-2cd9-083d-5686-8e3b045727e8">ASU's'''[http<span style="font-size://www.biodesign.asu.edu/ Biodesign Institute]''' in collaboration with industry is engaged in a $5 million, four15px; font-year project to identify protein biomarkers that could predict cardiovascular disease in people with type 2 diabetes. The collaboration is sponsored by the [httpfamily: Arial; color://www.niddk.nih.gov/Pages/default.aspx <i><b>National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases</b></i> rgb(NIDDK0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-part of the National Institutes of Health)]. Other collaborators in the project include [httpspace://www.pfizer.com/ <i><b>Pfizer</b></i>] and the [httppre-wrap; background-color://www.phoenix.va.gov/ <i><b>Phoenix VA Healthcare System</b></itransparent;">]. The money comes from a fund that is designed to support scientists from different disciplines to work together on a common problem. Other ASU industry collaborations include: </span>[http://aims.engineering.asu.edu/ <span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Adaptive Intelligent Materials and Systems Center (AIMS)</span>]<span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">; </span>[http://atic.asu.edu/ <span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Advanced Technology Innovation Center</span>]<span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent; ">; </span>[http://www.asu.edu/aine/ <span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Arizona Institute for Nano-Electronics (AINE)</span>]<span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">, and the </span>[http://asuresearchpark.com/ <span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Arizona State University Research Park</span>]<span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">.</span></span><div><br/></div>
= Regional and Local Economic Development =