2017 UF/IFASGrantsmanship Workshop Presentation FINAL

UF START-UPS PROGRAM SUPPORT

Match researchers with potential management
Assist in business plan creation and market
feasibility studies
Provide training and mentoring for “wanna be”
entrepreneurs
Introduce funding opportunities through VC &
angel network introductions

FACILITIES

Florida Innovation Hub at UF

• Opened Fall 2011
• 48,000 square feet of labs and offices
• Blocks from campus, downtown
• Startups and service providers
• OTL offices, UF Tech Connect®

 Sid Martin Biotech Incubator

• Opened 1995
• Won numerous awards
• 28 companies graduated or acquired
• Companies have attracted $1B in Funding
• 40K Sq. Ft.

CAPITAL

 Funding follows opportunity appropriately
matched with an experienced
entrepreneur

 Venture capital
 Angel groups
 Sources of funding increasing
 Grants and matching funds

MANAGEMENT

 Serial Entrepreneur Focus/Gator Alums
• Work closely with foundation

 Tap Venture Capital and Angel contacts for
referrals

 UF OTL funds Proof-of-Principle experiments to
make technologies attractive

 Host series of meetings
 UF Tech Showcase, - April, 2017

ALIGN WITH UNIVERSITY MISSION

 Economic development added to our
missions of teaching, research and service

 Innovation Academy launched in January
2015 wedding innovation to UF education

 Innovation Square joins UF and downtown,
embodying town-gown emphasis

 Progress Park growth

Working
Together
For A
Better
Tomorrow

John C. Byatt, Ph.D.
Associate Director, Office of Technology Licensing
Phone: 352-392-4979
[email protected]



Robert Fletcher
Associate Professor,
Wildlife Ecology & Conservation
[email protected]

Kirsten Pelz-Stelinski
Associate Professor,

Entomology and Nematology, Citrus REC

[email protected]

Andy Ogram

Professor, Soil and Water Sciences

[email protected]

Fredy Altpeter
Professor, Agronomy

[email protected]

Gilles Basset
Associate Professor,
Horticultural Sciences

[email protected]

Rob Fletcher
Kirsten Pelz-Stelinski

Andy Ogram
Fredy Altpeter
Gilles Basset



Nick Place
Dean and Director,
Florida Cooperative Extension Service

OVERVIEW OF UF/IFAS FAMILY, YOUTH
AND COMMUNITY SCIENCES
DEPARTMENT

Dr. Tracy Irani
Professor and Chair,

FYCS Department

FYCS BACKGROUND

FYCS

• An applied social sciences department with a range of disciplines represented
in its faculty, focused on a cross cutting set of contextual knowledge bases

• Started as an Extension department; added academic programs 25 years ago
• Has an interdisciplinary focus in family, youth and community sciences

FYCS Faculty

• 28 full time faculty members, including the chair
• 7 full professors, ten associate professors and nine assistant professors
• 2 full-time lecturers and a state specialized agent (SSA) who coordinates our

Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP)

FYCS KNOWLEDGE BASES

 Youth development
 Adolescent behavior, emerging adults
 Positive youth development, STEM
 Prevention science
 At risk youth, risk taking behavior
 Program planning and evaluation

 Family science
 Health disparities, chronic disease, behavioral health (nutrition & food safety)
 Family resource mgmt (consumer economics, housing, family decision making)
 Human development, developmental psychology
 Family life education

 Community sciences
 Community resilience, engagement, emergency response
 Sustainable food systems
 Nonprofit organizational leadership (U.S. and global)

CORE PROGRAMS

 Youth development and family science
 Family life education
 Nonprofit organizations and community development
 Health and wellness (including nutrition, chronic disease

and obesity prevention and food safety education)
 Scientific investigation, program planning and evaluation

FYCS RESEARCH

• The FYCS research agenda focuses on discovery and
intervention designed to improve health and well being of
youth, families and communities.

• Extramural funding from NIH, CDC-NIOSH, USDA-NIFA,
National 4-H Council, FDACS, National Academy of the
Sciences, Bank of America and Wells Fargo.

FYCS EXTENSION

 FYCS faculty provide the science base for three of the six major initiatives

in Extension: 4-H Youth Development (Initiative Seven); Family and

Consumer Sciences (Initiative Five) and Community Development

(Initiative six).

 Extension state specialists work with regional and county based faculty to

conduct impactful multi-county programs in areas of high societal need –

 health and wellness  4-H

 nutrition  economic mobility

 chronic disease  poverty

 obesity prevention  health disparities

 food safety  social inequity

 financial literacy  community development and engagement

 family resource management  sustainable community food systems
 human development
 disaster response

 youth development and prevention science

WORKING WITH FYCS FACULTY

Think of FYCS faculty when:
• Your project needs an outreach component and/or must
demonstrate broader societal impact
• When you need to engage with communities/community
partners to achieve a project objective (engagement,
facilitation, scenarios for decision making)
• When you need a monitoring and evaluation component
• When you need to reach target populations (rural, youth,
elderly, food system actors, consumers, etc.)

INTERDISCIPLINARY TEAMS

The role of the social sciences:
• Social scientists are not context specific
• They can provide the human ecological component to any

project
• Social sciences research explores attitudes and perceptions,

influences on behavior and elements of socioecological
systems
• Social scientists demonstrate project impact in human and
societal terms

Brian Myers
Chair,

Agricultural Education and Communication

Alan Hodges
Director,

Economic Impact Analysis Program,
Food & Resource Economics

Mary Jo Koroly

Director,
UF Center for Precollegiate Education and Training

ARTS RESEARCH AND INTERSECTIONS

Anthony J. Kolenic, Ph.D.
Assistant Dean for Research

UF College of the Arts

WHY THE ARTS?

CREATIVE ECONOMY NATIONALLY:

• $698B Industry; 4.32% of US GDP (bigger than construction: 4.2% of
GDP 2016)

• 4.7M Employed in Arts and Culture Sector
• For Every 100 New Arts/Culture Jobs, 62 Other Jobs Created
• 60% of Fortune 500 CEOs Identified Creativity as Most Important

Quality

WHY THE ARTS?

ECONOMIC IMPACT IN FLORIDA:

 $49.7B Annual revenues: 7.15% market share; 5.84% US pop. & growing
 54,994 Arts-related businesses in FL, Employing 185,138 (88,326 FTE)
 5:1 ROI for state and local government treasuries ($446.5M)
 Arts and Culture tourists spend 137% more than residents

ECONOMIC IMPACT IN ALACHUA COUNTY:

 FTE Jobs = 2,344
 Revenue Generated from Alachua County to State and Local

Governments: $7,262,000
 Event-Related Spending Excluding Admission: $53,153,848 to Local

Businesses

EMERGING OPPORTUNITIES

PARADIGM SHIFT:

 20th Century: Artist as Solitary “Creative”
 21st Century: Artist and Designer as Community Asset, Cultural

Specialist, Meaning-Maker, Collaborative Force and Translator

ARTS/DESIGN AND:

 Arts and Medicine/Health
 Arts and Transportation
 Arts and Technology
 Arts and Entrepreneurship

‘PLUG AND PLAY’ BROADER IMPACTS

DIGITAL WORLDS INSTITUTE:

 Serious and Applied Gaming
 Data Visualization and Sonification
 Online Educational Module Creation
 VR, AR, MoCap, Hybrid Immersive Environments

CENTER FOR ARTS IN MEDICINE:

 Community and Public Health Communications
 Patient Care Delivery Systems
 Creative Forces Telehealth Initiative – DoD and NEA
 Collaborative Expertise in Health-Centered Environments

TRADITIONAL ARTISTIC PRODUCTION:

 Commission Dramatic Forms: e.g. iDream – NSF Funded Play
 Gallery Exhibition
 Graphic Design for Visual Communication

‘FULLY INTEGRATED’ BROADER IMPACTS

TBD RESEARCH PARTNERSHIPS

 Artist/Designer as problem-finder; comfort with ambiguity
 Extension and Florida’s ‘Wicked Problems’
 Design Thinking and the “Fuzzy Front End”:

 Design and Nitrogen Retention in Iowa
 ‘Natural’ Ambulation and AI/Robotics
 Landscape Architecture and Rehabilitation in Correctional Facilities
 Theory-finding and Burn-Recovery Patterns in Tropical Forest

Conservation
 Creative Placemaking and Community Health Indicators
 Bio-Feedback and Physiological Responses to Aural Environments