STATE AND LOCAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AWARD

State and Local Economic Development Award

Award Category Description

The State and Local Economic Development Award recognizes successful initiatives that involve partnerships between state or local-level economic development groups and federal laboratories for economic benefit that have occurred during the past 10 fiscal years.

Explore past State and Local Economic Development Award winners here.

Submission Criteria

All FLC Awards submissions must be submitted through the lab’s designated agency or laboratory representative.

  1. Describe the successful initiative that involved a partnership between a state or local-level economic development group(s) and a federal lab for economic benefit. Describe how the technology transfer process of the partnering laboratory was impacted in this successful initiative (e.g., joint marketing, new funding program, direct outreach to inventors, co-location, etc.). [15 points/200 words]
  2. Identify each of the nominees’ organizations and key staff associated with this award. Describe the contributions each of the federal laboratories and state and/or local economic-level development groups made that directly impacted how the technology transfer-related initiative economically changed the community. [20 points/100-1000 words*]

    *Please limit your description of each team member or organization to 75-100 words. For example, the answer to number two with a team of five members should be no longer than 500 words in length.

  3. Specifically identify and describe the following:
    • The formal partnership mechanism used (memorandum of understanding (MOU), contract, grant, collaboration agreement, etc.) and any innovation or creativity demonstrated by the nominated team members in creating this partnership agreement.
    • How responsibilities, goals, and resources were shared or aligned across the partners to encourage a successful initiative.
    • Geographical information/demographics of the area served [25 points/300 words]
  4. State the goals and objectives that were met through this initiative and partnership. Quantify the technology transfer initiative in economic development terms (e.g., number of people in the community impacted, number of jobs created, square footage of buildings purchased or leased, number of patents disclosed, number of licenses achieved, number of small businesses started, incubator tenancy increase, funding secured, etc.). [40 points/500 words]

Note: The judges will have a wide range of backgrounds and expertise. Accordingly, please use non-technical language to the extent possible and explain technical terms where needed. Use clear, concise language in all narrative descriptions.