Recognize Your Park – AURP Annual Awards
The Association of University Research Parks is proud to present annual awards for excellence in research and science park development and practice. These awards are presented at the Annual AURP conferences.
These awards bring valuable recognition to the recipients and to the industry as a whole. AURP invites you to declare and celebrate the very best in the profession by nominating exceptional parks, firms and individuals.
Following are the current AURP Award Categories.
Outstanding Research/Science Park Achievement Award
The outstanding research/science park achievement award recognizes the parks that excel in bringing technology from the laboratory to economically viable business activities, thus promoting the growth of businesses, jobs and public revenue. These parks actively participate in the university community, creating an important positive effect on university research funding and on recruitment of superior students and faculty.
Outstanding Emerging Research/Science Park Achievement Award
This Award is presented to an emerging park that has been in operation less than five (5) years. Applicants will have excelled in bringing technology from the laboratory to economically viable business activities, thus promoting the growth of businesses, jobs and public revenue. These parks actively participate in the university and federal lab community, creating an important positive effect on university research funding and on recruitment of superior students, faculty and researchers.
Innovation Award
This Award recognizes innovative ideas and programs that have been implemented by research/science parks. The Award is intended to recognize that innovation leads to results. The recipient of this award will demonstrate leveraging assets to produce outstanding results in areas such as: recruitment and retention of park clients, park growth, exemplary services and success in commercializing technologies. It is our intent, through this award, to demonstrate the best innovative new practices that can lead to continued growth and excellence in our parks.
Career Achievement Award
The Career Achievement award recognizes individuals who have made research and science parks a central focus of their careers, who have achieved success with one or more parks over a substantial period of time, and who have received peer recognition for advancing the field of research and science parks.
Community Leadership Award
This award, recognizes a business, university or governmental leader who has made an outstanding contribution to the success and total community impact of a university research and technology park.
Award Submission Procedures for the 2008 Awards will be announced at later date. Please check back with us, or email Missy Blair, missyblair@aurp.net, for more info.
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