General Objectives

· Improve Economic Development in the U.S.-Mexico Border region

· Understand Specific challenges to International Collaboration and give a possible solution

· Facilitate Research on the Technology Commercialization Process

· Comprehend Technology Transfer and Economic Development on International Scale

· Create Cross-Functional Design Teams

· Promote Bilingual Electronic Network

· Increase Minority Recruitment

· Foster Student Internships

 

 

 

 

New Mexico-Chihuahua: Partnership for Innovation

General Outcomes

· Graduate students from the project have achieved a good job placement

· Internships have proved students an opportunity with a better understanding in the real world activities and have been promoted within the companies to future career development

· Bi-cultural interactions and learning experiences

· Possible commercialization of several projects with the private sector

· Participation in national/international trainings

· Cooperation with private companies and governmental institutions

· Attendance to national conferences

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NMSU-ITESM

Leticia Vilchis/Robert Foster/Oscar Roberto Salinas

· Student Internships in Arizona and Colorado with important private and governmental companies

· NMSU along with ITESM

· The project between NMSU/ITESM is focused on the development of wind energy and technology along the U.S.-Mexico border. The same is aimed at the commercialization of wind energy. Phases include:

· To develop an inexpensive/ effective small wind turbine for grid applications

· Identify good prospective windsites along the border and commercialize the first windfarm in the area to attract industry to local site.

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CIMAV

· Determine the feasibility and business plan of a spin-off company to fabricate and commercialize a lit that determined the sex gender in reptiles, birds, and mammals using a steroid hormones method.

· Beginning of second project in cooperation with NMT

UACJ    

· Introduction of a commercial devise in the local market to facilitate the decision making process on purchasing and leasing industrial, commercial and residential land and facilities in Cuidad Juarez for real estate companies and private investors

 

NMT

Peter Anselmo

Develop an understanding of the technology and market for surfactant-modified zeolite (SMZ) as a purification agent for bacteria and virus-contaminated drik=nking water cells.  There exist a commercial viability of SMZ as a filter pack for drinking water wells and potential SMZ-like methods for treatment of produced water in oil and gas environment.

 

NSF# 0438715

Starting Date: 08/15/2005

 

Participating Academic and Governmental Institutions

DESCRIPTION

The New Mexico-Chihuahua Partnership for Innovation is a bi-national project involving partners from higher education, governmental laboratories, state and local governmental agencies, and private sector organizations on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border. The proposed project will support institutional, state, federal, and multi-national initiatives to improve economic development in the U.S.-Mexico border region through collaboration among the partners.

Project Focus

· Stimulating the transformation of Knowledge

· Meeting the needs of National Innovation Enterprise

· Enhancing the infrastructure necessary for innovation

 

Project Content

· Biotechnology

· Economic Development

· Entrepreneurship and Technological Innovation

· Environment and Natural Resources (Wind and Water)

· Energy

· IT Software

· Manufacturing

· Water Filtration

 

Locus of Impact

· Multi-State Regional

· International U.S.-Mexico

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