Building Innovative Interdisciplinary Groups and Collaborations (BIIG Collaborations) is here to help. This multi-phase program is designed to CONNECT interdisciplinary faculty with common research interests, DEVELOP shared concepts for innovative team research, and ADVANCE newly emerging teams to future funding and research success.
Knowledge Enterprise Programs
Strategic engagement opportunities for researchers to develop and enhance their skills, ideas and teams
The Enterprise for Research, Innovation and Knowledge leads a number of initiatives to develop research teams and talent and to strategically grow research opportunities.
Ohio State supports early-career faculty in pursuit of this award through the CAREER Proposal Development Program, a service of the College of Arts and Sciences, the College of Engineering and the Office of Knowledge Enterprise.
The research development team assists research teams with large and strategically significant proposals in order to position the university for research growth.
The Early Career Faculty Research Development Program provides guidance and resources to Ohio State tenure-track faculty interested in pursuing federally-sponsored early career research grants. The program works synergistically with other programs that support faculty to pursue NSF Early Career and NIH K Awards.
The research development team positions the university for leadership in emerging and high growth potential research areas by developing topical, federal agency and large-scale funding mechanism strategies.
The GRO initiative is designed to help position Ohio State for research excellence in new areas. The GRO Academy is a leadership program designed to equip faculty will skills needed to lead complex, interdisciplinary collaborations in pursuit of external funding.
When research funders limit the number of proposals from an institution, the research development team facilitates that process through an internal limited competition. Review Ohio State’s internal limited submission guidelines and access the portal of all active internal limited competitions.
The PRE program provides seed support for cross- and interdisciplinary research that have the potential to attract external funding.
The research process improvement initiative is designed to identify, analyze and improve existing processes to optimize performance, implement best practices and improve the user’s experience posing challenges to the university’s research enterprise.
The Knowledge Enterprise’s Research Development Office identifies existing and emerging areas of opportunity for development and investment and supports large-scale, complex and strategically significant federal proposals.
The Erdos Institute provides PhD career development programs and industry placement services designed in partnership with our PhD alumni mentors and corporate members.
The STEAM Factory is a diverse and inclusive grass-roots network in the Ohio State community that facilitates creative and interdisciplinary collaboration, innovation and dissemination.