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inviting proposals for the<span style="margin:0px"> </span></span><span class="x_x_mark74srows8l" style="margin:0px;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;font-size:14.6667px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)">Innovation</span><span style="margin:0px;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;font-size:14.6667px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);display:inline !important"><span style="margin:0px"> </span></span><span class="x_x_mark1wmr047m1" style="margin:0px;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;font-size:14.6667px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)">Venture</span><span style="margin:0px;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;font-size:14.6667px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);display:inline !important"><span style="margin:0px"> </span></span><span class="x_x_markwctem5ngg" style="margin:0px;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;font-size:14.6667px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)">Investment
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novel and potentially transformative research in any area of inquiry that has the potential to fundamentally alter our understanding of an important principle or paradigm, and/or involves a significant technology advance. Proposals are intended to launch new
research areas and projects; due to limited funds available, proposals to obtain additional preliminary data for the next grant submission of an existing research program area will not be considered. </span></p>
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<span style="margin:0px;font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt;line-height:normal;box-sizing:border-box">Proposal format is intentionally flexible; proposals can be submitted as a standard short grant application or a white paper. The period
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<span style="margin:0px;font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt;line-height:normal;box-sizing:border-box">Please submit a single PDF file containing the proposal and budget to </span><span style="margin:0px;box-sizing:border-box"><a href="mailto:zaidaz@arizona.edu" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="2" style="margin:0px;font-weight:700;box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(171, 5, 32);outline:none"><span style="margin:0px;font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt;line-height:normal">zaidaz@arizona.edu</span></a></span><span style="margin:0px;font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt;line-height:normal;box-sizing:border-box">.
Funding decisions will be made by the Associate Vice President for Research based on recommendations of a faculty review committee. </span></p>
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