RETI Advances in NSF Innovation Challenge

The Resilient Energy Technology and Infrastructure Consortium (RETI), an initiative focused on commercializing high-impact innovations in West Virginia and western Pennsylvania, was chosen as one of only 29 semifinalists in the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Regional Innovation Engines initiative, from a pool of over 300 proposals nationwide. RETI is a collaboration of dozens of innovation ecosystem partners, and is led by West Virginia University (WVU), the University of Pittsburgh (Pitt), Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), and the U.S. Research Impact Alliance (USRIA).