; (B) facilitating public-private partnerships in engineering biology research and development; (C) connecting researchers, graduate students, and postdoctoral fellows with entrepreneurship education and training opportunities; and (D) supporting proof of concept activities and the formation of startup companies including through programs such as the Small Business Innovation Research Program and the Small Business Technology Transfer Program. (c) Expanding participation The Initiative shall include, to the maximum extent practicable, outreach to primarily undergraduate and minority-serving institutions about Initiative opportunities, and shall encourage the development of research collaborations between research-intensive universities and primarily undergraduate and minority-serving institutions. (d) Ethical, legal, environmental, safety, security, and societal issues Initiative activities shall take into account ethical, legal, environmental, safety, security, and other appropriate societal issues by— (1) supporting research, including in the social sciences, and other activities addressing ethical, legal, environmental, and other appropriate societal issues related to engineering biology, including integrating research on such topics with the research and development in engineering biology, and ensuring that the results of such research are widely disseminated, including through interdisciplinary engineering biology research centers described in subsection (b)(1); (2) supporting research and other activities related to the safety and security implications of engineering biology, including outreach to increase awareness among Federal researchers and federally funded researchers at institutions of higher education about potential safety and security implications of engineering biology research, as appropriate