UNY I-Corps
Higher Education - Ithaca, New York, United States
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UNY I-Corps Details
I-Corps was created by the National Science Foundation to bridge the gap between fundamental research discoveries and the commercialization of technologies, products, and processes with the potential to benefit society. The Upstate New York I-Corps Node is one of nine national I-Corp Nodes funded by NSF to deliver entrepreneurial education, mentoring, and funding to academic researchers who have developed a technical innovation and wish to explore its commercialization potential. Cornell University, Rochester Institute of Technology, and the University of Rochester are the partner institutions for UNY I-Corps. Key UNY I-Corps initiatives include: Leading regional I-Corps courses—to date, we have trained more than 35 regional instructors from 15 universities to teach our regional course—with our Northeast university partners; providing a national instruction team, trained by NSF, to teach cohorts in the NSF I-Corps Teams national program; and fostering inclusive and welcoming programming and recruiting underrepresented minorities, women, and individuals with disabilities as participants, mentors, instructors and staff. In regional I-Corps courses, participants learn how to conduct evidence-based "customer discovery" research to determine if their technology innovation can solve a real-world problem for a sizeable market. The heart of this process involves conducting one-on-one interviews with potential customers. Teams who excel in an I-Corps regional course may earn a nomination to the national I-Corps Teams program. In the NSF I-Corps Teams national program, deep technology research teams delve further into customer discovery by conducting 100+ interviews over seven weeks. NSF I-Corps Teams are awarded a $50,000 grant for cohort participation and customer discovery related expenses. NSF lineage, based on an NSF research award or an I-Corps Node/Site nomination, is a prerequisite for this program. Visit our website to learn more about UNY I-Corps!
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