The von Liebig Center as an iCorp Site: established POC catalyzing even earlier university discoveries

冯·李比希中心作为 iCorp 站点：建立的 POC 催化了更早的大学发现

• 批准号: 1322093
• 负责人: Sujit Dey
• 金额: $ 30万
• 依托单位: University of California-San Diego
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-06-01 至 2019-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1322093&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: von; Liebig; Center; iCorp; Site

This proposal addresses NSF?s call for universities to nurture students and/or faculty who are engaged in projects having the potential to be transitioned into the marketplace. I-Corps Sites provide infrastructure, advice, resources, networking opportunities, training and modest funding to enable groups to transition their ideas, devices, processes or other intellectual activities into the marketplace or into becoming I-Corps Team applicants.With this project, the von Liebig Center at UC San Diego (vLC) will become an NSF I-Corps Site to further catalyze the commercialization of university discoveries by extending its services to an untapped population of graduate students, researchers and faculty early-stage discoveries with the expectations that vLC will:- Build a larger and more robust pipeline of viable student team projects that can be translated into the marketplace from earlier stages of research discoveries.- Increase awareness and participation in technology commercialization among the broader UCSD research and student community, in particular among females and underrepresented minorities. - Provide real world experiential learning to the student teams participating in the process while facilitating access to the region?s innovation ecosystem and entrepreneurial support network. - Expand the suite of offerings that the von Liebig Center can provide to students and faculty for its services to the earlier stages of technology translation. - Collaborate on ?best-practices? by becoming a member of an I-Corps Site network that shares insights with a wide community of similar centers in the Nation. These goals will be accomplished through entrepreneurship curricula, identification, selection, and intervention activities, mentoring, and assignment of resources for early stage development - all of which contribute to the academic research translation process through the creation of an integrated, experiential, educational program that focuses on the training of academic innovators while they are still engaged in the early stages of the discovery process. The vLC has solid processes in place for recruiting, vetting, and supporting teams through their I-Corps Site. They have many noteworthy examples of startups they have supported through their existing center and strong connections with the community, business and industry, and the state of California. Broader Impact:The vLC I-Corps SIte will strengthen and broaden the pipeline of innovations from the university while promoting entrepreneurial thinking and activities to thrive in the academic environment. By encouraging student and faculty/researcher participation actively translating research to early stage development, new products or services will be launched resulting in the creation of high value jobs and economic growth in the region. Entrepreneurial students from underrepresented groups will have a support network inside the university that will give them the confidence needed to thrive and participate in the process. Outcomes will be widely disseminated by becoming a member of the NSF I-Corps Site network, thus catalyzing innovation in technology discoveries. The most important impact of this proposed approach is building entrepreneurial principles, early-stage commercialization pipelines, and early-stage incubation schemas. These practices, when proven successful in this approach, can be integrated or replicated to other universities around the country.

该提案涉及NSF的呼吁，要求大学培养从事有可能过渡到市场的项目的学生和/或教职员工。 I-Corps网站提供基础架构，建议，资源，网络机会，培训和适度的资金，使团体能够将自己的想法，设备，过程或其他知识活动转变为市场，或成为I-Corps团队申请人。加州大学圣地亚哥分校（VLC）的冯·利比格中心（Von Liebig Center）将成为NSF I-Corps网站，通过将其服务扩展到未开发的研究生，研究人员，研究人员和教职员工的早期发现，并期望VLC的期望，以进一步催化大学发现的商业化。将： - 建立一个可行的学生团体项目的更大，更强大的管道，可以从研究发现的早期阶段转化为市场。和代表性不足的少数民族。 - 为参与该过程的学生团队提供现实世界的体验学习，同时促进进入该地区的创新生态系统和企业家支持网络。 - 扩展冯利比格中心可以为学生和教师提供服务的产品套件，以便在技术翻译的早期阶段提供服务。 - 合作？最佳实践？通过成为I-Corps网站网络的成员，该网站与全国类似中心的广泛社区共享见解。 这些目标将通过创业课程，身份证明，选择和干预活动，指导和分配早期发展的资源 - 所有这些都通过创建一项综合，体验式，教育计划，为学术研究翻译过程做出了贡献专注于对学术创新者的培训，而他们仍在发现过程的早期阶段。 VLC通过其I-Corps网站制定了可靠的流程，用于招募，审查和支持团队。他们有许多值得注意的例子，这些初创公司通过现有中心与社区，商业和行业以及加利福尼亚州的牢固联系。更广泛的影响：VLC I-Corps网站将加强和扩大大学的创新管道，同时促进企业家思想和活动，以在学术环境中蓬勃发展。通过鼓励学生和教师/研究人员的参与积极地将研究转化为早期开发，将推出新产品或服务，从而创造高价值就业机会和该地区的经济增长。来自代表性不足的团体的企业家学生将在大学内部拥有一个支持网络，这将使他们有信心蓬勃发展和参与这一过程。成果将通过成为NSF I-Corps网站网络的成员而被广泛传播，从而促进技术发现的创新。这种拟议方法的最重要影响是建立创业原则，早期商业化管道和早期孵化模式。这些实践在这种方法中被证明是成功的，可以将其集成或复制到全国其他大学。