USC I-Corps Site Program

USC I-Corps 站点计划

• 批准号: 1347390
• 负责人: Peter Beerel
• 金额: $ 29.74万
• 依托单位: University of Southern California
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-06-15 至 2017-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1347390&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: USC; Corps; Site; Program

With this project, the University of Southern California I-Corps Site leverages two successful commercialization support programs at USC; the Maseeh Entrepreneurship Prize Competition, run by the Viterbi School of Engineering, and the Ideas Empowered Program, run by the USC Stevens Center for Innovation. Both of these programs offer faculty/student teams start-up/commercialization educational programs, industry/business mentors, and gap funding. In keeping with national entrepreneurship trends in colleges and universities, the USC I-Corps Site program will provide funds to support customer discovery, equipment or materials for prototypes, and travel expenses to consult with potential clients or experts. In addition, the USC I-Corps Site program will create a start-up/commercialization workshop for student/faculty teams. This workshop will introduce student/faculty teams to the basics of the commercialization process, the challenges they will face, the questions they must answer, and the value of the USC I-Corps Site program, including the possibility of additional funding through the NSF I-Corps program. The USC Viterbi School of Engineering practices an "engineering+" focus in which engineering plus some other discipline is the key to achieving broader impact. This proposal is in line with engineering+innovation, at the center of innovation and entrepreneurship. This goal is important for the US economy and to solving many global challenges that call for innovations that will change the world in fundamental ways. This Site strives to be a place where engineers, medical professionals, scientists, and all researchers can learn how to navigate entrepreneurial waters and better support the commercialization of their ideas. The process of exploring the commercialization of inventions will empower faculty and student inventors to understand what it takes to assess the feasibility of their ideas for commercialization, empowering them to better evaluate and push their subsequent inventions into the market in years to come.

通过该项目，南加州大学 I-Corps 站点利用了南加州大学两个成功的商业化支持项目：由维特比工程学院举办的 Maseeh 创业奖竞赛和由南加州大学史蒂文斯创新中心举办的创意赋能计划。这两个项目都为教师/学生团队提供创业/商业化教育项目、行业/商业导师和缺口资金。为了与全国高校创业趋势保持一致，南加州大学 I-Corps Site 计划将提供资金来支持客户发现、原型设备或材料，以及咨询潜在客户或专家的差旅费。此外，南加州大学 I-Corps 站点计划将为学生/教师团队创建一个启动/商业化研讨会。本研讨会将向学生/教师团队介绍商业化过程的基础知识、他们将面临的挑战、必须回答的问题以及 USC I-Corps Site 计划的价值，包括通过 NSF I 获得额外资金的可能性-军团计划。南加州大学维特比工程学院奉行“工程+”重点，其中工程加上其他一些学科是实现更广泛影响的关键。这个提议符合工程+创新，以创新创业为中心。这一目标对于美国经济以及解决许多全球挑战非常重要，这些挑战需要创新，从根本上改变世界。该网站致力于成为工程师、医疗专业人员、科学家和所有研究人员可以学习如何驾驭创业水域并更好地支持其想法商业化的地方。探索发明商业化的过程将使教师和学生发明家了解如何评估其想法商业化的可行性，使他们能够在未来几年更好地评估并将其后续发明推向市场。