I-Corps Sites: Expanding the Innovation Ecosystem at Washington State University

I-Corps 站点：扩大华盛顿州立大学的创新生态系统

• 批准号: 1547873
• 负责人: BRIAN KRAFT
• 金额: $ 29.43万
• 依托单位: Washington State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-01-15 至 2022-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1547873&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Corps; Sites; Expanding; Innovation; Ecosystem

This project, from Washington State University (WSU) creates an I-Corps Site at this institution.NSF Innovation Corps (I-Corps) Sites are NSF-funded entities established at universities whose purpose is to nurture and support multiple, local teams to transition their technology concepts into the marketplace. Sites provide infrastructure, advice, resources, networking opportunities, training and modest funding to enable groups to transition their work into the marketplace or into becoming I-Corps Team applicants. The WSU Site serves as mechanism for collaboration across campus, acting as a structure for providing experiential learning opportunities for students and faculty. By expanding the connectivity between related programs on and off campus, the Site realizes benefits that transcend the individual efforts and enhance WSU's contribution to the national innovation ecosystem as well as the geographical region around WSU.The goal of WSU's I-Corps Site is to enhance and broaden access to existing entrepreneurship programs within their experiential entrepreneurship ecosystem. To accomplish this goal, 30 to 40 I-Corps Teams per year are supported, expanding startup generation activities to include an 8-week training and idea development process. Each supported Team produces a draft business model for a university technology or Site-generated business idea. Those Teams emerge ready to pursue funding or partnership opportunities through the Site network and national I-Corps Network. Ultimately, WSU will provide a core blueprint for student/faculty collaborative experiential entrepreneurship training which will provide additional pathways for STEM students to engage with faculty in the business assessment of new technology ideas. Bringing WSU into the I-Corps national network allows Site Leaders to accelerate the positive startup culture velocity achieved in the last few years.

该项目来自华盛顿州立大学（WSU）在该机构创建了一个I-Corps网站。NSF创新军（I-Corps）站点是在大学建立的NSF资助的实体，其目的是培养和支持多个本地团队，以将其技术概念转变为市场。网站提供基础架构，建议，资源，网络机会，培训和适度的资金，以使团体能够将其工作转变为市场或成为I-Corps团队申请人。 WSU网站是整个校园合作的机制，是为学生和教师提供体验式学习机会的结构。通过扩大校园内外相关计划之间的连接性，该网站实现了超越个人努力的好处，并增强了WSU对WSU周围国家创新生态系统以及地理区域的贡献。WSU的I-Corps网站的目标是增强并扩大对实验性的Entreprenepermip ecoserpersiment ecsosyship interemigentecyecsig ecsosyship interemip ecsosyship。为了实现这一目标，支持每年30至40个I-Corps团队，扩大了创业生成活动，包括为期8周的培训和想法开发过程。每个支持的团队都为大学技术或现场生成的商业想法生成了一个业务模型。这些团队准备通过网站网络和国家I-Corps网络寻求资金或合伙机会。最终，WSU将为学生/教师协作体验企业家培训提供核心蓝图，该培训将为STEM学生提供其他途径，以便与教师参与新技术思想的业务评估。将WSU带入I-Corps国家网络，使现场领导者可以加快过去几年中的积极启动文化速度。