I-Corps Sites: Type II - The Penn I-Corps Site

I-Corps 站点：II 型 - 宾夕法尼亚州 I-Corps 站点

• 批准号: 1829197
• 负责人: Tomas Isakowitz
• 金额: $ 16.24万
• 依托单位: University of Pennsylvania
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-01-01 至 2022-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1829197&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Corps; Sites; Type; II; Penn

This project, from the University of Pennsylvania (Penn), extends its I-Corps Site. 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. I-Corps Sites also strengthen innovation locally and regionally and contribute to the National Innovation Network of mentors, researchers, entrepreneurs and investors. The Penn I-Corps Site supports the translation of research from STEM areas into the marketplace by providing educational programming, financial support, and strategic guidance through offering Site e-teams access to commercialization programs at its innovation hub, the Penn Center for Innovation (PCI). The Site employs a structured process for business model validation following the Lean Launchpad methodology. Within the context of technologies arising from STEM research at Penn, the goals of the Site are to train teams consisting of faculty, staff, and students by providing hands-on experiential entrepreneurial education, and to accelerate startup creation at Penn.A direct result of the Penn I-Corps Site is hands-on training in the Customer Discover Methodology of faculty and students, applications to the NSF's I-Corp program, validation of market need for team projects, the creation of new startups and, when appropriate, licensing of technologies originating from Penn research. The ultimate goal is to help transition of research to commercialization. Promoting a hands-on experiential approach the Site's activities integrate education and traditional technology transfer. More than 75 teams have already been trained since the Penn Site started operating in the summer of 2015. From these, 32 companies were launched, which have acquired $7.2 million in funding via grant awards and investments, and 39 jobs created.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

该项目由宾夕法尼亚大学 (Penn) 负责扩展其 I-Corps 站点。创新军团 (I-Corps) 站点是由 NSF 资助的在大学建立的实体，其目的是培养和支持多个本地团队，将其技术概念转化为市场。网站提供基础设施、建议、资源、交流机会、培训和适度的资金，使团体能够将他们的工作转移到市场或成为 I-Corps 团队申请人。 I-Corps 站点还加强本地和区域创新，并为导师、研究人员、企业家和投资者组成的国家创新网络做出贡献。 Penn I-Corps 站点通过提供教育规划、财务支持和战略指导，支持将 STEM 领域的研究转化为市场，为站点电子团队提供在其创新中心、宾夕法尼亚创新中心 (PCI) 商业化项目的访问权限）。该网站采用遵循精益启动板方法的结构化流程来验证业务模型。在宾夕法尼亚大学 STEM 研究产生的技术背景下，该网站的目标是通过提供实践体验式创业教育来培训由教职员工和学生组成的团队，并加速宾夕法尼亚大学的初创企业创建。 Penn I-Corps 网站为教职员工和学生提供客户发现方法论的实践培训、NSF I-Corp 计划的应用、团队项目的市场需求验证、新初创企业的创建以及在适当的情况下的许可技术起源来自宾夕法尼亚大学研究。最终目标是帮助研究向商业化过渡。推广实践经验方法 该网站的活动将教育和传统技术转让融为一体。自 2015 年夏天宾夕法尼亚大学基地开始运营以来，已有超过 75 个团队接受了培训。其中成立了 32 家公司，这些公司通过拨款和投资获得了 720 万美元的资金，并创造了 39 个就业岗位。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优点和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。