I-Corps Sites: Type I - An Innovation Corps Site at UMass Amherst

I-Corps 站点：I 型 - 麻省大学阿默斯特分校的创新军团站点

• 批准号: 1829219
• 负责人: Sundar Krishnamurty
• 金额: $ 25.5万
• 依托单位: University of Massachusetts Amherst
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-10-01 至 2024-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1829219&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Corps; Sites; Type; Innovation; Site

This NSF I-Corps Site at the University of Massachusetts Amherst engages STEM faculty and students in a robust training program in early-stage technology commercialization and entrepreneurship. 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 NSF I-Corps Site at the University of Massachusetts Amherst introduces the Lean Launchpad methodology and facilitates customer discovery experiences in accord with the NSF's Innovation Corps program while connecting participants to industry and venture development resources. Diversity and inclusion considerations are integrated into both recruitment and curriculum, with the goal of broadening and nurturing the participation of females and underrepresented minorities in STEM entrepreneurship. The Site's goals are to increase campus startups and other innovation outcomes, improve and enrich the existing campus innovation infrastructure, and provide economic development and jobs to the cities and rural areas of Western Massachusetts.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.

位于马萨诸塞大学阿默斯特分校的 NSF I-Corps 基地让 STEM 教职员工和学生参与早期技术商业化和创业方面的强大培训计划。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。马萨诸塞大学阿默斯特分校的 NSF I-Corps 站点引入了精益启动平台方法，并促进一致的客户发现体验与 NSF 的创新军团计划合作，同时将参与者与行​​业和风险开发资源联系起来。将多样性和包容性考虑因素纳入招聘和课程中，目的是扩大和培养女性和代表性不足的少数群体对 STEM 创业的参与。该网站的目标是增加校园初创企业和其他创新成果，改善和丰富现有校园创新基础设施，并为马萨诸塞州西部的城市和农村地区提供经济发展和就业机会。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并被认为是值得的。通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估来提供支持。