NSF I-Corps Hub (Track 1): Desert and Pacific Region

NSF I-Corps 中心（轨道 1）：沙漠和太平洋地区

• 批准号: 2229385
• 负责人: Nancy Gonzales
• 金额: $ 1500万
• 依托单位: Arizona State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Cooperative Agreement
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-01-01 至 2027-12-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2229385&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: NSF; Corps; Hub; Track; Desert

The broader impact/commercial potential of this NSF I-Corps Hubs project is the development of a partnership spanning five states, from the Desert region of the West to the Pacific, to increase economic competitiveness and societal benefit through advancing university-developed, deep technology ventures to local, regional, and national markets. This deliberate partnering of small, medium, and large institutions is predicated on institutional alignment, combining emerging and mature cultures of innovation, and reciprocal eagerness to collaborate to strengthen innovation capacity. The Hub provides access to a rich network of innovation practices and resources to diverse communities of innovators while reducing participation barriers for both experienced and less experienced institutions. In addition, the Hub increases capacity for innovation development by expanding conventional geographies of innovation to disconnected areas that are typically outside of venture development hubs and connects them to more experienced and resource-rich areas. The Hub shares know-how, resources, and connections to provide I-Corps training virtually and in multiple formats. The regional training is designed to address skills and knowledge gaps to accelerate and sustain deep technology ventures across the region. The Hub leverages a diverse, pooled network of mentors and industry experts to reduce time and risk in the creation of new ventures. Also, the Hub is responsive to securing national defense, building on NSF’s investments in cybersecurity, novel materials, and advanced analytics, by specifically identifying, addressing, and supporting dual-use technologies.This I-Corps Desert and Pacific Region Hub project is based on the development of a network that advances and deepens the regenerative innovation capacity of the partnering institutions, providing meaningful experiential development opportunities for faculty, researchers, students, and collaborators through direct entrepreneurial engagements and skills development. The Hub facilitates intentional group learning through a deeply networked community of practice, including I-Corps instructors, mentors, administrators, faculty, and students ideally positioned to collectively support the academic community in translating research into deep technology ventures, regardless of location. The Hub also seeks to diminish disadvantages, such as the lack of mature assets equal to those in historically advantaged and resource-rich locales. This Hub provides quality and flexibility, while enabling participating institutions to incorporate structured entrepreneurial training and support in a proven online method. Building on a body of scholarship, a network focused on developing the entrepreneurial mindset, additive and agile innovation, curricular adaptations, organizational and infrastructure support including distributed mentor models and shared customer databases, and the utilization of innovative tools, the Hub advances entrepreneurial programming and research to inform I-Corps practice, illuminate national trends, and influence organizational and national policy.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 NSF I-Corps Hubs 项目的更广泛影响/商业潜力是建立横跨从西部沙漠地区到太平洋地区五个州的合作伙伴关系，通过推进大学开发的深度技术来提高经济竞争力和社会效益小型、中型和大型机构之间的这种精心合作的基础是机构协调、新兴和成熟的创新文化的结合以及相互合作的渴望，以加强创新能力。丰富的网络向不同的创新者群体提供创新实践和资源，同时减少经验丰富和经验不足的机构的参与障碍。此外，该中心还通过将传统的创新地域扩展到通常位于风险开发中心之外的孤立地区，提高了创新发展的能力。该中心将他们与更有经验和资源丰富的领域联系起来，分享专业知识、资源和联系，以多种形式提供 I-Corps 虚拟培训，旨在解决技能和知识差距，以加速和维持深入的培训。整个地区的科技企业。该中心利用由导师和行业专家组成的多元化网络，以减少创建新企业的时间和风险，并以 NSF 在网络安全、新型材料和高级分析方面的投资为基础，通过专门的方式来确保国防安全。识别、解决和支持双重用途技术。该 I-Corps 沙漠和太平洋地区中心项目基于网络的开发，该网络可推进和深化合作机构的再生创新能力，为教职员工提供有意义的体验式发展机会，研究人员、学生和该中心通过深度网络化的实践社区促进有意的小组学习，其中包括 I-Corps 讲师、导师、管理人员、教师和学生，他们处于理想的位置，可以共同支持学术界将研究转化为深度技术。该中心还寻求劣势，例如缺乏与历史上具有优势和资源丰富的地区相同的成熟资产。该中心提供质量和灵活性，同时使参与机构能够纳入结构化的创业培训和支持。以经过验证的方式该中心以学术体系、专注于发展创业思维、附加和敏捷创新、课程调整、组织和基础设施支持（包括分布式导师模型和共享客户数据库）以及创新工具的利用为基础的网络为基础。创业规划和研究，为 I-Corps 实践提供信息，阐明国家趋势，并影响组织和国家政策。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。