Closing the divide: accelerating technology commercialization by catalyzing the university entrepreneurial ecosystem with I-Corps™
Closing the divide: accelerating technology commercialization by catalyzing the university entrepreneurial ecosystem with I-Corps™
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弥合鸿沟：通过 I-Corps™ 促进大学创业生态系统，加速技术商业化
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2016
影响因子：
4.8
通讯作者：
L. Sheridan
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作者：
A. Huang;Jonathan Fay;L. Sheridan
近年来，大学的创业和商业化活动越来越多，不仅是学生，而且是教师。传统上，这些举措是分开的，这样的方案和课程一直专注于支持只是学生或只是教师。2012年，美国国家科学基金会（NSF）推出了NSF I-Corps™计划，这是一项创新的资助计划，不仅为主要研究人员（PI）提供资金，还让PI接触创新/创业课程。密歇根大学（U-M）是2012年资助的首批两个NSF I-Corps节点之一，并利用该计划来催化创业生态系统。本文描述了自1983年以来这个创业生态系统的发展，在工程的U-M学院创业的呼吁，并描述了U-M NSF I-Corps™计划在整个大学发挥的作用。本文最后总结了经验教训，并建议管理人员和政策制定者考虑更积极地促进大学的学术创业和商业化。
In recent years, universities have seen an increasing amount of activity in entrepreneurship and commercialization, not only for students, but for faculty as well. Traditionally, these initiatives have been separate, such that programs and curriculum have been focused on supporting just students or just faculty. In 2012, the National Science Foundation (NSF) launched the NSF I-Corps™ program, an innovative funding program that not only offered principle investigators (PIs) funding, but also exposed PIs to an innovation/entrepreneurship curriculum as well. The University of Michigan (U-M) was one of the first two NSF I-Corps™ Nodes funded in 2012 and has leveraged the program to catalyze the entrepreneurial ecosystem. This paper describes the growth of this entrepreneurial ecosystem since 1983, the call of entrepreneurship in the U-M College of Engineering and describes the role the U-M NSF I-Corps™ program has played across the university. The paper concludes with lessons learned and recommendations to administrators and policy makers considering more active promotion of academic entrepreneurship and commercialization in universities.