I-Corps Node: NSF Bay Area Regional I-Node Program

项目描述：该项目涉及通过加州大学伯克利分校(加州大学伯克利分校)、加州大学旧金山分校(加州大学旧金山分校)和斯坦福大学的合作伙伴关系在加利福尼亚州北部湾区创建地区i-Corps节点(湾区节点)。它正在打造一个广泛的创业平台，建立在这三所大学的科学、技术和工程优势、商业思想领导力和外部生态系统的基础上。该节点正在通过课程、重点培训和指导服务来应用和传播精益启动板方法，以帮助推动以科技为基础的初创企业的创建。合作伙伴正在调查i-Corps Node培训如何影响研究商业化结果，并探索更好地了解团队形成和发展的早期阶段、咨询网络的形成和发展、决策的时间和内容以及实时注意力分配的方法。该节点还在研究创业团队的组建以及衡量团队发展和成效的方法，以便更好地了解如何支持他们将发明商业化。团队正在被监控(培训后)，以观察他们的结果，并确定他们是否正在优化活动以获得成功。LaunchPad中心网站和在线指导平台使团队能够收集/分析数据，并检查是什么因素决定了技术商业化努力的成功或失败。广泛的意义：该节点通过提高理工科教职员工和学生对创业价值的认识，并增强精益LaunchPad原则的在线可用性，正在产生地区和全国影响。通过在线提供大部分培训、团队跟踪和指导，旧金山湾区节点正在创建一个可扩展的创业生态系统，使内容和业务流程可以随时更新。它提供了一个高度工具化的生态系统，可以跟踪进展并衡量计划的有效性；因此，它创建了一个持续改进的计划，对当地和全国的科技型初创企业的生产产生了积极影响。正在使用允许湾区以外的其他人参加培训的方法传播数据、资源和结果/结果。该节点正在促进来自不同地区、经济背景和种族的群体参与发展有效的创业精神。它正在研究辅导网络是否能够提供人口结构不利的团队往往缺乏的地位和多样性贡献。通过该网站免费提供数据和结果，以便快速实施和在全球共享进展。新的课程模块还涉及更广泛的主题，包括：导师培训、医疗保健和生命科学、能源和清洁技术，以及与法律和金融相关的问题。

Project Description:This project involves the creation of a Regional I-Corps Node in the northern California Bay Area (Bay Area Node) through a partnership of the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley), the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), and Stanford University. It is producing an extensive entrepreneurship platform that is built on the scientific, technology, and engineering strengths, business thought leadership, and external ecosystems of the three universities. The Node is applying and disseminating the Lean LaunchPad methodology through classes, focused training, and mentoring services to help drive the creation of science and technology-based startups. The partners are investigating how I-Corps Node training influences research commercialization outcomes and exploring ways to better understand the early stages of team formation and evolution, formation and evolution of advising networks, timing and content of decisions, and real-time attention allocation. The Node is also studying the formation of entrepreneurial teams and ways to measure team evolution and effectiveness, in order to better understand how they can be supported in their efforts to commercialize invention. Teams are being monitored (post-training) to observe their outcomes and determine whether they are optimizing activities for success. The LaunchPad Central website and online mentoring platform is enabling the team to aggregate/analyze the data and examine what makes technology commercialization efforts succeed or fail.Broader Significance:The Node is producing both regional and national impact by raising awareness of the value of entrepreneurship among science and engineering faculty and students and enhancing the online availability of Lean LaunchPad principles. By providing much of the education, team tracking, and mentoring online, the Bay Area Node is creating a scalable startup ecosystem that allows content and business processes to be readily updated. It offers a highly instrumented ecosystem that is tracking progress and measuring program effectiveness; thus creating a continuously improving program that is positively impacting the production of science and technology-based startups both locally and nationally. The data, resources and outcomes/results are being disseminated using methods that allow others, outside of the Bay Area, to participate in the training. The Node is facilitating the inclusion of groups from diverse regions, economic backgrounds, and ethnicities in developing effective entrepreneurship. It is studying whether mentoring networks can provide the status and diversity contributions that teams with demographic disadvantages often lack. The data and results are made freely available via the website so that advancements can be quickly implemented and globally shared. New curriculum modules are also addressing a broader array of subjects including: mentor training, healthcare and life sciences, energy and clean technology, as well as legal and finance related issues.