The von Liebig Center as an iCorp Site: established POC catalyzing even earlier university discoveries

该提案针对NSF？我们呼吁大学培养从事有可能转化为市场的项目的学生和/或教师。I-Corps网站提供基础设施、建议、资源、网络机会、培训和适度的资金，使团体能够将他们的想法、设备、流程或其他智力活动转化为市场或成为I-Corps团队的申请者。通过这个项目，加州大学圣地亚哥分校的冯·李比希中心（vLC）将成为美国国家科学基金会I-Corps站点，通过将其服务扩展到尚未开发的研究生、研究人员和教师的早期发现，进一步催化大学发现的商业化，并期望vLC将：-建立一个更大、更强大的可行的学生团队项目管道，这些项目可以从早期研究发现转化为市场。-提高加州大学圣地亚哥分校更广泛的研究和学生群体对技术商业化的认识和参与，特别是女性和代表性不足的少数民族。-为参与过程的学生团队提供真实世界的体验式学习，同时促进进入该地区？美国创新生态系统和创业支持网络。-扩大冯·李比希中心可以为学生和教师提供的一系列服务，为技术翻译的早期阶段提供服务。-在最佳实践方面进行合作？通过成为I-Corps网站网络的成员，与全国类似中心的广泛社区分享见解。这些目标将通过创业课程、识别、选择和干预活动、指导和分配早期发展资源来实现——所有这些都有助于学术研究的转化过程，通过创建一个综合的、体验式的教育项目，重点是在学术创新者仍处于发现过程的早期阶段时对他们进行培训。vLC通过他们的I-Corps站点有可靠的流程来招募、审查和支持团队。他们有很多值得注意的例子，通过他们现有的中心，以及与社区、商业、工业和加利福尼亚州的紧密联系，他们支持了许多创业公司。更广泛的影响：vLC I-Corps网站将加强和拓宽大学的创新管道，同时促进创业思维和活动在学术环境中茁壮成长。通过鼓励学生和教师/研究人员积极参与，将研究转化为早期开发，将推出新产品或服务，从而为该地区创造高价值的就业机会和经济增长。来自弱势群体的创业学生将在大学内部拥有一个支持网络，这将给他们带来茁壮成长和参与这一过程所需的信心。通过成为NSF I-Corps站点网络的成员，成果将被广泛传播，从而促进技术发现的创新。这种建议的方法最重要的影响是建立创业原则、早期商业化管道和早期孵化模式。当这种方法被证明是成功的，这些实践可以被整合或复制到全国其他大学。

This proposal addresses NSF?s call for universities to nurture students and/or faculty who are engaged in projects having the potential to be transitioned into the marketplace. I-Corps Sites provide infrastructure, advice, resources, networking opportunities, training and modest funding to enable groups to transition their ideas, devices, processes or other intellectual activities into the marketplace or into becoming I-Corps Team applicants.With this project, the von Liebig Center at UC San Diego (vLC) will become an NSF I-Corps Site to further catalyze the commercialization of university discoveries by extending its services to an untapped population of graduate students, researchers and faculty early-stage discoveries with the expectations that vLC will:- Build a larger and more robust pipeline of viable student team projects that can be translated into the marketplace from earlier stages of research discoveries.- Increase awareness and participation in technology commercialization among the broader UCSD research and student community, in particular among females and underrepresented minorities. - Provide real world experiential learning to the student teams participating in the process while facilitating access to the region?s innovation ecosystem and entrepreneurial support network. - Expand the suite of offerings that the von Liebig Center can provide to students and faculty for its services to the earlier stages of technology translation. - Collaborate on ?best-practices? by becoming a member of an I-Corps Site network that shares insights with a wide community of similar centers in the Nation. These goals will be accomplished through entrepreneurship curricula, identification, selection, and intervention activities, mentoring, and assignment of resources for early stage development - all of which contribute to the academic research translation process through the creation of an integrated, experiential, educational program that focuses on the training of academic innovators while they are still engaged in the early stages of the discovery process. The vLC has solid processes in place for recruiting, vetting, and supporting teams through their I-Corps Site. They have many noteworthy examples of startups they have supported through their existing center and strong connections with the community, business and industry, and the state of California. Broader Impact:The vLC I-Corps SIte will strengthen and broaden the pipeline of innovations from the university while promoting entrepreneurial thinking and activities to thrive in the academic environment. By encouraging student and faculty/researcher participation actively translating research to early stage development, new products or services will be launched resulting in the creation of high value jobs and economic growth in the region. Entrepreneurial students from underrepresented groups will have a support network inside the university that will give them the confidence needed to thrive and participate in the process. Outcomes will be widely disseminated by becoming a member of the NSF I-Corps Site network, thus catalyzing innovation in technology discoveries. The most important impact of this proposed approach is building entrepreneurial principles, early-stage commercialization pipelines, and early-stage incubation schemas. These practices, when proven successful in this approach, can be integrated or replicated to other universities around the country.