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

冯·李比希中心作为 iCorp 站点：建立的 POC 催化了更早的大学发现

• 批准号: 1322093
• 负责人: Sujit Dey
• 金额: $ 30万
• 依托单位: University of California-San Diego
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-06-01 至 2019-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1322093&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: von; Liebig; Center; iCorp; Site

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.

该提案针对NSF？我们呼吁大学培养学生和/或教师，他们从事有潜力进入市场的项目。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团队申请人。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NSF I-Corps Site通过将其服务扩展到尚未开发的研究生，研究人员和教师早期发现人群，进一步促进大学发现的商业化，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，可以从研究发现的早期阶段转化为市场。在更广泛的UCSD研究和学生社区，特别是女性和代表性不足的少数民族中，提高对技术商业化的认识和参与。- 为参与该过程的学生团队提供真实的世界体验式学习，同时促进进入该地区？的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服务套件，以服务于技术翻译的早期阶段。- 合作？最佳实践？成为I-Corps网站网络的一员，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，指导和早期发展资源的分配来实现-所有这些都有助于通过创建一个综合的，体验式的教育计划，专注于学术创新者的培训，而他们仍然处于发现过程的早期阶段。vLC通过他们的I-Corps站点为招聘，审查和支持团队制定了坚实的流程。他们有许多值得注意的创业公司的例子，他们已经通过他们现有的中心和强大的连接与社区，商业和工业，以及加州的国家支持。更广泛的影响：vLC I-Corps SITE将加强和拓宽大学的创新渠道，同时促进创业思维和活动在学术环境中蓬勃发展。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发展，将推出新产品或服务，从而创造高价值的就业机会和该地区的经济增长。来自代表性不足群体的创业学生将在大学内部拥有一个支持网络，这将给他们茁壮成长和参与这一过程所需的信心。成果将通过成为NSF I-Corps Site网络的成员而广泛传播，从而促进技术发现的创新。这种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。这些做法，当证明成功的这种方法，可以整合或复制到全国各地的其他大学。